2012 Girls High School Thread

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I know the D2 top scorers and are very familiar with their abilities and honestly, while premier players, they would be physically dominated by D1 defenses.

Your right. TD from Pilgrim would be really intimidated.

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Your right. TD from Pilgrim would be really intimidated.

She is a good player, but I don't think this is an argument about individuals. It is about teams.

It has often been said here that Pilgrim is one of the top 2-3 teams in D2

Pilgrim, as good as they are, would have a tough game against TG, the 12th place D1 team. Perhaps they would win, perhaps not. But these claims by/about the top 5 D2 teams is just plain comical. Most would be mid-table D1 teams as best.

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Your right. TD from Pilgrim would be really intimidated.

She's such a star I have no idea who she is or who she even plays for - maybe Brennan's Braces or Toll Gate Orthodontics?

Maybe BC coaching staff will spot her at this year's President's Cup tournament.

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She's such a star I have no idea who she is or who she even plays for - maybe Brennan's Braces or Toll Gate Orthodontics?

Maybe BC coaching staff will spot her at this year's President's Cup tournament.

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Sounds like you know alot about WWFF soccer club, poser.

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Actually you are wrong:

NK has averaged 1.7/goals (12 goals total) a game vs near .500 and above teams (SK, Smith, Cumb, EG, MTH, BV)

They have average 6.6./goals (33 goals) a game versus the bottom of the league (Barr, TG, CW, Cov, Vets)

If you look at their record, the beat the hell out of a lot of the bad teams early in the year, since then they really haven't been offensively dominate.

But certainly don't let the facts stand in the way of the there's no defense in D1 argument

The better DII teams also have pretty good defenders. If you look at the standings the top half of DII has let in very few goals, between 9 and 17, then it jumps up to 30-60. It's amazing how easily the good strikers can score on mediocre defenders. Then when against a better group of defenders it's back to reality. DI doesn't have the huge drop off in defending but it is there. I would think that any of the top scorers in DII and DIII would be welcome additions to any DI team. They would not score nearly as many goals, but no kid scores that many goals unless they have a considerable amount of natural talent.

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The better DII teams also have pretty good defenders. If you look at the standings the top half of DII has let in very few goals, between 9 and 17, then it jumps up to 30-60. It's amazing how easily the good strikers can score on mediocre defenders. Then when against a better group of defenders it's back to reality. DI doesn't have the huge drop off in defending but it is there. I would think that any of the top scorers in DII and DIII would be welcome additions to any DI team. They would not score nearly as many goals, but no kid scores that many goals unless they have a considerable amount of natural talent.

I think the opposite is true, in D3 individual play is much more influential on the game due to the overall lack of skill on the field. Good players will be able to play at any level. But the speed and physicality of D1 will make good players in D3 look very average as they move up to D1

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The better DII teams also have pretty good defenders. If you look at the standings the top half of DII has let in very few goals, between 9 and 17, then it jumps up to 30-60. It's amazing how easily the good strikers can score on mediocre defenders. Then when against a better group of defenders it's back to reality. DI doesn't have the huge drop off in defending but it is there. I would think that any of the top scorers in DII and DIII would be welcome additions to any DI team. They would not score nearly as many goals, but no kid scores that many goals unless they have a considerable amount of natural talent.

You must be a Rogers parent? Correct me if I'm wrong?

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She's such a star I have no idea who she is or who she even plays for - maybe Brennan's Braces or Toll Gate Orthodontics?

Maybe BC coaching staff will spot her at this year's President's Cup tournament.

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She's just ok, a top 10 DII player. Highly overrated by her mom!

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She's just ok, a top 10 DII player. Highly overrated by her mom!

I didnt know there was a ranking for HS players, where on the RIIL website do we find those?

Unless you mean that she is 10th on the goal scorers list? Don't see too many defenders or GK's on the list, perhaps they all suck? Otherwise they would score goasl too and be on the Top 10 players list, right?

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I didnt know there was a ranking for HS players, where on the RIIL website do we find those?

Unless you mean that she is 10th on the goal scorers list? Don't see too many defenders or GK's on the list, perhaps they all suck? Otherwise they would score goasl too and be on the Top 10 players list, right?

I have seen most of these girls play for years, either in school or on their premier teams. I think that I have a pretty good sense of how may girls play.

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I have seen most of these girls play for years, either in school or on their premier teams. I think that I have a pretty good sense of how may girls play.

Really, you can keep an running record of the 15 teams who roster an average of 18 girls or roughly 270 girls in D2 alone, really? Are you prepared to make a list of top 10 in D3 too?

But then again you said only "most of them play" Who have you missed, exactly? Anyone who is prepared to make such definitive statements must have a list of ladies who, for one reason or another, they haven't seen play yet? Or maybe you have "sensed" everything you need to to decide who is in the top 10?

You're a putz, but that is just my sense of you. Not having seen you watch all these girls play.

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One of the top scorers from D3 last year moved up to D2 this year. She's a great kid, good player but her goal scoring has fallen off dramatically this year.

If she went to D1 next year, her goals would be cut in half again. There is no doubt she'd go from 30+ goals last year to less than 10 in D1.

Stats don't lie - in D2 and D3 if you are individually skilled, you will score goals.

In D1, you need to either have College D1 level individual skills (think SR from Cumberland) or have plenty of talent around you (NK this year) or you ain't going to score. In some rare cases you have both (MM from LaSalle).

It's that easy folks - stop wasting your time arguing anything else - numbers don't lie.

If your D2 and D3 kids were nearly as good as you think they are - they would be lighting it up on Regional levels (and they ain't).

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One of the top scorers from D3 last year moved up to D2 this year. She's a great kid, good player but her goal scoring has fallen off dramatically this year.

If she went to D1 next year, her goals would be cut in half again. There is no doubt she'd go from 30+ goals last year to less than 10 in D1.

Stats don't lie - in D2 and D3 if you are individually skilled, you will score goals.

In D1, you need to either have College D1 level individual skills (think SR from Cumberland) or have plenty of talent around you (NK this year) or you ain't going to score. In some rare cases you have both (MM from LaSalle).

It's that easy folks - stop wasting your time arguing anything else - numbers don't lie.

If your D2 and D3 kids were nearly as good as you think they are - they would be lighting it up on Regional levels (and they ain't).

Good point. I can think of ....let me think....absolutely zero D1 players lighting up the regional level. Only regional ODP player I can think of from RI is D2.

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One of the top scorers from D3 last year moved up to D2 this year. She's a great kid, good player but her goal scoring has fallen off dramatically this year.

If she went to D1 next year, her goals would be cut in half again. There is no doubt she'd go from 30+ goals last year to less than 10 in D1.

Stats don't lie - in D2 and D3 if you are individually skilled, you will score goals.

In D1, you need to either have College D1 level individual skills (think SR from Cumberland) or have plenty of talent around you (NK this year) or you ain't going to score. In some rare cases you have both (MM from LaSalle).

It's that easy folks - stop wasting your time arguing anything else - numbers don't lie.

If your D2 and D3 kids were nearly as good as you think they are - they would be lighting it up on Regional levels (and they ain't).

Either Region 1 ODP or ECNL. Let's look at LaSalle--last count is 2 ECNL players on the Scorpions, EG has one ECNL Scorps player, NK has one, and Smithfield has I think 3 ECNL players, 2 stars and I think one Scorpion.

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Really, you can keep an running record of the 15 teams who roster an average of 18 girls or roughly 270 girls in D2 alone, really? Are you prepared to make a list of top 10 in D3 too?

But then again you said only "most of them play" Who have you missed, exactly? Anyone who is prepared to make such definitive statements must have a list of ladies who, for one reason or another, they haven't seen play yet? Or maybe you have "sensed" everything you need to to decide who is in the top 10?

You're a putz, but that is just my sense of you. Not having seen you watch all these girls play.

For some reason this is absolutely unnerving you that either I or anyone else can tell if a kid is any good. At the DII level there just are not that many good players, so it's pretty darn obvious which kids are any good. Some teams have one or two, many have none. My daughter is probably in the top 30 - I don't care.