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Actually, yes.

Awesome. Who developed them? That is the type of info we should have on here. Please tell us.

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Awesome. Who developed them? That is the type of info we should have on here. Please tell us.

Celtic and Sporting are the obvious go-tos.

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No. Very strong player, has confidence, and gets a ton of playing time. OW house players seem a little timid.

so he's headed to ECSU

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so he's headed to ECSU

She is headed to a very strong D1, like CCSU.

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Celtic and Sporting are the obvious go-tos.

Sorry but don't agree. Celtic and Sporting have some good coaches but they aren't going to turn erkel into pulisic. Don't get me wrong, OW ulittles have their own problems but if you are trying to sell someone that Sporting or Celtic will develop them into a better player than if they made the OW team that is a stretch. So how many kids from these teams displace OW kids? One or two per team? That is not a sign of the club developing better than the other. Yes are they a good place to go train and play at ulittle, definetly yes. Especially if you are talking about a 15 minute commute over 45 minute commute. And that is the way I think most ulittle parents look at it.

If it happened to your kid maybe they just got some fire lit into them to practice on their own by being cut. Sometimes this is all a kid needs to knuckle down and practice on their own and to light the competitive fire. Being cut can be a good thing.

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No, if you watch, there's a ton more kids trying to get in at ulittle than U14.

Are you talking YTL or something? The u11 team didn't even get enough kids to roster a full team. They had 3 open spots on their website for this age. U10 did get more kids but still no where near the amount of kids at Celtic or Sporting.

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in regards to what? Your stupidity? Yep, you won the award all right! Go down to the front desk at FSA, the intern there has it waiting for you.

Yep. Fsa boomball. Amazing watching the lack of touch and skill at fsa ecnl.

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Yep. Fsa boomball. Amazing watching the lack of touch and skill at fsa ecnl.

Exactly right. Why do you think MD is moving to OW over this summer?

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Ow covers eastern CT to Norwich-ish, north to MA, south to the shore, and west maybe to Farmington for ulittles. Tryouts feature a lot of kids, and many go home without a spot on the team.

At U14-16, the geographic draw widens, but not by much. Certainly not by as much as you seem to think.

They have u-littles from Mass, RI, the entire eastern part of the state, east of the CT river, and several from west of the river as well. They have no competition east of the river.

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I am not going to say you might have the odd crazy parent taking their 9yr old to OW from that far away but it is not the norm. Most parents at that age aren't going to drive 50 miles each way to go to OW. Not sure what tryouts you were at but there were very few kids there that weren't on the team already. You might be confusing OW ulittle tryouts with FSA.

Again, most kids on the ulittle team are from Glastonbury and surrounding area. Glastonbury does not have the best athletes in CT, it is only because that is where they are located. Older teams in DA have kids (and parents) willing to travel to be in the DA. Most sane parents don't care about preacademy status and some, those parents that don't/didn't play soccer but the want to play the game comes from their kid, don't even know what DA or OW is at that age.

For example, I have talked to parents with kids on the DA team from MA and NY. One came from upstate NY to play OW. There aren't and kids from MA or NY on ulittle. And while I can't say I have talked to all parents of ulittle I only know of only one kid that comes from more than 30 miles away.

Right. And LK comes from almost the NY border and has for a while. Lots of kids from shoreline, eastern HALF of state, RI and MASS as well.

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Definitely not 100%, only about 70-80% turnover between U12-U14. Younger than that they could care less about your money-makes (I mean kids) and when they need to get serious and start winning, they just bring in outsiders and replace the kids that they had since YTL at U6.

And why do you present this as some kind of issue?

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Oh yeah. And starts and plays 90% most games.

Oh, you must be one of the OW daddy coaches.

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That was my experience. They sloughed off over half my daughter's team at U14 and brought in kids who'd grown up playing at other clubs. We jumped ship for ECNL the next year (OW was NPL only at the time).

And why do you have a problem with this decision? Should they not put up the strongest teams they can form? Ultimately, who is responsible for losing a roster spot to another kid from another club?

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And why do you present this as some kind of issue?

Hmm, i dont know, all of the foolish parents presume where they are is not good enough, so they take their kid to Oakwood. Said, untrained buffoon, userps a spot from a lifer and OW gets rewarded for poor development while smaller clubs keep losing the talent they train to an aggregator. Maybe this is why we can't compete on the world stage.

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They have u-littles from Mass, RI, the entire eastern part of the state, east of the CT river, and several from west of the river as well. They have no competition east of the river.

What ulittle team has kids from MA and RI? And don't say girls teams because we were talking about boys and DA.