Anonymous
05/14/2026 09:33
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's the girls. No, it's just some of the girls. Actually, it's the lack of fields. Not that, maybe it's the boys. Sorry, no it's the 2014's. Maybe it's the 2015's that are a year from formation.
Give it a rest.
I mean people are trying to figure how a club that has so many built in advantages could be so bad.
That's fair but the girls' side isn't bad even with all of the recent changes. The boys' side isn't good but one team is becoming competitive and the hope is that they can build with the incoming younger ages.
Union turned over the entire 2009 roster and still had a terrible season.
And a bunch of those girls are turning around and leaving FVU after just one year, because they see how poor of an organization it really is.
Or just maybe the girls aren’t that good?
If we are still talking about the 09's most of the girls were what was left of NVA ECNL. Best players went to VDA, rest in that age group went to FVU. So yeah we already knew they were not that great.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 09:27
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:With 6 teams, 1/3 is good. 1 of those teams, 2013s, is a biproduct of McLean and Clyde. I dont know enough about the 2012s to opine. That said, I generally agree that coach, players and team are the priority. In the case of 2014Gs, sounds like they have a pour coach and are expected to be the weakest of the 3 ECNL teams. I think it is fair to continue to challenge the comment, which is why cant FVU produce consistently strong teams, especially on the girls side, given their location.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You mean half a field. For half the practice for full price. Badum spssssshhhhAnonymous wrote:You guys are trying really hard to convince yourselves that driving to Long Park and Howison isn’t that bad. And the whole “they don’t even have their own fields” is getting tiresome. Does Arlington own Long Bridge?
Ffx county has plenty of fields that Union accesses. Marshall, Oakmont and Quantum are accessible for most including those from MD. Robinson, Oakton, Woodson are worse than Long Park? Tell me another one.
Keep telling yourself it will be ok and get better. Looks at the boys records.
Yeah, the half-field practice setup and the 2013/2012 girls still produced the #1 team in the Mid-Atlantic. Just look at the girls’s record.
You can have the most beautiful, perfect field like Revolution, and that still does not guarantee results.
So enough with all the excuses and nonsense already. It is not about the field. It is about the training, the players, and the results.
Bethesda is the only team in Maryland and only has two goood teams.
Bethesda only has one good team left the current G2011. That G2010 team is no longer good. Next season they will only have one good team again which will be the G2012 due to the trap players coming down. Blame it on Politics, favourtism, poor management and in same cases coaching.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 08:41
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's the girls. No, it's just some of the girls. Actually, it's the lack of fields. Not that, maybe it's the boys. Sorry, no it's the 2014's. Maybe it's the 2015's that are a year from formation.
Give it a rest.
I mean people are trying to figure how a club that has so many built in advantages could be so bad.
That's fair but the girls' side isn't bad even with all of the recent changes. The boys' side isn't good but one team is becoming competitive and the hope is that they can build with the incoming younger ages.
Union turned over the entire 2009 roster and still had a terrible season.
And a bunch of those girls are turning around and leaving FVU after just one year, because they see how poor of an organization it really is.
Or just maybe the girls aren’t that good?
Which I guess that means the original FVU girls they replaced were not that good either
Anonymous
05/14/2026 08:38
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Anonymous wrote:With 6 teams, 1/3 is good. 1 of those teams, 2013s, is a biproduct of McLean and Clyde. I dont know enough about the 2012s to opine. That said, I generally agree that coach, players and team are the priority. In the case of 2014Gs, sounds like they have a pour coach and are expected to be the weakest of the 3 ECNL teams. I think it is fair to continue to challenge the comment, which is why cant FVU produce consistently strong teams, especially on the girls side, given their location.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You mean half a field. For half the practice for full price. Badum spssssshhhhAnonymous wrote:You guys are trying really hard to convince yourselves that driving to Long Park and Howison isn’t that bad. And the whole “they don’t even have their own fields” is getting tiresome. Does Arlington own Long Bridge?
Ffx county has plenty of fields that Union accesses. Marshall, Oakmont and Quantum are accessible for most including those from MD. Robinson, Oakton, Woodson are worse than Long Park? Tell me another one.
Keep telling yourself it will be ok and get better. Looks at the boys records.
Yeah, the half-field practice setup and the 2013/2012 girls still produced the #1 team in the Mid-Atlantic. Just look at the girls’s record.
You can have the most beautiful, perfect field like Revolution, and that still does not guarantee results.
So enough with all the excuses and nonsense already. It is not about the field. It is about the training, the players, and the results.
Bethesda is the only team in Maryland and only has two goood teams.
Anonymous
05/14/2026 08:34
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's the girls. No, it's just some of the girls. Actually, it's the lack of fields. Not that, maybe it's the boys. Sorry, no it's the 2014's. Maybe it's the 2015's that are a year from formation.
Give it a rest.
I mean people are trying to figure how a club that has so many built in advantages could be so bad.
That's fair but the girls' side isn't bad even with all of the recent changes. The boys' side isn't good but one team is becoming competitive and the hope is that they can build with the incoming younger ages.
Union turned over the entire 2009 roster and still had a terrible season.
And a bunch of those girls are turning around and leaving FVU after just one year, because they see how poor of an organization it really is.
Or just maybe the girls aren’t that good?
Anonymous
05/14/2026 08:30
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Do you think the rising u13G are setup for failure then?Anonymous wrote:All of this is the MV effect on the girls side. Sometimes talent can overcome poor coaching and training but his total body of work points to very little reason to expect success at U13/14 to continue into the U16/18 years
Anonymous
05/14/2026 08:26
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's the girls. No, it's just some of the girls. Actually, it's the lack of fields. Not that, maybe it's the boys. Sorry, no it's the 2014's. Maybe it's the 2015's that are a year from formation.
Give it a rest.
I mean people are trying to figure how a club that has so many built in advantages could be so bad.
That's fair but the girls' side isn't bad even with all of the recent changes. The boys' side isn't good but one team is becoming competitive and the hope is that they can build with the incoming younger ages.
Union turned over the entire 2009 roster and still had a terrible season.
And a bunch of those girls are turning around and leaving FVU after just one year, because they see how poor of an organization it really is.
Anonymous
05/13/2026 17:19
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
All of this is the MV effect on the girls side. Sometimes talent can overcome poor coaching and training but his total body of work points to very little reason to expect success at U13/14 to continue into the U16/18 years
Anonymous
05/13/2026 12:11
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's the girls. No, it's just some of the girls. Actually, it's the lack of fields. Not that, maybe it's the boys. Sorry, no it's the 2014's. Maybe it's the 2015's that are a year from formation.
Give it a rest.
I mean people are trying to figure how a club that has so many built in advantages could be so bad.
That's fair but the girls' side isn't bad even with all of the recent changes. The boys' side isn't good but one team is becoming competitive and the hope is that they can build with the incoming younger ages.
Union turned over the entire 2009 roster and still had a terrible season.
Anonymous
05/13/2026 11:12
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's the girls. No, it's just some of the girls. Actually, it's the lack of fields. Not that, maybe it's the boys. Sorry, no it's the 2014's. Maybe it's the 2015's that are a year from formation.
Give it a rest.
I mean people are trying to figure how a club that has so many built in advantages could be so bad.
That's fair but the girls' side isn't bad even with all of the recent changes. The boys' side isn't good but one team is becoming competitive and the hope is that they can build with the incoming younger ages.
Anonymous
05/13/2026 10:57
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Anonymous wrote:It's the girls. No, it's just some of the girls. Actually, it's the lack of fields. Not that, maybe it's the boys. Sorry, no it's the 2014's. Maybe it's the 2015's that are a year from formation.
Give it a rest.
I mean people are trying to figure how a club that has so many built in advantages could be so bad.
Anonymous
05/13/2026 10:31
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
It's the girls. No, it's just some of the girls. Actually, it's the lack of fields. Not that, maybe it's the boys. Sorry, no it's the 2014's. Maybe it's the 2015's that are a year from formation.
Give it a rest.
Give it a rest.
Anonymous
05/13/2026 10:14
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Anonymous wrote:Also, if you add in the boys, you have 2 of 12 teams that are strong, 1/6th isnt good.Anonymous wrote:With 6 teams, 1/3 is good. 1 of those teams, 2013s, is a biproduct of McLean and Clyde. I dont know enough about the 2012s to opine. That said, I generally agree that coach, players and team are the priority. In the case of 2014Gs, sounds like they have a pour coach and are expected to be the weakest of the 3 ECNL teams. I think it is fair to continue to challenge the comment, which is why cant FVU produce consistently strong teams, especially on the girls side, given their location.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You mean half a field. For half the practice for full price. Badum spssssshhhhAnonymous wrote:You guys are trying really hard to convince yourselves that driving to Long Park and Howison isn’t that bad. And the whole “they don’t even have their own fields” is getting tiresome. Does Arlington own Long Bridge?
Ffx county has plenty of fields that Union accesses. Marshall, Oakmont and Quantum are accessible for most including those from MD. Robinson, Oakton, Woodson are worse than Long Park? Tell me another one.
Keep telling yourself it will be ok and get better. Looks at the boys records.
Yeah, the half-field practice setup and the 2013/2012 girls still produced the #1 team in the Mid-Atlantic. Just look at the girls’s record.
You can have the most beautiful, perfect field like Revolution, and that still does not guarantee results.
So enough with all the excuses and nonsense already. It is not about the field. It is about the training, the players, and the results.
And next year the 12's/U15's are not going to be nearly as good, so the hope is that the 2013's/U14's stay "strong" and the 2014's/U13's produce results.
Anonymous
05/13/2026 09:26
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
Also, if you add in the boys, you have 2 of 12 teams that are strong, 1/6th isnt good.Anonymous wrote:With 6 teams, 1/3 is good. 1 of those teams, 2013s, is a biproduct of McLean and Clyde. I dont know enough about the 2012s to opine. That said, I generally agree that coach, players and team are the priority. In the case of 2014Gs, sounds like they have a pour coach and are expected to be the weakest of the 3 ECNL teams. I think it is fair to continue to challenge the comment, which is why cant FVU produce consistently strong teams, especially on the girls side, given their location.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You mean half a field. For half the practice for full price. Badum spssssshhhhAnonymous wrote:You guys are trying really hard to convince yourselves that driving to Long Park and Howison isn’t that bad. And the whole “they don’t even have their own fields” is getting tiresome. Does Arlington own Long Bridge?
Ffx county has plenty of fields that Union accesses. Marshall, Oakmont and Quantum are accessible for most including those from MD. Robinson, Oakton, Woodson are worse than Long Park? Tell me another one.
Keep telling yourself it will be ok and get better. Looks at the boys records.
Yeah, the half-field practice setup and the 2013/2012 girls still produced the #1 team in the Mid-Atlantic. Just look at the girls’s record.
You can have the most beautiful, perfect field like Revolution, and that still does not guarantee results.
So enough with all the excuses and nonsense already. It is not about the field. It is about the training, the players, and the results.
Anonymous
05/13/2026 09:25
Subject: Fairfax Virginia Union
With 6 teams, 1/3 is good. 1 of those teams, 2013s, is a biproduct of McLean and Clyde. I dont know enough about the 2012s to opine. That said, I generally agree that coach, players and team are the priority. In the case of 2014Gs, sounds like they have a pour coach and are expected to be the weakest of the 3 ECNL teams. I think it is fair to continue to challenge the comment, which is why cant FVU produce consistently strong teams, especially on the girls side, given their location.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You mean half a field. For half the practice for full price. Badum spssssshhhhAnonymous wrote:You guys are trying really hard to convince yourselves that driving to Long Park and Howison isn’t that bad. And the whole “they don’t even have their own fields” is getting tiresome. Does Arlington own Long Bridge?
Ffx county has plenty of fields that Union accesses. Marshall, Oakmont and Quantum are accessible for most including those from MD. Robinson, Oakton, Woodson are worse than Long Park? Tell me another one.
Keep telling yourself it will be ok and get better. Looks at the boys records.
Yeah, the half-field practice setup and the 2013/2012 girls still produced the #1 team in the Mid-Atlantic. Just look at the girls’s record.
You can have the most beautiful, perfect field like Revolution, and that still does not guarantee results.
So enough with all the excuses and nonsense already. It is not about the field. It is about the training, the players, and the results.