Is Girls ECNL at FC Bucks or FC Delco worth it?

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The Union call the shoots at FC Delco. They are in charge of the boys DA, and you are correct, nobody really cares about the rest of the teams at the club, it is a total mess. The girls side of Delco doesn't really have anyone in charge and is sinking.

What a mess for the girls side at delco. Maybe it will improve?

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What a mess for the girls side at delco. Maybe it will improve?

No it’s over for the girls side shortly.

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The Union call the shoots at FC Delco. They are in charge of the boys DA, and you are correct, nobody really cares about the rest of the teams at the club, it is a total mess. The girls side of Delco doesn't really have anyone in charge and is sinking.

So at fc delco they only care about the boys side?

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So at fc delco they only care about the boys side?

Apparently. It’s all about the boys side at delco

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So at fc delco they only care about the boys side?

Yes. The boys DA at FC Delco are all that matters to FC Delco. Girls ECNL/NPL and non boys DA are an after thought. The club was dead 7 years ago, they got a life line, blew it, and now will be the B-teams for the Union DA, and continue to play for nothing, other than a chance to play D-III college soccer. Delco are a total joke.

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Yes. The boys DA at FC Delco are all that matters to FC Delco. Girls ECNL/NPL and non boys DA are an after thought. The club was dead 7 years ago, they got a life line, blew it, and now will be the B-teams for the Union DA, and continue to play for nothing, other than a chance to play D-III college soccer. Delco are a total joke.

Delco girls going to lose ecnl soon?

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Delco girls going to lose ecnl soon?

ECNL won’t kick them out until they can’t field NPL and composite teams, which happened last year, but if it happens again this year, the clock will start ticking. People at PDA have been vocal with their displeasure about what took place at Delco last year.

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ECNL won’t kick them out until they can’t field NPL and composite teams, which happened last year, but if it happens again this year, the clock will start ticking. People at PDA have been vocal with their displeasure about what took place at Delco last year.

Good point. I think this is the last readable PA thread on here. The rest of them are out in left field with stupidity.

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ECNL won’t kick them out until they can’t field NPL and composite teams, which happened last year, but if it happens again this year, the clock will start ticking. People at PDA have been vocal with their displeasure about what took place at Delco last year.

Yes subtracting teams isn’t smart business but if delco can’t field girls teams then I could see ecnl being removed eventually

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Yes subtracting teams isn’t smart business but if delco can’t field girls teams then I could see ecnl being removed eventually

So many people fail to realize that ECNL clubs have to support NPL programs too. Forfeits don’t happen in the ECNL, all games must be played or you get booted from the league, even if you have to bring younger players up or use NPL kids to fill out game day rosters. Clubs also can’t bail on NPL games because they are using those NPL players to keep the ECNL going. Once a club falls into a pattern of having to move kids around to survive, it becomes a path to failure. FC Delco do not have enough kids to support ECNL/NPL, and they certainly don’t have the talent to support anything of quality, which causes kids to leave. The only existing club in Eastern Pennsylvania that could support an ECNL program to replace FC Delco would be HMMS. No other club in EPA have the numbers to support a quality ECNL/NPL program. In the end is it worth it? Ukies and Lower Merion are too small for ECNL/NPL. FC Bucks are the only Philly area club that can support ECNL/NPL, but the aren’t doing it well.

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So many people fail to realize that ECNL clubs have to support NPL programs too. Forfeits don’t happen in the ECNL, all games must be played or you get booted from the league, even if you have to bring younger players up or use NPL kids to fill out game day rosters. Clubs also can’t bail on NPL games because they are using those NPL players to keep the ECNL going. Once a club falls into a pattern of having to move kids around to survive, it becomes a path to failure. FC Delco do not have enough kids to support ECNL/NPL, and they certainly don’t have the talent to support anything of quality, which causes kids to leave. The only existing club in Eastern Pennsylvania that could support an ECNL program to replace FC Delco would be HMMS. No other club in EPA have the numbers to support a quality ECNL/NPL program. In the end is it worth it? Ukies and Lower Merion are too small for ECNL/NPL. FC Bucks are the only Philly area club that can support ECNL/NPL, but the aren’t doing it well.

Seems your post is a bit outdated. With the Northeast NPL being hacked away from most of the talented teams and now playing in ECNL Regional, what's left of NPL is a wasteland.

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Seems your post is a bit outdated. With the Northeast NPL being hacked away from most of the talented teams and now playing in ECNL Regional, what's left of NPL is a wasteland.

They aren’t wrong, it is an expectation that the ECNL clubs support a second team.

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They aren’t wrong, it is an expectation that the ECNL clubs support a second team.

yes, but those clubs have been pulled from NPL and into ECNLR; thereby weakening the NPL to the point of irrelevance.

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yes, but those clubs have been pulled from NPL and into ECNLR; thereby weakening the NPL to the point of irrelevance.

Right now FC Delco don't have enough kids for most of the ECNL RL teams. (former NPL). Most teams don't even have 15 kids, some don't even have enough to field a team. They also have the same problem for their ECNL teams which then brings them back to having to use kids from different teams to field enough for the ECNL teams so they don't forfeit games. As a club, they will be lucky to finish the 2019-20 season.

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Right now FC Delco don't have enough kids for most of the ECNL RL teams. (former NPL). Most teams don't even have 15 kids, some don't even have enough to field a team. They also have the same problem for their ECNL teams which then brings them back to having to use kids from different teams to field enough for the ECNL teams so they don't forfeit games. As a club, they will be lucky to finish the 2019-20 season.

That is bad! What happened to delco