Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dumpster fire" on this board is subjective for sure.

Loudoun is stable with decent management but lacks development and coaching. FCV was the opposite, and now is missing all three: management, development, and coaching. One is worse than the other at the moment.

Revolution being newish brings the chance to be where FCV once was. There's no real track record for them, and their girl's side isn't known for being great.

Loudoun coaching and development is decent enough at the U-littles level with pretty good track records. FCV has never been great with the U-Littles, only girls U13+. Revolution is great for boys, but an expensive rec program for girls on a good day.

There’s definitely a reason for that. FCV develops girls to play possession and to build out of the back. You don’t win a lot of games like that when they are young because it takes time. Loudoun gets the biggest and strongest to just score goals. They don’t teach possession so they just play kickball. They win a lot when they are younger but then can’t adjust when they get older, which is why FCV is good at 13+

Anonymous wrote:Revolution is great for boys, but an expensive rec program for girls on a good day.

I would argue that this is true for all of Revolution’s teams, not just the girls side. Yes, the boys are better than the girls but that’s not saying much. How do you think a Revolution team would do in, say, the Jefferson Cup? We won’t get the chance to find out since the tournament organizers don’t believe they warrant acceptance but based on what I’ve seen, I can see why they’d hold that opinion. It’s not uncommon for parents to have an artificially inflated opinion of how good their child’s team is based on how much they win but without having any real sense of how good the teams that they’re beating really are. In the case of Revolution, those teams are playing in EDP and NCSL. How would those teams fair against ECNL-RL teams, for example? And how about vs. ECNL-NL or MLS Next teams? Seeing matchups against that level of competition would likely bring a new perspective for some people.

Anonymous wrote:"Dumpster fire" on this board is subjective for sure.

Loudoun is stable with decent management but lacks development and coaching. FCV was the opposite, and now is missing all three: management, development, and coaching. One is worse than the other at the moment.

Revolution being newish brings the chance to be where FCV once was. There's no real track record for them, and their girl's side isn't known for being great.

Loudoun coaching and development is decent enough at the U-littles level with pretty good track records. FCV has never been great with the U-Littles, only girls U13+. Revolution is great for boys, but an expensive rec program for girls on a good day.

"Dumpster fire" on this board is subjective for sure.

Loudoun is stable with decent management but lacks development and coaching. FCV was the opposite, and now is missing all three: management, development, and coaching. One is worse than the other at the moment.

Revolution being newish brings the chance to be where FCV once was. There's no real track record for them, and their girl's side isn't known for being great.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you have free rec soccer? who pays for the referees?

The email was about free travel not rec soccer. But since you mention it, DD played rec with FCV in the fall (not for free) and there were no refs. One of the big reasons why we are planning to go back to Loudoun next fall.

-OP

LOL. LS is also a dumpster fire.

No but no doubt the coach FCV fired is much better off too. Why do you think so many people are leaving?

Anonymous wrote:Free GA anyone?

It was a joke at FCV saying the only way they’ll get anyone on their GA teams is to make it free

It's not GA at those ages...

Free GA anyone?

I think a company sponsored the free rec last year.

Anonymous wrote:No referees? Was it U9 or older?

No refs. U9.