Albion SC (East County specifically)

Scrub It Kook said:
The bar is pretty low from the last EA director so hopefully he can improve the program. Is it a coincidence that the 3 lowest ranked Albion EA teams all had the same coach and practiced at one of the worst fields in SD?
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Have never heard a positive take on Marco, but lots of negatives.
Hopefully Ale can get things straightened out. Get the better 2012 eA2 kids up to EA(at least) and the EA kids down to a level they belong at. 2011s also a disaster
 
Scrub It Kook said:
The bar is pretty low from the last EA director so hopefully he can improve the program. Is it a coincidence that the 3 lowest ranked Albion EA teams all had the same coach and practiced at one of the worst fields in SD?
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At least they've fixed the field situation by moving to Hickman; I understand ML preferred Robb for some reason. They're running lots of scrimmages in the B10-14 age groups right now, so hopefully the teams will be more competitive next year. I'm more concerned that they restore a real "pathway", as EA was an island to itself--not much movement up from Academy or to MLSN the past few years.
 
Erasmus said:
At least they've fixed the field situation by moving to Hickman; I understand ML preferred Robb for some reason. They're running lots of scrimmages in the B10-14 age groups right now, so hopefully the teams will be more competitive next year. I'm more concerned that they restore a real "pathway", as EA was an island to itself--not much movement up from Academy or to MLSN the past few years.
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Do you expect a lot of transition of teams with ea2 kids going up a level or two?
 
East County Soccer Dad said:
Do you expect a lot of transition of teams with ea2 kids going up a level or two?
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I think the club has a lot to sort out with the matrix change in all age groups and at every level. If your player is already guesting or training with a higher level team then chances are they are in the mix. External players have also been training with the AD and HG teams recently so a lot of moving pieces.
Erasmus said:
At least they've fixed the field situation by moving to Hickman; I understand ML preferred Robb for some reason. They're running lots of scrimmages in the B10-14 age groups right now, so hopefully the teams will be more competitive next year. I'm more concerned that they restore a real "pathway", as EA was an island to itself--not much movement up from Academy or to MLSN the past few years.
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Scrimmages are great, but seems these are primarily to prep for Spring Season than to truly evaluate players.
 
East County Soccer Dad said:
Do you expect a lot of transition of teams with ea2 kids going up a level or two?
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No, but that's based on my personal experience with Albion, where almost no kids move up (or down) between teams. Rather, entire teams are moved under the Albion brand (e.g., MM's squad) or external kids are poached from other clubs.

I had hoped things would be different this year with the age re-alignment. It seems that they have made some decisions for U14 (I've seen kids moved between EA/EA2 for next season), but U15 and U16 seem to remain up in the air. Notably, they've set up a U16 EA2 team in their app, although with no coach. They previously only had an EA squad for B11.

To be fair, given that AN and AM were only handed their respective EA/EA2 squads in the past few weeks/months, they need time to evaluate the current rosters before considering which kids to move up/out and talk to the coaches of teams with kids that might be a better fit for the EA squads. Unfortunately the institutional memory that ML and SN had for this age group literally walked out the door.
 
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