The Girls 2007 Thread

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I think everyone is thinking it.. Glad you said it.

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What am I missing with this GAL league? The USSF couldn’t make GDA work because the ECNL has a better product in a capitalistic society. Now, a lot of the strong GDA clubs are gone to ECNL. The former GDA clubs from around the country are seeing their top players leave for ECNL in droves (even during a virus shutdown). So what should happen here in NE? Take SSS, NEFC, Seacoast & Oakwood and make a strong NPL division with good local teams and limited travel. I would be on board with that.

But what do the clubs do? Invent a new league that is a poor knockoff of ECNL, don’t discuss it with their paying customers, and expect us to just fall in line? The pre-DA league was awful competition. This new version will be worse if the top players jumped to ECNL. Am I the only one not buying this? You will not see a “GAL” magnet on the back of my car.

Agree fully. That is why we were left no choice but to leave to a more established league.

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Yet coaches are practically begging for DA players.

Lets be honest, most coaches are snakes. They will recruit as many players as they can because it is money, for the club and for them. If a recruit doesn’t work out, they get dropped or pushed to a lower team. Of course ECNl coaches are calling DA players: the top few will displace the bottom of the roster. The rest are filler for whatever teams are left. No club is guaranteeing a spot on a team right now. Contract language is clear you can be moved down for not performing.

From what I’ve seen at my D’s club, a few top DA players were offered spots and potentiall pushed some existing players to another team, but again, no guarantees .Coaches have been clear, once play starts again, it will be about who is actually performing on the field. Everyone will have to earn those spots, no different than any other year.

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This is true

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Lets be honest, most coaches are snakes. They will recruit as many players as they can because it is money, for the club and for them. If a recruit doesn’t work out, they get dropped or pushed to a lower team. Of course ECNl coaches are calling DA players: the top few will displace the bottom of the roster. The rest are filler for whatever teams are left. No club is guaranteeing a spot on a team right now. Contract language is clear you can be moved down for not performing.

From what I’ve seen at my D’s club, a few top DA players were offered spots and potentiall pushed some existing players to another team, but again, no guarantees .Coaches have been clear, once play starts again, it will be about who is actually performing on the field. Everyone will have to earn those spots, no different than any other year.

Then don’t let them. My player is on an ecnl team who has accepted her spot fir next year. I asked questions before blindly accepting. I know who the coach will be, where the practices will be held, how many kids will be on the roster, which of her teammates are returning and how many keepers the team will be carrying.

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Then don’t let them. My player is on an ecnl team who has accepted her spot fir next year. I asked questions before blindly accepting. I know who the coach will be, where the practices will be held, how many kids will be on the roster, which of her teammates are returning and how many keepers the team will be carrying.

Smart. But was she guaranteed a spot on a team, or you think she's guaranteed to earn her spot.

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Early offers went out to a percentage of kids for the top ecnl team at her club. We were 100% clear in our conversations with the coach about what that means and what her role will be. If you ask the right questions you will get the answers. Might not like every answer, but would prefer that to not being on the same page.

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Then don’t let them. My player is on an ecnl team who has accepted her spot fir next year. I asked questions before blindly accepting. I know who the coach will be, where the practices will be held, how many kids will be on the roster, which of her teammates are returning and how many keepers the team will be carrying.

This is an 07 thread

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This is an 07 thread

And I have an 07.

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Scorpions

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And I have an 07.

Wow. That’s some transparency right there.

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Wow. That’s some transparency right there.

Match Fit.

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There will be no fall soccer. Anyone paying clubs is wasting their $$$$$$$$$.

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Just stop with the endless “no soccer” crap on every thread.

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And I have an 07.

If we haven’t received an offer for our daughter, we should start looking? We haven’t heard anything.