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Post by rifle on Apr 27, 2024 11:11:52 GMT -5
Well this morning a PL referee made an apparent major gaffe as well. So… it happens.
Tip: Try to take the stuff less seriously. Especially kids. Those refs aren’t wearing FIFA patches on their sleeves.
They aren’t out to screw you*. They are most likely trying to do a good job.
* I will openly admit to letting obnoxious parents and players influence my decision making on a questionable “both” players kicked it out of bounds type situation.
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Post by rifle on Apr 26, 2024 22:25:02 GMT -5
Lots of views, but not one comment? Interesting. have a thumbs up. I agree stuff like that (while uncommon) makes it hard to defend against knuckleheads who think soccer is for sissies. So I don’t bother. But the situation is also a pretty big outlier and not enough to really bother getting annoyed IMO. Somebody did something dumb.
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Post by rifle on Apr 26, 2024 22:23:40 GMT -5
Claim to be a good referee. Claim HS referees stink. Refuse to referee HS. What exactly is the point here? I think my explanation and points are quite clear in my OP and my comments further down the post. Your dismissive comment here doesn't change that. You just either didn't read my post and comments or just don't agree, but since you can't read I'll give you my main issues. 1) The two man system sucks for refereeing soccer and I refuse to do it. 2) Given how horrible I have seen some refereeing this year and previous years I do not want to be stuck in a 3 man crew with 1-2 other bad referees where I get lumped into being just as bad as them especially if those bad ones refuse to listen to the constructive criticism on some of their calls. I just don't want to be in that situation at all. The rest triffling answered are also all quite good points of why I won't do it. I'm too old to be paying my dues and having to run AR lines for years before I get a chance to center a HS game. I can understand if I was a teenager or college student having to pay my dues. I'm too old to be doing that crap at my age. I get higher level centers just fine in youth soccer that would blow HS away. If there is a ton of hoops to jump to just referee HS, yeah no thanks.... Thanks. I read it as you think they suck and you could do better - but you just don’t want to do it. The extra context helps (whether I missed it the first time or whether you didn’t actually write what you think you did - is kinda moot at this point). I have also heard : A) of the gatekeeping that may or may not exist in getting HS game assignments. B) that each school decides whether to PAY two versus three (or three plus one) - it’s not a foregone conclusion that HS = 2 man. Personally - I think HS referees are fine. Some mistakes get made but they’re generally okay. It’s a high pressure situation and not everyone can do it. It is what it is. I won’t referee HS because they’re too fookin fast and I believe when referees can’t be in position it is “unacceptable”. I also don’t care to learn a non IFAB set of rules that are dumb. I also don’t have the schedule flexibility to be on a field at 4:30pm on weekdays. Ever.
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Post by rifle on Apr 25, 2024 21:11:22 GMT -5
Claim to be a good referee. Claim HS referees stink. Refuse to referee HS.
What exactly is the point here?
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Post by rifle on Apr 18, 2024 16:48:22 GMT -5
But, it's getting to the point where if you want to play at the highest levels eventually players have to get involved with letter leagues. Maybe someday professional Academy soccer will come to the women's game in America. Cut through all the BS and focus on ability/talent. maybe it’ll come for the men as well.
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Post by rifle on Apr 17, 2024 18:53:50 GMT -5
I’m kinda stunned that people are recommending taking her to Roswell from Smyrna. That ain’t close at all. NTH and SSA are the places to tryout IMO.
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Post by rifle on Apr 15, 2024 18:46:25 GMT -5
The best advice I can give is to go where you think your player will be happy and grow/develop. I wouldn’t chase Leagues. I know this is a bit of a non answer, but it’s the best advice I have. Club success varies within leagues. Team success varies within clubs. Player success varies within teams. Don't worry about the league at all. Find the best (& closest) coach at whatever club in whatever league. If, at 16 (or 10th grade), your child still loves and excels at the sport, speak with them about what they want from the sport and take the appropriate steps at that point. If your child is a phenom, people will reach out to you. This is really sound advice.
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Post by rifle on Apr 11, 2024 8:26:35 GMT -5
Knock knock knock.
Is this thing on??
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Post by rifle on Apr 8, 2024 20:17:19 GMT -5
Old news.
According to the thread title.
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Post by rifle on Apr 5, 2024 12:18:28 GMT -5
No greater sign of ignorance than racism.
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Post by rifle on Apr 2, 2024 17:31:39 GMT -5
No Dollar Limit?
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Post by rifle on Apr 1, 2024 16:12:10 GMT -5
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Post by rifle on Apr 1, 2024 16:08:02 GMT -5
And it sounds like they learned the difference between misbehaving at a private business and redressing grievances with the government.
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Post by rifle on Mar 31, 2024 12:10:35 GMT -5
Happy Easter
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Post by rifle on Mar 28, 2024 20:47:02 GMT -5
I read “two GA clubs” on the GA soccer forum.. then I realize it meant Girls Academy not Georgia.
I don’t feel like I have standing to say anything in judgment. No personal experience other than knowing two families with trans kids (and my 19 year old knows a handful as well). I’m mostly sympathetic toward them. They’re not having an easy time at all. None of the ones I know are remotely close to leveraging their status to win a sport. I really wonder how this topic gains any momentum.. it mostly seems like grasping at straws.
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Post by rifle on Mar 27, 2024 15:20:04 GMT -5
Let me know when teams are promoted or relegated. You will see pro/rel end at the highest level in MOST of the rest of the world before you see it in MLS. Super League incoming. And that’ll be a shame. Money certainly tips the scales in Europe but an open pyramid that aligns like-level clubs to compete is a good thing not a bad thing. You’re free to like it or not like it but that’s my belief. MLS being run like NFL (minus the very important ability to sell advertising) is crippling the growth of the game in this country. Helping NY and LA make the playoffs is if no value if you can’t sell commercials - so you might as well grow the game in more markets. If USSF gives men’s USL the same D1 sanction they have given to USL women, good things will follow. Nevertheless… if Roswell builds it and they come, I’ll be among them.
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Post by rifle on Mar 26, 2024 20:35:30 GMT -5
I understand the news story is about women’s soccer. Let me know when MLS loses its grip on the good old boys club that is the US Soccer federation, and we get an open pyramid in men’s or women’s pro soccer. That's what USL is doing with women's soccer. It's an open pyramid. Let me know when teams are promoted or relegated.
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Post by rifle on Mar 26, 2024 19:53:32 GMT -5
I happen to live in Roswell and love soccer but I’m not holding my breath for **franchise ball** that is forever unable to climb a pyramid. At least (I think) it isn’t USL coming with some investor to try and steal a fanbase like they did in Chattanooga. Pro soccer in America is jacked up, and MLS isn’t going to let that change. If this was an entry into an open pyramid I’d be very excited. Otherwise it might as well be the Dutch Lions gimmick in Conyers. Maybe I'm misinterpreting you, but this thread seems to be geared more towards the potential of a women's team than a men's team. Which, if it happens, will include just about everything the you mentioned the situation lacking. I understand the news story is about women’s soccer. Let me know when MLS loses its grip on the good old boys club that is the US Soccer federation, and we get an open pyramid in men’s or women’s pro soccer.
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Post by rifle on Mar 26, 2024 18:06:57 GMT -5
I happen to live in Roswell and love soccer but I’m not holding my breath for **franchise ball** that is forever unable to climb a pyramid. At least (I think) it isn’t USL coming with some investor to try and steal a fanbase like they did in Chattanooga. Pro soccer in America is jacked up, and MLS isn’t going to let that change.
If this was an entry into an open pyramid I’d be very excited. Otherwise it might as well be the Dutch Lions gimmick in Conyers.
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Post by rifle on Mar 25, 2024 18:30:32 GMT -5
I refereed a low level U13G “select” game Sunday. One GK’s dad hung out on the sideline around the top of her penalty area. He literally joystick coached his daughter continuously and would not shut his mouth. Even after she was in tears after giving up soft goals number 3, 4, 5, 6. Her team was not good but her dad made it worse. I talked with the coach about it afterward and he just shook his head.
If you stand with other parents and get wound up: get away from them. If you get wound up standing by yourself, go put gas in your car and come back.
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Post by rifle on Mar 25, 2024 18:23:38 GMT -5
I’ll celebrate when we beat Uruguay and Chile back to back.
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Post by rifle on Mar 25, 2024 12:03:55 GMT -5
Highlights looked active which is positive. I was not aware of the game being played. Despite consuming several games and reading about soccer every week.
Hope it’s a trend that continues.
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Post by rifle on Mar 21, 2024 7:01:08 GMT -5
So the solution is for the cash cows to stop eating. Yeah that’ll never happen. No different from MLS next(non academy) and ECNL on the boys side. Pay to play is a detriment to all. You can’t un-ring the bell. Prove me wrong: About 25% of players are “select” quality. About 60% are good players and their parents money is being exchanged for some good “team sports” life lessons. The remaining 15% are purely being babysat. But the parents are willing to spend money and clubs are happy to take it. I call them willing suckers.
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Post by rifle on Mar 18, 2024 17:29:42 GMT -5
No question all of what you say is true for most. For my kids, having fun=being challenged so in the years they were placed on teams below what they (and we and once even their coach) perceived as their levels that was not fun. We have changed clubs to avoid coaches before. Having had coaches ruin the fun for my kids in previous years we made the decision that we are not going to pay thousands of dollars for a service that won’t be fun in one place if we can have the same/or nearly equal service somewhere else. My loyalty to the clubs ends when they do not have a coach or team for my player that I think matches what they need. This discussion ALWAYS includes my kids. We're on the same page. Admittedly I think my kid is a fringe player, and that makes it more complicated for him and the clubs. I'm less concerned about "first team/second team" designations than what the implications are for how it impacts his development. If the coaching was equal, the intensity of practice equal, the passion of the players equal regardless of which team I wouldn't care one lick. But seeing the difference and how little opportunity or interest there is to challenge those players who do need it is frustrating, and does end up impacting his enjoyment of playing. Been there. There isn’t much worse* than giving a dang and playing with others who really don’t... ..except when they make the HS team and you don’t because you haven’t even hit puberty before you get a drivers license. *that is worse. And knowing it’s gonna happen to your kid (because it happened to you) and having no way to change it sucks a fair bit as well.
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Post by rifle on Mar 18, 2024 17:24:05 GMT -5
I hear the Chattahoochee - Northview game had 5 red cards last night and something about a ball boy calling a player the N word. Anyone have any details on this? Is it sad that so many people have accused so many people of using the "N" word or being racist when it turns out it was false and the person accusing was lying that I have my doubts that really went down in this incident? I mean sure it could have and its sad that the tactic gets used so much when it is false that maybe a true issue will be doubted (Boy who cried wolf...), but I have seen so many in altercations who were in the wrong or at least equally in the wrong as the other party pull out the race card and accuse the other party of something that didn't really happen to try to get away with their bad behavior or knew they were in the wrong and were just trying to save face. So you don’t have any details then?
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Post by rifle on Mar 12, 2024 17:07:56 GMT -5
Ah. Exactly what I was worried about. Just hoping things were different now. They could be different now but CF is a destination club. Lots of players on lots of teams at lots of levels. I’m sure they’ll be happy to take your money and they definitely have high performing teams. My kid went to a tryout one year (it was probably 2017ish so not recent) and got moved around during the night - but no feedback at all so he went somewhere else for day two. I’ve seen some very low level teams wearing the same CF shirt, so some people definitely get a “destination club experience” that isn’t quite what they wished for. This isn’t sour grapes or intended to dissuade you. I just know that if they don’t know you before you arrive, chances are slim to get the hand of god necessary to be placed on a top team. My kid wasn’t in that category so it was mainly a learning experience.
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Post by rifle on Mar 12, 2024 12:22:25 GMT -5
Hi All, I'm sure this has been asked in the past but I could not find anything. Can anybody share their thoughts on the club? I have a couple of boys who plays academy and deciding on changing clubs at the end of the season. How's the communication and culture? Do the coaches ever put new kids on the top black and white teams or do new kids automatically start in the lower levels? Any thoughts or comments are appreciated! If this is your idea and nobody (kids, parents, other) from CF has reached out to you - prepare to be very disappointed with how tryouts go. They’ll run a big event and the coaches will talk to each other and move a handful of players around. Then many will be offered a spot on a team of unknown level.
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Post by rifle on Mar 11, 2024 16:45:43 GMT -5
Good grief
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Post by rifle on Mar 11, 2024 6:42:23 GMT -5
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Post by rifle on Mar 9, 2024 9:20:20 GMT -5
Sounds like you’re doing the right things waiting to see coach assignments and well positioned to lock in some options before tryouts. Thats a desirable place to be before tryouts.
(And I know.. I’m being “captain obvious is obvious”)
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