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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the Pipeline 05 lost a player or two to Celtic.

Pipeline isn’t playing this fall. Celtic is.

correct. 2 of the 3 05s that quit went there. maryland united is going to benefit massively from pipeline players leaving

Impossible. We’ve already established that ECNL is the only destination.

uh, MD united is ECNL

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the Pipeline 05 lost a player or two to Celtic.

Pipeline isn’t playing this fall. Celtic is.

correct. 2 of the 3 05s that quit went there. maryland united is going to benefit massively from pipeline players leaving

Impossible. We’ve already established that ECNL is the only destination.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the Pipeline 05 lost a player or two to Celtic.

Pipeline isn’t playing this fall. Celtic is.

correct. 2 of the 3 05s that quit went there. maryland united is going to benefit massively from pipeline players leaving

Impossible. We’ve already established that ECNL is the only destination.

Your kids may be in different leagues, but you are all headed for the same destination, I can assure you.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the Pipeline 05 lost a player or two to Celtic.

Pipeline isn’t playing this fall. Celtic is.

correct. 2 of the 3 05s that quit went there. maryland united is going to benefit massively from pipeline players leaving

Impossible. We’ve already established that ECNL is the only destination.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the Pipeline 05 lost a player or two to Celtic.

Pipeline isn’t playing this fall. Celtic is.

correct. 2 of the 3 05s that quit went there. maryland united is going to benefit massively from pipeline players leaving

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the Pipeline 05 lost a player or two to Celtic.

Pipeline isn’t playing this fall. Celtic is.

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the Pipeline 05 lost a player or two to Celtic.

Anonymous wrote:^^Pipeline dad cut them to make room for all the new Mia's migrating from the former DA club.

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Anonymous wrote:three 05s quit last week from santino's team...

Quit to do what? Did they quit soccer? Are they going to another ECNL team? Why did they quit?

That 05 team was very strong but I believe that some of their former players did not rejoin the team once coming back from DA and are instead playing up a year at Pipeline.

they left for maryland united and celtic-union

Why leave now and not this summer? My guess is that these were not top players and instead of sitting on the bench they went to places where they could play. I don't see a starter with ambitions to play college leaving Pipeline, which just joined the ECNL, for any 05 team in the region. If with the loss of players who moved up to U17, Pipeline is still one of the top 05 teams in the DMV.

Here with go again with Pipeline Dad bragging about a Pipeline team before any ECNL games have been played by the 05 team. You better hope that team performs better than the 08 and 07 teams in ECNL.

Not Pipeline dad, but the older teams (06, 05, 04 and 02) have done better than the younger teams over the past few years.

You mean older teams that have played against B and C teams in second tier, regional leagues? They were not playing ECNL or DA/GA teams then.

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL, where we hit your credit card monthly whether you play free HS soccer or nothing at all.

ECNL, the most expensive free HS soccer you can get.

ECNL, you get both a patch and a rec (ahem Varsity) letter.

ECNL, where you paid 6K for the year for elite soccer training but you get a track coach for four months of it.

Fact checker here:

7th and 8th graders play year around
9-12 train Aug-Feb

March-June they play high school PLUS one week ECNL training and mutiple showcases. Back to full ECNL training in June for nationals

When it's all said and done, ECNL plays more

Now, post your GA cost and I'll post the ECNL cost

That is a stunning revelation that middle school kids don't play high school soccer.

Another fact, middle school kids don't get scouted, but high school age kids do.

You set yourself up with that comment. No league is comparable to ECNL for college placememt

ECNL didn't bow to high school before DA and now they have to live with it.

ECNL USED to be a full 10 month season and kids who wanted to play HS chose one or the other BUT they could still get a full 10 month ECNL season. That is no longer an option.

ECNL set themselves up for that in a short term appeal to DA players. Now they have to live with nearly all of their players playing crappy high school soccer or none at all.

So if you are in NOVA enjoy having two weeks in the spring to gear up for ECNL summer showcases and playoffs after playing 4 months of HS soccer instead of training with and playing good soccer with club. I think it sounds like a great idea to roll into a showcase after being 4 months removed form my team.

1. ECNL didn't bow to high school before DA - FACT - This was used as a marketing for ECNL over the DA "You get to play HS if you want"
2. ECNL USED to be a full 10 month season and kids who wanted to play HS chose one or the other BUT they could still get a full 10 month ECNL season - FACT - My kid opted for school ball while most of the team opted for ECNL team. When school ball wasn't available she joined the ECNL team. Prior to DA, the ECNL coaches discouraged playing HS.
3. ECNL set themselves up for that in a short term appeal to DA players - FACT - The ECNL used the HS pitch to get DA players to move over, which worked in many cases. Let's see how they pivot now. My guess is the pivot will be to the 10 mon elite training with ECNL team.

I'm not seeing falsehoods in this, but truth.

This is not fact. How long have you been around the scene? You speak with such authority and yet are wrong.

Maybe just my viewpoint...

But been around since 2009

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL, where we hit your credit card monthly whether you play free HS soccer or nothing at all.

ECNL, the most expensive free HS soccer you can get.

ECNL, you get both a patch and a rec (ahem Varsity) letter.

ECNL, where you paid 6K for the year for elite soccer training but you get a track coach for four months of it.

Fact checker here:

7th and 8th graders play year around
9-12 train Aug-Feb

March-June they play high school PLUS one week ECNL training and mutiple showcases. Back to full ECNL training in June for nationals

When it's all said and done, ECNL plays more

Now, post your GA cost and I'll post the ECNL cost

That is a stunning revelation that middle school kids don't play high school soccer.

Another fact, middle school kids don't get scouted, but high school age kids do.

You set yourself up with that comment. No league is comparable to ECNL for college placememt

ECNL didn't bow to high school before DA and now they have to live with it.

ECNL USED to be a full 10 month season and kids who wanted to play HS chose one or the other BUT they could still get a full 10 month ECNL season. That is no longer an option.

ECNL set themselves up for that in a short term appeal to DA players. Now they have to live with nearly all of their players playing crappy high school soccer or none at all.

So if you are in NOVA enjoy having two weeks in the spring to gear up for ECNL summer showcases and playoffs after playing 4 months of HS soccer instead of training with and playing good soccer with club. I think it sounds like a great idea to roll into a showcase after being 4 months removed form my team.

1. ECNL didn't bow to high school before DA - FACT - This was used as a marketing for ECNL over the DA "You get to play HS if you want"
2. ECNL USED to be a full 10 month season and kids who wanted to play HS chose one or the other BUT they could still get a full 10 month ECNL season - FACT - My kid opted for school ball while most of the team opted for ECNL team. When school ball wasn't available she joined the ECNL team. Prior to DA, the ECNL coaches discouraged playing HS.
3. ECNL set themselves up for that in a short term appeal to DA players - FACT - The ECNL used the HS pitch to get DA players to move over, which worked in many cases. Let's see how they pivot now. My guess is the pivot will be to the 10 mon elite training with ECNL team.

I'm not seeing falsehoods in this, but truth.

This is not fact. How long have you been around the scene? You speak with such authority and yet are wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL, where we hit your credit card monthly whether you play free HS soccer or nothing at all.

ECNL, the most expensive free HS soccer you can get.

ECNL, you get both a patch and a rec (ahem Varsity) letter.

ECNL, where you paid 6K for the year for elite soccer training but you get a track coach for four months of it.

Fact checker here:

7th and 8th graders play year around
9-12 train Aug-Feb

March-June they play high school PLUS one week ECNL training and mutiple showcases. Back to full ECNL training in June for nationals

When it's all said and done, ECNL plays more

Now, post your GA cost and I'll post the ECNL cost

That is a stunning revelation that middle school kids don't play high school soccer.

Another fact, middle school kids don't get scouted, but high school age kids do.

You set yourself up with that comment. No league is comparable to ECNL for college placememt

ECNL didn't bow to high school before DA and now they have to live with it.

ECNL USED to be a full 10 month season and kids who wanted to play HS chose one or the other BUT they could still get a full 10 month ECNL season. That is no longer an option.

ECNL set themselves up for that in a short term appeal to DA players. Now they have to live with nearly all of their players playing crappy high school soccer or none at all.

So if you are in NOVA enjoy having two weeks in the spring to gear up for ECNL summer showcases and playoffs after playing 4 months of HS soccer instead of training with and playing good soccer with club. I think it sounds like a great idea to roll into a showcase after being 4 months removed form my team.

1. ECNL didn't bow to high school before DA - FACT - This was used as a marketing for ECNL over the DA "You get to play HS if you want"
2. ECNL USED to be a full 10 month season and kids who wanted to play HS chose one or the other BUT they could still get a full 10 month ECNL season - FACT - My kid opted for school ball while most of the team opted for ECNL team. When school ball wasn't available she joined the ECNL team. Prior to DA, the ECNL coaches discouraged playing HS.
3. ECNL set themselves up for that in a short term appeal to DA players - FACT - The ECNL used the HS pitch to get DA players to move over, which worked in many cases. Let's see how they pivot now. My guess is the pivot will be to the 10 mon elite training with ECNL team.

I'm not seeing falsehoods in this, but truth.