I heard they're pushing MN out and replacing the TD role with RS's new position

Anonymous wrote:How are older girls chased off? Not played so parents leave end of season or something else? Is there still a push for additional training sessions outside reg practice?

they get sick of GD and his bullshit lol

How are older girls chased off? Not played so parents leave end of season or something else? Is there still a push for additional training sessions outside reg practice?

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Anonymous wrote:So if running at a financial loss and RS moving roles, is there expectation for tryout numbers and acceptance rates to be higher or lower than last year (where last year numbers were definitely off from prior years)? Will the coaches with better reputations that are coaching older teams stick around or move on?

I guess it depends why acceptance rates were lower. Which coaches at older teams have a good reputation? You can't possibly mean the girls side which for U14+ is all GD. He chases girls out the older they get and should not even be coaching the teams he has at this point! The boys side older teams are RS. He's a good coach but will he still coach with his new job? What is his new job anyway?

Operations. Unless more said in Board meeting Monday, job descriptions read some overlap for what ED will do v new OPs role.

Team Dad said Board meeting said nothing, RS just mentioned he proposed a new role. Where is the job description for his new role? Is it in meeting minutes? Are those on the website?

the minutes are kept in a locked safe at the bottom of the potomac

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Anonymous wrote:So if running at a financial loss and RS moving roles, is there expectation for tryout numbers and acceptance rates to be higher or lower than last year (where last year numbers were definitely off from prior years)? Will the coaches with better reputations that are coaching older teams stick around or move on?

I guess it depends why acceptance rates were lower. Which coaches at older teams have a good reputation? You can't possibly mean the girls side which for U14+ is all GD. He chases girls out the older they get and should not even be coaching the teams he has at this point! The boys side older teams are RS. He's a good coach but will he still coach with his new job? What is his new job anyway?

Operations. Unless more said in Board meeting Monday, job descriptions read some overlap for what ED will do v new OPs role.

What does operations mean? Isn't that the ED job? Why is he moving to a new role? Who is new ED?

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Anonymous wrote:So if running at a financial loss and RS moving roles, is there expectation for tryout numbers and acceptance rates to be higher or lower than last year (where last year numbers were definitely off from prior years)? Will the coaches with better reputations that are coaching older teams stick around or move on?

I guess it depends why acceptance rates were lower. Which coaches at older teams have a good reputation? You can't possibly mean the girls side which for U14+ is all GD. He chases girls out the older they get and should not even be coaching the teams he has at this point! The boys side older teams are RS. He's a good coach but will he still coach with his new job? What is his new job anyway?

Operations. Unless more said in Board meeting Monday, job descriptions read some overlap for what ED will do v new OPs role.

Team Dad said Board meeting said nothing, RS just mentioned he proposed a new role. Where is the job description for his new role? Is it in meeting minutes? Are those on the website?

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Anonymous wrote:So if running at a financial loss and RS moving roles, is there expectation for tryout numbers and acceptance rates to be higher or lower than last year (where last year numbers were definitely off from prior years)? Will the coaches with better reputations that are coaching older teams stick around or move on?

I guess it depends why acceptance rates were lower. Which coaches at older teams have a good reputation? You can't possibly mean the girls side which for U14+ is all GD. He chases girls out the older they get and should not even be coaching the teams he has at this point! The boys side older teams are RS. He's a good coach but will he still coach with his new job? What is his new job anyway?

Thread lurker asking: How does GFR roster its older girl teams if girls chased out? Is it easy enough to find and fill spots with higher level players? Or are there enough girls teams U14+ that GFR starts consolidating teams as the girls get older so they need to be cutting as they go?

our daughter is younger but there's an older sister of her teammate who plays on one of the older teams and i heard the 09's were down to one team of 11 before eth season started so they added players from the 10's to fill the gaps left by players who left. they're still competitive in RL but not what they used to be. the 08's have 2 teams though which seems weird? i guess they'll all be graduating though. hoping that the club can pick up some girls in the younger age groups so we don't end up in a similar situation in a few years.

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Anonymous wrote:So if running at a financial loss and RS moving roles, is there expectation for tryout numbers and acceptance rates to be higher or lower than last year (where last year numbers were definitely off from prior years)? Will the coaches with better reputations that are coaching older teams stick around or move on?

I guess it depends why acceptance rates were lower. Which coaches at older teams have a good reputation? You can't possibly mean the girls side which for U14+ is all GD. He chases girls out the older they get and should not even be coaching the teams he has at this point! The boys side older teams are RS. He's a good coach but will he still coach with his new job? What is his new job anyway?

Operations. Unless more said in Board meeting Monday, job descriptions read some overlap for what ED will do v new OPs role.

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Anonymous wrote:So if running at a financial loss and RS moving roles, is there expectation for tryout numbers and acceptance rates to be higher or lower than last year (where last year numbers were definitely off from prior years)? Will the coaches with better reputations that are coaching older teams stick around or move on?

I guess it depends why acceptance rates were lower. Which coaches at older teams have a good reputation? You can't possibly mean the girls side which for U14+ is all GD. He chases girls out the older they get and should not even be coaching the teams he has at this point! The boys side older teams are RS. He's a good coach but will he still coach with his new job? What is his new job anyway?

Thread lurker asking: How does GFR roster its older girl teams if girls chased out? Is it easy enough to find and fill spots with higher level players? Or are there enough girls teams U14+ that GFR starts consolidating teams as the girls get older so they need to be cutting as they go?

Anonymous wrote:So if running at a financial loss and RS moving roles, is there expectation for tryout numbers and acceptance rates to be higher or lower than last year (where last year numbers were definitely off from prior years)? Will the coaches with better reputations that are coaching older teams stick around or move on?

I can't imagine they'll be hiring - how will they attract new players at this point?

Anonymous wrote:So if running at a financial loss and RS moving roles, is there expectation for tryout numbers and acceptance rates to be higher or lower than last year (where last year numbers were definitely off from prior years)? Will the coaches with better reputations that are coaching older teams stick around or move on?

I guess it depends why acceptance rates were lower. Which coaches at older teams have a good reputation? You can't possibly mean the girls side which for U14+ is all GD. He chases girls out the older they get and should not even be coaching the teams he has at this point! The boys side older teams are RS. He's a good coach but will he still coach with his new job? What is his new job anyway?

So if running at a financial loss and RS moving roles, is there expectation for tryout numbers and acceptance rates to be higher or lower than last year (where last year numbers were definitely off from prior years)? Will the coaches with better reputations that are coaching older teams stick around or move on?

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Anonymous wrote:All the GF money and not being able to buy being the best is hurting

they’re the best RL club

Better than VSA, Arlington, etc? Uh, no.

And those clubs have pathways to ECNL, which GFR does not

Go back a few pages, GFR is a neighborhood club, they don't care about no stinkin pathways!

Lol - a neighborhood club with ~$3M in revenue per year.

Yeah it’s not quite the little lemonade stand run at town’s farmers market by a friendly mom and pop

And according to someone who went to the board meeting the other night even with that much revenue they're still operating at a huge loss financially

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Anonymous wrote:All the GF money and not being able to buy being the best is hurting

they’re the best RL club

Better than VSA, Arlington, etc? Uh, no.

And those clubs have pathways to ECNL, which GFR does not

Go back a few pages, GFR is a neighborhood club, they don't care about no stinkin pathways!

Lol - a neighborhood club with ~$3M in revenue per year.

Yeah it’s not quite the little lemonade stand run at town’s farmers market by a friendly mom and pop

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Anonymous wrote:All the GF money and not being able to buy being the best is hurting

they’re the best RL club

Better than VSA, Arlington, etc? Uh, no.

And those clubs have pathways to ECNL, which GFR does not

Go back a few pages, GFR is a neighborhood club, they don't care about no stinkin pathways!

Lol - a neighborhood club with ~$3M in revenue per year.