Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Bottom line is, you will never, ever convince me that any of those teams are more competitive than the Crabs. Never.

Nobody has to bother to convince you. The rest of the community knows. The proof is in the scores in recent games of Crabs (with holdbacks) versus those teams. Also look at the spreads of the games versus similar teams. Many of the other spreads are more favorable than the Crabs vs Edge, Crabs vs 91 etc. Crabs is a good team but they are not in the same league as 91. If they had the integrity to play with the Denver team going forward (without the holdbacks or the 2019s), they would not be winning all of their games. Those other teams can easily meet the generous Denver age requirement as they are now. Fact.


The rest of the community seems to be the same few dads who clearly have kids on one of the other good not great teams. Crabs are not in the same league as 91 for sure - neither are any of the others (Hawks, Looneys, Breakers, you fill in the blank). There are also no facts in this post, you can't make something a fact by simply saying "fact".


Again, nobody is saying they are in the same league as Crush - Crush is alone at the top tier and the rest of the teams. But Crabs does not seem to understand that they are certainly not in the same tier as them either. Crabs without their holdbacks are no better than the teams mentioned above and many others. That is what people are telling you - your scores are borderline when you play with holdbacks so you would lose when you play without them. Crabs successful history is built on a holdback platform. "Fact" refers to those other teams having no issue qualifying with their current team roster for any tournament that puts the same requirements forth as Denver did but doubt Crabs will ever realize that since they only enter tournaments without any type of grade/age combination restriction.


It's like all of the MD parents live in some sort of fantasy land - ALL OF YOUR TEAMS CHEAT! Again, everyone seems to forget that ALL of these other teams mentioned have holdbacks and "fill out their rosters" with other players from different age and skill levels (AA to A) when they are short as well. THEY ARE ADMITTING IT AND GETTING CAUGHT RED-HANDED FOR IT!! It's ridiculous that anyone does it, but don't pretend it's only the Crabs - FCA JUST did it, and admitted it, in Young Guns "It was only like 5 kids though" (and STILL were just average at best - and that's generous). Cannons got caught this weekend doing it (and also did so at McDonough - and still sucked) and should have been kicked out of the tournament. Hawks The only "fact" is that ALL of those "other teams" do the exact same thing as the Crabs to some extent, so it's nonsensical to watch MD parents call out Crabs and other teams when they are ALL doing it - just not as well as Crabs apparently. Maybe private schools should only allow holding kids back for academic reasons, and then we'd really see how a level playing field we have. The only real "fact" is that all of the MD clubs cheat, and the NY/NJ/PA clubs still beat them handily.