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Anonymous wrote:Arlington dominated that TSJ game. They are working through some scoring challenges this spring, but they are much better than TSJ and I believe they will be much better then ASA this coming year. That said, the 26-27 year will be interesting as the GA teams should get better and the competition in RL will likely still be a problem unless the new teams improve significantly.

Just don’t know how you dominate a team and only win 1-0. I’m sure Arlington is the better team and had more possession and more shots but if they were significantly better the margin of victory would have been greater.
Also look at the rest of the games in the tournament.
TSJ beat Vienna 2-0 and PWSI 4-1. Arlington beat Vienna 3-1 and PWSI 5-0.
Those are similar scores.

Possession but not scoring is the Arlington way.

Anonymous wrote:Arlington dominated that TSJ game. They are working through some scoring challenges this spring, but they are much better than TSJ and I believe they will be much better then ASA this coming year. That said, the 26-27 year will be interesting as the GA teams should get better and the competition in RL will likely still be a problem unless the new teams improve significantly.

Just don’t know how you dominate a team and only win 1-0. I’m sure Arlington is the better team and had more possession and more shots but if they were significantly better the margin of victory would have been greater.
Also look at the rest of the games in the tournament.
TSJ beat Vienna 2-0 and PWSI 4-1. Arlington beat Vienna 3-1 and PWSI 5-0.
Those are similar scores.

90% of RL is GA2 equivalent. End done no other comparison. MLSN is destroying ECNL for girls. Going to be interesting to see what Landscape is for girls in 2-3 years

NL is National.

Anonymous wrote:Bottom half of RL league is sad. It is a problem.

I'd say bottom 75%. And that's generous.

Bottom half of RL league is sad. It is a problem.

Anonymous wrote:Arlington dominated that TSJ game. They are working through some scoring challenges this spring, but they are much better than TSJ and I believe they will be much better then ASA this coming year. That said, the 26-27 year will be interesting as the GA teams should get better and the competition in RL will likely still be a problem unless the new teams improve significantly.

This may be true but if you’re a 2011 in RL, but so many of those teams starting from Valor down have no business having ECNL attached to their names, even if it’s just RL. LMV, Villa and Herndon are a joke. So you’re good next year, who cares, LOL. It’s too late to play the long game at this point—should’ve jumped ship to GA. If you spend some time looking at the rankings app for Virginia and for the US, this entire RL group is pretty sad competition.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington dominated that TSJ game. They are working through some scoring challenges this spring, but they are much better than TSJ and I believe they will be much better then ASA this coming year. That said, the 26-27 year will be interesting as the GA teams should get better and the competition in RL will likely still be a problem unless the new teams improve significantly.

Is TSJ even really a comparison? Setting the bar pretty low.

Agreed. TSJ via Rankings App is 693 nationally, Arlington 2011 RL is 312 nationally. Shows some slight flaws in that app I guess, but for a better comparison maybe, they recently played IMG 2011 GA, a mid-table GA club in the SE conference and lost 3-1. IMG 2011 GA is ranked close to what that Arlington team is, but still struggles in GA as a whole currently.

Anonymous wrote:Arlington dominated that TSJ game. They are working through some scoring challenges this spring, but they are much better than TSJ and I believe they will be much better then ASA this coming year. That said, the 26-27 year will be interesting as the GA teams should get better and the competition in RL will likely still be a problem unless the new teams improve significantly.

Is TSJ even really a comparison? Setting the bar pretty low.

Arlington dominated that TSJ game. They are working through some scoring challenges this spring, but they are much better than TSJ and I believe they will be much better then ASA this coming year. That said, the 26-27 year will be interesting as the GA teams should get better and the competition in RL will likely still be a problem unless the new teams improve significantly.

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Anonymous wrote:RL in this area losing players to GA1/Aspire and the league losing clubs to GA/Aspire, RL in this area isn't going to be great.

I see a lot of comments about TSJ for not being that good. If you look at the rankings app, for most age groups they are better than 50% of the RL teams. Think that speaks to how talent isn’t staying in RL.

Here is a link to a recent tournament that involved local GA clubs and RL teams. Keep in mind that for the U14 results, TSJ 2011 is at the bottom of the table for GA Mid-Atlantic league play, and for U13 Armour is mid-table and Coppermine is near the top.

Arlington ASIST U13G https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/38464/schedules?group=318974
Arlington ASIST U14G https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/38464/schedules?group=318978

If that's what we're seeing right now this year, next year for sure with the movement GA is going to continue to rise.

For 2011, TSJ (in 12th of 14) only lost to Arlington RL(in 1st) 1-0. Eye opening.

What is NL?

National League / Regional League

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Anonymous wrote:RL in this area losing players to GA1/Aspire and the league losing clubs to GA/Aspire, RL in this area isn't going to be great.

I see a lot of comments about TSJ for not being that good. If you look at the rankings app, for most age groups they are better than 50% of the RL teams. Think that speaks to how talent isn’t staying in RL.

Here is a link to a recent tournament that involved local GA clubs and RL teams. Keep in mind that for the U14 results, TSJ 2011 is at the bottom of the table for GA Mid-Atlantic league play, and for U13 Armour is mid-table and Coppermine is near the top.

Arlington ASIST U13G https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/38464/schedules?group=318974
Arlington ASIST U14G https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/38464/schedules?group=318978

If that's what we're seeing right now this year, next year for sure with the movement GA is going to continue to rise.

TSJ is terrible in GA, but ECNL-R is terrible relative to GA, so you'd expect even a GA cellar-dweller to be better than some ECNL-R teams.

This market in the DMV is so skewed from the rest of the country in girls soccer. think most of its stems from there just being to many clubs period and some consolidation needs to take place. No other market in the country has eight GA and 3 ECNL clubs in such a small area.

Even RL is skewed here. Its run by VPSL and not ECNL and they let way too many clubs in that wouldn't make the cut for RL in any other market run by ECNL. Its not a good measurement of the quality of RL overall.

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Anonymous wrote:RL in this area losing players to GA1/Aspire and the league losing clubs to GA/Aspire, RL in this area isn't going to be great.

I see a lot of comments about TSJ for not being that good. If you look at the rankings app, for most age groups they are better than 50% of the RL teams. Think that speaks to how talent isn’t staying in RL.

Here is a link to a recent tournament that involved local GA clubs and RL teams. Keep in mind that for the U14 results, TSJ 2011 is at the bottom of the table for GA Mid-Atlantic league play, and for U13 Armour is mid-table and Coppermine is near the top.

Arlington ASIST U13G https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/38464/schedules?group=318974
Arlington ASIST U14G https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/38464/schedules?group=318978

If that's what we're seeing right now this year, next year for sure with the movement GA is going to continue to rise.

For 2011, TSJ (in 12th of 14) only lost to Arlington RL(in 1st) 1-0. Eye opening.

What is NL?

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Anonymous wrote:RL in this area losing players to GA1/Aspire and the league losing clubs to GA/Aspire, RL in this area isn't going to be great.

I see a lot of comments about TSJ for not being that good. If you look at the rankings app, for most age groups they are better than 50% of the RL teams. Think that speaks to how talent isn’t staying in RL.

Here is a link to a recent tournament that involved local GA clubs and RL teams. Keep in mind that for the U14 results, TSJ 2011 is at the bottom of the table for GA Mid-Atlantic league play, and for U13 Armour is mid-table and Coppermine is near the top.

Arlington ASIST U13G https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/38464/schedules?group=318974
Arlington ASIST U14G https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/38464/schedules?group=318978

If that's what we're seeing right now this year, next year for sure with the movement GA is going to continue to rise.

For 2011, TSJ (in 12th of 14) only lost to Arlington RL(in 1st) 1-0. Eye opening.

Unsure if there is sarcasm in there or not but a 1-0 win from Arlington RL, likely to finish 1st this year in the area, isn't a huge accomplishment from them. That game likely could've gone either way, I think this just further cancels the narrative that RL teams in this area would do well against the GA clubs.

That doesn't remove the idea that RL is strong in other areas, but GA is grabbing those types of clubs like LVU rush.

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Anonymous wrote:RL in this area losing players to GA1/Aspire and the league losing clubs to GA/Aspire, RL in this area isn't going to be great.

I see a lot of comments about TSJ for not being that good. If you look at the rankings app, for most age groups they are better than 50% of the RL teams. Think that speaks to how talent isn’t staying in RL.

Here is a link to a recent tournament that involved local GA clubs and RL teams. Keep in mind that for the U14 results, TSJ 2011 is at the bottom of the table for GA Mid-Atlantic league play, and for U13 Armour is mid-table and Coppermine is near the top.

Arlington ASIST U13G https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/38464/schedules?group=318974
Arlington ASIST U14G https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/38464/schedules?group=318978

If that's what we're seeing right now this year, next year for sure with the movement GA is going to continue to rise.

For 2011, TSJ (in 12th of 14) only lost to Arlington RL(in 1st) 1-0. Eye opening.