It's Official

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This is happening, but not to benefit youth soccer. This is being pushed to benefit GW and the Timbers, who don't care about youth socer. This is a power and money grab by GW and the Timbers. It is pathetic how GW and the Timbers feel youth soccer should subsidize their professional program.

The alliance teams will probably go Timbers controlled soccer while the rest continue with the OPL.

Can you say TYSA instaed of OYSA

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This is happening, but not to benefit youth soccer. This is being pushed to benefit GW and the Timbers, who don't care about youth socer. This is a power and money grab by GW and the Timbers. It is pathetic how GW and the Timbers feel youth soccer should subsidize their professional program.

The alliance teams will probably go Timbers controlled soccer while the rest continue with the OPL.

The problem is there's no way FC or OSSA will stay w/ OPL if all the Alliance clubs go play in the OYSA league. OPL days are numbered.

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The problem is there's no way FC or OSSA will stay w/ OPL if all the Alliance clubs go play in the OYSA league. OPL days are numbered.

Keep thinking that....

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The problem is there's no way FC or OSSA will stay w/ OPL if all the Alliance clubs go play in the OYSA league. OPL days are numbered.

Just take a step back from all the OYSA and OPL hatred and think about how organizations work. OPL was founded largely based on Hatred for OYSA, and an insistence that "they could do it better on their own.

Over time it has become clear that OPL's offerings are little different than what OYSA was offering.

How long did anyone think it would be before they would turn on themselves?

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Just take a step back from all the OYSA and OPL hatred and think about how organizations work. OPL was founded largely based on Hatred for OYSA, and an insistence that "they could do it better on their own.

Over time it has become clear that OPL's offerings are little different than what OYSA was offering.

How long did anyone think it would be before they would turn on themselves?

Hatred of OYSA's dysfunction, incompetence, and wasting money.

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This is happening, but not to benefit youth soccer. This is being pushed to benefit GW and the Timbers, who don't care about youth socer. This is a power and money grab by GW and the Timbers. It is pathetic how GW and the Timbers feel youth soccer should subsidize their professional program.

The alliance teams will probably go Timbers controlled soccer while the rest continue with the OPL.

Nope. Not in any contract between Timbers and Alliance clubs. Just rumor mill and conjecture on this forum. Particularly the readers who did poorly at reading on the linked article.

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I'm the parent of an 11 year old. What was wrong with OYSA? What was it that the OPL was going to improve upon?

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Taking your MONEY

I'm the parent of an 11 year old. What was wrong with OYSA? What was it that the OPL was going to improve upon?

The OPL put the fox in charge of the sheep pen because the sheep didn't like the fact that the farmer made them run to the higher pasture in the Summers. Sadly the chickens still don't realized they are being fleeced and they STILL have to run to that higher pasture!

It's too bad that the sheep don't understand that without changing the FOXES not much will ever change other than who it is they don't like telling them what to do!

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OPL had a chance

Problem is opl was given an opportunity to work with OYSA on their own terms.
But their egos and desire to crush OYSA got in the way.

Now they are left with nothing and are trying to figure out what to do with the excess money that was collected.

Should have stuck with their original mission of catering to Premier Teams.

They only have themselves to blame.

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Problem is opl was given an opportunity to work with OYSA on their own terms.
But their egos and desire to crush OYSA got in the way.

Now they are left with nothing and are trying to figure out what to do with the excess money that was collected.

Should have stuck with their original mission of catering to Premier Teams.

They only have themselves to blame.

Timbers Alliance is great for the boys side.

With the exception of a few Vancouver Timbers teams, they are terrible on the girls side. WT plays RCL so OPL did not lose much.

With the Timber's Academy, the best boys are pulled from their clubs regardless if they play Timber Alliance or OPL.

Not sure what you mean by left with nothing. Does nothing mean the OPL girls teams don't need to play WST or Eastside. I would think that is bonus since those teams are 1st Division or lower Premier.

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We're new at this. Our daughter is on a U11 premier level team for a club that hasn't gone Timbers Alliance yet... When will we know for sure? Not until teams register for league play (OYSA or OPL) in the Fall? I think it will be a bummer if the competition is split....

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We're new at this. Our daughter is on a U11 premier level team for a club that hasn't gone Timbers Alliance yet... When will we know for sure? Not until teams register for league play (OYSA or OPL) in the Fall? I think it will be a bummer if the competition is split....

Competition has been split for a few years. Originally it split in half, now the half that split off is splitting again. Kind of similar to how once someone gets their first divorce, they often continue to get them.

Really as much as is being said that this club will play here, and that club will play there, it is all really just talk since as mentioned above a team cannot be compelled to play one place or the other. All we can do is wait, I am happy however to see the migration back to the USYS National Championship path. This is much better than the USCS stream

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We're new at this. Our daughter is on a U11 premier level team for a club that hasn't gone Timbers Alliance yet... When will we know for sure? Not until teams register for league play (OYSA or OPL) in the Fall? I think it will be a bummer if the competition is split....

Honestly don't worry about it. This whole thread is about someone who doesn't like Timbers alliance throwing around false information. This was based on nothing more than timbers working with oysa for ODP reasons. All the timbers alliance clubs still plan on playing in the OPL. Just ignore them.

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Actually this is real. Timbers will be taking their Alliance clubs and several others back over to OYSA (with stipulations of course). Peel away all the distracting comments and opinions and this is all very real.

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Actually this is real. Timbers will be taking their Alliance clubs and several others back over to OYSA (with stipulations of course). Peel away all the distracting comments and opinions and this is all very real.

If this is real then why is it none of the alliance clubs know about this? If this is real why are all the alliance clubs planning on being a part of OPL.

If the alliance clubs go back with OYSA it will be because the OPL as a whole finally comes to terms with OYSA and all the clubs merge back into the OYSA in a premier league. There has been talk between OYSA and OPL ever since the OPL was formed. They have tried to come to agreements between the two on how they can all come back together. Its been close before, so this is one thing I could see happening. But just half the OPL leaving and not taking the entire thing is not going to happen.

Not one person who keeps saying this is real has had any actual proof that this is happening. There has been no articles, not anything that can prove the allegations you are making. The only thing was "GW has said this" yet nobody can show us where he has said this. And I hate to break this to you, but what leagues the alliance clubs play in is something that GW could care less about. Hes running a pro soccer team, he doens't care about the leagues there in. If you think hes spending any of his time with that hten your fooling yourself.