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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.[/quote]

ML is not a director anymore.  Several coaches got their pay cut.  MW is not coaching at GFR anymore.   They are projecting a loss of money again this year.  One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone.  The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.  [/quote]

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.[/quote]

Top team players will always leave GFR for clubs with a pathway.  [b]That's always been the case.[/b]  My 2009 kids team has only a handful of players left from the U10 days because the good players left for other clubs with national leagues.  They still compete well at the RL level though.  Which kinda proves everyone's point saying that this is an RL club and nothing more. [/quote]

Doesn't have to be the case! Stop with the "local club" propaganda. No one is buying it! BRYC, McLean, Herndon, Vienna, Valor all have pathways and are simliar size club as GFR. They also don't have the mass exodus that GFR does. Those other clubs aren't bigger or better than GFR but they give the best possible opportunities to their kids. The club needs to explain to parents why they didn't join union or pursue other pathways.[/quote]

The fact that you include Herndon on a list of clubs that you claim has a pathway, doesn't have a mass exodus and gives the best possible opportunities to their kids completely invalidates your claim to know what you are talking about.[/quote]

Nice deflection of not addressing the strange choices your club's management has made. Aren't you even mildly upset or curious as to the crazy moves your club made (or didn't make) last season? Or are you just a good obedient little team parent? GFR parents, if you hear "local neighborhood" club one more time, you should know that they are treating you like a fool. No club of GFR's caliber is telling their families to stay put and local.[/quote]

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