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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Please keep discussions on the topic of soccer and stop the back and forth bickering. Rather than engaging in pages of name-calling and personal attacks, please use the "report" button to report posters who post such messages. [/quote]

I have used the report button.  Can you remove the posters that have personally attacked specific teenage girls and ban them from the forum?  This is cyberbullying.  We wouldn't want our kids to talk about teammates like this in a public forum.

The whole thread needs to be deleted as well.

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I am not going to delete an entire 60 page thread. Nor do I have time to read the entire thread. So you are going to have to continue reporting specific posts. I have removed posts that you reported.

In addition, I just stumbled across a poster who seems obsessed with "play ups" and was sock puppetting posts. There are few practices that are frowned on more here than sock puppetting. I will provide this single warning to that poster, but if I come across it again, the poster will be blocked.
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Admin—thank you for confirming our (I saw posts other than mine on this) suspicion that the anti-WS “play up” poster was sock puppeting the thread.  I think he/she may have stated some intent through projection earlier in the thread when they implied that the WS “defenders” were using the forums and social media being a powerful tool to influence people.  Knowing this anti-WS poster has sock puppeted the thread now casts their entire agenda down.

That said, again as a WS parent, I’d like to extend my hand to those who aren’t in the club to come out and watch the practices and games.  Talk to Coach Torres and the staff, all of whom are capable and accomplished coaches who run organized and excellent training for our girls.  As has been stated before by other WS parents, the environment isn’t perfect, just like ANY other club in the area, and I’ve seen plenty with my three DCs over the past 10 years.  Yes, WS talent pool isn’t that of the former and current ECNL clubs that had programs and buy-in for years....how could it be after a single year of operation??   I also wouldn’t think of stooping to levels we have heard, calling the players “crappy” and so forth.  The vast majority of these girls at all ages are very good soccer players with vision, technical ability, tactical awareness, and hard workers.  Please come to the practices so you can see it first hand.  There is no curtain, and nothing to hide as has been suggested.  After only a year, last year’s teams have improved and it shows in their results, even in the games against FCV when you look at the older age groups.   This in spite of the initial takent disadvantage noted above.

In sum, given what we have seen in this thread, the best practice is to rely on those you know in the program, your eyes, and your direct discussions with WS staff and parents.  If you were to visit our practices, I’d be more than happy to discuss the good and the bad in person.  I have no fear of recrimination or non existent politics that would prevent me from telling you my opinions, in private or with a group of our parents, even coaches, present. But trying to weed through the anonymous commentary here can be very non productive when you have agenda posters using the forum as a cudgel.

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