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Hi again Mr. Pot....

it was 11-7 legends

All of the above is accurate. Minor technicality, son #2 didn't hold back, he merely entered kindergarten a year late.

Only mentioned because the MM apologist (MM or Austin) will be along shortly with an all caps comment to the effect of, he never held back, you know nothing, go back to your hole, MM is a lacrosse genius, you have zero facts, etc.

My son let me know that injury bug hit FCA once again this past weekend. Best midfielder went down and did not return. Kids talking to each other saying he is out for the year. Huge loss if so!

I did see the FCA injury before the True/NL game. Not sure of the extent of it, but looked to be in a lot of pain in either leg or ankle. detest to see it.

Who wins the bowl this weekend Predators vs. Team 91??

91 kept it close against the Hawks this past weekend. Not sure if they are getting better or Hawks are getting worse. My money is on 91 getting their first win in what 4 years?

After week 5:
Top 3 for Goal Differential (GD) per game:

1. Madlax +4.2
2. True Chesapeake +4
3. Hawks +2.8

Top 3 for Goals For (GF) per game:

1. Madlax = 9.6
2. Legends = 9.4
3. True Chesapeake = 9.3

Top 3 for Goals Allowed (GA) per game:

1. True Chesapeake = 5.3
2. Madlax = 5.4
3. Hawks = 5.6

Anyone notice the Circuit "All America" selections.... more absurdity.

Nationals take 6 of the 14 positions despite having 4 scorers in the top 14. Meanwhile, Rebels has has the #1 and #5 scorers yet they weren't selected.

Kids who ranked in the 20's in scoring were picked due to name recognition.

Sorry but the Circuit is an absolute joke.

Half those kids are 28’s, not fair to the 29’s who work their tails off in the 18-3 games they play in.

Absurd is putting it lightly. All of the Nationals parents know their kids should have taken every position.

Someone is trying to stay relevant! HAHAHA!

Does the Circuit really keep stats on all the kids in all the games? Absurd is really putting it lightly...

This weeks game summary.- It’s Small this week. My other “hobbies” got in the way. LOL  Add any information that could be interesting to the conversation.

Things noticed this week. The goal differentials in games is getting smaller. The idea that stronger teams are blowing out the weaker teams is not happening. Compared to previous years change is coming with team growth and development.

Hawks v. Team 91 - Did not watch. So what is going on with either Hawks or Team 91? Better yet, what is happening with Hawks? 6-5 going into the middle of the season. By now teams are either falling off or picking up the pace. I did not watch the game, however any insight would be appreciated for anyone that saw it. Curious to see how Team 91 and Preds play. Hawks will control the game with FCA. Won’t be blowout however hawks will control 95% of the game.

Legends v. Preds - As expected Legends won, but not sure if it was a dominant win with Preds scoring more goals than they have had in previous games. Great to see a game being played at USA Lacrosse. Great venue. Legends next level will be. A close game.

Madlax v. FCA - So FCA continues to slide. Would have never thought they would be 1 and 5. Very uncharacteristic. I understand the injury bug has plagued the team and continues to plaque them. The game was, as previous games had played out for FCA, with lack of offense and struggles in the defense. Madlax was consistent and organized on offense. Even though I saw little inventiveness that steered away from predictable play calling, Madlax was able to use their speed and discipline to work their way through FCA’s defense. Madlax’s defense was consistent with getting ground balls and forcing turn overs. The defense was able to shutdown passing lanes and use slides to make sure FCA could not penetrate towards the goal. Offensively FCA showed times when they caught Madlax’s defense off guard and was able to score, however this was overshadowed by their simple mistakes in ball movement and attaining ground balls. Defensively FCA still struggles with missing assignments and knowing where to be. Future success for FCA’s defense will be determined by an established clear defensive leader on the field. Madlax is where they should be at 4-1 with challenging game this week against TC. FCA will struggle with Hawks. However they are due for an upset win. Not sure if this will be it.

True Chesapeake v. Next Level - Didn’t watch it but was expecting it to closer then to was. Next level playsLegends and TC v. Madlax should be a good game. TC has a double header. The question is how two games in a day will affect each team especially one being at 8 pm.

Predictions

FCA Vs. Hawks - Hawks +5
Madlax Vs. TC - TC +1
Legends Vs Next Level - Next Level +1
Predators Red Vs. Team 91 - Team 91 +1
Team 91 Vs. TC - TC +4

The circuit does a terrible job keeping stats. The teams with the best stats either have someone keeping their stats at the score table or update them later. Some teams work the system and give every goal an assist and give goals to their top players to ensure they will be stat leaders. One 2029 coach was very blatant about it during games.

Good thing we now have the Alliance Lacrosse League

Heard that something happened with the Hawks players and coach. Team was up 4-1 at the end of the first quarter and then many starters rode the bench for the rest of the game. Not sure if it was a punishment or simply getting depth players time.

"Simply getting depth players time"..... I'm sure that is not the reason. HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

Fair Enough. Good for them if they where getting other players reps.

I'm guessing they did the same with Madlax and True. Proud of the Hawks turning a new leaf. Development over winning!

Just wait, USCL said that beginning in May they were going to start ranking individual players. The club lax ish show in general is about to get really absurd.

I'm not saying the Rebels players shouldn't have been selected but the team was 3-7. I don't think it's uncommon for players from a team well below .500 to not be picked. Totaling a point against against RH and Nationals doesn't help their case.

Lastly, scoring is probably not the right metric to evaluate the LSM, defenseman and goalie from Nationals (3 of the 6 players selected.)

By that criteria, how do you justify only 2 Red Hots players being selected despite being undefeated and the #1 seed, yet Nationals has 6 players selected.

My any objective criteria, I don't know how you name a midfielder who is #21 in points on the 3rd ranked team over the top points producer in the entire league regardless of his team's standing.

What did you hear? Enlighten us all. The couple partial games I saw, looks like some of them are just going through the motions. Defense wasn’t as disciplined and offense is elementary.

One of the Red Hot players named an “all American” is not even that skilled. His skill is being huge and concussing kids as he mows them down on his way to the goal. And for the record he’s in 8th grade.

Take all that Circuit talk nonsense to the 2028 board since that’s what many of these kids are anyway

Precisely! Let's talk about the only tournament that has true 2029's playing. I predict True Ches will do quite well in the LWSC Championship Event. What are others thoughts?

Weird how many of the top scorers aren't all americans. 4 of the top 5 scorers aren't all-american. Looking down at the 2030s, 3 of the top 4 scorers aren't all americans. Strange. Maybe they exclude kids that are on the teams by waivers (ie they are too old)

Let's talk about HOCO instead. Thanks for stopping by and trying to shake that hornets nest weekly...

True Ches is not a 2029 Mid-Atlantic Boys team? Are they not currently in 1st in HOCO? They also are the only HOCO team playing in the LWSC. Did they not beat the fabled Fusion Futures? Why would folks not want to support/talk about them representing the mid-atlantic?

Be honest with yourself. They’re a nicely fabricated regional team who have FINALLY come together the last few weeks.

2029s no longer have Mike Mollot. Thats the entire problem.

Signed- Mike Mollot

What are plans for circuit next year with a lot of the teams being shown as attending Holiday Bowl tourney right around the same time in Florida?

The holiday bowl will more likely impact club nationals, not the circuit. What I'm assuming will impact the circuit is not being counted in the USCL ratings. I can see Nationals and Red Hots both potentially bailing on the Circuit because it won't be utilized for ratings. And out of all of the Circuit Teams those two teams seem to be the most focused on their rankings.

No one misses that hammerhead. Least of all his family I'm sure.

Isn't True Ches a combo of last years VLC team and the non-Fly in True Annapolis/Chesapeke team of the last few years? A national/regional team that competes against our local MD teams.

Signed hawks fly in goalie dad.

So wait. Your point is that 2029 Crabs/LTRC, FCA, Hawks, Next Level...do NOT have kids from the whole region? Wow. Great point. Granted - completely naive and wrong.

HIs/her whole point about True Ches being regional like none of the other teams in HoCo are regional (add Madlax to the list) is pretty nonsensical.