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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a good example from WS-VA's U16/U17 team just a few months ago.  Look at about the 1:15 mark, when the goalie picks up the ball.  She ends up punting it, but it's not because playing out of the back wasn't a good option.  They don't even try.   In that situation, when the GK picks up the ball, a possession-based team is trained to immediately get into shape to try and play out - the CB's drop off and get wide of the box, the FB's push a little higher and get wide to the line and open up, and the MF's look to get free and make themselves available as options.   The WS players do none of that.  This is not a team that is trained to play out of the back, and a team that is not trained to play out of the back is not a possession based team.

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That's a single case.  If you actually attend WS-VA games you may see the same team get into position and the keeper rolls it out.   We are on a younger team and more often the balls rolls out to feet than is punted.   The keeper will punt when the other team is in a high press and vulnerable over the top.  This is a decision.   I can say with certainty that I've seen coaching to shape and play from the back because I've seen/heard the guidance from the sideline.[/quote]

I'm not sure why you keep insisting the younger teams are so much better, but neither their record nor even watching them suggests they show some paradigm shift of high level play from any of the other teams.  The exception may be the 05 team, because it is loaded with 05 McLean girls who already played that way.

All that being said, to show a Spirit coaching direction, the key is to look at a game from the spring and compare it to a game from the fall - not in results, but in style of play.[/quote]

Actually, why don't you just show up to the practices and games to see what's being taught.  Results are meaningless....and in fact, I'd expect girls learning to play possession to lose against very athletic teams who can play direct.

You are simply picking on Spirit for results, as you have all along, when you know as well as anyone here that this is mainly the result of the lack of pipeline in VA prior to GFR.

Nothing more.[/quote]

You may be confusing posters.  The point was that the older teams are being taught the same thing as the younger teams, and the older teams play the same tactically as the younger teams.

I do acknowledge the 05 team as having more net talent, but above and below are mixed bags of players with varying talent levels.

I'm actually asserting that since these teams - all except the 19s - have had major player changes, any game from early fall will show what players knew when they started.  To be fair to the Spirit program, you have to look at what changes in style and level of play appear over the course of the year. [/quote]

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