Girls Academy League NW

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If/when a NW division of GA gets off the ground BC would be a potential source of decent teams to fill out the league and keep travel costs manageable. The whole BCPSL is probably stronger than RCL 1, Vancouver is drivable for teams in the PNW, and for teams in Nor Ca or further away its as easy to fly to Vancouver as it is to Seattle or Portland.

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If/when a NW division of GA gets off the ground BC would be a potential source of decent teams to fill out the league and keep travel costs manageable. The whole BCPSL is probably stronger than RCL 1, Vancouver is drivable for teams in the PNW, and for teams in Nor Ca or further away its as easy to fly to Vancouver as it is to Seattle or Portland.

Its ECNL or bust. What is the point of even talking about a league that doesnt even have a Division in the NW. Of course they want want here, it is a new league. They would take 20 Divisions all over the US. ECNL can just come in and swoop any team they feel in the coming days.

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Its ECNL or bust. What is the point of even talking about a league that doesnt even have a Division in the NW. Of course they want want here, it is a new league. They would take 20 Divisions all over the US. ECNL can just come in and swoop any team they feel in the coming days.

What is the likelihood of them getting swooped into ECNL?

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This is such a ecnl and Washington youth soccer way of thinking. The ecnl can not just pluck who they want. Do you think the top club in the country is not one they wanted or two of the top programs in Southern California Look the sun doesn’t rise and set in Washington The problem with all of this is the ecnl has to answer to its current members which similar to Washington have opinions and a multitude of reasons on why certain clubs should or shouldn’t be in. For example in certain areas ala Washington specific clubs don’t want other clubs in because it would effect their bottom line and they are scared of it upsetting their apple cart because they have rested on their league and their perceived name for to long. What has happened is other clubs have decided they are tired of the political BS.

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Curious but where are the boundaries that Reign would draw from? Would it be the same as Seattle United? I know individual players can play where ever they want but where would a majority of the player pool be from?

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Why do you need boundaries for soccer. Just play the game and let kids and families go where they want. This isn’t school Reign will draw from whatever areas they can just like Seattle United does or efc or xf.

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This is such a ecnl and Washington youth soccer way of thinking. The ecnl can not just pluck who they want. Do you think the top club in the country is not one they wanted or two of the top programs in Southern California Look the sun doesn’t rise and set in Washington The problem with all of this is the ecnl has to answer to its current members which similar to Washington have opinions and a multitude of reasons on why certain clubs should or shouldn’t be in. For example in certain areas ala Washington specific clubs don’t want other clubs in because it would effect their bottom line and they are scared of it upsetting their apple cart because they have rested on their league and their perceived name for to long. What has happened is other clubs have decided they are tired of the political BS.

Please name this “top club” in the US that ecnl can not pick up. All the top clubs I’m aware of, and my daughter is a DA player, have applied to the ecnl. These top two SoCal teams you speak of I’m assuming is Legends and Beach? They applied to ecnl and were granted the regional league for the upcoming season. They will for sure be promoted next year to a full membership.

The issue of reign getting or not getting an ecnl membership doesn’t solely lie with the surrounding ecnl clubs. I’m guessing it has more to do with their one and done previous go around with ecnl, as well as all the “second tier” and “inferior league” language they were a part of, communicated to players and parents by Reign coaches and directors. Lastly, please identify one other club of the 100 who are members of ecnl, who has the quantity of players currently registered that is even remotely comparable to Reign?

Please stop making this out to be about some local vendetta where clubs and people are keeping Reign from an ecnl. Ecnl has proved itself capable of making qualified decisions, weathered the storm of the DA, we need to trust in the process.

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Please name this “top club” in the US that ecnl can not pick up. All the top clubs I’m aware of, and my daughter is a DA player, have applied to the ecnl. These top two SoCal teams you speak of I’m assuming is Legends and Beach? They applied to ecnl and were granted the regional league for the upcoming season. They will for sure be promoted next year to a full membership.

The issue of reign getting or not getting an ecnl membership doesn’t solely lie with the surrounding ecnl clubs. I’m guessing it has more to do with their one and done previous go around with ecnl, as well as all the “second tier” and “inferior league” language they were a part of, communicated to players and parents by Reign coaches and directors. Lastly, please identify one other club of the 100 who are members of ecnl, who has the quantity of players currently registered that is even remotely comparable to Reign?

Please stop making this out to be about some local vendetta where clubs and people are keeping Reign from an ecnl. Ecnl has proved itself capable of making qualified decisions, weathered the storm of the DA, we need to trust in the process.

The Reign did play the ECNL pretty bad the first time around. I am sure it was personal and now they want to come crawling back.....lol.

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Please name this “top club” in the US that ecnl can not pick up. All the top clubs I’m aware of, and my daughter is a DA player, have applied to the ecnl. These top two SoCal teams you speak of I’m assuming is Legends and Beach? They applied to ecnl and were granted the regional league for the upcoming season. They will for sure be promoted next year to a full membership.

The issue of reign getting or not getting an ecnl membership doesn’t solely lie with the surrounding ecnl clubs. I’m guessing it has more to do with their one and done previous go around with ecnl, as well as all the “second tier” and “inferior league” language they were a part of, communicated to players and parents by Reign coaches and directors. Lastly, please identify one other club of the 100 who are members of ecnl, who has the quantity of players currently registered that is even remotely comparable to Reign?

Please stop making this out to be about some local vendetta where clubs and people are keeping Reign from an ecnl. Ecnl has proved itself capable of making qualified decisions, weathered the storm of the DA, we need to trust in the process.

Best clubs currently GA rather than ECNL: Tophat, FC Virginia, NEFC, Nationals, Midwest United, FC United, Lonestar, CO Rush. A bunch of other decent clubs too. Legends and Beach dual with ECNL-R and tbd where their top teams will be. Correct, all would have been happy to move to ECNL if ECNL would have allowed them in.

Reign one and done: mostly down to SU and Eastside not being willing to fund both ECNL and DA, so a bit ironic if Reign (whose top players are funded by USSF and whose pro team plays in a league largely operated by USSF staff) were the ones that the fall for moving to DA along with the vast majority of the top clubs in the country. XF too was very clear that its DA teams were their top teams.

Whether they get in or not: ECNL’s track record is mixed. Their exclusion of some of the top clubs looks purely political, just as it did before DA. Their assessment of Reign and Thorns probably has more to do with what role they want to play in promoting NWSL (or what coaching education when play opportunities OL could offer on the boys side) than pull by the local clubs.

If Reign was awarded ECNL tomorrow I’d expect most of their ECNL rosters for next year to end up middle of the pack for ECNL. ECNL added a lot of mediocrity, including B teams from several clubs, during the DA era. Unless they are gonna drop a bunch or teams and clubs the way to get all the best teams and clubs under one roof and playing one another is to let all the GA teams in and move to pro rel with two tiers.

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Best clubs currently GA rather than ECNL: Tophat, FC Virginia, NEFC, Nationals, Midwest United, FC United, Lonestar, CO Rush. A bunch of other decent clubs too. Legends and Beach dual with ECNL-R and tbd where their top teams will be. Correct, all would have been happy to move to ECNL if ECNL would have allowed them in.

Reign one and done: mostly down to SU and Eastside not being willing to fund both ECNL and DA, so a bit ironic if Reign (whose top players are funded by USSF and whose pro team plays in a league largely operated by USSF staff) were the ones that the fall for moving to DA along with the vast majority of the top clubs in the country. XF too was very clear that its DA teams were their top teams.

Whether they get in or not: ECNL’s track record is mixed. Their exclusion of some of the top clubs looks purely political, just as it did before DA. Their assessment of Reign and Thorns probably has more to do with what role they want to play in promoting NWSL (or what coaching education when play opportunities OL could offer on the boys side) than pull by the local clubs.

If Reign was awarded ECNL tomorrow I’d expect most of their ECNL rosters for next year to end up middle of the pack for ECNL. ECNL added a lot of mediocrity, including B teams from several clubs, during the DA era. Unless they are gonna drop a bunch or teams and clubs the way to get all the best teams and clubs under one roof and playing one another is to let all the GA teams in and move to pro rel with two tiers.

This is the 2016/17 ECNL member map. https://www.eliteclubsnationalleague...nl-club-map-2/. There were a total of 84 teams. Some of those teams (Tophat, FC Virginia, Sockers, CO Rush, Reign, SC Del Sol, NEFC Breakers, Lonestar, Weston are former ECNL member DA clubs that have not, as of yet, been added back to ECNL). I may have missed a couple, but ECNL currently has no more than 75 of the teams considered ECNL caliber just years ago.

This is the current version of the map for next year, which will be at 109 teams with the additions of Thorns and La Roca and more than that with any additional clubs added: https://149363092.v2.pressablecdn.co...42420.001.jpeg. At least 39 of those teams wouldn’t have been in ECNL four years ago.

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Best clubs currently GA rather than ECNL: Tophat, FC Virginia, NEFC, Nationals, Midwest United, FC United, Lonestar, CO Rush. A bunch of other decent clubs too. Legends and Beach dual with ECNL-R and tbd where their top teams will be. Correct, all would have been happy to move to ECNL if ECNL would have allowed them in.

Reign one and done: mostly down to SU and Eastside not being willing to fund both ECNL and DA, so a bit ironic if Reign (whose top players are funded by USSF and whose pro team plays in a league largely operated by USSF staff) were the ones that the fall for moving to DA along with the vast majority of the top clubs in the country. XF too was very clear that its DA teams were their top teams.

Whether they get in or not: ECNL’s track record is mixed. Their exclusion of some of the top clubs looks purely political, just as it did before DA. Their assessment of Reign and Thorns probably has more to do with what role they want to play in promoting NWSL (or what coaching education when play opportunities OL could offer on the boys side) than pull by the local clubs.

If Reign was awarded ECNL tomorrow I’d expect most of their ECNL rosters for next year to end up middle of the pack for ECNL. ECNL added a lot of mediocrity, including B teams from several clubs, during the DA era. Unless they are gonna drop a bunch or teams and clubs the way to get all the best teams and clubs under one roof and playing one another is to let all the GA teams in and move to pro rel with two tiers.

When are they supposed to find out?

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Has the Reign said Sorry for pooping on ECNL and talking bad about their league the past few years?

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Has the Reign said Sorry for pooping on ECNL and talking bad about their league the past few years?

Did Seattle United or XF or Eastside? Is this like Game of Thrones and everyone is supposed to bend the knee to Christian Lavers?

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The other two are in the big boy club now.....I only see what begging to come back in.

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Northwest Conference was just announced for Girls Acadamy League. Stay tuned for club announcements.