Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GA in this area is a joke. All of the non-FCV teams get spanked twice a season and then play each other to determine who is in the best of the garbage clubs. Watched Baltimore Celtic's top ten players on u18/19 leave Celtic last year to join Pipeline and Maryland United in ECNL. GA is a solid 2nd tier to ECNL. Not sure why people are rehashing the ECNL vs GA discussion.

Every club in Champions league GA can compete with ECNL.

This is true and backed up by the Rankings App.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GA in this area is a joke. All of the non-FCV teams get spanked twice a season and then play each other to determine who is in the best of the garbage clubs. Watched Baltimore Celtic's top ten players on u18/19 leave Celtic last year to join Pipeline and Maryland United in ECNL. GA is a solid 2nd tier to ECNL. Not sure why people are rehashing the ECNL vs GA discussion.

NO ONE has said that GA is the superior league bud.

You think people are saying this. Quit being delusional.

GA is not the best league but every club in Champions league GA can compete with ECNL.

I didn't realize that SYC is in Champions League GA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GA in this area is a joke. All of the non-FCV teams get spanked twice a season and then play each other to determine who is in the best of the garbage clubs. Watched Baltimore Celtic's top ten players on u18/19 leave Celtic last year to join Pipeline and Maryland United in ECNL. GA is a solid 2nd tier to ECNL. Not sure why people are rehashing the ECNL vs GA discussion.

Because SYC is splitting from Union, going GA and is trying to use this board to argue they will lure older girls back from ECNL and retain upcoming U13 girls to play in the 2nd tier league over ECNL.

Agreed! No good ECNL player will make that move.

Anonymous wrote:GA in this area is a joke. All of the non-FCV teams get spanked twice a season and then play each other to determine who is in the best of the garbage clubs. Watched Baltimore Celtic's top ten players on u18/19 leave Celtic last year to join Pipeline and Maryland United in ECNL. GA is a solid 2nd tier to ECNL. Not sure why people are rehashing the ECNL vs GA discussion.

NO ONE has said that GA is the superior league bud.

You think people are saying this. Quit being delusional.

GA is not the best league but every club in Champions league GA can compete with ECNL.

Anonymous wrote:GA in this area is a joke. All of the non-FCV teams get spanked twice a season and then play each other to determine who is in the best of the garbage clubs. Watched Baltimore Celtic's top ten players on u18/19 leave Celtic last year to join Pipeline and Maryland United in ECNL. GA is a solid 2nd tier to ECNL. Not sure why people are rehashing the ECNL vs GA discussion.

Because SYC is splitting from Union, going GA and is trying to use this board to argue they will lure older girls back from ECNL and retain upcoming U13 girls to play in the 2nd tier league over ECNL.

GA in this area is a joke. All of the non-FCV teams get spanked twice a season and then play each other to determine who is in the best of the garbage clubs. Watched Baltimore Celtic's top ten players on u18/19 leave Celtic last year to join Pipeline and Maryland United in ECNL. GA is a solid 2nd tier to ECNL. Not sure why people are rehashing the ECNL vs GA discussion.

Look at the rankings app and you'll see that there's high level GA teams and there's low level ECNL teams and vice versa.

Your kids team doesn't magically get better just by joining a league. Either way they still have to practice, and they still need a good coach.

Most girls ECNL parents have no idea what GA is like. It's also usually the worst ECNL teams parents who's kids teams lose all the time that comment on forums negatively about GA. My experience with the better ECNL team parents is that they don't really even notice or care about GA. Usually they're focused on which teams they have to beat nationally vs what's happening locally.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The GA is meh. Good in some parts of the country but not on the east coast

Yeah noticing a lot more GA power clubs moving to ECNL or MLS next.

Where is the GA power clubs coming from? I don't think it is in the NOVA areas.

The GA for SYC may benefit the younger kids age group 2011, 2012 and 2013, so it has time to stay together. For the 2008, 2009, and 2010 age groups, the girls are not getting out of ECNL to go play for a GA team

Anonymous wrote:The GA is meh. Good in some parts of the country but not on the east coast

Yeah noticing a lot more GA power clubs moving to ECNL or MLS next.

True

Anonymous wrote:The GA is meh. Good in some parts of the country but not on the east coast

Thank you McLean/ecnl parent

The GA is meh. Good in some parts of the country but not on the east coast

The best SYC players did go to Union, however with the exception of a few age groups that seems to have done little to put Union in the top slots of their conference. The top teams left at SYC that we saw were getting beaten easily last year. So it's not clear how either side benefitted overall.Hopefully McLean finds a more fruitful partner going forward. The SYC machine will continue to churn based purely on the density of people living in their recruiting area.

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Anonymous wrote:They got ECNL for their girls side! But now it’s back to GA for them. I don’t think McLean benefited one bit on the girls side by joining with syc. Maybe at some ages but not very much overall.

They did not get ECNL they got top young players poached. Nothing in return except weaker youth teams. As PP said don’t need a union to take your kid to play on an ECNL Club. What did they get? Answer is nothing. Seems like SYC did the right thing for their club. Looks like union figured out how to stop next partnership from falling apart put in one of their own to oversee things. Funny to be TD at one club but coach in another. That is a joke!

Strongly disagree with the attitude of getting "players poached". You should want kids to get the best training, in the best environment for their stage of development - regardless of which club they are with. It's like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on this forum where people will protest that clubs don't "own" their players, then the next people cry about players being "poached" as if they are some sort of game to be hunted.

SYC may have gained a new tool with access to the GA to help recruit players to their club and provide them with more options, but the players that want to play ECNL will continue to look elsewhere. If the idea was to provide their players with increased access to the top girls league then I'd be curious what the reason for pulling out of it is.