Bruno-what am I paying for?

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RI Strikers charges $750 per year and does fall, Spring NEP, 2 Futsal sessions, indoor Futsal training, indoor Strength and Conditioning, 4 top flight tournaments and State cup and top players can play With Bayside NPL team now. Can be done cheaply if you put your minds to it and put players first. Barrington and Lincoln should be ashamed at what they charge for competitive soccer

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RI Strikers charges $750 per year and does fall, Spring NEP, 2 Futsal sessions, indoor Futsal training, indoor Strength and Conditioning, 4 top flight tournaments and State cup and top players can play With Bayside NPL team now. Can be done cheaply if you put your minds to it and put players first. Barrington and Lincoln should be ashamed at what they charge for competitive soccer

Players that play for Bayside NPL team will be paying Bayside club fees. Not strikers club fees.

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RI Strikers charges $750 per year and does fall, Spring NEP, 2 Futsal sessions, indoor Futsal training, indoor Strength and Conditioning, 4 top flight tournaments and State cup and top players can play With Bayside NPL team now. Can be done cheaply if you put your minds to it and put players first. Barrington and Lincoln should be ashamed at what they charge for competitive soccer

That's an amazing deal. Are the coaches volunteers?

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[QUOTE=Unregistered;1250436]Players that play for Bayside NPL team will be paying Bayside club fees. Not strikers club fees.[/

If you say so boss. Even if they do it's pretty sad that a club can offer all that for so much less than a town program like Barrington or Lincoln and I'm sure there are others that charge more. Bayside and Strikers is a win win

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That's an amazing deal. Are the coaches volunteers?

My kid's coach is

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RI Strikers charges $750 per year and does fall, Spring NEP, 2 Futsal sessions, indoor Futsal training, indoor Strength and Conditioning, 4 top flight tournaments and State cup and top players can play With Bayside NPL team now. Can be done cheaply if you put your minds to it and put players first. Barrington and Lincoln should be ashamed at what they charge for competitive soccer

Must be losing money at those prices. Won't be around for long charging that little .

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If you say so boss. Even if they do it's pretty sad that a club can offer all that for so much less than a town program like Barrington or Lincoln and I'm sure there are others that charge more. Bayside and Strikers is a win win

The elephant in the room is the fee is far less than some premier but with more offered.

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Barrington and Lincoln should be ashamed at what they charge for competitive soccer

You get a lot for your money in Barrington too. First and foremost, professionally licensed paid coaches (and no parents coaching their kids!), but also fall and spring league play and training, Winter league play, winter training, plus striker, goalie, and skills clinics in fall and spring, and 3 included tournaments. There are a bunch of other nice added value things that occur every year too. I personally don't think there is any shame in that package at all.

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The elephant in the room is the fee is far less than some premier but with more offered.

and yet, no one outside of Smithfield wants to play for your club, come tryouts in June, seven out of ten Striker parents will check to see if they can do both Striker and Bayside tryouts meanwhile Striker tryouts will basically be a team meeting of last years players.

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Many of the Providence/Pawtucket teams have players that dual roster with premier teams. Players can only roster on one state cup team, thus some of the best players on the town teams can't play for the town.

What's the cost? $500 + ref fees for 2,3, maybe 4 games. Might sound like typical tournament fees for a four game schedule, but for a team to go 2 games and out at $600 that's no bargain.

Yes but lots of northernish towns have premier players. I would say that towns enter is because of geography and economics. Less premier players on southerly teams (south county and ocean state) and more financially viable for well off towns like Portsmouth.

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Yes but lots of northernish towns have premier players. I would say that towns enter is because of geography and economics. Less premier players on southerly teams (south county and ocean state) and more financially viable for well off towns like Portsmouth.

Or is some instances, all the best town players have already left the top teams to go premier (or are playing both) and makes no sense to enter state cup. I think our town has one team entered this year for this reason.

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Interesting points.

I suspect having to pay Challenger for coaches drives up Barrington fees -- it is a good selling point and clearly within the general socio-economic demographics of the town; however note that Barrington has very few teams (none in girls) beyond U14. One of the upside if you can find a good parent coaches (or local community coaches) is engendering some loyalty and contintuity (although I appreciate there is a downside to some parent coaches as well, assuming competence is not an issue).

I do appreciate in some of those communities that finances are a limiting factor, but Pawtucket Youth Soccer showed $130K in cash/savings in 2012 tax return so they can't come up with $1K for a couple of their best U12 teams? And SRI knows they have varied socio-economic groups -- have they applied for a grant? Ask RI Foundation or other of the dozens of philanthropic groups that dole out $$ for youth, especially to lower socio-economic communities? How about tagging a $1 surcharge on registration fee and using it. I know part of the state cup fee has to cover expenses and a cut to those higher in the food chain, but come on. Maybe the poster is right in that it protects the dual rostered premier teams that siphon off the best talent from those areas..

Maybe when the 4 town rule goes you'll see some more, especially if there was a corresponding reform to allow for additional leagues to form..

Ocean State's team in U13 state cup is a u13 team (at least they show up in u13 in MAPLE and are in a higher bracket than RAMS (who doesn't seem to even put their U13 in state cup?) and tied Bruno in state cup so must be okay. It seems like with South County teams that gotsoccer or SRI doesn't keep up with changing the name of town teams.

But maybe if more teams played, the per team could be lower?? SRI undercuts with their "RI Cup" which is just an expansion of the Superliga championship (so now instead of the top 2 teams, we have a playoff with the top 4 teams?). Plus you have President's Cup which should be another vehicle to bring better town teams up, but SRI dorks that up with the play it now to compete a year later mentality instead of treating like they do state cup..

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and yet, no one outside of Smithfield wants to play for your club, come tryouts in June, seven out of ten Striker parents will check to see if they can do both Striker and Bayside tryouts meanwhile Striker tryouts will basically be a team meeting of last years players.

Keep reeling yourself that Bruno

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and yet, no one outside of Smithfield wants to play for your club, come tryouts in June, seven out of ten Striker parents will check to see if they can do both Striker and Bayside tryouts meanwhile Striker tryouts will basically be a team meeting of last years players.

And yet 3 out of the 4 teams they entered in state cup made it to the semis

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And yet 3 out of the 4 teams they entered in state cup made it to the semis

never said you have a bad club, but like RISC before you, you are no different than Ocean State. No one outside of Smithfield will be rushing in to play on your teams. Gauge you success on the turn out at tryouts. Maybe I am wrong.