Let's Do it! Stars vs NEFC vs Everyone Else

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I guess I would ask why YOU'RE obsessed with Stars? Come clean and tell us your role within the club? Mass club destroyer? There has never been a rational response from P. You rant and rave and accuse everyone of being someone other than the one you're addressing. I'm sure you get it right some of the time, but I'm going to estimate that it's 3 out of 10 posts.

And you would be way off.

I have nothing to do with Stars, but in any case since he is the one (you) driving the obsession to post daily about this club it is on him after all these years to explain why he won't stop. A very, very disturbed guy. Actually indescribable.

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A Proposal

How about we agree that you're both obsessed wackos and just call it a day? How's that sound to everyone?

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How about we agree that you're both obsessed wackos and just call it a day? How's that sound to everyone?

This is P and that sounds WONDERFUL.

Good luck.

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And you would be way off.

I have nothing to do with Stars, but in any case since he is the one (you) driving the obsession to post daily about this club it is on him after all these years to explain why he won't stop. A very, very disturbed guy. Actually indescribable.

You're talking about Perspective, right?

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You're talking about Perspective, right?

Ummm, No.

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And here we go, before 8:00 am. Another day, more attempts by BTDT. Just look at what organization remains on his brain. And it's not like there's even a retaliation motivation. Stars have done nothing to him.

Start yet another new thread and you'll again generate those numbers you cite all by yourself.

Hey Perspective, what's the messiah going to do about this?

http://news.yahoo.com/tank-column-cr...115026097.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/trojan-hors...ry?id=26737476

Putin knows Obama is incompetent and dopey liberals like you put this guy in power simply because of the color of his skin.

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In an effort to get this thread back on track, I would like to marry these two posts and talk about how individual players get recruited and then by extension how the different clubs develop their players. You often read these above types of posts here on TS and I think that they really underscore how delusional the thinking is in club soccer. One big misconception seems to be that college coaches need to see players play well with each other to recruit them. These two posts sum this up.

I would contend that there are a lot of coaches out there who would walk away from a striker at the club level who passed up a shot to be a nice teammate. When they are looking for a striker they are looking for a unique talent who is driven to finish. They don't actually want to see them pass, they want to see them jam the ball down the other teams throat and score. True strikers know that they are evaluated on their ability to put that ball in the net and that there are thousands of would be strikers out there that can miss perfectly well. That is why they hang on to the ball, because it is their job. The only question with an actual striker comes down to whether or not they do it well enough.

I think when you come right down to it there are actually very few positions on the field that require the 5 tools that other poster cited in equal measures because there are just different characteristics and skills that coaches end up valuing for each one. For example what a lot of coaches look for in a center mid is a kid that keeps their head up and distributes the ball to open players like this second poster is hoping but that usually is very different from what that coaches might be looking for in an outside mid or center back because not only are the playing roles different but the builds and athleticism required for each position are actually quite different as well.

One of the problems that I see with the various clubs is that they have particular playing philosophies and train their players to fit that particular style rather than train well rounded soccer players. You often see teams built around kids that ultimately are playing a position that they might never be successful in. As a result I think understanding the individual teaching philosophies of each club is actually way more important than the success of their individual teams and certainly more important than all of this ego stuff we continually get bombarded with.

Shall we talk about what the clubs are teaching our children?

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Shall we talk about what the clubs are teaching our children?

Given all of the talk about the national level players having to bypass playing college soccer and local players being asked to bypass high school soccer this really is a salient question.

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Given all of the talk about the national level players having to bypass playing college soccer and local players being asked to bypass high school soccer this really is a salient question.

Why a salient question? "Given all the talk about...local players being asked to..."? What talk? You mean your voluminous daily snipings and instigating? THAT talk?

Congrats, though. You deserve credit for waiting 95 minutes to see if anyone would bite before you lit another match.

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Why a salient question? "Given all the talk about...local players being asked to..."? What talk? You mean your voluminous daily snipings and instigating? THAT talk?

Congrats, though. You deserve credit for waiting 95 minutes to see if anyone would bite before you lit another match.

LOL. On a discussion forum, discussions (matches) get lit all the time. That is what you are supposed to do on forum, start discussions.

Hope you know that there is a tool out there for doing what you want, it's called Instagram. There you can take a selfie of you and Jason and post it so everyone else can all comment on it if that is what you would prefer.

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LOL. On a discussion forum, discussions (matches) get lit all the time. That is what you are supposed to do on forum, start discussions.

Hope you know that there is a tool out there for doing what you want, it's called Instagram. There you can take a selfie of you and Jason and post it so everyone else can all comment on it if that is what you would prefer.

The next (and first) time you start a genuine discussion let us know.

Flagrantly transparent targeted attacks repeated over and over like a Robocall don't count.

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The next (and first) time you start a genuine discussion let us know.

Flagrantly transparent targeted attacks repeated over and over like a Robocall don't count.

Get over yourself Perspective you big baby.

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Get over yourself Perspective you big baby.

Exactly Perspective. BTDT is a great guy who has much better things to do but is selflessly devoting his valuable time to convincing all the parents out there how bad they are and how their decisions with their "children" are fundamentally abusive. This man is like a heroic Red Cross worker. Let him do his job. Scram.

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BTDT, no one can ever accuse you of not giving it "the old college try" every day. Right out of the gate again shortly after 7:00 am.

Good luck with your efforts today. A ton of excellent D3 college soccer action today and tomorrow so I won't be around that much to call you out. Have fun.

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What is transparent? Do you think that the Stars are the only club failing at developing players and are the only ones who market themselves inconsistent with the product they deliver? They are just the most flagrant and that is largely because they are pushing the whole high school thing and should actually be delivering MORE in that instance. If they want to be DAP like then follow a true DAP program not the half way thing they are doing. The other clubs are just as guilty as the Stars when it comes down to failing to develop players. At least the Stars are trying to do it, there are clubs like MPS out there that have just as much wherewithal to do it but choose not to simply because it doesn't feed their economic model. Isn't it time that gets a little attention or are you so focused on protecting the Stars that you can't even see the systemic issues that are crossing all the lines?