Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 11:06     Subject: TSJFC
When I go fishing, I sometimes use a sinker. This will be their sinker.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 10:20     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It actually makes a lot of sense. All major clubs in the region and trying to get an angle on talent. Creating feeder clubs help both clubs.

That said, my experience with several local clubs is that they are generally not well managed at the operational level. They might be fine strategizing their next steps, but they are pretty awful in operationalizing their objectives. They overstate and overpromise and then underdeliver. The club soccer world is rife with unhappy clients.


Especially those of us at TSJ. You can only accept so much being lied to.


With AB running the show, that will never change.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 08:52     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It actually makes a lot of sense. All major clubs in the region and trying to get an angle on talent. Creating feeder clubs help both clubs.

That said, my experience with several local clubs is that they are generally not well managed at the operational level. They might be fine strategizing their next steps, but they are pretty awful in operationalizing their objectives. They overstate and overpromise and then underdeliver. The club soccer world is rife with unhappy clients.


Especially those of us at TSJ. You can only accept so much being lied to.

Totally agree. Although with TSJ I think it’s incompetence more than being lied to. They really believe the things they say are going to happen. We all know it ain’t happening
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 08:27     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:It actually makes a lot of sense. All major clubs in the region and trying to get an angle on talent. Creating feeder clubs help both clubs.

That said, my experience with several local clubs is that they are generally not well managed at the operational level. They might be fine strategizing their next steps, but they are pretty awful in operationalizing their objectives. They overstate and overpromise and then underdeliver. The club soccer world is rife with unhappy clients.


Especially those of us at TSJ. You can only accept so much being lied to.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2025 01:32     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TSJ is partnering with partnering with small clubs to build a team for MLS Next. Those small clubs have the players and the coaches have the track record.

Question: why all the hate?

I have nothing to do with TSJ. Never been to facility, or played any of their teams. I just know of their plans. Curious why there is so much slander about teams “winning” when this attitude is why US soccer development sucks.

If they create a program you are interested in, join. If not, keep with your regularly scheduled program.


How do you know this info about tsj when “you have nothing to do with tsj” 🤔


lol


Maybe they just joined as part of the mid season tryout for 1 of the 11 teams listed? https://thestjamessoccer.com/the-st-james-fc/travel-soccer/

Sounds like a statement AB would make to new parents


They can't even field some of these teams. The North had a 13/14 girls team in, what, u12 div 4 in the fall but it's listed as looking for mid-year players for a 14 and a 13 team. Hopefully no one gets suckered into it.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 21:40     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't know much about DCXI. What does a partnership with them mean? Is it better for the boys side or girls?


Dcxi is in takoma dc. Why would they partner with someone that geographically far?


Maybe the partnership is on paper mostly. If the TSJFC want to grow their boys side for MLS Next, I'm not sure they would get too many kids from DCXI u Little ranks to travel so far away to join TSJFC MLSNext side for practices so far away. The uLittle girls they develop in Springfield leave the club instead of joining GA at U13 because it so far away.

So, maybe its for training purposes? They need more boys to round out the program?
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 21:39     Subject: TSJFC
Tsj needs to solidfy their current efforts before taking more on. Their girls program, particularly at the younger ages, is in dire shape
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 19:56     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't know much about DCXI. What does a partnership with them mean? Is it better for the boys side or girls?


Dcxi is in takoma dc. Why would they partner with someone that geographically far?


I assume this is akin to Bethesda acquiring Dematha and the Roadrunners. Gets their claws in another part of the area. And laudably a lower SES one, so hopefully providing a higher level opportunity for those kids. Has Bethesda integrate the Red and Navy groups into their program feed or is it just another revenue source?
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 19:54     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:I don't know much about DCXI. What does a partnership with them mean? Is it better for the boys side or girls?


Dcxi has little to no girls program. Their girls program, save u Littles, left a few years ago to follow a coach. The club emphasized possession based soccer and regularly competes too high and gets blown out.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 19:51     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:I don't know much about DCXI. What does a partnership with them mean? Is it better for the boys side or girls?


Dcxi is in takoma dc. Why would they partner with someone that geographically far?
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2025 19:36     Subject: TSJFC
I don't know much about DCXI. What does a partnership with them mean? Is it better for the boys side or girls?
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2025 10:20     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TSJ is partnering with partnering with small clubs to build a team for MLS Next. Those small clubs have the players and the coaches have the track record.

Question: why all the hate?

I have nothing to do with TSJ. Never been to facility, or played any of their teams. I just know of their plans. Curious why there is so much slander about teams “winning” when this attitude is why US soccer development sucks.

If they create a program you are interested in, join. If not, keep with your regularly scheduled program.


How do you know this info about tsj when “you have nothing to do with tsj” 🤔


lol


Maybe they just joined as part of the mid season tryout for 1 of the 11 teams listed? https://thestjamessoccer.com/the-st-james-fc/travel-soccer/

Sounds like a statement AB would make to new parents
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2025 23:28     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TSJ is partnering with partnering with small clubs to build a team for MLS Next. Those small clubs have the players and the coaches have the track record.

Question: why all the hate?

I have nothing to do with TSJ. Never been to facility, or played any of their teams. I just know of their plans. Curious why there is so much slander about teams “winning” when this attitude is why US soccer development sucks.

If they create a program you are interested in, join. If not, keep with your regularly scheduled program.


How do you know this info about tsj when “you have nothing to do with tsj” 🤔


lol
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2025 21:06     Subject: TSJFC
It actually makes a lot of sense. All major clubs in the region and trying to get an angle on talent. Creating feeder clubs help both clubs.

That said, my experience with several local clubs is that they are generally not well managed at the operational level. They might be fine strategizing their next steps, but they are pretty awful in operationalizing their objectives. They overstate and overpromise and then underdeliver. The club soccer world is rife with unhappy clients.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 22:17     Subject: TSJFC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:TSJ is partnering with partnering with small clubs to build a team for MLS Next. Those small clubs have the players and the coaches have the track record.

Question: why all the hate?

I have nothing to do with TSJ. Never been to facility, or played any of their teams. I just know of their plans. Curious why there is so much slander about teams “winning” when this attitude is why US soccer development sucks.

If they create a program you are interested in, join. If not, keep with your regularly scheduled program.


How do you know this info about tsj when “you have nothing to do with tsj” 🤔


Parents talk. Small clubs talk.

It is actually public knowledge in another thread in this forum. Most people trashed the ideas without looking deeper.

I do not know the details and how many clubs. I just know their strategy. Whether it works, I have no clue. Not concerned at this juncture.