xara winter cup

So, lets here from the experts. How does this one end up?

TRIUMPH FC 03G (SMITH) (Texas North)
FWFC 2003 GIRLS (Texas North)
LADY AZTECS FC 03G (Texas North)
LIVERPOOL FC 03G (CARRAGHER) (Texas North)
STING 03G (PARKER) (Texas North)
LIVERPOOL FC 03G (DALGLISH) (Texas North)
LIVERPOOL FC 04G (DALGLISH) (Texas North)
DALLAS TEXANS 03G FTW - HERNANDEZ (Texas North)

deez wrote:So, lets here from the experts. How does this one end up?

TRIUMPH FC 03G (SMITH) (Texas North)
FWFC 2003 GIRLS (Texas North)
LADY AZTECS FC 03G (Texas North)
LIVERPOOL FC 03G (CARRAGHER) (Texas North)
STING 03G (PARKER) (Texas North)
LIVERPOOL FC 03G (DALGLISH) (Texas North)
LIVERPOOL FC 04G (DALGLISH) (Texas North)
DALLAS TEXANS 03G FTW - HERNANDEZ (Texas North)

Tough call as I am not familiar with most of these teams.

I will go with the Liverpool '04 team or Lady Aztecs.

Both Dalglish teams would be my bet.

Daglish 04 or Sting Parker would be my guess but I really only have seen a couple of the teams play so it's all a guess at this point. I know the 04 Daglish team moves the ball really well so I'd think they would have an excellent shot.

deez wrote:So, lets here from the experts. How does this one end up?

TRIUMPH FC 03G (SMITH) (Texas North)
FWFC 2003 GIRLS (Texas North)
LADY AZTECS FC 03G (Texas North)
LIVERPOOL FC 03G (CARRAGHER) (Texas North)
STING 03G (PARKER) (Texas North)
LIVERPOOL FC 03G (DALGLISH) (Texas North)
LIVERPOOL FC 04G (DALGLISH) (Texas North)
DALLAS TEXANS 03G FTW - HERNANDEZ (Texas North)

I have not seen Dalglish 03, but the 04 team is good. I have seen Texans and FWFC battle in the Hurst tourney in the Finals. I would say 04 Dalglish will be their, as for their opponent a toss up between FWFC, Texans, Aztecs. Like I said have not seen the rest of the teams.

When are the schedules out?

Schedules out on Tuesday I think. IMO it will all depend on brackets...

deez wrote:Schedules out on Tuesday I think. IMO it will all depend on brackets...

Here are the brackets :

http://events.gotsport.com/events/results.aspx?EventID=21696&Sex=Girls&Age=9
Predictions?

How about a Dalglish '04 vs Dalglish '03 championship!!

how about the dallas texas hernandez and danglish 04 for the final!

I think that could be a very good possibility!

My money is on the coach with 3 '03 teams (Sting ' 03 Parker)... and the proven `04 entity (Dalglish `04).

If you have close to 30 girls then odds are you can put together 10 decent ones.Therefore I think Parker will surprise some folks.
Meanwhile Dalglish 04 has shown that they can compete with top 15 03s.

outonthelimb wrote:My money is on the coach with 3 '03 teams (Sting ' 03 Parker)... and the proven `04 entity (Dalglish `04).

If you have close to 30 girls then odds are you can put together 10 decent ones.Therefore I think Parker will surprise some folks.
Meanwhile Dalglish 04 has shown that they can compete with top 15 03s.

Seeing as only the bracket winner advances they'd both do well to make the final!
In fact I'd put my mortgage on it that they BOTH wont make the final One might not BOTH

Triumph FC wrote:

outonthelimb wrote:My money is on the coach with 3 '03 teams (Sting ' 03 Parker)... and the proven `04 entity (Dalglish `04).

If you have close to 30 girls then odds are you can put together 10 decent ones.Therefore I think Parker will surprise some folks.
Meanwhile Dalglish 04 has shown that they can compete with top 15 03s.

Seeing as only the bracket winner advances they'd both do well to make the final!
In fact I'd put my mortgage on it that they BOTH wont make the final One might not BOTH

Triumph: how come no semi-finals?

Top team in each bracket play in the finals. Here are the brackets:

bracket A
DALLAS TEXANS 03G FTW - HERNANDEZ
FWFC 2003 GIRLS
LIVERPOOL FC 03G (DALGLISH)
TRIUMPH FC 03G (SMITH)


bracket B
LADY AZTECS FC 03G
LIVERPOOL FC 03G (CARRAGHER)
LIVERPOOL FC 04G (DALGLISH)
STING 03G (PARKER)

Good point! I'm finding with the 04 teams in tournaments we seem to be playing the same old teams in bracket play. Why not add a semi to open up possibilities of new opposition?

Yes, this is a biggie. Parents want semi finals. It greatly enhances the tournament feel. Without it, these tournaments seem like nothing but money grabs.

No tournament ever plays semi finals in an 8 team tournament bracket
Even if the tournament committe would have wanted to I would have voted against it. The reason (for me) is SAFETY. As this is the 03's I will use them as the model, they are 8/9yo's, bodies, muscles not developed and yet we are asking them to play 5 games in 2 days (Lady Aztecs 6 games in 2 days as they play an indoor game at 1:30pm) 6 GAMES in 2 DAYS! You hear the pro's, who train every day complain about 2 games in 48 hours because they dont get a chance to recover but now we want our youth to play 5 games in 2 days and of course those are the teams that are successful. I understand your comment about playing other opposition and then a true champion emerges, I get it but arent we as adults supposed to be looking after the children? What are we doing to our players chances of getting injuries in the future?
For this reason we wanted to play games on Thursday night, I forgot to ask the TD how many took up that offer because there are no Thursday night games. I would have loved to play Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday but that still has issues when you look at it, 4 games in 4 days but it looks a whole lot better than 5 games in 2 days. Everyone will have an opinion I'm sure and thats whats great about soccer but from my point of view its about the players welfare

Triumph FC wrote:

outonthelimb wrote:My money is on the coach with 3 '03 teams (Sting ' 03 Parker)... and the proven `04 entity (Dalglish `04).

If you have close to 30 girls then odds are you can put together 10 decent ones.Therefore I think Parker will surprise some folks.
Meanwhile Dalglish 04 has shown that they can compete with top 15 03s.

Seeing as only the bracket winner advances they'd both do well to make the final!
In fact I'd put my mortgage on it that they BOTH wont make the final One might not BOTH

It usually helps if one looks at the brackets before making predictions eh?

Let's see if I can fix this stinker that I made...the Championship Match will be played at 11am on Saturday on Five Star field #4 (Sting '03 Parker vs LP Dalglish '04). All other games during this gathering of 8&9 year old girls are considered friendlies. The finals (as it is incorrectly noted on the Xara Cup schedule for the u9 division) is actually an intra club friendly pitting LP Dalglish '04 vs Liverpool Dalglish '03. No score will be kept as the LP Academy Director will intermingle girls from both teams to create a true friendly atmosphere.

Triumph FC wrote:No tournament ever plays semi finals in an 8 team tournament bracket
Even if the tournament committe would have wanted to I would have voted against it. The reason (for me) is SAFETY. As this is the 03's I will use them as the model, they are 8/9yo's, bodies, muscles not developed and yet we are asking them to play 5 games in 2 days (Lady Aztecs 6 games in 2 days as they play an indoor game at 1:30pm) 6 GAMES in 2 DAYS! You hear the pro's, who train every day complain about 2 games in 48 hours because they dont get a chance to recover but now we want our youth to play 5 games in 2 days and of course those are the teams that are successful. I understand your comment about playing other opposition and then a true champion emerges, I get it but arent we as adults supposed to be looking after the children? What are we doing to our players chances of getting injuries in the future?
For this reason we wanted to play games on Thursday night, I forgot to ask the TD how many took up that offer because there are no Thursday night games. I would have loved to play Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday but that still has issues when you look at it, 4 games in 4 days but it looks a whole lot better than 5 games in 2 days. Everyone will have an opinion I'm sure and thats whats great about soccer but from my point of view its about the players welfare

Ok so are you basing this on some pediatrician study that 4 games in two days is ok but 5 is not?

When my kids were U6 they played in semis nearly every tournament. Granted this was few years ago but none of the kids ever had any trouble and they loved it. It's not like they are running on huge fields playing 40 minute halves. Granted I wouldn’t want my kid doing this every week, but then no team plays tournaments every week.

outonthelimb wrote:My money is on the coach with 3 '03 teams (Sting ' 03 Parker)... and the proven `04 entity (Dalglish `04).

If you have close to 30 girls then odds are you can put together 10 decent ones.Therefore I think Parker will surprise some folks.
Meanwhile Dalglish 04 has shown that they can compete with top 15 03s.

From my understanding, that's not how he operates. They are building a new division inside the club so there's still some sorting out to do. This group is essentially new and has yet to establish an identity. I hope they do well but please don't put the cart before the horse. Give him til the fall to get them ready.

Liverpool '04 should come out of that bracket rather unscathed IMO
As for bracket A....I couldn't say. Depends on if Liverpool pools it's 03s to have a top tourney team.

pro16 wrote:

outonthelimb wrote:My money is on the coach with 3 '03 teams (Sting ' 03 Parker)... and the proven `04 entity (Dalglish `04).

If you have close to 30 girls then odds are you can put together 10 decent ones.Therefore I think Parker will surprise some folks.
Meanwhile Dalglish 04 has shown that they can compete with top 15 03s.

From my understanding, that's not how he operates. They are building a new division inside the club so there's still some sorting out to do. This group is essentially new and has yet to establish an identity. I hope they do well but please don't put the cart before the horse. Give him til the fall to get them ready.

Liverpool '04 should come out of that bracket rather unscathed IMO
As for bracket A....I couldn't say. Depends on if Liverpool pools it's 03s to have a top tourney team.

Is the Liverpool 03 team a new team? DOes that leave the door open for FWFC, DT Hernandez, or Triumph?

Actually I think breaking this tournament up like this and limiting the games is actually a good thing. Remember that most of these teams are still finishing up their indoor or futsal seasons and now they are starting the outside season as well. I'd be willing to be that there will be girls this weekend playing 4 games in this tournament and 3 to 4 games in other leagues this weekend. I think the 3 games plus 1 format actually works pretty well for this weekend.

I believe the 03 Daglish team is kind of new. I know someone was on here a few weeks ago talking about them looking for a couple of new players to finish off the team or something like that. No idea how good they are though. I think that bracket they are in is completely wide open.

The Liverpool 03 team is pretty good

Agreed. I predict an all LP Dalglish final
03 v. 04....and that's a stone cold lock

Sounds like group B is locked with the 04 team. I think Group A is not as certain. Maybe we will see some surprises!