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All the Timbers Alliance girls teams (Thorns)

Are clubs
Do have teams
Do have coaches
Do have history
Are most likely getting into the ECNL.

They are a professionally run umbrella with a lot of good clubs under. Do they have all the best teams? No. Do they have an impressive collection of soccer players within the entire TA? Yes.

Stop drinking the Kool-aid. I totally get that TA clubs are begging girls to stay and using this as a carrot to do so. Those are empty promises from your DOC and clubs. Check back when those promises are proven false, ECNL comes to Oregon, and the TA has no involvement. Then you should ask your DOC why they lied to you when they knew all along this wasn't going to happen.

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True, a lot of Oregonians don't think outside of Portland. True that the world doesn't revolve around Timbers/Thorns - but Oregon soccer does (and GW is doing what he can to make sure of that - but that's a different topic).
But the conversation is about who's going to get an ECNL team if one does come to Oregon, not the relevance of local teams outside the area. I don't think any of the posters here care about their significance outside of the area.
The talk about NWSL creating some kind of academy associated with ECNL and Oregon getting a team partly because we're fortunate enough to have a womens team here makes a lot of sense. You know there's a lot of DOC's that want their teams to benefit from it, but where it lands is up in the air.

No, Oregon getting a team just because we have an NWSL team does not make any sense at all. The Thorns have no academy accept by name only. They have no track record (Not the Thorns themselves, they have a track record) but they do not have a track record at all running girls soccer. Academy does not equal club. ECNL is not looking for an umbrella of clubs. Again, pick one club and lets debate whether that club deserves an ECNL bid. Please do not say Thorns Academy, they are not "a" club. GET IT, GOT IT, GOOD.

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You'll see. Thorns will get the ECNL.

Possibly. But I wouldn't expect that to mean Timbers Alliance has any kind of connection to it.

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Just because you can't think outside of the box doesn't mean that ECNL can't think outside of the box. To form teams from all the alliance members would certainly make stronger teams that just choosing one club.

Holy crap your correct, why you little Oregonian that thinks outside of the box. Screw the rest of the clubs that worked hard and earned an ECNL bid. They don't count for ****. Why this is Oregon and this is TA/THORNS. We have to tell all the rest of the ECNL clubs to screw off, we're doin this Oregonian idea of letting umbrella bush leagues form one team.

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Thusc is in that's all that matters. Who gets the second one I don't care. Maybe it will be a combo TA/Thorn club but that would very hard to believe. Probably a better chance of FC or a combo of Crossfire and FC.

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No, Oregon getting a team just because we have an NWSL team does not make any sense at all. The Thorns have no academy accept by name only. They have no track record (Not the Thorns themselves, they have a track record) but they do not have a track record at all running girls soccer. Academy does not equal club. ECNL is not looking for an umbrella of clubs. Again, pick one club and lets debate whether that club deserves an ECNL bid. Please do not say Thorns Academy, they are not "a" club. GET IT, GOT IT, GOOD.

Ah - I see. You're translating "Thorns" into "TA". Absolutely not the same thing. TA is not even in the conversation.
The NWSL connection comes from connecting a couple posts here (yeah, about as reliable as ___) and looking at what MLS is doing with the academy structure on the boys side. It's not strict ECNL as we know it today, but pick the elite club in the area, tie it to the Thorns (not TA) and you're set up with both ECNL and Academy.
BTW, "Chill" still applies.

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Ah - I see. You're translating "Thorns" into "TA". Absolutely not the same thing. TA is not even in the conversation.
The NWSL connection comes from connecting a couple posts here (yeah, about as reliable as ___) and looking at what MLS is doing with the academy structure on the boys side. It's not strict ECNL as we know it today, but pick the elite club in the area, tie it to the Thorns (not TA) and you're set up with both ECNL and Academy.
BTW, "Chill" still applies.

Pick the elite club in the area and tie it to Nike and you then have an ECNL bid. The Thorns are married to TA/OYSA and are not going to be associated with an ECNL bid because of that, plain and simple.

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Thusc is in that's all that matters. Who gets the second one I don't care. Maybe it will be a combo TA/Thorn club but that would very hard to believe. Probably a better chance of FC or a combo of Crossfire and FC.

mmmmmm, that's not exactly right.....

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Thusc is in that's all that matters. Who gets the second one I don't care. Maybe it will be a combo TA/Thorn club but that would very hard to believe. Probably a better chance of FC or a combo of Crossfire and FC.

Is there one example of a club in ECNL that is a "combo club" I'm not talking travel partners, I'm talking combo club for "one" ECNL team.

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Holy crap your correct, why you little Oregonian that thinks outside of the box. Screw the rest of the clubs that worked hard and earned an ECNL bid. They don't count for ****. Why this is Oregon and this is TA/THORNS. We have to tell all the rest of the ECNL clubs to screw off, we're doin this Oregonian idea of letting umbrella bush leagues form one team.

Wow, your anger and hate is really showing through in your posts. I hope you have a life outside of soccer.

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Just because you can't think outside of the box doesn't mean that ECNL can't think outside of the box. To form teams from all the alliance members would certainly make stronger teams that just choosing one club.

ECNL simply has no plans to accept alliances. It isn't about thinking inside or outside the box. They will not do it.

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Thusc is in that's all that matters. Who gets the second one I don't care. Maybe it will be a combo TA/Thorn club but that would very hard to believe. Probably a better chance of FC or a combo of Crossfire and FC.

Thusc is in? Dude, we are talking about ECNL acceptance, not acceptance to the mental institution.

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Thusc is in? Dude, we are talking about ECNL acceptance, not acceptance to the mental institution.

Dude, really! You have been out of the loop while medicated I guess.

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ECNL simply has no plans to accept alliances. It isn't about thinking inside or outside the box. They will not do it.

Spot on. What you TA/Thorn hopefuls don't get is that the ECNL board and founders are club D.O.C's. They are not part of the USSF or the pro leagues. The ECNL is a league by youth clubs and for youth clubs.

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ECNL simply has no plans to accept alliances. It isn't about thinking inside or outside the box. They will not do it.

Ha ha. You have no idea what you are talking about and I'm very amused. Going to be very amusing when the people that listen to you find out the same thing.