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Moving in the fall or now for spring season?

Anonymous wrote:On the girls side, 2012 year group down at FCV is liquidating. Like, player cards in hand and moving.

Arguing about GA and ECNL doesn’t really matter - the bread and butter are kids that don’t want to play with sherms in rec leagues but want to play in a regional sport. Parents want close and secure field space, trustworthy and capable coaches, and a vision bigger than getting kids half scholarships at William and Mary. Loco peeps can pay for college.

STJ just pissed away almost $800k in recurring revenue that they really didn’t do anything for. Didn’t help get fields, coaches, players, or rent any actual space at the STJ facility. I assume CC, Bobby, and others saw the uselessness of playing under a barnacle.

The real knife is promoting AB to any sort of leadership position. Dude lost all the Barca boys that were gifted to FCV, is almost blacklisted at Loudoun PRCS, and is widely known as an ultra-right wing Loco reply guy on Facebook (of course, with FCV right below his name for everyone to see).

Everyone doesn’t like NE at VRSC, but he has built an environment that kids and parents have fun at. I know you nerds lose sight of being normal people and live through your kids travel soccer team, but that’s what’s desired.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't put it past them to make a sleazy deal with Sterling Soccer club (ala the one with Villarreal) in order to get access to the Hencken Fields. And perhaps that would put them far enough away to maybe pave the way for VRSC into the GA.

Interesting take. Is this speculation or are conversations happening?

Anonymous wrote:On the girls side, 2012 year group down at FCV is liquidating. Like, player cards in hand and moving.

Arguing about GA and ECNL doesn’t really matter - the bread and butter are kids that don’t want to play with sherms in rec leagues but want to play in a regional sport. Parents want close and secure field space, trustworthy and capable coaches, and a vision bigger than getting kids half scholarships at William and Mary. Loco peeps can pay for college.

STJ just pissed away almost $800k in recurring revenue that they really didn’t do anything for. Didn’t help get fields, coaches, players, or rent any actual space at the STJ facility. I assume CC, Bobby, and others saw the uselessness of playing under a barnacle.

The real knife is promoting AB to any sort of leadership position. Dude lost all the Barca boys that were gifted to FCV, is almost blacklisted at Loudoun PRCS, and is widely known as an ultra-right wing Loco reply guy on Facebook (of course, with FCV right below his name for everyone to see).

Everyone doesn’t like NE at VRSC, but he has built an environment that kids and parents have fun at. I know you nerds lose sight of being normal people and live through your kids travel soccer team, but that’s what’s desired.

Anonymous wrote:Don't put it past them to make a sleazy deal with Sterling Soccer club (ala the one with Villarreal) in order to get access to the Hencken Fields. And perhaps that would put them far enough away to maybe pave the way for VRSC into the GA.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with this. I’ll believe fields are secured for the spring only when our schedule is updated to show those practices. That better happen soon since no training is on the calendar yet after Feb 15.

I’ll give the club a little longer on fields for next year. It’s an unfair ask almost since no clubs announce fall field allocations until let summer. FCV has to say as much as they can though by March 1. Otherwise they are in a world of trouble with current families.

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this is exactly why GA might admit VRSC despite it not having a track record—if they don’t give CC a GA platform that current FCV GA players can migrate to, those players are going to move to the local ECNL clubs and leave the GA system altogether. FCV GA players are not going to take a flyer on all new coaches and no clear path to field space at FCV. If GA wants to keep that champions league club within the fold, supporting VRSC might be their only path.

Well, clubs change leadership and coaches all the time. If CC were in charge at Revolution, that would be one thing because he obviously knows what he’s doing. But he’s not. And his boss, who can barely spell GA and has nothing more than a grassroots coaching license, has an ego that rivals any coach in the DMV. Do you trust that a guy like that is going to remain completely uninvolved with a possible GA program? I’m not sure the decision for FCV GA families will be an easy one either way in that regard.

But field space, well, that definitely would seem to be a big problem. TSJ had to have realized that this day was coming sooner or later and if they didn’t, then that’s really their own fault. Nobody in or around Loudoun County wants to drive to Springfield. But what are the other options? I heard that they had looked into a couple of private facilities but it sounds like those options didn’t work out. I hear that they’re having town hall meetings with parents/players this week so it will be interesting to see what comes out of those. But if their only field space really is in Springfield, then that probably makes the decision to look elsewhere easier for a lot of families.

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this is exactly why GA might admit VRSC despite it not having a track record—if they don’t give CC a GA platform that current FCV GA players can migrate to, those players are going to move to the local ECNL clubs and leave the GA system altogether. FCV GA players are not going to take a flyer on all new coaches and no clear path to field space at FCV. If GA wants to keep that champions league club within the fold, supporting VRSC might be their only path.

Well, clubs change leadership and coaches all the time. If CC were in charge at Revolution, that would be one thing because he obviously knows what he’s doing. But he’s not. And his boss, who can barely spell GA and has nothing more than a grassroots coaching license, has an ego that rivals any coach in the DMV. Do you trust that a guy like that is going to remain completely uninvolved with a possible GA program? I’m not sure the decision for FCV GA families will be an easy one either way in that regard.

But field space, well, that definitely would seem to be a big problem. TSJ had to have realized that this day was coming sooner or later and if they didn’t, then that’s really their own fault. Nobody in or around Loudoun County wants to drive to Springfield. But what are the other options? I heard that they had looked into a couple of private facilities but it sounds like those options didn’t work out. I hear that they’re having town hall meetings with parents/players this week so it will be interesting to see what comes out of those. But if their only field space really is in Springfield, then that probably makes the decision to look elsewhere easier for a lot of families.

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this is exactly why GA might admit VRSC despite it not having a track record—if they don’t give CC a GA platform that current FCV GA players can migrate to, those players are going to move to the local ECNL clubs and leave the GA system altogether. FCV GA players are not going to take a flyer on all new coaches and no clear path to field space at FCV. If GA wants to keep that champions league club within the fold, supporting VRSC might be their only path.

Well, clubs change leadership and coaches all the time. If CC were in charge at Revolution, that would be one thing because he obviously knows what he’s doing. But he’s not. And his boss, who can barely spell GA and has nothing more than a grassroots coaching license, has an ego that rivals any coach in the DMV. Do you trust that a guy like that is going to remain completely uninvolved with a possible GA program? I’m not sure the decision for FCV GA families will be an easy one either way in that regard.

But field space, well, that definitely would seem to be a big problem. TSJ had to have realized that this day was coming sooner or later and if they didn’t, then that’s really their own fault. Nobody in or around Loudoun County wants to drive to Springfield. But what are the other options? I heard that they had looked into a couple of private facilities but it sounds like those options didn’t work out. I hear that they’re having town hall meetings with parents/players this week so it will be interesting to see what comes out of those. But if their only field space really is in Springfield, then that probably makes the decision to look elsewhere easier for a lot of families.

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps this is exactly why GA might admit VRSC despite it not having a track record—if they don’t give CC a GA platform that current FCV GA players can migrate to, those players are going to move to the local ECNL clubs and leave the GA system altogether. FCV GA players are not going to take a flyer on all new coaches and no clear path to field space at FCV. If GA wants to keep that champions league club within the fold, supporting VRSC might be their only path.

Anonymous wrote:Would GA add a new club knowing it would more than likely mean the end for one of their existing clubs? Not just another one of their GA clubs, but one of their best known and champions league clubs. The other few top clubs GA needs to hold onto, like Top Hat and Nationals, would see this and move to ECNL