Anonymous wrote:the 2016B PA1 looks to have had a rough season. Finished last in league and appears the coach is gone? Who has the tea?

Anonymous wrote:The obnoxious level of detail here leaves out an awful lot of relevant info about why said player left or even was able to join in the first place. Dumbest post in this thread by a mile and I’m not even a parent with a girl on the team.

Anonymous wrote:AK brought in 2015s to guest with his 2016PA1 SO THAT THEY EVEN HAD A CHANCE against 2015 PA2.

Also, he lost a 2016PA1 to GFR within the last few weeks. The girl (a starter AK brought in midway thru the fall season) had an offer to stay on the team and decided to leave before the season was even over. Heard it was AK’s coaching style.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree, should be playing top 2016, not 3rd or 4th 2015 teams. Not trying to be mean, but the 3rd or 4th 2015 teams aren’t that good. Like PP said, they only have size. We only see top 2016 teams if they too play up, I think Alexandria does that (and we drew when we played them - even with a slate of 2015 guest players). I’d like to see more matches with top 2016s to compare development locally.

Anonymous wrote:Nope. I’m the parent of a starter, she plays most, if not the whole, game (along with maybe 3 other girls). Admittedly, they are the top 4 on our team. There are about 4-5 girls on the team who don’t get to play even half the game. It is also true that guest players, some of whom will not be on the team next year, are getting more minutes than current rostered players (this is the part even us, the parents of starters, don’t agree with). Given their age, I hope they end up on teams where they get more minutes. They can’t get better sitting the bench. The PA2 coach is supposed to be very good, and is the AGD for 2016. I think it may be a good change of pace for those girls, they can work on the things they need to improve, and if they work hard, even get a chance to move back up the following year.

Also agree with another PP, the teams we beat are third, fourth teams, so playing up hasn’t been some developmental shortcut. Those teams have size, but they aren’t well matched against us technically or tactically. We struggle against actual top 2016 teams. Jeff Cup and WAGS were ugly.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, AK is definitely pretending to be a parent! Move on already, you’ve had your 2 years with this group.

Anonymous wrote:AK is a great coach! I have to agree that he plays the stronger players longer than others but don’t disagree with him. If a player loses the ball more than half the time, it does not make sense for them to start or play longer than the stronger players. The girls who played longer are the stronger players. Guest players are used as it is a small roster for 9v9 games. This spring, the team have either won or tied games without any losses. We wished he kept our daughter on his team but understood why he did not. She has a lot to work on.

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Anonymous wrote:I would also add that the coach for 2016G PA1 is stubborn. He does not know how to adjust to games when his team is losing. He will keep his favorites in despite failures, and pulls the rest of the team for one bad pass. He also routinely brings girls down from the 2015 age group to guest so that he can win rather than develop the team he is supposed to be coaching. He was previously the coach for Arlington's 2013G, and most parents on that team agree he did not prepare them adequately to play ECNL. He has some weird clout in the club though despite being overwhelmingly ineffective.

Strange how quick folks are to jump on parents for offering an opinion/ information. Isn’t that the point of this forum? Anyway…

OP, as a parent considering a U9 offer, I found this helpful. In your experience is this isolated to a single coach? Or is lack of development and favoritism a more pervasive problem across the club at the U-Little age groups?

Not strange if you understood what they are saying and who they are saying it about. All opinions are dependent on one’s perspective but it sounds like they have a child that did not play much or was not favored. They believe this is why their kid was not developed to be as strong a player as they could have been.

Take a look at the other thread regarding favoritism. Rather than owning their own development, they would rather whine and make excuses.

Not the OP, but every player at this level is pretty good, no true standouts at the U-little level. The more they play, however, the more they standout because they’re developing their game iq. I don’t have experience with AK personally, but have heard horror stories.

I have experience with AK at the younger ages. All players play at least half the game. The strongest players play most of the game. This sounds like parents of kids who weren’t deemed to be the strongest.

Didn’t his team beat an older year Arlington team this weekend? Must be doing something right.

Does he play everyone on his roster at least 50% of the game? That's the minimum expectation for u-littles development.

Out of curiosity, what does losing to the “not good” team from Warrenton this past weekend make your DD’s team then? Really “not good”?

That is what happens when there are no guest players and only 10 players on team show up. Lots of playing times for everyone. 2016 PA1 tied 2015 PA2 at the President’s cup only to lose by one in PKs.

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Anonymous wrote:The obnoxious level of detail here leaves out an awful lot of relevant info about why said player left or even was able to join in the first place. Dumbest post in this thread by a mile and I’m not even a parent with a girl on the team.

Anonymous wrote:AK brought in 2015s to guest with his 2016PA1 SO THAT THEY EVEN HAD A CHANCE against 2015 PA2.

Also, he lost a 2016PA1 to GFR within the last few weeks. The girl (a starter AK brought in midway thru the fall season) had an offer to stay on the team and decided to leave before the season was even over. Heard it was AK’s coaching style.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree, should be playing top 2016, not 3rd or 4th 2015 teams. Not trying to be mean, but the 3rd or 4th 2015 teams aren’t that good. Like PP said, they only have size. We only see top 2016 teams if they too play up, I think Alexandria does that (and we drew when we played them - even with a slate of 2015 guest players). I’d like to see more matches with top 2016s to compare development locally.

Anonymous wrote:Nope. I’m the parent of a starter, she plays most, if not the whole, game (along with maybe 3 other girls). Admittedly, they are the top 4 on our team. There are about 4-5 girls on the team who don’t get to play even half the game. It is also true that guest players, some of whom will not be on the team next year, are getting more minutes than current rostered players (this is the part even us, the parents of starters, don’t agree with). Given their age, I hope they end up on teams where they get more minutes. They can’t get better sitting the bench. The PA2 coach is supposed to be very good, and is the AGD for 2016. I think it may be a good change of pace for those girls, they can work on the things they need to improve, and if they work hard, even get a chance to move back up the following year.

Also agree with another PP, the teams we beat are third, fourth teams, so playing up hasn’t been some developmental shortcut. Those teams have size, but they aren’t well matched against us technically or tactically. We struggle against actual top 2016 teams. Jeff Cup and WAGS were ugly.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, AK is definitely pretending to be a parent! Move on already, you’ve had your 2 years with this group.

Anonymous wrote:AK is a great coach! I have to agree that he plays the stronger players longer than others but don’t disagree with him. If a player loses the ball more than half the time, it does not make sense for them to start or play longer than the stronger players. The girls who played longer are the stronger players. Guest players are used as it is a small roster for 9v9 games. This spring, the team have either won or tied games without any losses. We wished he kept our daughter on his team but understood why he did not. She has a lot to work on.

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Anonymous wrote:I would also add that the coach for 2016G PA1 is stubborn. He does not know how to adjust to games when his team is losing. He will keep his favorites in despite failures, and pulls the rest of the team for one bad pass. He also routinely brings girls down from the 2015 age group to guest so that he can win rather than develop the team he is supposed to be coaching. He was previously the coach for Arlington's 2013G, and most parents on that team agree he did not prepare them adequately to play ECNL. He has some weird clout in the club though despite being overwhelmingly ineffective.

Strange how quick folks are to jump on parents for offering an opinion/ information. Isn’t that the point of this forum? Anyway…

OP, as a parent considering a U9 offer, I found this helpful. In your experience is this isolated to a single coach? Or is lack of development and favoritism a more pervasive problem across the club at the U-Little age groups?

Not strange if you understood what they are saying and who they are saying it about. All opinions are dependent on one’s perspective but it sounds like they have a child that did not play much or was not favored. They believe this is why their kid was not developed to be as strong a player as they could have been.

Take a look at the other thread regarding favoritism. Rather than owning their own development, they would rather whine and make excuses.

Not the OP, but every player at this level is pretty good, no true standouts at the U-little level. The more they play, however, the more they standout because they’re developing their game iq. I don’t have experience with AK personally, but have heard horror stories.

I have experience with AK at the younger ages. All players play at least half the game. The strongest players play most of the game. This sounds like parents of kids who weren’t deemed to be the strongest.

Didn’t his team beat an older year Arlington team this weekend? Must be doing something right.

Does he play everyone on his roster at least 50% of the game? That's the minimum expectation for u-littles development.

Out of curiosity, what does losing to the “not good” team from Warrenton this past weekend make your DD’s team then? Really “not good”?

That is what happens when there are no guest players and only 10 players on team show up. Lots of playing times for everyone. 2016 PA1 tied 2015 PA2 at the President’s cup only to lose by one in PKs.

Well now I’m curious. Why was she able to join the team in the first place?

I’m curious why she left?

Then clearly you’re not connected to either team and should mind your own business about a 10yo instead of trying to gossip on a message board.

Why? What’s the purpose of this board? Plus, I have seen her play, and she’s very sweet.