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My daughter's Girl Scout troop was written up in a little local paper too. You just need to have a parent with some public relations experience, draft a press release and know where to send it (hint: editors and reporters can be found on the internet).

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It will be interesting what THUSC does. They seem to be catching up on this team. Anyone comment on how they played against this team since this team seems to be the benchmark for age division.

I didn't think THUSC was ever that far behind. After our game against them Saturday I would revise my statement a little. We are tactically behind. We started strong and aggressive and I thought we had a chance. 10 minutes into the 2nd half and it was 6-2 and we were in trouble of loosing 10-2 (thank goodness their coach swapped players all around). I have to give it to them - they play very well together and their coaches have them running a really good system. They just seem to know where to be and they have a couple of amazing players in the center of the pitch that change the game. I still think we will catch them soon, but right now we are not there. It is great to play a team like that and use it as a teaching lesson. Can't wait until the next match against them.

And BTW - personally I think it is impressive that a recreational club can field a team like this. Do they even get 20 kids at tryouts? Ultimately that will be their demise as you always need a pool of talent in order to continually compete. But kudos to whatever they did.

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Isn't this the team that dropped 25 on a top team and were written up in the paper? I want to know more about them. When can we catch a game?

That's impressive!

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That's impressive!

Or more like D-baggery

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THUSC will catch them

I didn't think THUSC was ever that far behind. After our game against them Saturday I would revise my statement a little. We are tactically behind. We started strong and aggressive and I thought we had a chance. 10 minutes into the 2nd half and it was 6-2 and we were in trouble of loosing 10-2 (thank goodness their coach swapped players all around). I have to give it to them - they play very well together and their coaches have them running a really good system. They just seem to know where to be and they have a couple of amazing players in the center of the pitch that change the game. I still think we will catch them soon, but right now we are not there. It is great to play a team like that and use it as a teaching lesson. Can't wait until the next match against them.

And BTW - personally I think it is impressive that a recreational club can field a team like this. Do they even get 20 kids at tryouts? Ultimately that will be their demise as you always need a pool of talent in order to continually compete. But kudos to whatever they did.

Ultimately, THUSC will catch them and pass them. They may run the table this year and maybe into next year, as U-12s but THUSC has 22-24 girls playing U-11's right now, and they are all interchangeable and could easily field a couple of strong "A" type teams. There is another pool of 12-14 girls right behind these two "A" level THUSC teams playing for the Red Star Hurricanes that they (THUSC) could pull from and put together a powerhouse all star type team.

And, as previously mentioned, there are at least 2 U-11's playing up this year on the U-12 team that can and eventually WILL drop back down to this age group/bracket.

Revolution may win this year and or next but eventually, this pool of THUSC girls will pass them......just a matter of when it will happen. They are being coached the right way and they do have talented and athletic girls.

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Ultimately, THUSC will catch them and pass them. They may run the table this year and maybe into next year, as U-12s but THUSC has 22-24 girls playing U-11's right now, and they are all interchangeable and could easily field a couple of strong "A" type teams. There is another pool of 12-14 girls right behind these two "A" level THUSC teams playing for the Red Star Hurricanes that they (THUSC) could pull from and put together a powerhouse all star type team.

And, as previously mentioned, there are at least 2 U-11's playing up this year on the U-12 team that can and eventually WILL drop back down to this age group/bracket.

Revolution may win this year and or next but eventually, this pool of THUSC girls will pass them......just a matter of when it will happen. They are being coached the right way and they do have talented and athletic girls.

Yeah, but thusc sucks. So there.

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Ultimately, THUSC will catch them and pass them. They may run the table this year and maybe into next year, as U-12s but THUSC has 22-24 girls playing U-11's right now, and they are all interchangeable and could easily field a couple of strong "A" type teams. There is another pool of 12-14 girls right behind these two "A" level THUSC teams playing for the Red Star Hurricanes that they (THUSC) could pull from and put together a powerhouse all star type team.

And, as previously mentioned, there are at least 2 U-11's playing up this year on the U-12 team that can and eventually WILL drop back down to this age group/bracket.

Revolution may win this year and or next but eventually, this pool of THUSC girls will pass them......just a matter of when it will happen. They are being coached the right way and they do have talented and athletic girls.

Do you ever catch yourself after you write something and think "Wow. I'm really talking out of my a** again!" ?

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Do you ever catch yourself after you write something and think "Wow. I'm really talking out of my a** again!" ?

Right back at ya, slick!!

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Switch to OYSA

Right back at ya, slick!!

Pacific parents, make the switch to OYSA and leave the THUSC D-bags behind. OPL is not long for this world anyway as FCP is already starting to send teams to OYSA.

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Do you ever catch yourself after you write something and think "Wow. I'm really talking out of my a** again!" ?

As a big club representative (won't name names), I really want to know what this recreational club did right to pick up these girls. Why did their parents choose PFC? Why did they stay? I for one would like to get these girls into the bigger clubs earlier for development.

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Pacific parents, make the switch to OYSA and leave the THUSC D-bags behind. OPL is not long for this world anyway as FCP is already starting to send teams to OYSA.

The real issue for Pacific has to do with RCL (WA state) participation. I know the team doesn't want to drive all over WA state next year, so they might want to give OYSA a shot for one year and then, if they still dominate OYSA, switch it to RCL.

If they stay together in two years, then the problem will be that they have to start out in a low RCL division.

Lots of "ifs" in there, of course. Good luck, Pacific!

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As a big club representative (won't name names), I really want to know what this recreational club did right to pick up these girls. Why did their parents choose PFC? Why did they stay? I for one would like to get these girls into the bigger clubs earlier for development.

You are assuming they chose a CLUB. No, they chose a coach and a team. The CLUB was incidental.

The team offered an attractive combination of good and friendly coaching, low costs, and extra training. The big clubs would fail here because they charge far more and then parents expectations grow.

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The real issue for Pacific has to do with RCL (WA state) participation. I know the team doesn't want to drive all over WA state next year, so they might want to give OYSA a shot for one year and then, if they still dominate OYSA, switch it to RCL.

If they stay together in two years, then the problem will be that they have to start out in a low RCL division.

Lots of "ifs" in there, of course. Good luck, Pacific!

Sounds like only choice is WA Timbers.

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Ultimately, THUSC will catch them and pass them. They may run the table this year and maybe into next year, as U-12s but THUSC has 22-24 girls playing U-11's right now, and they are all interchangeable and could easily field a couple of strong "A" type teams. There is another pool of 12-14 girls right behind these two "A" level THUSC teams playing for the Red Star Hurricanes that they (THUSC) could pull from and put together a powerhouse all star type team.

And, as previously mentioned, there are at least 2 U-11's playing up this year on the U-12 team that can and eventually WILL drop back down to this age group/bracket.

Revolution may win this year and or next but eventually, this pool of THUSC girls will pass them......just a matter of when it will happen. They are being coached the right way and they do have talented and athletic girls.

I have to agree with this. THUSC has a deeper pool and is known for developing strong teams. They also have all of Portland area to also recruit from. Pacific is a good team but, they don't have the pool size.

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Sounds like only choice is WA Timbers.

LOL. Pay more to drive across town to practice at Harmony. Play games at Harmony, Wy-east. Or any of their other crappy grass fields. Or stay at Pacific and get Luke Jensen for practices and games, have a private trainer that works on foot skills, and still $500.00 less than Timbers.

They can get competition from tournaments, scrimmage older teams. No need for all of that travel at this age. And you wonder why your kid got burnt out on soccer.