Boys NAL or ECRL

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The NAL teams were former ECNL teams that moved over to NAL. And ECNL National is a higher level than ECNL Regional. Simple.

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Other than Stars, which was perennially the weakest ECNL Boys program around, ECNL boys no longer exists in Massachusetts. The other former Mass ECNL players and their clubs migrate over to MLS Next and NAL.

ECRL is well below that level and equivalent to the top end of NECSL. In New England, ECNL Boys is garbage.

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Other than Stars, which was perennially the weakest ECNL Boys program around, ECNL boys no longer exists in Massachusetts. The other former Mass ECNL players and their clubs migrate over to MLS Next and NAL.

ECRL is well below that level and equivalent to the top end of NECSL. In New England, ECNL Boys is garbage.

Bolts U13 and U14 ECRL won state cup last year and earlier this year beat their own NAL teams who are rated 2nd and 1st respectively in the NAL. Tell me again how poor the ECRL is compared to the NAL when the results say otherwise

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Aside from the insecure Bolts Weymouth parents who were left behind in the ECNL—>NAL move, everyone on the boys side knows that NAL is the 2nd best league after MLSN. All of the top clubs in NE with MLS programs put their second teams in NAL. And several of the NAL players are on the border of making the MLSN team and is the main pool of talent for MLSN to pull extra players from.

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Bolts U13 and U14 ECRL won state cup last year and earlier this year beat their own NAL teams who are rated 2nd and 1st respectively in the NAL. Tell me again how poor the ECRL is compared to the NAL when the results say otherwise

11 months ago and a different league and a different roster.

Not to mention you cherry picked the only 2 ECRL teams that are even close, in any club.

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Ha ha ha ha. Funny one.

Obviously a stars dad

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Obviously a stars dad

Nope, just reality dad.

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Ha ha ha ha. Funny one.

What are you? a NAL representative? hahaha. How can you find this league competitive with 5 teams from MA, 3 from NY, and one from RI and that's it, you might as well just play town. How does that benefit MA player development? Coaches know that the competition in Pennsylvania/Connecticut is always top.

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What are you? a NAL representative? hahaha. How can you find this league competitive with 5 teams from MA, 3 from NY, and one from RI and that's it, you might as well just play town. How does that benefit MA player development? Coaches know that the competition in Pennsylvania/Connecticut is always top.

NAL is the 2nd team for the mlsn programs. No need to travel all over the northeast. If you are good enough and want to do that, go make an mlsn roster.

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NAL is the 2nd team for the mlsn programs. No need to travel all over the northeast. If you are good enough and want to do that, go make an mlsn roster.

This. And also, there's no need to talk about ECNL Boys in the abstract or general terms in MA. There's only one ECNL Boys club in the state so we can all just be specific and say what it is--Stars. The question isn't ECNL vs NAL for us. It's Stars vs. an NAL club. So even if you think ECNL is the better league, do you want to drive to Lancaster for practice and out of state for every away game or practice close to home and play most of your games within an hour's drive against a similar level of competitio

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This. And also, there's no need to talk about ECNL Boys in the abstract or general terms in MA. There's only one ECNL Boys club in the state so we can all just be specific and say what it is--Stars. The question isn't ECNL vs NAL for us. It's Stars vs. an NAL club. So even if you think ECNL is the better league, do you want to drive to Lancaster for practice and out of state for every away game or practice close to home and play most of your games within an hour's drive against a similar level of competitio

And what is getting missed is - if you are on an nal roster and you do well, you can be moved up to mlsn. With Stars, ECNL is as high as you can go.

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Other than Stars, which was perennially the weakest ECNL Boys program around, ECNL boys no longer exists in Massachusetts. The other former Mass ECNL players and their clubs migrate over to MLS Next and NAL.

ECRL is well below that level and equivalent to the top end of NECSL. In New England, ECNL Boys is garbage.

CT is the weird outlier. Very good ECNL club, some good years on the other one. Very terrible MLS next clubs. Probably the only state where both exist and this is the case.

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Is the NDL new merger with DPL (was girls only) going to start leagues in NE for boys in the fall of 2024?

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CT is the weird outlier. Very good ECNL club, some good years on the other one. Very terrible MLS next clubs. Probably the only state where both exist and this is the case.

Beachside in MLSN is good, Oakwood not very

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So Bolts East are heading to NAL and it sounds like they're moving the ECRL program to do it. CT Rush already announced the move to NAL. Hearing Seacoast Bedford may be going as well. Does this mean NAL is going to move the NY teams out and have a true "New England" conference? If that's true, it would be a stronger conference with less travel. The 3 programs being added are strong. For the 3 NY programs, Alleycats are pretty solid, but SDA and NY Rush have struggled, at least at some age groups.