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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is player placement, it is all politics at Mclean and will hurt badly Brave players who are coming from a healthy environment.[/quote]

Let's hope the selection process is merit based and not deep pockets getting their kids buried in the team since the coaches are in their pockets. If I were Brave, I will demand an independent coach to come assess the players at the tryouts and make the selection so its fair. The teams can make their Veo games available as part of the evaluation of each player. Unfortunately, this would not happen and there will still be weak links on the consolidated team (undersize, not fast and physical, technical skills lacking and always getting pushed off the ball).

The stronger players always have do more to compensate for this when they are in the game, like they are playing one or two players down. This creates a situation where the these stronger players are risking getting injured -- ACL, MCL tears. These coaches really need to clean this up.

Under Coach Kevin (Bethesda), this will never happen. The weak ones rarely plays and eventually are replaced. [/quote]

In a new equal partnership and the new ECNL club it won’t be up to just McLean-Union. [/quote]

hahaha, I would love to see you tell Nadir or Clyde you want an independent assessment. It's never been fair in these circumstances and it never will be whether you're talking about McLean or anywhere else. The incumbents on the Union teams have the upper hand until it is clear that an outside player is head and shoulders better. That's what sucks about this merger... if you're a mid-pack or lower BRAVE ECNL player, you're in a tough spot. As a parent, it's your job to know how this works and have a plan B at least. Demanding justice will get you nowhere.[/quote]

Similarly, if you’re a mid-pack or lower Union player, you’re in a tough spot. 
Union does not have the upper hand in the equal partnership and of course there will always be players that will be better.[/quote]
If Union doesn’t have the upper hand, the people pushing this are complete morons.  BRYC shouldn’t even be in the merger at this point. They ran their original ECNL program into the ground and didn’t even field boys ECNL-RL teams in the fall. All their girls RL teams had losing records with 2 winless teams. They should just get told to get lost. Vienna has only been at this for 2 years and BRAVE pretty much hollowed out their RL teams - their 6 boys RL teams combined for 4 wins. Vienna is in over their heads and giving BRAVE any control or coaching slots will just be club suicide.[/quote]

Brave primarily is impacting the youngest groups, since prior to the formation, talent would leave the club for ECNL clubs (and form a domino effect). Much of that talent had already left for the oldest girls.

For the 2 age groups that have fed into Brave so far (2010 & 2011), Vienna’s ECRL girls are 11-3-2. They’re doing that while also feeding the vast majority of the Brave rosters (and the 10’ and 11’ Brave girls’ teams are strong).

Meanwhile, MYS has zero ECRL teams with winning records this year. Not a one, boys or girls. And SYC was making up the majority of the Union players for the same young ages where Vienna was doing it for Brave.

Why would McLean have leverage here and Vienna is in over their heads?[/quote]

You had me until you said the Brave Girls 10s, in 6th place (6-6-2, GD 0) and 11s in 8th place (5-6-3, GD -10) are strong.  That is not strong, nice try Vienna Dad!
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The 10s are better than their record this year. Last year, they scored over 70 goals, gave up about 25, beat both Union and Charlotte SA, and went to San Diego. They beat VDA 4-0 a few weeks ago, and should hopefully finish with a stronger record.

We’ll have to see how the 11s do in the spring, but they have already played Charlotte SA twice.

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VDA 10's going to be displaced by a lot of FCV players.[/quote]

Facts![/quote]

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