Albion SC (East County specifically)

sandiegofutbolguy said:
Makes sense. Just cant imagine committing to one of these teams if my kid isn't upper tier and won't have to worry about being rostered on the weekend. (competition is good and all, but not signing my son up to not play)
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While I agree, it's really the players choice. U15/U16 is where they should take more ownership IMO. Are they ok potentially being low in the depth chart and working their way up or would they prefer guaranteed time at a lower level?
 
Scrub It Kook said:
While I agree, it's really the players choice. U15/U16 is where they should take more ownership IMO. Are they ok potentially being low in the depth chart and working their way up or would they prefer guaranteed time at a lower level?
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IMHO this is on the club, not the kid. The club should provide both meaningful training and game-day experience. If that means guesting/dual-rostering, so be it. But stacking a roster with more kids than the league allows on game day just to cash their checks is poor form.
 
Erasmus said:
IMHO this is on the club, not the kid. The club should provide both meaningful training and game-day experience. If that means guesting/dual-rostering, so be it. But stacking a roster with more kids than the league allows on game day just to cash their checks is poor form.
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It's definitely about $ and any good coach will admit that..

However, you'd be surprised how many MLS HD players don't want to guest down with the AD team, AD players who don't want to guest with the EA team, EA players who don't want to guest with the EA2 or SoCal teams. Plenty of players are frequently asked to guest down, but decline as either they want to be available for a last minute slot or b/c they don't want to tarnish their reputation.
 
sandiegofutbolguy said:
Connect still shows the u15 rosters over capacity, but Noah "demanding" answers out of anyone saying that they aren't returning.
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WE received a "strongly worded" email from Noah. My son's former teammate (u14) got "I need to know why you're leaving" email from Noah for not accepting an EA2 spot.
Making us more and more happy that we decided to part ways.
 
Yeah, unclear why the staff thinks they are in a position to demand answers. Perhaps they should look at the tables in these age groups and ask the questions of themselves. Can you tell which of these 6 rosters was not assembled by Albion staff?

U14 EA 11/15 with 3 wins; EA2 6/29 with 18 wins
U15 EA 15/15 with 0 wins; EA2 24/28 with 3 wins
U16 EA 14/15 with 3 wins; EA2 27/28 with 3 wins
 
It won't let me edit, but I forgot to include the youngest of ML's age groups (lest anyone think the "future" was brighter):

U13 EA 15/15 with 0 wins; EA2 21/28 with 6 wins
 
Erasmus said:
Yeah, unclear why the staff thinks they are in a position to demand answers. Perhaps they should look at the tables in these age groups and ask the questions of themselves. Can you tell which of these 6 rosters was not assembled by Albion staff?

U14 EA 11/15 with 3 wins; EA2 6/29 with 18 wins
U15 EA 15/15 with 0 wins; EA2 24/28 with 3 wins
U16 EA 14/15 with 3 wins; EA2 27/28 with 3 wins
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That's wild.
I am not sure what led to him and JA fleeing, but he sure did bring in some talent.
 
sandiegofutbolguy said:
That's wild.
I am not sure what led to him and JA fleeing, but he sure did bring in some talent.
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Not sure it's just about talent availability. In the past two years SN won both a SoCal league title and a State Cup with the "dregs" that ML didn't see fit for the EA badge, and many of the (few) wins above occurred after AN/AM took over the squads.
 
Erasmus said:
Something tells me anyone turning out for an MLSN ID session won't be accepting an EA2 offer!
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I'm willing to bet there will be a few flight 2/3 players who believe they've achieved the MLSN level and will jump at a letter league offer.

I may be mistaken, but there might even be a registration fee involved 🤣
 
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