Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
To try to pretend the Crabs 2020 team is not going to be full of Holdbacks is absurd. That is how Fat Crab daddy rolls - he knows it, you know it, everyone that plays him knows it. If your kid can't compete with kids his own age hold him back so he can beat up on younger kids. It's the Crabs way - bigger, stronger, faster, older. Sad but true.



Sorry your kid couldn't make the Crabs.


Probably because your 16 year old son took his spit on the 8th grade 2020 team.



Two of the weakest, most tired arguments on this forum. To think crabs has the market cornered on hold backs is absurd. The double hold back is largely of myth. You can't be 19 before your senior yr and play in the MIAA. Anyone aware of players who had to sit out their senior year? Much of this discussion has been centered around 2020. If your kid is on AA or even A club team they must have some ambition to play high level high school. As an AA 8th grader they should be capable of playing against older kids. Plus if it was still age based it would u15 and all your prefirst and reclassers would still be eligible.

And Crab Dad - not every AA player plays or wants to play for Crabs. Just cause your kid's on the team doesn't mean he's destined for greatness. There are many justified criticisms of the Crabs and not just by the parents of kids who didn't the team


Lot of what you say is fine...But the most important thing is that playing down in age is wrong at the youth level. Plain and simple....Why the need to have this structure of letting kids that have been heldback/reclass/prefirst play down in YOUTH lacrosse.. They can get their advantage in High School where the ages are all over the place. Spin in any way you want but the values and ethics of playing down in Youth lacrosse goes against all the true spirit of youth athletics.