Anonymous
Post 01/12/2025 08:55     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Guys. I’ve already told you all the plan.

There will no longer be Richmond Strikers or Richmond Kickers. From REC through ECNL.

It will all be Richmond United. There will be 2 ECNL teams at the top and 2 regional league teams below. Trust.


Since you’re spreading the truth, is anyone from either of these 2 clubs connected to ECNL Headquarters in Richmond?


This just goes to show people don’t really know what’s going on and who is helping create things.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 11:29     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:Guys. I’ve already told you all the plan.

There will no longer be Richmond Strikers or Richmond Kickers. From REC through ECNL.

It will all be Richmond United. There will be 2 ECNL teams at the top and 2 regional league teams below. Trust.


Since you’re spreading the truth, is anyone from either of these 2 clubs connected to ECNL Headquarters in Richmond?
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 08:30     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:Guys. I’ve already told you all the plan.

There will no longer be Richmond Strikers or Richmond Kickers. From REC through ECNL.

It will all be Richmond United. There will be 2 ECNL teams at the top and 2 regional league teams below. Trust.


What would be the advantage of this? The NC clubs that have 2nd teams are usually bottom of the table and not competitive.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2025 07:12     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Guys. I’ve already told you all the plan.

There will no longer be Richmond Strikers or Richmond Kickers. From REC through ECNL.

It will all be Richmond United. There will be 2 ECNL teams at the top and 2 regional league teams below. Trust.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 23:12     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Isn’t that what Richmond United is for?


Maybe Richmond United will merge into the Inter Academy partnership under the Strikers.


What would that do?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 18:18     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:Isn’t that what Richmond United is for?


Maybe Richmond United will merge into the Inter Academy partnership under the Strikers.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 11:58     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
That’s the point.Why replace non competitive team with another unless the plan was to get a second team in Richmond all along.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 10:15     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:Did EcnL force FVU here in nova so they could make room for a second team in Richmond?


Seems unlikely. FVU is because the teams weren't competitive. Not sure a 2nd team down in Richmond would be competitive either.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 10:10     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did EcnL force FVU here in nova so they could make room for a second team in Richmond?


Who cares. BOYS ECNL is a joke. MLSNext or bust.


Fixed it for you.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 08:10     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
What’s a Grove?


Grove United - Another soccer club in the Richmond area...they were formed a few years back and have a boys program and mens and are starting a girls program.
On the mens side, they have their youth academy teams and a U19 & U17 team and their NPSL squad. Not sure too much about what they have planned long term on the girls/womens side.

Plus there is UK (Unknown Athlete) that is running programs, mainly training but they have a summar womens WPSL squad, plus there's Virginia Velocity which in running youth academy teams pus FC Richmond...geez. Once I looked around, more programs that I thought than just Strikers and Kickers!
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2025 08:05     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Strikers is unbelievably saturated with players. Rostering 18 players per team and having very limited access to fields is causing issues. For the girls, the merger will just create a ECNL RL RU team. The Kickers program is not strong at all on the girls ECNLRL side of things.

Grove Girls program will poach many girls players in the Richmond area.


What’s a Grove?


https://www.grovesocceracademy.com
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 21:22     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:Did EcnL force FVU here in nova so they could make room for a second team in Richmond?


Who cares. ECNL is a joke. MLSNext or bust.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 21:20     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:Strikers is unbelievably saturated with players. Rostering 18 players per team and having very limited access to fields is causing issues. For the girls, the merger will just create a ECNL RL RU team. The Kickers program is not strong at all on the girls ECNLRL side of things.

Grove Girls program will poach many girls players in the Richmond area.


What’s a Grove?
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 19:21     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Did EcnL force FVU here in nova so they could make room for a second team in Richmond?
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 18:03     Subject: Richmond Strikers and Kickers Merging
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:ECNL could previously force clubs to put their top boys teams in ECNL if they wanted to have girls ECNL because they had the market power. If they no longer have that market power, then it would be foolish to kick good teams out of ECNL girls because they move boys to MLSNext.

If they do do this out of spite, then they will wither and die and cease to become the best league.

The smart move would be to retrench to focus on girls, drop the ECNL boys linkage nonsense and continue to be the dominate league for girls. Given MLS Academies and their money, there never was a chance ECNL Boys was going to become what ECNL girls is.

100% on your assessment.

The problem with ECNL giving up on the boys is that over time MLSN + GA will slowly take the top ECNL girls clubs.


Agree if there was a MLSN + GA. There is not one now and there may never be one.