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MD 27 teams are completely mediocre at Am Select.
Here's hoping they can win some games against the bottom feeder PA and NY teams in their bracket.

Seems like all Maryland teams are not high bracket winners. Strange that other areas are better.

Too funny.

Which is it? SW doesn't adjust 27s and we keep saying they are [Censored]. Or, they adjust the 27s roster and we say SW is [Censored] for upgrading. Make it make sense.

85% of girls up until 9th grade are development projects, where they make most of their improvements in off-field work (personal practice). 10% of girls are gifted for that 5th-8th window and 5% good, but are subject to club politics.

SW does look for potential and takes some flyers on kids. Sometimes they miss. SW kids that were cut or downgraded (ignoring the messaging) either were on the fence, subject to politics or had not been putting in the necessary work to keep up with other kids. Mind you about 12 kids didn't get cut from SWB. It may stand out more because by comparison other clubs may already have found kids putting in work and/ or are talented, so they don't need change.

Some teams like M&D and Hero's hit more than they missed on talent AND they historically have given more attention to their younger pipeline. Coppermine may be on track to follow suit, but that remains to be seen. That said, everyone, even haters of the SW club and/or SW27 teams, knows d*amn well SWB-W are going to be fine moving forward.

Win or lose, if SWB or SWW (or any team) with known history of producing players at grade 10 and 11 (mind you development doesn't stop at 9th grade) wants to place their kids. It will happen, which is what it's really about.


Have a coke and smile....

Seems like you almost convinced yourself

Wow, an Eddie Murphy reference?!? This just got interesting. Kudos.

Has anyone watched the AS games? Why is MD not doing well in 27s? What about the 26s?

Which club has coke?

just look at the two rosters. middies are strength of this 27 class. for the two best club teams, you have one middie at AA, an injury and some that didn’t even try out. and best 27 goalie not on one of the two teams.

MD Red has lost all of one game, what are you all talking about?

Wait the MD teams are struggling?

I was told:
This event wasn't a money grab.
The coaches were really good.
They paid full attention during tryouts.
The best players made it.

Can't be possible.
Color me shocked.

The two best club teams are so strong because their starting lineup at every position is strong and there’s not much drop off from backups, unlike every other team. If you think there aren’t many players on that AS roster that are couldn’t play for those two clubs, you don’t follow this age group close.

What makes the top 2 clubs so strong is that their girls face the best teams each weekend. They don’t get chances to shine against below average teams inflating their evaluation of their own skills. Lots of good athletes out there but many lack the iq and unselfishness to play with these teams. It would make a major blow to mommy and daddy egos to not have their kid take all the shots with a deep team.

The red team is in the championship, so not sure how that is struggling

Can you give that to me, without all the negatives, one more time?

Have your child read it to you slowly

just look at the two rosters. middies are strength of this 27 class. for the two best club teams, you have one middie at AA, an injury and some that didn’t even try out. and best 27 goalie not on one of the two teams.[/quote]

The two best club teams are so strong because their starting lineup at every position is strong and there’s not much drop off from backups, unlike every other team. If you think there aren’t many players on that AS roster that are couldn’t play for those two clubs, you don’t follow this age group close.[/quote]
Can you give that to me, without all the negatives, one more time?[/quote]

Red didn’t not get blown out in the final!

Maybe your daughter isn’t the best goalie. Hopefully the dose of reality motivates her to get better.

The two best club teams are so strong because their starting lineup at every position is strong and there’s not much drop off from backups, unlike every other team. If you think there aren’t many players on that AS roster that are couldn’t play for those two clubs, you don’t follow this age group close.[/quote]
Can you give that to me, without all the negatives, one more time?[/quote]

Red didn’t not get blown out in the final![/quote]

They played almost the entire second half down a man, and down 2 men the last 10 minutes. At half it was tied, but it is near impossible to keep it close down like they were.

Stop being bitter your child didn’t make it. The team was good and they had a good weekend.

Come on that's written like your English teacher didn't care if you passed or failed. Typos are whatever, but typos and double negatives, you not be brain smart.

The two best club teams are so strong because their starting lineup at every position is strong and there’s not much drop off from backups, unlike every other team. If you think there aren’t many players on that AS roster that are couldn’t play for those two clubs, you don’t follow this age group close.[/quote]
Can you give that to me, without all the negatives, one more time?[/quote]

Red didn’t not get blown out in the final![/quote]
Winner!

Can you give that to me, without all the negatives, one more time?[/quote]

Red didn’t not get blown out in the final![/quote]

They played almost the entire second half down a man, and down 2 men the last 10 minutes. At half it was tied, but it is near impossible to keep it close down like they were.

Stop being bitter your child didn’t make it. The team was good and they had a good weekend.[/quote]

Sounds worse than a blowout,, More like a disaster putting themselves in that position

Red didn’t not get blown out in the final![/quote]

They played almost the entire second half down a man, and down 2 men the last 10 minutes. At half it was tied, but it is near impossible to keep it close down like they were.

Stop being bitter your child didn’t make it. The team was good and they had a good weekend.[/quote]

Sounds worse than a blowout,, More like a disaster putting themselves in that position[/quote]

Yeah, that's not bitterness. I still cheer for maryland teams. There's plenty of great kids on that team I want to see win.

But come on, man and two man down isn't the other team's fault. That was mostly a second half blowout. And, it's ok.

Refs were a little heavy handed with yellow cards in the game.

Make that the entire tourney.

Some of the M&D players now refer to SW as the SlowWalkers since they have so few fast kids.

MD Red gets exposed in championship game 10-4.
LI Black with coaching adjustments and just did a smarter job compiling their roster.

That LI team was like what, 16 YJ kids? Obviously it would be easier to make adjustments with that group all from same club. It was tied at half. It was a fine weekend, losing in championship in all star event is no reason to question the tryouts. Maybe a few on yellow woulda helped, yes. Maybe a few cut or didn't try out woulda helped yes.

AS did a fantastic job on social media, lots of videos, posts, etc.

Long Island Black basically came with their YJ club team to AM (as noted 16 girls). No excuses for the MD teams but there's something to be said about bringing your A club vs an All Star team that only practiced 1 time together. Looks like LI treated this as just another tournament with their A team plus a few others. Only thing they changed were their coaches which coached the LI B team. Not saying this is right or wrong but their should be some player limits per regional team to represent or this AM event should just be another Club Tournament.

You have to remember when you play some "bottom feeder" teams where 80% of kids are from the same club, the games are more competitive than you think.

in this format, a team with kids from 8 clubs is always going to underperform.

This is why AA generally features better lacrosse than AS. When the coaches picking the team are the ones coaching the team, the teams will perform better.

3/4 of the winners were essentially club teams - Upstate was nearly entirely Monster with only 1 non-Monster player. 27s and 28s were basically just YJ.

True, except LI sent all of their top players to American Select letting the MD AA teams pummel everyone. No easy fix to try and get them all to one tournament in an All-Star format when competing financial interests are in play.

End of day, does it really matter? Does it matter who wins? The point of these is to get exposure for the players, build up a resume. Win Loss doesn't matter. Im glad they are competing, more chances for kids to get showcased.

They sound like really nice girls. Glad to see they had some good take aways from the weekend. Nice job Mom/Dad

I hope you are smart enough to know this is a troll. If not, you should probably stay away from message boards

Talk about troll under the bridge. I thought we only trolled the clubs and parents, leaving the kids exempt.

Odd, no rosters seem to have updated.

Typically M&D has theirs out like 2 days after tryouts.

I think their admin lady is on maternity leave

Clearly your daughter doesn't play for M&D, so why are you concerned about the rosters not being listed?

This is an interesting response from someone who logs onto BOTC in August.

I'm curious about where people ended up, who went where. Not you though right? LOL. Clutching your pearls "How dare someone inquire about where 14 yr old girls play club".