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Same for your big debut on national television!

I agree with your statement, but VLC plays A not AA

haha touche!

Thanks - how did we look from your TV screen? Does it really add 10 pounds? Glad you all got a chance to relax and watch from home...

Two of the VLC teams did last spring, but all are playing AA this coming spring.

actually, quite bad. you guys got smoked

Loved every minute of it. Compared to Crush, you guys looked like a B team without your eighth graders. Makes a difference when there are actual rules and everyone has to follow them.

BTW...that is the same team that didn't even make the playoffs at the NSCLA tournament in June, correct?

Crabs 2020 will be the best team this fall. The talent at the tryouts was amazing.

Keep crying, LI Dad.

Crabs 2020 will be the best team this fall. The talent at the tryouts was amazing.

Keep crying, LI Dad.

Perhaps, but everyone has your number - every player suspect, every win tainted. Nobody will care about losing to you because you manipulate a flawed system to win.

Crabs motto - "8th grade...so nice we do it twice!"

Seems like you and everyone else care enough to keep whining about it...hahaha

Keep telling that to yourself. Meanwhile, our kids will be the ones recruited.

My kid did not start playing lacrosse with the goal of getting recruited, if it happens great, if not no biggie. There are many, many kids playing in college who did not play for the Crabs. Committing in the 9th grade only matters at cocktail parties.

Trying to do npyll, but crabs against it.[/quote]

That is absolutely not true. 91 cannot play in NPYLL until they are an established club in the area. That is per the bylaws of the league. Plus Millon stated that the travel is too much in the NPYLL. Why don't we wait to see how well 91 actually does this year before everyone deciding that Crabs is afraid to play them. Moving mediocre Breakers teams to 91 doesn't make them better teams. [/quote]

Mediocre Breakers teams? The 2020 Breakers team lost by 1 in OT to the Crabs 2020 team with the 2019 holdbacks. Would not say they are mediocre unless you also call Crabs mediocre. [/quote]

By the way...congrats on that loss...and congrats on the loss in spring too.[/quote]

Thanks - how did we look from your TV screen? Does it really add 10 pounds? Glad you all got a chance to relax and watch from home... [/quote]

Loved every minute of it. Compared to Crush, you guys looked like a B team without your eighth graders. Makes a difference when there are actual rules and everyone has to follow them.

BTW...that is the same team that didn't even make the playoffs at the NSCLA tournament in June, correct?

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Fact is - your team wasn't there and never will be. Losing any championship is better than watching it on TV - ask The Skins...LOL

That was not a championship, just another reminder of the dominance of Crush. Tougher field at Young Guns that weekend. Including the team who beat you at NSCLA and the Looney's team that only lost to Crush by one.

This whole thread is reminiscent of the Crabs dads high fiving each other after the game at Beach Lax...and missing.

So the fact that Crabs beat Breakers 10-7 in the spring without the holdbacks conveniently is not mentioned.

The words "without the holdbacks" and the word crabs can not ever be used in the same sentence.

They struggled with the Hawks too.

Not every kid who played in the spring was eligible for Denver.

Looking at their roster the Crabs 2020 has a minimum of 6 kids who have been held back.

Did they release their roster? If yes where can it be found?

So what? It's a graduation year based system last I checked. Do you go on FCAs thread and rant about their holdbacks?

The so what is that no one thinks that the Crabs or any other team/ club is as good as they say they are because they can only do it with kids playing down a notch. It taints the wins, mocks the victories. If any team or club is as good as they say they are, has as good of coaching, is confident in their true on age players that belong in the grade, they wouldn't need to have kids playing down. Is there really glory in beating other teams when you know you can't do it in your own year or without these kids? Seems like a desperate business move to stay relevant. If the Crabs or any other teams are so strong- do it with their true age and don't stack your kids so you play down even if grade based. Might not be breaking any rules, but call a spade a spade, you will win because you play younger teams. Your kids that play down could never play hockey, they'd be laughed at for their mind set. #wherestheglory?

So jealous that it's almost painful. Either way, it's not your team winning Beach Lax or playing in Denver, and Youngguns was a joke also - the rain and mud didn't allow anyone to play a real game. And the Looney's team lost - whether by 1 or 10, it doesn't matter - close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. From now on, maybe everyone shouldn't say "we almost" - when you look back at the stats, there isn't an "almost" column is there? W or L - all anyone cares about - if you don't win, you lose.

Ugh, I'm pretty sure close counts In Youth lax too. Listen to yourself.

Crabs spring team still had kids that would not meet the Denver age guidelines - just not the holdbacks brought in for a single tournament that were still rostered on another Crabs team.

Point is they lost by one, and you lost by a lot. Their game could have gone either way, you guys were never really in it.

Anybody who knows sports doesn't cherrypick one game and judge a team on that. The NE Patriots lost to the KC Chiefs 41-14 in the regular season last year. Crabs 2020 had 2 losses last year (against really good teams) and 20+ wins. Id say they are pretty darn good and the future is bright again this year. And the holdback noise is really played out...especially when its the norm in Baltimore across many clubs.

No - Point is - both were losses. "Could have" doesn't matter, and never will. It didn't go the other way, and all anyone cares about and remembers is a W or an L.

No, it doesn't - close doesn't count in any lax age. It also doesn't count in football, baseball, or other sports. It also won't count when they grow up and someone else gets the job, but they were "almost" the one. I'm sure you have a shelf of participation trophies too...

I thought their motto was 'if you're not playing down, you're playing up!'

You're whole argument is ridiculous. Let's say for a second that the rules changed and it went to a single year age based system. And every club had to follow these same rules.

Do you really think that Crabs would struggle? Or would they just get the best kids at that age, the same way the get the best kids in each grade. Don't let the fact that Crabs has holdbacks now skew your view into thinking they are doing it because that is the only way they can compete. They have those kids because those kids want to play for Crabs. If those kids wanted to play for other clubs, they would take them too.

Your post

I think the college recruiters think they're good, based on the commitment stats. And no one cares about hockey - this is a lacrosse forum...

And both of those losses were by the on age team, so holdbacks do make a big difference. Thank you for helping us prove our point.

BTW...one of those losses was to a team beaten by Looneys, twice.

Ummmm, it's on their website

I know this doesn't pertain to lacrosse, but trying to lighten the mood a little. I would imagine a lot of these puffy chested crabbydaddie's, due to their proximity to the charm city, are raven fans. If this is the case, could I get your opinion on the Tom Brady situation please.

A crab parent would say "no rules were broken" so it's perfectly fine.

Nobody is saying that they would struggle, they would just be a very good club among several others. Their tremendous success is due primarily to their systematic use and encouragement of holdbacks to gain a competitive advantage. To say "we'd be just as good without holdbacks" is simply not true, the record shows that.

Cheating [lacrosse]. Tom Brady is like 38. Totally unfair of him to playing down with kids in their 20s

I know Crabs lost to Crush in Denver. Who was the other on age team they lost to?