Club Tryouts

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Who really cares what RISC charges to play?? They charge what they think they can get, they have whatever coached they think will help them and enable them to attract players for what they charge, and they do whatever it is they want with the money they bring in..... If you do not like any of the above then you don't try out, it's pretty much that simple. Some people seem to confuse Premier with Town soccer. It's not your right to play for a club, tell them who should coach, how much they should charge and what they do with their money. The only right you have is to agree with a club philosophy and decide to try out for them. If you can't afford it too bad! If you don't like the coaches too bad! If you think they should charge less, too bad. If the club does things the wrong way they will fade into the sunset. So stop complaining already.

Who cares? Just about anyone that might be interested in joining RISC. Don't you think?

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Who cares? Just about anyone that might be interested in joining RISC. Don't you think?

My son's friend plays there and it's like $1700+ for the year.

Around $1100 to play and then separate fees for tournaments $300+ and uniform $300+ .

They went 1-6 in Maple this past spring.

For that much money we'll stay in Cumberland.

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Who cares? Just about anyone that might be interested in joining RISC. Don't you think?

Good point.

I see both sides of this argument.

On one hand, you've got a club's customers (parents) who want to know what they're paying for - what value their dollars are buying for their kid's soccer year. It's a fair request.

On the other hand, the club is saying, "this is what we charge, if you don't like it - screw!" It's also an acceptable attitude - meaning "this is what we do at XYZ Soccer club, this is how much it costs. If it's not a good fit, no problem, find another club."

Both are understandable positions. Clubs establish their curriculum, philosophy and price. Parents then choose which is the right choice for their kid. That's equitable, right?

Not exactly in RI.

The problem is when you have an authoritative entity - Soccer-RI - that limits the number of club choices that RI parents have. SRI's restrictive policies allow the RI premier clubs to have a monopoly, limiting the choices that parents have. In order to expand their pool of choices, RI parents have to drive their kids into Massachusetts, where there are no limits to premier club choices. But who wants to drive back and forth to Braintree 4 times a week?

In addition, new SRI rules limit the number of releases it will grant to non-SRI clubs for RI residents to 5.

SRI's policies limits parents choices, allowing SRI clubs to collude and fix prices. SRI policies also take away any incentive for existing clubs and towns to do a better job of providing a youth soccer experience for RI families.

I mean, what if your only choices were Coke and Pepsi? But you want to buy RC Cola. However, because of restrictive policy, you'd have to drive an hour to Mass to buy RC Cola because your local RI Stop & Shop is not allowed to offer RC Cola.

Granted, RISC is a non-SRI member, but that doesn't change my point one bit. SRI allows its existing premier clubs to say "don't like what we offer? Tough. We're the only game in town."

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My son's friend plays there and it's like $1700+ for the year.

Around $1100 to play and then separate fees for tournaments $300+ and uniform $300+ .

They went 1-6 in Maple this past spring.

For that much money we'll stay in Cumberland.

So it looks like the cost for all the Clubs is pretty similar. The part about loosing so many games wouldn't bother me. Good training is cumulative.

Sounds like price fixing:)

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So it looks like the cost for all the Clubs is pretty similar. The part about loosing so many games wouldn't bother me. Good training is cumulative.

Sounds like price fixing:)

The one club that is markedly lower in price is Lusitana, which charges around $850 per player, I'm told.

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You people all seem to live in the Blackston Valley area. Does anyone have anything to say about the Rams FC team. Are they a bteer option than going to a Mass team?

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You people all seem to live in the Blackston Valley area. Does anyone have anything to say about the Rams FC team. Are they a bteer option than going to a Mass team?

From what I know about Rams FC, it's a URI-based club. All boys teams. They don't have any younger teams - U12 and down.

I've heard that their U14 coach -WP - is very good. He won a U12 8 v 8 state cup 2 years ago with Warwick FF. I think he took most of that team with him to Rams.

IMO, Rams struggles to field a lot of teams because the town program down there - South County YSA - is so very, very good and well-run. SCYSA's boys teams are premier club quality. Thus, there's no reason to spend big $ for Rams.

And, nobody north of Providence wants to drive the 2 and a half hours it takes to get to matches and practices at URI. It's almost as bad as driving to Bristol.

Editorial note: some day, some day...somebody is going to get smart, put aside their egos and put together a Cumberland-Lincoln cooperative competitive program (Blackstone Valley United???) for boys and girls JUST LIKE South County's.