Anonymous
12/30/2022 12:47
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
Anonymous wrote:I also heard the scorekeeping was a major issue in week one. Agree with others. The fix is simple. If the TSJ is going to keep scores have those hired to do so focus on keeping accurate scores. If this is an issue maybe ask parents to volunteer to keep scores. Or simply stop keeping scores and communicate this to teams. None of these are hard to implement.
Most repeated lie on DCUM "I am a not the previous poster"
Anonymous
12/30/2022 11:07
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
I also heard the scorekeeping was a major issue in week one. Agree with others. The fix is simple. If the TSJ is going to keep scores have those hired to do so focus on keeping accurate scores. If this is an issue maybe ask parents to volunteer to keep scores. Or simply stop keeping scores and communicate this to teams. None of these are hard to implement.
Anonymous
12/30/2022 11:00
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
OMG, such complainers here. Let's be real, it's an out of season HS sport that doesn't mean much to anyone besides the select few that maybe hardcore, and certain dads or moms coaching the teams. This league was meant to keep a stick in a players hand and give them a way to continue bonding with their HS team mates or club team mates and improve their skills as an individual and team. When STJ indoor league is over in the next month or two, does it really matter? short answer is NO. Kids will continue to be kids and the parents will continue to discuss all the negatives about the league and how they would do things differently and my favorite, who beat who. News flash- no one cares, its an out of season HS sport.
When HS sports is all over for your child, look back at this and ask yourself; was it worth getting all stressed out about everything? Was it worth analyzing every little move, other players, teams, coaches, etc.. Was it worth the anxiety that players and parents felt from HS programs peer pressure to participate in every little event? Was it worth the anxiety over not being able to run 2 miles in a certain amount of time during tryouts? Was it worth the anxiety and stress about missing a practice?
The short answer is NO.
When HS sports is all over for your child, look back at this and ask yourself; was it worth getting all stressed out about everything? Was it worth analyzing every little move, other players, teams, coaches, etc.. Was it worth the anxiety that players and parents felt from HS programs peer pressure to participate in every little event? Was it worth the anxiety over not being able to run 2 miles in a certain amount of time during tryouts? Was it worth the anxiety and stress about missing a practice?
The short answer is NO.
Anonymous
12/30/2022 10:32
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
Nope. First time poster. No idea what is happening on the boys side, but girls are a mess and pretty much everyone was talking about it before the holidays.
Anonymous
12/30/2022 10:25
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
Anonymous wrote: Please, please get workers who can keep score in the new year. Parents don’t care, honestly, but the kids do when they are playing their hearts out. Some of the kids keeping score didn’t even look like they were old enough to work and were definitely not engaged in the game. We pay too much to have these kids running the show.
This must be the same person posting over and over as I doubt there is more than one person who cares. But please let it go. Is this just an issue with the girls' games and not the boy's?
Anonymous
12/30/2022 10:15
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
Please, please get workers who can keep score in the new year. Parents don’t care, honestly, but the kids do when they are playing their hearts out. Some of the kids keeping score didn’t even look like they were old enough to work and were definitely not engaged in the game. We pay too much to have these kids running the show.
Anonymous
12/29/2022 21:01
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is funny is the amount of time the lax directors are spending defending the fact that scores should not matter in a league they are running where they post scores on tourney machine that are recorded by a bunch of teenagers watching their phones. Just run the programs correctly it is not that difficult.
Don't know if you realize that the time/score keepers use their phones stopwatch to keep overall game time as well as yellow card time.
Yes, the big clocks on the table are just for decoration…
WOW talk about being lost!. The table workers use their phones to keep the yellows because the clocks keep running and in a time out the 2 min pauses. A team can't use the timeout to eat away at a yellow penalty. Always fun to see this board bring out the dumbest adults to criticizes young men and women working. Sorry your DD team lost, it is not the score keepers fault. If the score is wrong in tourney it is the coaches fault they have to sign for it. Maybe those goals that you thought were goals got called back, or maybe you don't know anything about lacrosse and should just stay home with your DD. The world doesn't need you complainers in 2023 so do the world a favor and stay home where you belong.
Sounds like you may be affiliated with TSJ. This really isn’t hard. If you promote keeping score of games it’s not too much for those who have paid $3K per team to expect scorekeepers to pay attention. Teams paid for this service that TSJ promoted. If you want to avoid criticism then stop keeping score and set this expectation with the teams. And adjust the price per player accordingly. Or simply ask the scorekeepers to do the job they are being paid to do. Jumping on this forum to knock those who bring up a valid point isn’t helping. My guess is we see a lot more attentive scorekeepers in the New Year.
Anonymous
12/29/2022 17:48
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is funny is the amount of time the lax directors are spending defending the fact that scores should not matter in a league they are running where they post scores on tourney machine that are recorded by a bunch of teenagers watching their phones. Just run the programs correctly it is not that difficult.
Don't know if you realize that the time/score keepers use their phones stopwatch to keep overall game time as well as yellow card time.
Yes, the big clocks on the table are just for decoration…
WOW talk about being lost!. The table workers use their phones to keep the yellows because the clocks keep running and in a time out the 2 min pauses. A team can't use the timeout to eat away at a yellow penalty. Always fun to see this board bring out the dumbest adults to criticizes young men and women working. Sorry your DD team lost, it is not the score keepers fault. If the score is wrong in tourney it is the coaches fault they have to sign for it. Maybe those goals that you thought were goals got called back, or maybe you don't know anything about lacrosse and should just stay home with your DD. The world doesn't need you complainers in 2023 so do the world a favor and stay home where you belong.
Anonymous
12/28/2022 23:42
Subject: St James Winter Indoor League
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Week one was okay. A lot of complete blow outs in the Varsity divisions but everyone knew that was going to happen.
Really, the format doesn’t tell you much about what the spring HS field side is going to look like but there is a weird shift out there in hillbilly land with Cville and Westfield. They are both quietly turning into traps for “better teams” and shouldn’t be overlooked.
Centreville got lucky it was during a monsoon.
Found the video of that game and the monsoon was universal on the field. The “Hillbillies” beat the country club hillbillies much more than the score indicated.
Out played, out scored and definitely out coached. Looked like battlefield came in thinking the game was won before it was even played. Hubris is not a way to beat an unknown but it’s a way to lose.
The Cville celebration videos were epic from that game. 😂 you can find them on the nets. The BF parents and girls loss videos are telling. 🤬
Anonymous
12/27/2022 12:41
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is funny is the amount of time the lax directors are spending defending the fact that scores should not matter in a league they are running where they post scores on tourney machine that are recorded by a bunch of teenagers watching their phones. Just run the programs correctly it is not that difficult.
Don't know if you realize that the time/score keepers use their phones stopwatch to keep overall game time as well as yellow card time.
Yes, the big clocks on the table are just for decoration…
Anonymous
12/27/2022 11:22
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
Anonymous wrote:What is funny is the amount of time the lax directors are spending defending the fact that scores should not matter in a league they are running where they post scores on tourney machine that are recorded by a bunch of teenagers watching their phones. Just run the programs correctly it is not that difficult.
Don't know if you realize that the time/score keepers use their phones stopwatch to keep overall game time as well as yellow card time.
Anonymous
12/26/2022 22:18
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What does any of this have to do with St James?
Duh.... Battlefield Girls signed up for the Gold division this year!! They put their Big girl pants on for St. James League...
They did lose solidly their first game. However, To be fair, Battlefield is a pretty good team and probably one of the 8-10 best class 6 teams in the state. The problem is the other 8-9 teams all have to play each other to get to the state finals and Battlefield did not fair well (0-3) when playing the other group last year as the pp mentioned.
Anonymous
12/26/2022 19:25
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
What is funny is the amount of time the lax directors are spending defending the fact that scores should not matter in a league they are running where they post scores on tourney machine that are recorded by a bunch of teenagers watching their phones. Just run the programs correctly it is not that difficult.
Anonymous
12/26/2022 19:08
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
I think the parents care more about the STJ scores and schedules than the players. Most players don’t even want to go to the games every week, but they have to because the parents signed them up, plus they feel peer pressure from the HS program to show up. In the grand scheme of things, STJ means absolutely nothing.
As for a Bfield glax going to states again, good for them. They probably will be blown out again by a Fairfax team like they were last year. Whether they faced Yorktown or Langley, results would have been the same. Take any of the well know teams like Madison, oakton, Robinson or Woodson, even west springfield last year and they all would have beat battlefield.
Just my opinion
As for a Bfield glax going to states again, good for them. They probably will be blown out again by a Fairfax team like they were last year. Whether they faced Yorktown or Langley, results would have been the same. Take any of the well know teams like Madison, oakton, Robinson or Woodson, even west springfield last year and they all would have beat battlefield.
Just my opinion
Anonymous
12/26/2022 17:03
Subject: Re:St James Winter Indoor League
Anonymous wrote:What does any of this have to do with St James?
Duh.... Battlefield Girls signed up for the Gold division this year!! They put their Big girl pants on for St. James League...