ECNL and GA club changes - official announcements

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you see this as making lemonade out of lemons? That's not lemonade, that's piss.

Crude, but funny.

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I dont know. But you have to admit this makes a lot of sense.

- The big GA teams win.
- Most of the big GA teams with 2 teams already have MLS Next
- It gives ECNL clubs a reason to jump over
- GA could just merge in DPL and all of sudden all games are local.

It appears that DPL is hinting at a merger with another league…
any thoughts on who????

see their instagram posts. Announcement coming 4.2

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It appears that DPL is hinting at a merger with another league…
any thoughts on who????

see their instagram posts. Announcement coming 4.2

They will become GA RISING

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Absolutely ridiculous that NEFC got a second GA spot!!!

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Absolutely ridiculous that NEFC got a second GA spot!!!

Almost as ridiculous as FCSTARS getting a second ECNL spot.

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Almost as ridiculous as FCSTARS getting a second ECNL spot.

Actually very different. Stars had a team in ECNL and a team in DA. Stars was offered a 2nd ECNL spot to leave DA. The DA team became white. The original ECNL team became blue.
ecnl added a team from a rival league. Stars already had 2 top teams and just moved one to another league. As it turns out the DA wasn’t as strong as they thought because white has struggled since the move.

what NEFC and GA did was add a team from their feeder league. In process weakening both leagues. Anyone trying to tell you this is a good this is selling you something. I have no dog in the fight. My kid is in college now.

Looking at it objectively, if my kid was a top 5 NEFC player I would be moving her to one of the ECNL teams. If she’s mid pack I would have no move and be stuck (I feel for those parents). But if she was bench player with chance to start now or B team player that now gets a chance to be on a GA team I’d be psyched.

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Actually very different. Stars had a team in ECNL and a team in DA. Stars was offered a 2nd ECNL spot to leave DA. The DA team became white. The original ECNL team became blue.
ecnl added a team from a rival league. Stars already had 2 top teams and just moved one to another league. As it turns out the DA wasn’t as strong as they thought because white has struggled since the move.

what NEFC and GA did was add a team from their feeder league. In process weakening both leagues. Anyone trying to tell you this is a good this is selling you something. I have no dog in the fight. My kid is in college now.

Looking at it objectively, if my kid was a top 5 NEFC player I would be moving her to one of the ECNL teams. If she’s mid pack I would have no move and be stuck (I feel for those parents). But if she was bench player with chance to start now or B team player that now gets a chance to be on a GA team I’d be psyched.

Stars had two top teams? Was white ever a top team, did they dominate in GA and struggle in ECNL, did they ever win anything in DA before bailing? No, No, No…let’s be honest, white exists to pay for blue, give JD league clout and block NEFC. Good business move, not great for parents, players and competition but its on open market so have at it!

agree with last part. Blue should field the top 8-10 players in the state if they want to drive to Lancaster. Everyone else is fighting for the next level player, of which there are more so maybe that is NEFC strategy. Unintended for sure, but 2024 reality.

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Stars had two top teams? Was white ever a top team, did they dominate in GA and struggle in ECNL, did they ever win anything in DA before bailing? No, No, No…let’s be honest, white exists to pay for blue, give JD league clout and block NEFC. Good business move, not great for parents, players and competition but its on open market so have at it!

agree with last part. Blue should field the top 8-10 players in the state if they want to drive to Lancaster. Everyone else is fighting for the next level player, of which there are more so maybe that is NEFC strategy. Unintended for sure, but 2024 reality.

They were mid pack in DA before moving over to ECNL and struggling to adjust to the tougher competition.
And white doesn’t exist to pay for blue. It’s the 100 teams of “acton elite” , “lancaster United” ect.. that pay the bills. They get part time coaches that JD pays peanut’s and they don’t have to pay for big travel. Those teams are pure profit. The ECNL teams are expensive (whether they win or lose) but they attract players to the club. You can’t run a club with only ECNL teams or you would lose money.

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Actually very different. Stars had a team in ECNL and a team in DA. Stars was offered a 2nd ECNL spot to leave DA. The DA team became white. The original ECNL team became blue.
ecnl added a team from a rival league. Stars already had 2 top teams and just moved one to another league. As it turns out the DA wasn’t as strong as they thought because white has struggled since the move.

what NEFC and GA did was add a team from their feeder league. In process weakening both leagues. Anyone trying to tell you this is a good this is selling you something. I have no dog in the fight. My kid is in college now.

Looking at it objectively, if my kid was a top 5 NEFC player I would be moving her to one of the ECNL teams. If she’s mid pack I would have no move and be stuck (I feel for those parents). But if she was bench player with chance to start now or B team player that now gets a chance to be on a GA team I’d be psyched.

You should probably stop wasting your time reading and posting on threads about young girls, when you say you have no skin in the game. It's a little weird.

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You should probably stop wasting your time reading and posting on threads about young girls, when you say you have no skin in the game. It's a little weird.

Creepy troll

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You should probably stop wasting your time reading and posting on threads about young girls, when you say you have no skin in the game. It's a little weird.

Both my daughters played club soccer in MA. I always found this site funny and occasionally informative. Sorry if my presence on here offends you

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Both my daughters played club soccer in MA. I always found this site funny and occasionally informative. Sorry if my presence on here offends you

Move on, let it go. Go out and live your life.

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You should probably stop wasting your time reading and posting on threads about young girls, when you say you have no skin in the game. It's a little weird.

It’s weird even if you have a kid playing.

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They were mid pack in DA before moving over to ECNL and struggling to adjust to the tougher competition.
And white doesn’t exist to pay for blue. It’s the 100 teams of “acton elite” , “lancaster United” ect.. that pay the bills. They get part time coaches that JD pays peanut’s and they don’t have to pay for big travel. Those teams are pure profit. The ECNL teams are expensive (whether they win or lose) but they attract players to the club. You can’t run a club with only ECNL teams or you would lose money.

You say ‘pay for Blue’ as if Blue was free tuition like some MLSNext. Blue is not free. The Blue families ‘pay for Blue’. All of the other Stars teams make the club more money, true. But that’s the point of a business and is true of every soccer club.

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You say ‘pay for Blue’ as if Blue was free tuition like some MLSNext. Blue is not free. The Blue families ‘pay for Blue’. All of the other Stars teams make the club more money, true. But that’s the point of a business and is true of every soccer club.

Yea, you have to make sure the white team thinks this so they keep paying. There are fixed costs for a club and it is cheaper for blue parents if white parents pay half (think things like covered benches that are surprising expensive)