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It has been addressed. 6 players will be at football.

Hi 91 dad. Maybe you can beat the Hawks at NAL this weekend. Just don't mention that it is the Richmond Hawks.

So many trolls on this anonymous message board. None of you would be talking like this on the sideline in front of your kids, coaches and other parents. Keyboard warriors

Are Richmond Hawks an offshoot or just happen to have same nickname?

Oh boy, getting nervous 91 Dad

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From the Long Island board so not sure the atmosphere down here....come on, every team has kids out every weekend for other sports....hawks are totally ducking playing real tournaments, probably afraid to lose again and this time to new teams they havent lost to like Express! chickens

Not every team is missing both faceoff kids, 2 starting attackmen and 2 starting d poles on one football team. #themoreyouknow

We will see Express Dec 12th

So glad I live in MoCo where our stunad government counsel has everything shut down. /s/

December tournament?

As a 2026 Coach finding this board, this is all appalling as heck.

I know the majority of the coaches on all these teams that are constantly mentioned, quite well.

I will let them know about this, maybe they can chime in.

These are 7th graders. And by the way some of you parents talk on here, your kid will get burned out by HS. And worse, maybe end up hating his parents that are constantly on their kids butt about lax, lax, and more lax, when maybe they just wanted to be a kid for awhile. Sorry, if you were never good enough so you have to live your dream through your child.

This board is embarrassing. Congratulations to the hammerhead parents who think its OK to come in here and bash other teams and players.

Is this seriously being stated as an explanation? Is there not bench on the team? are the bench players allowed to play in games? are the hawks that worried about winning that they would bypass a prime opportunity to let the bench get some reps in real games? sounds like a female dog move to me.

You must be new here. Welcome to the room.

darn. No sports at all?

Let it go BLC Dad. You were missing lots of kids to injuries and it's just fall ball. You guys will be fine.

I am not a fan of much of the drivel on this site, but what is your point? Isn't the whole idea of this board that Dads can vent and boast and take shots and say all the things that can't/shouldn't be said out loud in real life?

Ha, that is because the Express teams carry 30-35 kids. Hawks have 21, minus 6 for football. Do the math.

Looks like you got your wish True daddy.

Very true, a year ago that team looked like it was straight out of rec. But holding back players in all elite programs, especially Crabs, is all part of the game.

They would be playing a tournament with 13 field players and 2 goalies. Hawks don't carry 30-35 kids.

Thanks for the words of wisdom. Which team do you coach?

[ChillLaxin] show.

Hi “Coach”. Why do you think some forums like this exist? Please do let the coaches know, but my guess is most have been here for awhile. If not, then maybe they will begin to understand what needs to change about club lacrosse and the way some of them approach coaching, treatment of players, etc. Because you are correct, they are 7th graders.

chicken hawks?

You cannot seriously be this dense. Please go stroke your 5K check to Express so your kid can stand in line with 30 other stunands

91 will win NAL.

And what took you so long to realize how despicable these chats are?

91 will lose to Tigers by 8 and Madlax by 5.

Thank god schools went to Zoom. I can't imagine the embarrassment of having to explain to people that yes, I am repeating an entire year of school to help a club lacrosse team that was not good enough. At least the kids get to save some shame and humiliation of being used by their parents and club

my son is a double holdback!!!

Hawks have a chance to win it this weekend?

Have fun in PA. They moved it from DE.

On Sunday #1 Hawks are playing teams ranked 18, 20, 34, 49, and 50; plus one unranked team at the Fall Lax Showdown, with no excuses about missing football players.If they don't win, they don't deserve to hold the #1 spot. Can BLC (18) and True Atlantic 2026 (20) give them a run for the money?

Lucky for them, they dont play True Atlantic.

Thanks fanboy Do you run the fan club website or just stalk everything else. How do I get a fan club t shirt.

True Atlantic is missing most of their roster due to travel restrictions.

So they backed out of NAL to play in another level 2 tournament? There rank should drop to #10 or worse

It's not like NAL has nothing but top teams. They have following ranked teams playing in the Pa tournament - 6,10, 22, 35, 39 and Not Ranked.

I am laughing while reading this as it is apparent most of you do not understand the NAL brackets this year. My son plays for a NY team who is in the tournament so I know how the brackets are set up. No matter if the Hawks, Crabs, True or another mid-Atlantic team played in NAL they would not play one game versus the NY and NJ teams. There are two brackets, one with teams from NY and NJ and one with teams from Md and PA. Because of Covid the two brackets do not crossover into a championship series. The two best teams of each bracket play one another at the end with their being two champs (one from each bracket). It’s the same set up as used in Hershey this past summer, but instead of hiding Express among weak teams in the weak bracket (ala this summer) the teams are segmented by region.

So my family is driving from Long Island on Sat to play teams we play all the time. We will not be playing any of the teams from Md. A lot of expense and time for us for the same old. While not a Hawks fan they are not ducking, cause even if they showed they would play only the local teams they always play, while we play only the teams from our region. No dog in the hunt, just saying....