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McDonogh squeaks by JC in overtime!

Yeah the on age kid(s) cut to make room for him are really getting a hand up from club lax. They'll be so much more ready for HS now!

He'll be coaching them at THS next spring, the positive flow of his squad winning 6 games in the last 5 years really projects well into HS and college eliteness.

St Pauls Parent here,

After watching the gilman vs severn game I can tell you that this is not the case. The sophomore went to battle with the senior and may not have been exactly 50% but was right there. Kids got a promising future ahead of him.[/quote]
I think the Gilman FOGO jumped offsides 10 times and was called for at least 6-7 of those 10. The Gilman fogo racked up penalties for jumping early and lining up illegally in both half’s of the game vs. Severn. Elite players don’t do this. I would not call this holding his own or even close to 50/50. These kind of 101 mistakes will not transition well at the collegiate level. Remember, MIAA refs aren’t always the best, especially when calling the faceoff rules. The facts are, the Gilman fogo is whistle skittish and reminds me of an inner circle Jermy Rallo trained player. All the ref had to do was hold the whistle for a split second and the young Gilman fogo jumped. Rookie mistake. I will say with confidence that Lord Jermy Rallo was horrible. 6 years ago I heard Rallo tell players to cheat if they can’t win in hopes the refs don’t call it, and anticipate the whistle rather than play the whistle and develop good habits.[/quote]

Looks like somebody paid a lot of coaching fees and didnt get the results like they wanted, was it Rallo or your son ?[/quote]
I took my son to Rallo twice and then never again. My son is a D1 commit. Chris Mattes was very influential early on with my son as was Greg Gurenlian.[/quote]

Ruallo currently coaches varsity FOGOs for McD, Landon, GP, Gonzaga, CHC, Loyola, MSJ, Gilman to name a few. You could accuse him of a lot of things but incompetence to train FOGOs isn't one.

Sounds like some MSJ drama

I don’t really consider them a true AA

Nothing to see here, MIAA has many college Freshman age players and lets not go down that rabbit hole of overage for grade holdbacks playing. Good news is, that all teams have them, so it somewhat evens out, ,,,,,well depending on the out of state players you have.

How about just asking for opinions and talking about the games instead of throwing in your comment and justification for having your son play down instead of playing with other children his own age. Yea, lets not talk about your son playing down,

Thanks, P. We all know who is trying to get Igloo kids to go over to 91 and the manhasset crew. Amazing how these "Top" teams need to recruit players from other teams and if they cant, go out of state. And this is the teams your spending money to "develop" and teach your kids life lessons.

Next level score?

Salesianum is an incredible team. I don’t think anyone is surprised they won but they won by that much. I don’t have a dog in either fight but did Radnor have some injuries?

Of course, we need to accommodate private school holdbacks who need to play down with their classmates, while other boys born on the holdbacks birthday must play on age.

All seem to be fine for many years until " hyper competitive over-involved parental whining " by private school holdback parents and clubs decided that we need to let these holdbacks play down their entire time while playing youth lacrosse. Not just 8th grade as you are worried about.

It’s not that impressive. NDP is not good this year.

Aren’t the Jesters Black AA ? They were in a the tournament and lost to this team Supreme Elite.

Aren’t the Jesters Black a AA team ?

Good Counsel is nothing more than a scrimmage for IAAM teams, hence the reason why games with them are scheduled as such. Go play in your mediocre conference against teams you only hear about when they play IAAM teams.

91 can’t develop. Will bring in new kids! What they really need is a real coach. The other teams got far better then them over the winter.

91 on the rise next season, a game changing group of kids coming over.

All B teams in Spring Lax Jam? Where were AA and A teams this weekend?

The BL kid is also a full year older than a lot of seniors. But yes, he’s tiny. He’s gonna struggle in D1 with his tiny frame. He’s about to turn 19…. His growth spurt days are likely cover

I believe the severn fogo is 17 and won’t turn 18 until late summer after his first college summer classes. 😳

Shifting the conversation from crying in the corner over your kid not making a team or not getting time because of all those double holdbacks in 7th grade…

Thoughts on today’s games?

FCA gets a win
Hawks, struggling?
LTLC over Madlax, big upset?

Who cares if he does. He won’t be impactful going early the way that he does. He is mediocre at best for now.

McD will be lucky to end the season in a 4 way tie for 1st place.
No one wants to play Good Counsel. Their field looks like a Howard County rec complex.
Trashy.

You sound salty that ML lost again. Delusions of grandeur!