Originally Posted by Anonymous
Why is the WSYL so weak because they have rules and your holdbacks can't play . The top teams in md wouldn't be any good if you take away your holdbacks. Hawks,Bethesda, Roughriders, FCA,CRABS,Team91,.The sad thing is you had to get holdbacks to compete when Diamondbacks was killing everyone. Since Diamondbacks don't have holdbacks you beat them now. You should be so proud that older kids are beating younger kids. If lacrosse went to age base your team wouldn't be so good and your boy would have to play at his age and he wouldn't be so good.

The absurdity of this argument is that any club polices holdbacks. Point me to the page on API's website where they discourage or preclude holdbacks from trying out for their teams. Oh yeah, you said there is at least one. Why doesn't that kid play up? Maybe you lose that one goal game without him? The more likely scenario is that there just aren't a lot of kids trying out for API these days, and at the same time, the team slowly bleeds players who are tired of that team for one reason or another. Get real. API would take the best 2022 players that showed up to their tryouts regardless of whether they are a July '03 birthday or Oct. '03 birthday. Besides geography, I'm not sure what will bring kids back to tryouts this year.