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**Guest** · 2024-10-27T21:51:21

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First you need to hire good coaches

They don’t exist

**Guest** · 2024-10-27T23:07:20

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They don’t exist

Xanax mom I thought was the coach

**Guest** · 2024-10-27T23:56:00

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Club dues will be paid in full November 1st, roster changes should start on the 2nd.

Even though this can’t save the fall season, making changes on Nov 2 could save the club.

**Guest** · 2024-10-28T00:40:47

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Today’s parents have a lot more knowledge of the game than coaches like to think. You’re not infallible because you have a job at the club. There are parents in the sidelines you are just as knowledgeable- and some more so - than the guy or gal getting paid by the club. Do the parents know firsthand all the issues of the team? Maybe not and they certainly don’t see the politics from inside the club which we ALL knows plays a huge role in rosters and other decisions etc…but they see strategy, formation, inability to adjust to the game, patterns, and more than you think .

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Parents like to think they have a lot more knowledge of the game than the coaches think they have. Coaches are not infallible by any means. They make mistakes just like you and me.

**Guest** · 2024-10-28T00:42:40

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Yes! I know I do. I even see the politics very clearly in many cases, though I do not understand the origin of it. What I do know is that when you give someone an unnecessary boost you are robbing them of the most important experience - failure. Failure drives us us to personally improve. Over a longer time horizon, what incentive does a player have to improve if their role feels safe and protected? Please take the winter to think this over and emerge for spring with the real team rosters please. Enough of this senseless decision making.

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”Politics” is such a lazy narrative. Makes me giggle.

**Guest** · 2024-10-28T11:39:21

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”Politics” is such a lazy narrative. Makes me giggle.

How’s this then: a child of a coach at the club, parent paid sponsorships, sibling of a kid that was good, a client receiving private training, or unnecessarily boosting a kid because of what town they are from.

The latter is more of an FSA thing as you know relative to Farmington and WeHa, but there are some signs of it at OW with SoWi. You see it’s not a lazy narrative because it’s representative of the things that don’t add up that everyone sees - even you area competitors see it and wonder. Oh…you didn’t realize…we all talk too.

**Guest** · 2024-10-28T12:56:23

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How’s this then: a child of a coach at the club, parent paid sponsorships, sibling of a kid that was good, a client receiving private training, or unnecessarily boosting a kid because of what town they are from.

The latter is more of an FSA thing as you know relative to Farmington and WeHa, but there are some signs of it at OW with SoWi. You see it’s not a lazy narrative because it’s representative of the things that don’t add up that everyone sees - even you area competitors see it and wonder. Oh…you didn’t realize…we all talk too.

08 GA girls parent here and we’ve had a dad coach or assistant coach since u12 the team are about to be U17

**Guest** · 2024-10-28T14:49:55

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08 GA girls parent here and we’ve had a dad coach or assistant coach since u12 the team are about to be U17

That’s great to hear! But they are out there at the top clubs routinely. So are other family relationships - you just don’t know it until you do.

**Guest** · 2024-10-28T15:53:15

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08 GA girls parent here and we’ve had a dad coach or assistant coach since u12 the team are about to be U17

Awful for any club at any level sorry to hear this

**Guest** · 2024-10-29T03:43:07

Anyone have anything good to say about the U12 and U13 teams?

**Guest** · 2024-10-29T10:59:30

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Anyone have anything good to say about the U12 and U13 teams?

Their uniforms fit nicely.

**Guest** · 2024-10-29T11:06:23

Don’t get me wrong. There is real talent at this club, but it’s being squandered. Those kids will then all leave next year because talent wants to play with talent. For some reason the best kids are dispersed across their teams and even age groups. I get playing kids up, but that comes with a cost. What I don't get is sprinkling your best players over 2 or 3 teams. When I say best, it’s not just my opinion, it’s the players themselves who see it. I hope this winter the ownership takes a road trip to watch combined practices by age group. If they can correctly guys which team everyone is on I’d be floored.

**Guest** · 2024-10-29T12:02:51

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Don’t get me wrong. There is real talent at this club, but it’s being squandered. Those kids will then all leave next year because talent wants to play with talent. For some reason the best kids are dispersed across their teams and even age groups. I get playing kids up, but that comes with a cost. What I don't get is sprinkling your best players over 2 or 3 teams. When I say best, it’s not just my opinion, it’s the players themselves who see it. I hope this winter the ownership takes a road trip to watch combined practices by age group. If they can correctly guys which team everyone is on I’d be floored.

Right on, put the talent together.

**Guest** · 2024-10-29T13:32:00

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Right on, put the talent together.

We are eagerly anticipating Nov 2nd (the day after final club fee charge ) like it’s a holiday. Please Oakwood Santa, don’t let us down. Waiting until spring tryouts is too long. There’s already a couple kids playing at two clubs (not town, but other clubs). If that doesn’t tell you the depth of the problem I don’t know what does.