Anonymous wrote:McLean 2013 Green is the class of the region for this age so far. Even if you're looking at GotSport VA rankings their tournament vs league points are split over two teams for some reason (#7 & #11). Fix that bug and combined they'd be 5K points clear of anyone.

This spring EDP combined the top 4 teams from the fall South Atlantic Blue/Red top divisions into a "Premier" division that stretches from southern PA to NOVA.

OldLine has struggled 2-3-1 after not losing a game in the fall. McLean 4-0 has rolled everyone conceding only a single goal so far. MD United also 4-0 getting results over OldLine/Bethesda/Springfield.

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/27462/schedules?date=All&group=249795

I'd 100% throw almost all the JeffCup results out. 30mph winds in a constant downpour both days, miserable. Should be fun to watch how these clubs shake out as they enter ECNL over the next year or so.

Anonymous wrote:We got a u10/u11 offer for top Arlington team just based on tryouts for an outside player leaving current club - no follow-up practice or anything. So it might be team specific, or the practices are for 2nd team and lower.

Anonymous wrote:u10/u11 offer for top Arlington team just based on tryouts for an outside player

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Can confirm I’ve seen new kids at the Arl practices the past week or 2. But they also have organized separate sessions with larger groups of outside players from open tryouts, both with and without current Arl players. I don’t know if that is new this year due to all the new McLean kids and/or new coaches in U10-U12.

The ‘next practice on turf’ outside players seemed normal. But I saw one of the other sessions and it was…omg. All of us assumed they were evaluating outside players for whatever top teams’ spots were left, and the only way that what I saw would make sense is if they were actually evaluating outside players for 2nd team (at best) or lower.

I felt bad for both groups of kids, Arl b/c it was a waste of time for them (this was outside regular practice) and the outside players b/c sone were clearly out of their element.

So either Arl admin are being phenomenally stupid or are playing next-level 3D chess???

Anonymous wrote:Let me give you my experience over the years on how it normally works for the u10-u12 tryouts. Usually after final tryouts they will invite the players they are most interested in to the next practice that are on Turf. Usually after that practice they make decisions and send out offers within a couple of days. There will be a number of kids that decline because they only wanted top team or a certain team. Once they get those decisions they then will send out offers to kids that may not have made the first cut. I think that is why they have been using the 5/22 date because by then they will know who accepted and how many spots they have left. If you arent part of the first group you will more than likely but not automatically be added to the bottom team based on how many spots are left.

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Anonymous wrote:So is there anything about Arlington that would justify taking an offer from their top 2013G team over the top teams at McLean, Loudoun, Bethesda, or SYC, when those other teams seem to be stronger?

Is this a joke? I would take Arlington over any McLean team OTHER than the MYS 2013G green team. It’s like the only good McLean team, but it’s so good they are not going to be giving out offers. McLean knows they have one good team and aren’t going to disrupt it with outsiders.

Now for any other team, go with Arlington. It’s honestly the better club. Just not for

2013G.

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Anonymous wrote:Loudoun top girls were undefeated this season. Currently looking as strongest in area for the age group.

Hm, not sure how Loudon didn’t play McLean Green in either Fall or Spring regular season, but looks like they had -25 goal differential.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone else received an offer for 2013 G?

Is your daughter on a current team or did she try out?

Anonymous wrote:Let me give you my experience over the years on how it normally works for the u10-u12 tryouts. Usually after final tryouts they will invite the players they are most interested in to the next practice that are on Turf. Usually after that practice they make decisions and send out offers within a couple of days. There will be a number of kids that decline because they only wanted top team or a certain team. Once they get those decisions they then will send out offers to kids that may not have made the first cut. I think that is why they have been using the 5/22 date because by then they will know who accepted and how many spots they have left. If you arent part of the first group you will more than likely but not automatically be added to the bottom team based on how many spots are left.

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone else received an offer for 2013 G?

Anonymous wrote:Where are they going? Isn’t MYS 2013G the top team for their age group?