Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 09:00     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Anonymous wrote:Arlington second team is like that weird aunt or uncle who is always at Thanksgiving dinner but you never quite know why or who invited them. Or like a dead whale carcass that bobs and floats along as other sea animal take bites out of it little by little. Or a duraflame log that burns low and slow but produces little heat and leaves you cold. Or like a man with ED that tries and tries but can never quite be ready to satisfy.


This is weird.

It seems Arlington second team is still better than a lot of area first teams.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 08:35     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
There's some nasty old man on here obsessed with poop. Its disgusting.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 08:33     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
That’s not how I would have put it but I know what you mean.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 06:43     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Anonymous wrote:Arlington second team is like that weird aunt or uncle who is always at Thanksgiving dinner but you never quite know why or who invited them. Or like a dead whale carcass that bobs and floats along as other sea animal take bites out of it little by little. Or a duraflame log that burns low and slow but produces little heat and leaves you cold. Or like a man with ED that tries and tries but can never quite be ready to satisfy.


I would have compared it to a “phantom poop,” where you know you’ve dropped one into the can but when you stand up to look, there’s nothing there. PRESUMABLY it has slipped into the magic pipe that takes it away, and thus is only hiding from you, but for a moment you’re confused. You think there is a there there but you can’t see it. On RL you think you’re producing quality soccer but alas your team and money have self-flushed. Know what I mean?
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2026 22:22     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
My DD is on an older Arlington team. Outside of Arlington Girls have been attending practice all the time. We have been getting 1 per week for months now.

Only Coach knows if they are getting offers or not. I guess we will find out come this summer.

They don't need a lot of new players at tryouts/ ID sessions as we have had a lot at practice before and after tryouts.

This is information you won't know about if you are on the RL team.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2026 22:17     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:2013 picked up about 8-9 and 2014 picked up about 5-6.


This is completely false. They did not have 13-15 outside girls at tryouts and they had combined the 2013-14 tryouts.


Arlington recruits--not all outside players have to tryout


That's dumb


You would judge a person's play on one day as opposed to perhaps four years of practice and games? No purpose at all to have existing players there. They know those players. If they were an 8 and played a 10 or a 6 on that day it would not matter. And having them there detracts from the ability to focus on the new people.


Sorry it is dumb. They take outside girls based on two practices but overlook the records of girls from other Arlington teams that have been playing on the red team.


Dumb unless you are trying to expand your customer base and drive profit.


This literally makes no sense. Roster sizes don’t increase, number of teams don’t go up, and there is no shortage of kids willing to play on white, blue, black. So there’s no logic to what you are saying
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2026 19:59     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Anonymous wrote:Arlington second team is like that weird aunt or uncle who is always at Thanksgiving dinner but you never quite know why or who invited them. Or like a dead whale carcass that bobs and floats along as other sea animal take bites out of it little by little. Or a duraflame log that burns low and slow but produces little heat and leaves you cold. Or like a man with ED that tries and tries but can never quite be ready to satisfy.


people here are very weird
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2026 18:21     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Anonymous wrote:Arlington second team is like that weird aunt or uncle who is always at Thanksgiving dinner but you never quite know why or who invited them. Or like a dead whale carcass that bobs and floats along as other sea animal take bites out of it little by little. Or a duraflame log that burns low and slow but produces little heat and leaves you cold. Or like a man with ED that tries and tries but can never quite be ready to satisfy.


This very oddly specific
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2026 17:47     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Arlington second team is like that weird aunt or uncle who is always at Thanksgiving dinner but you never quite know why or who invited them. Or like a dead whale carcass that bobs and floats along as other sea animal take bites out of it little by little. Or a duraflame log that burns low and slow but produces little heat and leaves you cold. Or like a man with ED that tries and tries but can never quite be ready to satisfy.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2026 14:59     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Well if you can’t go to FVU then I think you are stuck on the Arlington red team.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2026 14:26     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Telling someone to check out FVU is like encouraging them to book a room on the Titanic or drink the water in Mexico.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2026 13:13     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Which age groups? FVU will invite your kid to several practices/id sessions then ghost you. Or ask you to guest play for more than half the season and then not offer you a spot.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2026 12:16     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:We get it. Your RL kid is great. But the NL kids practice more, practice against harder competition, play against harder competition day in and day out, year after year. It is a difficult thing for RL kids to overcome, the lack of training and playing competition after the first ECNL year, unless your kid is doing way more outside training, which the NL kids are also doing. So, is your kid practicing more, playing against better competition, and training more outside of club practices? If you can’t say absolutely yes, then you really shouldn’t think your DC is in the same boat, neither should the coaches.




100 percent correct. As good as my kid is, by age 14 there is no way to make up the gap. Parents are deluded. But I do also fault the clubs, who give the illusion of development and advancement. It won’t happen by HS so don’t expect it. And that is the right thing, actually, but definitely disingenuous of the clubs to suggest that it can happen.


I agree with this, but why not give the equally good kid on the red team who has been loyal to the club the chance? It's so frustrating. My kid with the 4x a week practice would be crushing it.


You should check out FVU. They have openings.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 22:25     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We get it. Your RL kid is great. But the NL kids practice more, practice against harder competition, play against harder competition day in and day out, year after year. It is a difficult thing for RL kids to overcome, the lack of training and playing competition after the first ECNL year, unless your kid is doing way more outside training, which the NL kids are also doing. So, is your kid practicing more, playing against better competition, and training more outside of club practices? If you can’t say absolutely yes, then you really shouldn’t think your DC is in the same boat, neither should the coaches.




100 percent correct. As good as my kid is, by age 14 there is no way to make up the gap. Parents are deluded. But I do also fault the clubs, who give the illusion of development and advancement. It won’t happen by HS so don’t expect it. And that is the right thing, actually, but definitely disingenuous of the clubs to suggest that it can happen.


I agree with this, but why not give the equally good kid on the red team who has been loyal to the club the chance? It's so frustrating. My kid with the 4x a week practice would be crushing it.

Because they know you won’t leave


Exactly. You will gladly pay your own prison bill. Now eat your slop and do not complain. EG (who is worse at IDing talent than even MV at FVU but she can’t acknowledge this because she is the best at everything and surrounds herself with yes-men) is like the Club’s IRS. She is there to ensure the NL invoices are sent to RL.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2026 22:12     Subject: Arlington RL to ECNL
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We get it. Your RL kid is great. But the NL kids practice more, practice against harder competition, play against harder competition day in and day out, year after year. It is a difficult thing for RL kids to overcome, the lack of training and playing competition after the first ECNL year, unless your kid is doing way more outside training, which the NL kids are also doing. So, is your kid practicing more, playing against better competition, and training more outside of club practices? If you can’t say absolutely yes, then you really shouldn’t think your DC is in the same boat, neither should the coaches.




100 percent correct. As good as my kid is, by age 14 there is no way to make up the gap. Parents are deluded. But I do also fault the clubs, who give the illusion of development and advancement. It won’t happen by HS so don’t expect it. And that is the right thing, actually, but definitely disingenuous of the clubs to suggest that it can happen.


I agree with this, but why not give the equally good kid on the red team who has been loyal to the club the chance? It's so frustrating. My kid with the 4x a week practice would be crushing it.

Because they know you won’t leave