Let's Do it! Stars vs NEFC vs Everyone Else

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Good attempt at re-trolling. Still not biting. Maybe all is okay in Stars land, no matter what you might wish?

The out flow of talent from them would argue otherwise.

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The out flow of talent from them would argue otherwise.

Who left, and where did they go? Didn't Stars pick up all of NEFC's best U14's?

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Who left, and where did they go? Didn't Stars pick up all of NEFC's best U14's?

Heard that its getting real ugly on some of JD'S ECNL teams. Players quitting, parents going at it. Don't be surprised to see a good turnout of Stars players at ODP tryouts this weekend. JD has dug his own grave with the way he has been treating the high school players and its going to come back and get him.

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Heard that its getting real ugly on some of JD'S ECNL teams. Players quitting, parents going at it. Don't be surprised to see a good turnout of Stars players at ODP tryouts this weekend. JD has dug his own grave with the way he has been treating the high school players and its going to come back and get him.

yup, all quitting. gunfire in the parking lot at the new facility between angry parents. HS kids dropping out of school to play club soccer 24/7. how many new players have flocked to NEFC? none - because they don't want to move down to the jv.

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Well, I see you've been trying again today, my friend. Nice job re-posting your opening post to begin the thread.

But more than anything, thank you for the gift that just keeps on giving, BTDT..........

Since we left the club a number of parents have asked me why we didn't leave earlier. Truthfully I have asked myself that same question many times. After pondering it for a while I think it basically comes down to how they build the culture in the club. You end up feeling like there really is no other option. This feeling also explains a lot of the pro Stars rhetoric you read here. People literally are scared to death that they would end up with another club. There is that much paranoia built into the culture.*

When you get right down to it, the way the Stars are run is not all that dissimilar to what you read about in cults. They work real hard at isolating the families from the influences of other coaches and clubs. Their posture on ODP is a perfect example. They instill a Stars against the world mindset and there is always a villain that is conspiring to hurt the club for the families to rally against. When we first started with the club, the villain was MPS. All you ever heard from the coaches was how much a joke MPS was and when they criticized players one of the worst insults they would throw at them was the snide remark about going to play for MPS. When players did leave for another club their name was constantly brought up in practice and ridiculed. You ended up feeling all of the other clubs were not even close to the Stars and that if you left them you were basically giving up on soccer.*

When I look back now I am actually rather disgusted with myself and husband for how long we stayed with the club. We were both athletes and knew that what we were seeing wasn't having a healthy impact on our daughter. She withdrew into shell and lost all confidence as a player. We also saw an impact socially and in school but had convinced ourselves that it was the price that she needed to pay to be a soccer player. We even used to have discussions with her about being tougher and rising to the challenge. All that did was take the joy out playing a game and turned it into a job. The sad thing is all of us were so afraid that if we left the Stars everything she had put up with would be wasted and her soccer career would be over. We quite literally had family fights over it. In the end my daughter simply wore out. She left the club a shadow of her former self and I distinctly remember feeling shame at leaving. I am quite embarrassed to now admit that. I will tell you that there is life other than the Stars. It took time and a completely different coaching style but soccer became fun again and my daughter has actually thrived beyond our expectations.*

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Well, I see you've been trying again today, my friend. Nice job re-posting your opening post to begin the thread.

But more than anything, thank you for the gift that just keeps on giving, BTDT..........

Always the desperate fallback Perspective. Dredge up a post written a few years ago. You da man!!

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Always the desperate fallback Perspective. Dredge up a post written a few years ago. You da man!!

Not Perspective, but the Suzie Skywalker fable is an apt illustration of how the Stars haters just make **** up in order to make points in their ongoing quest for relevance. The question is, who do they think they are influencing when they make this stuff up? Newbies don't know about TS. Stars families are either happy where they are or they leave, and not because of some fiction found on TS. Are they trying to poison the well so that more and more of the top NEFC families won't jump ship? Doesn't that say something about the state of affairs at NEFC?

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Not Perspective, but the Suzie Skywalker fable is an apt illustration of how the Stars haters just make **** up in order to make points in their ongoing quest for relevance. The question is, who do they think they are influencing when they make this stuff up? Newbies don't know about TS. Stars families are either happy where they are or they leave, and not because of some fiction found on TS. Are they trying to poison the well so that more and more of the top NEFC families won't jump ship? Doesn't that say something about the state of affairs at NEFC?

Speaks volumes of the state of affairs at NEFC. Take away the teams they heisted from the Scorpions and they haven't produced much.

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Speaks volumes of the state of affairs at NEFC. Take away the teams they heisted from the Scorpions and they haven't produced much.

"...haven't produced anything." There, fixed it for ya.

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"...haven't produced anything." There, fixed it for ya.

"....haven't produced anything but a famous blowhard dad and a good goalkeeper, along with lots of profits from all the D, E, F, and G teams." That's better.

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Well, I see you've been trying again today, my friend. Nice job re-posting your opening post to begin the thread.

But more than anything, thank you for the gift that just keeps on giving, BTDT..........

Rather do like this new "bunker" mode the Stars faithful seem to believe they are in except their "we are being victimized" cries are a little much given their historic use of TS. They are the originators of the TS marketing game and now that they are getting beat at their own game it is more than a little satisfying reading them complain like pathetic urchins. They really should have their heads up just little bit and pay attention to what is happening around them because things aren't nearly as calm as they are pretending they are. If things were as docile as they imagine you wouldn't have a thread like "South Shore Select...why does everyone leave" with over 400 posts and almost 33,000 page views still going strong nor it's cousin the obvious bash thread "GPS Thanksgiving Schedules" with over 100 posts and almost 7,600 page views in just about a week pop up.

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Rather do like this new "bunker" mode the Stars faithful seem to believe they are in except their "we are being victimized" cries are a little much given their historic use of TS. They are the originators of the TS marketing game and now that they are getting beat at their own game it is more than a little satisfying reading them complain like pathetic urchins. They really should have their heads up just little bit and pay attention to what is happening around them because things aren't nearly as calm as they are pretending they are. If things were as docile as they imagine you wouldn't have a thread like "South Shore Select...why does everyone leave" with over 400 posts and almost 33,000 page views still going strong nor it's cousin the obvious bash thread "GPS Thanksgiving Schedules" with over 100 posts and almost 7,600 page views in just about a week pop up.

Keep ranting and lying on your street corner.

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Keep ranting and lying on your street corner.

Never ceases to amaze how quickly this one particular anonymous "voice" appears whenever there is a post about the Stars.

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Stars are very much like a cult, they really do convince parents that everywhere else is a dump or that JD will go to the ends of the Earth to screw over your kid if you leave. Real classy, we left 2 years ago and couldn't be happier, but each his own.

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Stars are very much like a cult, they really do convince parents that everywhere else is a dump or that JD will go to the ends of the Earth to screw over your kid if you leave. Real classy, we left 2 years ago and couldn't be happier, but each his own.

LOL! "Too funny."