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Yup. Our boys Div. 4 boys got a heads up - prepare to be crushed - talk. [b]But they are holding their own. [/b]Glad the sun came out! [/quote]

If you are the team I suspect you are, you need to sit down and read the room.[/quote]

I don’t think we are. Not sure what you are even talking about.[/quote]

Are you an Arlington team that’s in div 4 of NCSL?  If so, you’re probably the team I’m referring to.  If you’re not Arlington, then this particular tangent isn’t about you.[/quote]

Yeah, if pp is talking about an Arlington team, I know which one it is too, and two other teams got fcked when they created your team back in the fall.[/quote]

Must be us. Still not sure how we offended, but I guess I should “sit down and read the room”.  
Good luck tomorrow! 
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Are you interested in understanding, or should I save my breath?  It’s not that you personally did anything wrong, more that ASA basically lied to two other teams about how it would work when yours was created (which happened only after kids were already committed and couldn’t just leave for another team - a bunch of them would have if they’d known what ASA was going to do at their expense).  But it does mean that those two teams don’t want to hear how your team is having a good tournament when they got screwed so you could have that experience.[/quote]
Leave for another team should be leave for another club.[/quote]

I’m not understanding how the creation of another team affected yours. Not enough players? [/quote]

That’s part of it.  Usually the kids coming from the program you were in last year try out to fill in gaps in the two teams above you.  The majority of kids on your team wouldn’t have gotten ASA travel spots for this year and would have gone to another club or back to rec.  Instead you got your own team with a bigger roster than either of the other two teams, who have at times struggled to field a full squad because they’re so lean.  One of them basically doesn’t have a dedicated goalkeeper anymore either, which apparently you guys do and that team resents the shit out of you for it because ASA essentially told them to go screw.  Both teams were told at the start of last fall that your team would be a long-term tryout to fill out the other two team’s rosters over the course of the fall season, and that simply hasn’t happened.

Also, that seeding where you’re having a good tournament historically is given to the team that’s just above yours. Giving it to you meant they got pushed into a higher division that they have no business being in, and then the team above them got pushed into a more stacked bracket to accommodate it.  They’re both having shitty tournaments just so you could have a good experience, because for some reason ASA is treating you all like the golden calf.  Long term it will probably work out fine for you, because a bunch of families from those two teams are planning to try out for different clubs for next year if ASA won’t commit to disbanding your team after this, so there may be more spots for your players next year.  Hopefully ASA doesn’t treat you all as poorly next year as they did those two teams this year.[/quote]

Whoa. That was alot to unpack just because someone said their boys were "holding their own. "

Alot of issues going on behind the scenes [/quote]

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