03 Predictions Week 10

"Solar figured out how to make pooling players work and has 3 extremely talented players that make you pay for any mistake."
No - these (3) kids have been together for 3+ years. DM built a legendary team with what was probably a mind-numbing amount of effort and dedication. There will never be another Academy team like this (until another DM comes along - which is probably never). He worked for and earned this glory, let him have it.

HomeAgain wrote:"Solar figured out how to make pooling players work and has 3 extremely talented players that make you pay for any mistake."
No - these (3) kids have been together for 3+ years. DM built a legendary team with what was probably a mind-numbing amount of effort and dedication. There will never be another Academy team like this (until another DM comes along - which is probably never). He worked for and earned this glory, let him have it.

i agree completely. give credit where credit is due. my daughter immediately went home and started juggling after watching the game, i asked her what she was doing, she said practicing so she could be that good. now that's impressive when you motivate others....

silentparent, may be you daughter can teach you some football (soccer for you), Barcelona and a high school team?, keep watching baseball, you mighy be better at it.

joshisa wrote:silentparent, may be you daughter can teach you some football (soccer for you), Barcelona and a high school team?, keep watching baseball, you mighy be better at it.

I will type slower for you next time since you have a hard time comprehending hyperbole. Yes go to a dictionary and look it up

Does it make since for this team to even play 03 girls?

After seeing Sundays game, even without their "top 3 mentioned" they would hands down be the best 03 girls team. In the last year, they have decimated everyone aside from the top 5 boys teams that they have played.

I think any logical developmental soccer conversation would come to the conclusion that this group is special and either some or all should be playing up a division.

herradura wrote:Does it make since for this team to even play 03 girls?

After seeing Sundays game, even without their "top 3 mentioned" they would hands down be the best 03 girls team. In the last year, they have decimated everyone aside from the top 5 boys teams that they have played.

I think any logical developmental soccer conversation would come to the conclusion that this group is special and either some or all should be playing up a division.

Completely agree. This team is special and it would be a waste of time for them to play the other 03 teams. The only way the other teams could compete would be to pull all resources from teams in their club. Even if the clubs would do this SRSA would still be the best 03 team. SRSA would compete very well in the 02 age group.

herradura wrote:Does it make since for this team to even play 03 girls?

After seeing Sundays game, even without their "top 3 mentioned" they would hands down be the best 03 girls team. In the last year, they have decimated everyone aside from the top 5 boys teams that they have played.

I think any logical developmental soccer conversation would come to the conclusion that this group is special and either some or all should be playing up a division.

Try telling LH that,this with out a doubt "with out sounding like 04'Rase parent" team can give 02' #1 & #2 team all they can handle.Keeping these girls in there own age group right now is doing them a diservice to there devolopment.

Call your local LH board and voice your concearn

sorry srsa, no special exemptions, that would open up pandora's box. plenty of tournaments to play up in.

Or maybe ECNL will take them early.

If the whole team can not "play up" then maybe just the best of their team could do it. Which is better for the development of their 3-5 best players: play with an '03 super team or play on an '02 LHGC Division 1 team?

Didn't they try to get an exemption last year to play up but it fail?

They are a great team and playing soccer well abover their years right now. Eventually other teams will catch up once they too start playing more possesion based soccer vs. send it long soccer but right now there's no other team in the 03 group that comes close to them. Like I said before most teams are lucky if they have 3 or 4 possesions like SRSA has most of the game. Right now the next best teams in this age group are still a 3 or 4 years behind SRSA when it comes to technique and tactical ability. Athletically there's not a huge difference and quite honestly that will all change too over the next few years as the girls mature.

Now as far as saying they have their pick of 30+ girls etc... to form this team I just don't really see that. Heck from what I heard Solar Gio wouldn't have had enough to field a team if SRSA didn't supplement their roster last weekend. So their 16 is their 16 and like any team they are always looking for the next best thing, welcome to competive soccer. So if you are #14,15, or 16 on that roster have a plan B in mind, but that goes for everyone out there, not just SRSA. Yes over the winter quite a few folks seemed to have drank the kool-aid and they had a bunch of kids come out, all thinking they were going to somehow crack the top 16, but that didn't pan out and now its more of a situation of "last one out be sure to turn out the lights."

thank you for the advice silentparent, but please next Sunday stay home, don't waste your time watching 10 year old girls playing soccer, so we don't have to hear your stupid comparisons.

joshisa wrote:thank you for the advice silentparent, but please next Sunday stay home, don't waste your time watching 10 year old girls playing soccer, so we don't have to hear your stupid comparisons.

so your daughter plays on sting g huh?

I don't get why so many continue to go out of their way to try and discredit SRSA as a team and boil it all down to 3 girls. I have been watching this team play for over a year and yes there are several stand out players as there are in any team sport. I find it comical that so many of you say its because of 3 girls -- so that means SRSA should just go ahead and remove the other 13 talented players from the roster and the let the 3 play alone 3 v 11. Very interesting. Hopefully this show those of you who make those comments how rediculious it is for you to say its because of 3 players. Its funny how here there is a team in SRSA that represents this region and hands down is probably the best team in the country and have parents acting like kids rather than appreciating the fact that there is a team so talented. great lesson to your kids, keep it up. Or, maybe you can share in the support and soend on the negative energy you have to say about SRSA and use it to better your daughter and there teams.

I don't get why so many continue to go out of their way to try and discredit SRSA as a team and boil it all down to 3 girls. I have been watching this team play for over a year and yes there are several stand out players as there are in any team sport. I find it comical that so many of you say its because of 3 girls -- so that means SRSA should just go ahead and remove the other 13 talented players from the roster and the let the 3 play alone 3 v 11. Very interesting. Hopefully this show those of you who make those comments how rediculious it is for you to say its because of 3 players. Its funny how here there is a team in SRSA that represents this region and hands down is probably the best team in the country and have parents acting like kids rather than appreciating the fact that there is a team so talented. great lesson to your kids, keep it up. Or, maybe you can share in the support and soend on the negative energy you have to say about SRSA and use it to better your daughter and there teams.

I only see one post that made a comment about taking those 3 girls away and saying that would level the field. The majority of conversation about SRSA on this forum acknowledges that they are a great team and that together they all play a beautiful style of soccer.

Maybe on this particular string -- but my point is someone alwasy brings that up and it is something that is of focus after every big win whether a siongle game or tournament -- All I am saying is they are a great team and are wh they are because of that team. Again, yes a few off the charts players no doubt but they are quality across the board and very deep. I wouldn't want to be in the position to have to figure out who to start.

Time to tell the truth even if it hurts.

SRSA roster: (1) special player (1) exceptional player (3) top tier players - stars on any other team (3) A-/B+ players standouts on any other team (5) above average / role players that makes the system work (3) good roster fillers (by SRSA standards) that are benefiting greatly from the environment and training (2) best coaches in the division

Equals light years ahead of the competition. No need to debate who is a distant second. When you are so far behind it doesn't matter. Just have fun and remember your place in the SRSA universe. Rank that!

TruthSerum wrote:Time to tell the truth even if it hurts.

SRSA roster: (1) special player (1) exceptional player (3) top tier players - stars on any other team (3) A-/B+ players standouts on any other team (5) above average / role players that makes the system work (3) good roster fillers (by SRSA standards) that are benefiting greatly from the environment and training (2) best coaches in the division

Equals light years ahead of the competition. No need to debate who is a distant second. When you are so far behind it doesn't matter. Just have fun and remember your place in the SRSA universe. Rank that!

Atta Boy Coach. Well said.

SteveHolt! wrote:

I don't get why so many continue to go out of their way to try and discredit SRSA as a team and boil it all down to 3 girls. I have been watching this team play for over a year and yes there are several stand out players as there are in any team sport. I find it comical that so many of you say its because of 3 girls -- so that means SRSA should just go ahead and remove the other 13 talented players from the roster and the let the 3 play alone 3 v 11. Very interesting. Hopefully this show those of you who make those comments how rediculious it is for you to say its because of 3 players. Its funny how here there is a team in SRSA that represents this region and hands down is probably the best team in the country and have parents acting like kids rather than appreciating the fact that there is a team so talented. great lesson to your kids, keep it up. Or, maybe you can share in the support and soend on the negative energy you have to say about SRSA and use it to better your daughter and there teams.

I only see one post that made a comment about taking those 3 girls away and saying that would level the field. The majority of conversation about SRSA on this forum acknowledges that they are a great team and that together they all play a beautiful style of soccer.

Thank you Steve. I have never taken away anything from SRSA's "exceptionality." They have 3 of the best 10 year olds (boy or girl) in the entire nation on their team. And I still contend that without those 3 (4 if you read another post), Sting G would probably give them a much tighter scoring game...HOWEVER, SRSA is "the rest" plus the 3-4 superstars, and that combination plus exceptional coaching makes them who they are - the most dominant 10 year old team in the country.

Everyone else in the U10 league is playing for 2nd, which Sting G is, (that is until Sting G is beaten by a "regular" U10 team). The only team, in my opinion, that will muster a challenge to Sting G is FCD Predator East. Luckily they will play them and we'll know once and for all.

But that just shows you how much better SRSA is. The #2 team is a year behind them, and there is only one other team that can challenge the #2.

SRSA is a class unto themselves and their coach has a challenge in finding teams that can give them a game.

Sting G, the greatest regular U-10 team ever assembled!

So how did SRSA assemble? Super naturally?

GrandTXSoccer wrote:Sting G, the greatest regular U-10 team ever assembled!

So how did SRSA assemble? Super naturally?

Good lord you are a drama queen.

Sting G, the greatest regular U-10 team ever assembled!

according to their parents.....

NoFanOfDrama wrote:

SteveHolt! wrote:

I don't get why so many continue to go out of their way to try and discredit SRSA as a team and boil it all down to 3 girls. I have been watching this team play for over a year and yes there are several stand out players as there are in any team sport. I find it comical that so many of you say its because of 3 girls -- so that means SRSA should just go ahead and remove the other 13 talented players from the roster and the let the 3 play alone 3 v 11. Very interesting. Hopefully this show those of you who make those comments how rediculious it is for you to say its because of 3 players. Its funny how here there is a team in SRSA that represents this region and hands down is probably the best team in the country and have parents acting like kids rather than appreciating the fact that there is a team so talented. great lesson to your kids, keep it up. Or, maybe you can share in the support and soend on the negative energy you have to say about SRSA and use it to better your daughter and there teams.

I only see one post that made a comment about taking those 3 girls away and saying that would level the field. The majority of conversation about SRSA on this forum acknowledges that they are a great team and that together they all play a beautiful style of soccer.

Thank you Steve. I have never taken away anything from SRSA's "exceptionality." They have 3 of the best 10 year olds (boy or girl) in the entire nation on their team. And I still contend that without those 3 (4 if you read another post), Sting G would probably give them a much tighter scoring game...HOWEVER, SRSA is "the rest" plus the 3-4 superstars, and that combination plus exceptional coaching makes them who they are - the most dominant 10 year old team in the country.

Everyone else in the U10 league is playing for 2nd, which Sting G is, (that is until Sting G is beaten by a "regular" U10 team). The only team, in my opinion, that will muster a challenge to Sting G is FCD Predator East. Luckily they will play them and we'll know once and for all.

But that just shows you how much better SRSA is. The #2 team is a year behind them, and there is only one other team that can challenge the #2.

SRSA is a class unto themselves and their coach has a challenge in finding teams that can give them a game.

That was funny. I hope you realize that you lost 11-0. that is the largest margin of victory verses another '03 since Cosmos last summer. Don't thump your chest after that whoopin' it just makes you sound desperate. If saying you might be the least poor of the peasants keeps you going then so be it. Funny!

Umm, I simply repeated what you said. Can't I too be excited about the best regular assembled u-10 in NTX? Did you corner the market on it?

Good grief.....SRSA assembled just like most other teams...a core group of girls stuck together and excellent coaches watched and recruited additional strong girls. Sure, SRSA seemed to assemble together a strong (obviously strongest) group of girls. No denying. But raise your hand if your daughter was at some point recruited by DM.....a lot of hands would go up from parents on teams currently in the top 3-4. Some went with it, some stayed where they are. And those that went and haven't cut it ended up on what is now Solar Gio. How that isn't a club pooling girls together and then taking the top girls to form the strongest team is beyond me. Not sure why parents get so defensive when it's put that way. But in reality, that's how great teams form. There's no shame in it. And there's no shame in being proud of your daughter's team.....even if it isn't SRSA. Some of you should try it.....amazing how great it makes your daughter feel.