Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wait, let me get this straight, arlington's and loudoun's top teams had games scheduled, arlington then entered a tournament to beat up on other clubs' second teams, and loudoun is the bad guy?

Exactly. Pathetic.

And double carding ECNL player ls to play state cup is embarrassing. Thanks for letting us know

I'm neither and Arlington parent, nor a Loudoun parent.

The only thing that is embarrassing is a club which refuses to accommodate a reschedule request, denying all the kids on both teams a game of soccer, in order to record a forfeit win in a league table.

Trying to make Arlington out to be the bad guys for entering the state cup is absurd.

I am not affiliated with either team--but with another ECNL club.

Whoever is pissed at Loundoun for not accomodating a last minute request to reschedule clearly does not understand how ECNL logistics works and why the ask is totally unreasonable. I am a parent volunteer for ECNL and the logistics are complicated as its full club games with coaches who sometimes have multiple teams. The volume of emails and organizatoin that goes into the schedule that both clubs have already agreed to is already sky high (including refs, medical people etc). Games and coaches are scheduled far in advance and agreed to by both clubs for this reason so everything can be accomodated. I'm sorry but Arlington should not have expected Loundoun to readily agree to reschedule when all the resourcing and efforts had been put to having a game as planned. Why would Arlington believe that Loundoun players/coaches would have been available when Arlington decided they wanted to play. Many players also play other sports or have other activities which they organize around the set ECNL schedule which was scheduled weeks ago. Sorry but it's unreasonable for Arlington to expect a reschedule AFTER the schedule has been approved by BOTH clubs, communicated and organized around. I'd be pissed off if my club reorganized a game I had organized our entire schedule around simply because another club decided they had something else to do. It's a differnet story if its being rescheduled for uncontrollable reasons. But rescheduling and throwing 20 Loundon players/families and a coachs's schedule out the window just to play another game--sorry.

(1) ECNL games are NOT scheduled far in advance. The gametimes are usually agreed and set three days or so in advance - and rarely more than a week.

(2) My kids' games (ECNL and all other leagues) get rescheduled often, for any number of reasons, and frequently at the last minute, without any problems. It is most definitely not impossible.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wait, let me get this straight, arlington's and loudoun's top teams had games scheduled, arlington then entered a tournament to beat up on other clubs' second teams, and loudoun is the bad guy?

Exactly. Pathetic.

And double carding ECNL player ls to play state cup is embarrassing. Thanks for letting us know

I'm neither and Arlington parent, nor a Loudoun parent.

The only thing that is embarrassing is a club which refuses to accommodate a reschedule request, denying all the kids on both teams a game of soccer, in order to record a forfeit win in a league table.

Trying to make Arlington out to be the bad guys for entering the state cup is absurd.

I am not affiliated with either team--but with another ECNL club.

Whoever is pissed at Loundoun for not accomodating a last minute request to reschedule clearly does not understand how ECNL logistics works and why the ask is totally unreasonable. I am a parent volunteer for ECNL and the logistics are complicated as its full club games with coaches who sometimes have multiple teams. The volume of emails and organizatoin that goes into the schedule that both clubs have already agreed to is already sky high (including refs, medical people etc). Games and coaches are scheduled far in advance and agreed to by both clubs for this reason so everything can be accomodated. I'm sorry but Arlington should not have expected Loundoun to readily agree to reschedule when all the resourcing and efforts had been put to having a game as planned. Why would Arlington believe that Loundoun players/coaches would have been available when Arlington decided they wanted to play. Many players also play other sports or have other activities which they organize around the set ECNL schedule which was scheduled weeks ago. Sorry but it's unreasonable for Arlington to expect a reschedule AFTER the schedule has been approved by BOTH clubs, communicated and organized around. I'd be pissed off if my club reorganized a game I had organized our entire schedule around simply because another club decided they had something else to do. It's a differnet story if its being rescheduled for uncontrollable reasons. But rescheduling and throwing 20 Loundon players/families and a coachs's schedule out the window just to play another game--sorry.

(1) ECNL games are NOT scheduled far in advance. The gametimes are usually agreed and set three days or so in advance - and rarely more than a week.

(2) My kids' games (ECNL and all other leagues) get rescheduled often, for any number of reasons, and frequently at the last minute, without any problems. It is most definitely not impossible.