Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC has a field issue.

Fairfax County needs to put lights on every field at Hooes, not just one.

I do have to agree that for a club the size of SYC, why haven't the board or directors pushed for improvements to alleviate field problems?

It's possible the people living in the neighborhoods around Hooes Road do not want lights on every field. I don't think this is something the club can arbitrarily do. They have to go through the county. Maybe it has been tried previously and the neighbors and county said no? I do not know.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC has a field issue.

Fairfax County needs to put lights on every field at Hooes, not just one.

I do have to agree that for a club the size of SYC, why haven't the board or directors pushed for improvements to alleviate field problems?

Loisdale was refreshed over the summer. And younger kids/lower level teams practice at Hooes, so I don't think they care enough to bother.

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone is deleting posts under this subject. This is censorship and control the flow of information and type of info to create a narrative they want.

I have been removing posts from a poster who appears to be mentally unbalanced and engages in conversations with himself. I'm sorry if you found those posts useful, but I think most posters will be happy to have them removed.

In fairness, some parents at this particular club have become mentally unbalanced. It could be a combination of things and I'm sure a professional psychologist would have a field day studying it but it has been apparent for a while.

Baseless and is only included to cause trouble. There has not been a dedicated SYC thread, to my knowledge, until now. And so far, everyone in this thread is behaving civilly. This is merely a troll post.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC has a field issue.

Fairfax County needs to put lights on every field at Hooes, not just one.

I do have to agree that for a club the size of SYC, why haven't the board or directors pushed for improvements to alleviate field problems?

I think part of the issue is that they rely on a few HS fields and when they have events, it forces the reshuffling of fields and space to accommodate everyone. My kid doesn't train on one of the grass fields but when they have heavy rain, it forces the club to also move those teams.

Anonymous wrote:SYC has a field issue.

Fairfax County needs to put lights on every field at Hooes, not just one.

I do have to agree that for a club the size of SYC, why haven't the board or directors pushed for improvements to alleviate field problems?

SYC has a field issue.

Fairfax County needs to put lights on every field at Hooes, not just one.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone is deleting posts under this subject. This is censorship and control the flow of information and type of info to create a narrative they want.

I have been removing posts from a poster who appears to be mentally unbalanced and engages in conversations with himself. I'm sorry if you found those posts useful, but I think most posters will be happy to have them removed.

In fairness, some parents at this particular club have become mentally unbalanced. It could be a combination of things and I'm sure a professional psychologist would have a field day studying it but it has been apparent for a while.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone is deleting posts under this subject. This is censorship and control the flow of information and type of info to create a narrative they want.

I have been removing posts from a poster who appears to be mentally unbalanced and engages in conversations with himself. I'm sorry if you found those posts useful, but I think most posters will be happy to have them removed.

Thank you. This forum can be useful, but the fixation by some adults with certain clubs/teams is insane.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC is doing great. All other teams have the same issues with fields. This is not something that only happens to them.

I don't think many other programs are changing fields week to week if that is in fact true for SYC. That would be a bit of a scheduling nightmare for players and parents.

SYC parent here, haven't experienced this but this is just my experience. Been consistently 3x a week at south run, beginning of the year was a little bit of a shuffle between south run and WS high school.

Same here, occasionally some changes, but overall pretty consistent.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC is doing great. All other teams have the same issues with fields. This is not something that only happens to them.

I don't think many other programs are changing fields week to week if that is in fact true for SYC. That would be a bit of a scheduling nightmare for players and parents.

SYC parent here, haven't experienced this but this is just my experience. Been consistently 3x a week at south run, beginning of the year was a little bit of a shuffle between south run and WS high school.

No issue for us "having to change week to week." I can't speak for every team but the days our child practices, the practice is always held at the same location as the week before.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC is doing great. All other teams have the same issues with fields. This is not something that only happens to them.

We are with Arlington and we never have issues with fields.

Arlington and PWSI/VDA/VSA are probably the exception to the rule in the area for clubs using public fields. Plenty of fields to spread out, even with as many teams as they have, and dont have to deal with FXA adult sports.

Anonymous wrote:SYC is doing great. All other teams have the same issues with fields. This is not something that only happens to them.

I don't think many other programs are changing fields week to week if that is in fact true for SYC. That would be a bit of a scheduling nightmare for players and parents.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.perfectsoccerskills.com/blogs/news/why-playing-small-sided-games-is-excellent-for-players?srsltid=AfmBOor-SDG64XRmkrNfnWubCXY_WOKXp9ynqthGPoYosHBrxxLOWoKc

Plus it has it's benefits!

This is what all the clubs do in Socal.

As an example say there's one lighted football field. Clubs will break it into 4 sections with teams that are roughly the same age. Each section focuses on small sided games, or shooting and/or defending type drills. Sometimes 2 of the 4 teams will combine their fields and do scrimmages. Coaches always have the drills they're going to go through planned out before the practice starts. Different drills are timed because you can see all 4 coaches changing at the same time.

With Littles I've seen a field broken down into as many as 12 sections who usually combine into 6 for scrimmages at the end of practice.

Anonymous wrote:SYC is doing great. All other teams have the same issues with fields. This is not something that only happens to them.

We are with Arlington and we never have issues with fields.