Originally Posted by Anonymous
The thing all parents and players should be focusing on is how great this season has been. No team has dominated. Yes, crabs are in first place. So what, they did not dominate to get there. Team91 doesn't have a win, but all of there games were competitive and easily could have gone their way. This type of competition is what most of us "normal" parents want for our kids. I could not have asked for a better season for my son or his team. It's great to be in a league where 1 or 2 teams are not blowing away teams by 10 or more goals. Just so we are clear, my son does not play for Crabs or 91. He is not a holdback. He's just a kid who likes to compete against top level competition. I know this post will fall short of convincing the whiners on both sides of the holdback and RM issues that the experience this year for all teams has been positive.
That's ok. For the majority, I hope they agree. Great season of Lacrosse! Congrats to all players and coaches!


Well you seem to miss the point of the people against the holdback mentality. We enjoy competitive lacrosse like everyone. What we dont enjoy is YOUTH Club Lacrosse letting select players play DOWN and get an advantage others arent allowed. Somehow that seems to be missing in your equation.
It would be just as competitive with proper age based teams like all other sports.

Forget grade and put the age at June 1 May 1 March 1 or whatever..Just let everyone who wants to play down get that advantage if they want. Would take care of whole problem immediately. But No we only let select kids play down now. just wrong at YOUTH level.