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Post by rifle on May 17, 2024 6:17:21 GMT -5
….. again to me, putting the league behind a pay wall on a app that is one of the worst streaming platforms (in my opinion) is there demise. They play all the games at the same time, but most importantly, i have zero interest in watching 2 random MLS teams play - just doesn't move the meter. and I've said it before, the younger generation, besides the kids at mls academies, none of the young kids watch either. They need a friday night fixture each week, and maybe Tuesday nights. Futsal is dead on -- it starts between the pipes and at center back, but at the end of the day this team is out of sync and has zero continuity. I've lost faith to be honest, some of the homegrown signings are odd and better players have moved on to colleges without a look. Tear it all down and start over - easy fix, move the team back to bobby dodd!! I think the Apple TV platform is probably fine if the product is worth watching. The MLS marketing team’s story that these teams are among the most valuable clubs in the world is the hilarious part. But that’s expected when it’s a bunch of billionaires who are in it as a hedge against their NFL profits.. they probably think the league is performing great - it’s simply bonus value when they coerce taxpayers into paying for their real estate. Without a ground up rebuild that understands the foundation of an open pyramid is the key, we’re doomed into mediocrity no matter how many young kids play the game. Just imagine if the youth clubs had a purpose (beyond separating willing suckers from their money) and we had a setup like Germany where the supporters share ownership. You might even have some authentic support that wouldn’t abandon a team after being relegated.
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Post by rifle on May 16, 2024 20:52:37 GMT -5
Didn’t get relegated?
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Post by rifle on May 16, 2024 15:27:20 GMT -5
Similar issue with my kid after being loyal to a club for 10+ years. One coach didn't like me even though my kid started and played full games for him and for the coach before him for at least 3 years working his way up through the years getting stronger and better. Coach thought I was some ring leader out to get him when I was just conveying the general sentiment of the team parents to him (something I had done for every coach as team manager for many years), but this one took it as me trying to get rid of him when I was just being nice and warning of the animosity the parents had against him. The coach allowed my kid to tryout and then ghosted him and us to the point where I had to get the DOC involved. He then proceeded to lie about what went down and the DOC backed him up. So I had to scramble to find a team (which ended up being quite a bit better team) with another club with my kid doing some workouts with the team over the summer to solidify his position. My kid would have rather played on his lower team with his friends but that was not a possibility due to the unprofessional and unethical coach. Turns out that whole story was a blessing in disguise. My kid got better on this better team with this new club, and I regretted not taking my kid over to that club years ago. His former team with all his friends had from what I'm told (since I'm friends with most of the parents) a very crapshow of a season, and before the first game even happened the same POS coach quit on the club due to supposed "primary job scheduling issues". I thought it was a bit of karma to the club and the DOC for having that coach's back. Regardless at this point it is water under the bridge on the whole incident, and honestly my kid nor I harbor any ill will toward the old club. The only ill will I have is against the former coach that lied about the situation. My point is that there are many POS coaches, that will even go as far as lying to the DOC and club to get rid of players or families. It happens in all clubs. Most times the DOC believes the coach for various reasons such as needing the coach due to lack of of being able to hire any others, or other reasons. There isn't anything you can do about it but switch teams and coaches when this happens. Sometimes the clubs are complacent in the whole thing, sometimes the coach is pulling the wool over their eyes. Here I am at the end of the journey with my older kid, and even if I regret not shopping clubs earlier in their select years, I wouldn't give up any of it for anything in the world. They played their last club game last weekend, and it finally hit me hard what my wife had been feeling all this time with graduation, soccer, etc.... I'm going to miss the hell out of seeing my kid play. it takes a while to sink in when it’s over.
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Post by rifle on May 12, 2024 21:06:55 GMT -5
MLS is a Ponzi scheme. The franchises are built for parity using finance gimmicks that won’t let a billionaire pay the defenders. The result is a JV league. Anyone else recall that Boca had zero executive experience? AU is still, with this incompetence, in the playoff hunt. Regular season has no meaning. They think allowing multiple teams in the playoffs will lead to increased TV ad revenue. But many soccer fans have fooled MLS (by ignoring their TV coverage altogether). I loved the game my whole life and consume multiple games per week. MLS has lost my interest.
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AU vs DC
May 12, 2024 16:12:02 GMT -5
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Post by rifle on May 12, 2024 16:12:02 GMT -5
MLS is a Ponzi scheme. The franchises are built for parity using finance gimmicks that won’t let a billionaire pay the defenders. The result is a JV league.
Anyone else recall that Boca had zero executive experience?
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Post by rifle on May 5, 2024 21:55:42 GMT -5
Nothing good will come from scheming with a handful of the best players at a small club - to move clubs together. Every kid “cuts their own deal” at tryouts. Look out for your own and that’s enough. Scheming will lead to unnecessary hard feelings.
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Post by rifle on May 1, 2024 17:32:05 GMT -5
Imagine living in Savannah!
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Post by rifle on Apr 29, 2024 8:53:33 GMT -5
I don’t have any advice but I am proud of you for managing to raise two kids yourself and include him in club soccer. Just be aware the season calendar is pretty fixed so try to schedule vacations around (or in between) to avoid this. I learned the same at that age that tryouts are a bad time to schedule a vacation….
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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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