Poor Portland ECNL

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Tom tried and tried and tried and finally he has to merge with Crossfire and they have to bring FC along and he finally gets accepted. Long after many other cities had their clubs accepted. Heck, Utah and Boise got in before Portland. Now, with the GDA, ECNL is on the verge of becoming irrelevant, if not folding all together. All that work, all those hopes and dreams, all to see it being to unravel two years in. And the thing lost in all of this, after it took Thusc five years to get accepted, the next greatest thing, the GDA comes along and the Thorns are charter members. No five year wait. No having to beg, borrow and steal. No having to begrudgingly bring FCP along much less to merge with a bitter rival in Crossfire. Poor Thusc. And really, poor Crossfire and FCP. All that hard work, and in a year or so, poof, it will be all gone.

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Tom tried and tried and tried and finally he has to merge with Crossfire and they have to bring FC along and he finally gets accepted. Long after many other cities had their clubs accepted. Heck, Utah and Boise got in before Portland. Now, with the GDA, ECNL is on the verge of becoming irrelevant, if not folding all together. All that work, all those hopes and dreams, all to see it being to unravel two years in. And the thing lost in all of this, after it took Thusc five years to get accepted, the next greatest thing, the GDA comes along and the Thorns are charter members. No five year wait. No having to beg, borrow and steal. No having to begrudgingly bring FCP along much less to merge with a bitter rival in Crossfire. Poor Thusc. And really, poor Crossfire and FCP. All that hard work, and in a year or so, poof, it will be all gone.

You seem to take great pleasure in the world of little girls soccer. Weird kinda

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You seem to take great pleasure in the world of little girls soccer. Weird kinda

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Thusc board member drowning their sorrow at happy hour.

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Tom tried and tried and tried and finally he has to merge with Crossfire and they have to bring FC along and he finally gets accepted. Long after many other cities had their clubs accepted. Heck, Utah and Boise got in before Portland. Now, with the GDA, ECNL is on the verge of becoming irrelevant, if not folding all together. All that work, all those hopes and dreams, all to see it being to unravel two years in. And the thing lost in all of this, after it took Thusc five years to get accepted, the next greatest thing, the GDA comes along and the Thorns are charter members. No five year wait. No having to beg, borrow and steal. No having to begrudgingly bring FCP along much less to merge with a bitter rival in Crossfire. Poor Thusc. And really, poor Crossfire and FCP. All that hard work, and in a year or so, poof, it will be all gone.

Too bad the DA is starting out completely watered down with Thorns Academy and other clubs B players.

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Too bad the DA is starting out completely watered down with Thorns Academy and other clubs B players.

Have the GDA Portland Thorns had tryouts already?

Or is it yet another troll?

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Too bad the DA is starting out completely watered down with Thorns Academy and other clubs B players.

ECNL waited five years for that. Then they let in Thusc and FCP.

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FCP was already going down. Their poor development mixed with snake oil recruitment tactics was only going to last so long. Clive would have thought ecnl was rediculous and the current UP coaches are dinosaurs who dont know the current game.

Give it another few years and unless things change drastically, their model will not stay.

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Too bad the DA is starting out completely watered down with Thorns Academy and other clubs B players.

01 thorns academy would destroy the 01 ecnl teams. Its not even close.

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01 thorns academy would destroy the 01 ecnl teams. Its not even close.

You'll never know. Because ECNL teams don't sandbag in OYSA or Beaverton cup and thorns academy teams can't get into ECNL events.

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01 thorns academy would destroy the Clackamas Power Rays. Its not even close.

They might get to play them in beaver ton cup of OYSA silver.

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Desperate TA clubs. Don't you fools have anything better to do?

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Have the GDA Portland Thorns had tryouts already?

Or is it yet another troll?

They've got what they've got. Same "elite" program, just moving to a new league next year. Where they will get throttled every game.

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01 thorns academy would destroy the 01 ecnl teams. Its not even close.

Whatever. 01 Thorns wouldn't even beat 02 ECNL teams.

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So let's see, Thorns got into the DA as a charter member. And Portland ECNL got in after the league got watered down. The ECNL clowns are so funny.

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So let's see, Thorns got into the DA as a charter member. And Portland ECNL got in after the league got watered down. The ECNL clowns are so funny.

Thanks for your anonymous expert analysis!!