Anonymous
02/15/2026 14:44
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
Goalie is clearly the most important position on the field. Look at the issues that UVA men’s team is having, they have no confidence in the goalie and they are struggling even with loaded class of talent and 4 and 5 star recruiting pipeline.
Anonymous
02/15/2026 14:03
Subject: Re:Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
There is never a good reply. Ignore the comment.
Anonymous
02/15/2026 13:08
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
I feel like this whole thread is a troll. Who TF that knows anything about this sport belittles the goalies???
Anonymous
02/14/2026 16:03
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:As a lacrosse coach, former player, dad of 3 lacrosse players: if the goalie leaves it's always a nightmare. Field players are always interchangeable.
It becomes less of an issue the older and more elite you get, but even at the D1 level with the portal, good goalies leaving and the scramble to find a suitable replacement is a big topic. It is less often just "next man up" like it is at other positions.
This. At the HS level, when a really strong goalie leaves without a younger one behind, the absence is much more noticeable than losing a comparably strong middie.
+1
Anonymous
02/13/2026 13:25
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
Anonymous wrote:As a lacrosse coach, former player, dad of 3 lacrosse players: if the goalie leaves it's always a nightmare. Field players are always interchangeable.
It becomes less of an issue the older and more elite you get, but even at the D1 level with the portal, good goalies leaving and the scramble to find a suitable replacement is a big topic. It is less often just "next man up" like it is at other positions.
This. At the HS level, when a really strong goalie leaves without a younger one behind, the absence is much more noticeable than losing a comparably strong middie.
Anonymous
02/13/2026 11:46
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
Just huck a lacrosse ball at their head and see if they can block it. If not, oh well.
Anonymous
02/13/2026 11:30
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
As a lacrosse coach, former player, dad of 3 lacrosse players: if the goalie leaves it's always a nightmare. Field players are always interchangeable.
It becomes less of an issue the older and more elite you get, but even at the D1 level with the portal, good goalies leaving and the scramble to find a suitable replacement is a big topic. It is less often just "next man up" like it is at other positions.
It becomes less of an issue the older and more elite you get, but even at the D1 level with the portal, good goalies leaving and the scramble to find a suitable replacement is a big topic. It is less often just "next man up" like it is at other positions.
Anonymous
02/13/2026 10:07
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
Keep telling yourself that
Anonymous
02/13/2026 09:57
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah tell them thats rude. They won't have a team without the goalie, certainly not a good one. Tell them there are other places to play and you would happily take your son to one of those teams.
They would miss the goalie if he left. They wouldn't think twice over a field player leaving.
Goalies move teams all the time it can be very competitive at the higher levels and a new goalie will show up. No one position is missed more than another.
Yes, a goalie leaving is a crisis- a field player leaving has little impact.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 20:37
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
Goalies are coveted recruits - I personally know DC area families of recruited goalies (multiple sports) that attended Columbia, Amherst, Rhodes, Princeton and Stanford. Let them think what they want. If I wanted to help my kid get a leg up I'd definitely encourage being a goalie - especially if they were tall and enjoyed it!
Anonymous
02/12/2026 20:20
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
Have the coach put their kid in goal for a practice and have the team line up with no defense and whip shots at him just below his belly button. They will learn new respect real quick.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 14:29
Subject: Good reply to people being rude about goalie position?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Sometimes. My kid, for example, who will be playing in college next year might not be able to make her HS team as a field player. My answer was always: you wouldn't last 5 minutes in the crease. But, if you are goalie parenting correctly, you won't need to because you will spend your time way down one end or the other -- so you should only see the other parents when switching sides at the half.
Haha, fellow goalie parent. This is true.
Soccer keep mom here, this is the way. I have to be away from other parents not just so I can't hear their annoyance when my kid lets in a goal but also so that I can safely gnash my teeth when field players' mistakes become my keeper kid's problems, LOL.