Now that tryouts are over congratulations to everyone. Any big surprises though?
Biggest surprise was the amount of girls who showed up at Coppermine, Skywalkers and M&D tryouts. In hindsight, probably should have made that move in early middle school because it’s hard to get noticed with 70+ kids on the field
How many did each club add?
Would expect Skywalkers to add 2 or 3 to their numbers
Skywalkers Blue added 8 and white added 15
Both team should be good to very good.
From which programs did these 8 come from?
It’s all about development said No one from Skywalkers… ever. 20+ years of treating kids like a commodity. Go get ‘em.
Maybe true. But if you think any of the other top MD cups are developing kids after 5th grade, then you haven't been exposed to a top club.
The success of the top players at M&D, Heros, MDU, Coppermine, SW and many others has little to do with the clubs they played with in middle school and much more to do with their work off the field (wall ball, private stick work, strength and conditioning).
Too funny.
Which is it? SW doesn't adjust 27s and we keep saying they are [Censored]. Or, they adjust the 27s roster and we say SW is [Censored] for upgrading. Make it make sense.
85% of girls up until 9th grade are development projects, where they make most of their improvements in off-field work (personal practice). 10% of girls are gifted for that 5th-8th window and 5% good, but are subject to club politics.
SW does look for potential and takes some flyers on kids. Sometimes they miss. SW kids that were cut or downgraded (ignoring the messaging) either were on the fence, subject to politics or had not been putting in the necessary work to keep up with other kids. Mind you about 12 kids didn't get cut from SWB. It may stand out more because by comparison other clubs may already have found kids putting in work and/ or are talented, so they don't need change.
Some teams like M&D and Hero's hit more than they missed on talent AND they historically have given more attention to their younger pipeline. Coppermine may be on track to follow suit, but that remains to be seen. That said, everyone, even haters of the SW club and/or SW27 teams, knows d*amn well SWB-W are going to be fine moving forward.
Win or lose, if SWB or SWW (or any team) with known history of producing players at grade 10 and 11 (mind you development doesn't stop at 9th grade) wants to place their kids. It will happen, which is what it's really about.
Have a coke and smile....
Seems like you almost convinced yourself
Wow, an Eddie Murphy reference?!? This just got interesting. Kudos.
Has anyone watched the AS games? Why is MD not doing well in 27s? What about the 26s?
just look at the two rosters. middies are strength of this 27 class. for the two best club teams, you have one middie at AA, an injury and some that didn’t even try out. and best 27 goalie not on one of the two teams.
The two best club teams are so strong because their starting lineup at every position is strong and there’s not much drop off from backups, unlike every other team. If you think there aren’t many players on that AS roster that are couldn’t play for those two clubs, you don’t follow this age group close.
