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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Not all teams. My sons team is all on age and a top two or three team in DMV

Which team is that?

Hammers

Hammers is a classy program with great coaches and a great facility. But in terms of competitiveness it is not in the same league as the four programs (VLC, BLC, NextLevel, MadLax) who are gearing up for WSYL. And, I bet if you checked the birthdays of everybody on your son's team, you would find a few before September 1.

Were kids only invited to tryout for Black Ops or is it an open tryout for all players who qualify by age?

The answer here is pretty obvious. If ML, NL or DCE could field an on-age team with enough talent and depth to do this without opening it up in this format, they would, but ML has at least 3-4 which is why they had their thing, and NL, DCE and VLC are doing theirs. The hold-back thing just creates two separate cultures in club lax. Girls lax doesn't have it, but instead its more of a money game. Boys its will you hold your kid back for fractional and fleeting help in high school as it all evens out by the time they get to college aged. Sure this could be a move to enrich those clubs hosting the tryouts with additional talent, but i think you have to take them at their word that they just dont want to keep losing to LI teams by running the same old playbook.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Not all teams. My sons team is all on age and a top two or three team in DMV

Which team is that?

Hammers

Anonymous wrote: Not all teams. My sons team is all on age and a top two or three team in DMV

Which team is that?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kinda disappointed in all these clubs. Don’t understand why they would start something like this. Makes it look like they cannot win vs other teams without combining together. NL has an extremely bright future in the younger ages, so it makes no sense for them. DCE/BLC is definitely struggling @ 27’s and lower, so I can see them agreeing to this.

All DMV club teams have holdbacks; teams need to fill holes. The only logical way to get a chance at winning is to combine forces. To compete against Long Island team you need more than a regular club team.

Joining forces is different from holding kids back. DMV teams do not need to combine forces to beat Long Island teams, as they already do in all ages. 21-DCE; 22- Hawks; 23- DC Dogs; 24- ML or NL...

None of those teams could field USL age based teams.

Anonymous wrote: Not all teams. My sons team is all on age and a top two or three team in DMV

No they aren't.

Not all teams. My sons team is all on age and a top two or three team in DMV

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kinda disappointed in all these clubs. Don’t understand why they would start something like this. Makes it look like they cannot win vs other teams without combining together. NL has an extremely bright future in the younger ages, so it makes no sense for them. DCE/BLC is definitely struggling @ 27’s and lower, so I can see them agreeing to this.

All DMV club teams have holdbacks; teams need to fill holes. The only logical way to get a chance at winning is to combine forces. To compete against Long Island team you need more than a regular club team.

Joining forces is different from holding kids back. DMV teams do not need to combine forces to beat Long Island teams, as they already do in all ages. 21-DCE; 22- Hawks; 23- DC Dogs; 24- ML or NL...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kinda disappointed in all these clubs. Don’t understand why they would start something like this. Makes it look like they cannot win vs other teams without combining together. NL has an extremely bright future in the younger ages, so it makes no sense for them. DCE/BLC is definitely struggling @ 27’s and lower, so I can see them agreeing to this.

All DMV club teams have holdbacks; teams need to fill holes. The only logical way to get a chance at winning is to combine forces. To compete against Long Island team you need more than a regular club team.

And the LI teams have become all star teams too over the last 3 years.

Anonymous wrote:Kinda disappointed in all these clubs. Don’t understand why they would start something like this. Makes it look like they cannot win vs other teams without combining together. NL has an extremely bright future in the younger ages, so it makes no sense for them. DCE/BLC is definitely struggling @ 27’s and lower, so I can see them agreeing to this.

All DMV club teams have holdbacks; teams need to fill holes. The only logical way to get a chance at winning is to combine forces. To compete against Long Island team you need more than a regular club team.

Kinda disappointed in all these clubs. Don’t understand why they would start something like this. Makes it look like they cannot win vs other teams without combining together. NL has an extremely bright future in the younger ages, so it makes no sense for them. DCE/BLC is definitely struggling @ 27’s and lower, so I can see them agreeing to this.

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Anonymous wrote:It is open to other players. There are players coming in town from West Coast and South to tryout. Most have ties to one of these teams. Not being advertised but others wil be there.

This just isn't true. For the WSYL, you have to live within 100 miles of the club.

Don't feed the Madlax troll.

The whole WSYL thing seems kind of warped to me and I don't follow who is benefitting. Why can't these four teams just invest their energy and resources developing their own teams with the players they have?

Anonymous wrote:It is open to other players. There are players coming in town from West Coast and South to tryout. Most have ties to one of these teams. Not being advertised but others wil be there.

This just isn't true. For the WSYL, you have to live within 100 miles of the club.