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Always comes back to who is your kid playing for, you, the parent or for himself. Good post unfortunately won't make an ounce of difference in the eyes of many...

What happens when you have a very good player and the rest of the team does not have the same skills? Would it make sense to move up where a child would actually enjoy playing with peers of the same caliber?

SYAG just tied S2S. Time to revisit the top team list. SYAG has to be in the conversation.

So trashy. It was a scrimmage. And I'm pretty sure you can't be in the conversation if you only play 1 tournament a season because your best kids are playing for their real club teams. Youre not a real team.

1). It was a scrimmage and S2S was playing everyone equally
2). S2S was missing 4 kids including faceoff kid.

Only two guys took that seriously, and they acted like it was a national championship. But good try, SYAG lunatic coaches.

OMG, SYAG again - fine, two losses and a tie against top five teams gets you in the conversation, I'll actually put you at #1 as long as you promise no more SYAG posts until at least Tuesday.

Ok working in it now.

I heard all the SYAG players signed D1 commitments already. Or is that just what the trash parents think?

Where are the tournaments this weekend, any good matchups?

Not that it matters at all because it was a scrimmage and we weren't playing to win, but one of our boys clearly scored and the SYAG goalie pulled it out of the net before the ref could see it. Everyone on the sideline saw it though, including you SYAG disaster parents. So actually, you lost. Again.

Is this the same SYAG team that competes in PAL?

How about we revisit the rankings after the season in mid-July? Oh sorry, your kids will be playing for Warriors all season. I forgot about that. Tell you what. I'm going to grab a bunch of Igloo kids and fill out the roster with some True Blue kids and we'll scrimmage and I'll post here that Blue Igloo is now the new team to beat.

Please download the Tourney Machine app and do a search. You realize it's Memorial Day weekend, right?

I'm sure the SYAG video dad has it on tape. Or is he one of the coaches that replaced the "fired" coach?

Not even close. They aged out of PAL last year.

Great response to someone asking a simple question. But as usual, this whole site has nothing to do with Lacrosse. It's only function is for people to act like like savages because they can hide behind their keyboard.

This was my first time seeing SYAG so here's my takeaway from last night's scrimmage. I had a great vantage point from my car, right behind the benches. They have some very good players. I guess the coaches are not very experienced though. When S2S, and most teams, scrimmage, we are essentially running a high tempo practice. We try new things, new positions and get everyone involved. This may have looked like a game, but it was merely a practice. The SYAG coaches had, what appeared to be 1/3 of their team riding the pine for almost the entire game. He actually told the players that weren't playing that if they wanted to see the field they needed to get better. Who does that? Why would coaches shorten the bench in a scrimmage? Doesn't that go against the whole concept AND effectiveness of a scrimmage? The coaches were demeaning and demoralizing the players on the sidelines and on the field. I actually felt bad for the players and parents. My wife said she would have pulled our son off the field if he played for them. The offensive coach Said something about the starters "sucking" and the defensive coach was just a very mean man. Conversely, our coaches were joking with our boys and keeping spirits high. I guess there's a difference between teams that have nothing to prove and teams that just desperately desire respect. Well, I lost any respect for them after that.

Actually, it's not bad. Maybe the poster doesn't know that the Tourney Machine app exists. If that's the case, it's actually very helpful (unlike your post).

Anyone with an inkling of lacrosse knowledge knows there are never lacrosse tournaments on Memorial weekend. If you really want to see 12 year olds play a sport this weekend go to the closest soccer tournament.

Aged out last year?? They played their last PAL game for SYAG this past weekend. It's the same team +/- a few out of town kids.

For someone who wasn't playing to "win", you sure do sound bitter.

If helpful means being sarcastic, then OK.

Excellent observation! Those SYAG guys have never played lacrosse and obviously have no idea how to coach a group of young boys. Their arrogance is so bad that it's comical.

Never played, yet coached a PAL team to a tie or within one goal of "elite" S2S. I think it may say more about over rated S2S team. The mighty have fallen.

I would agree with you if they werent doing it to kids.

This was my first time seeing SYAG so here's my takeaway from last night's scrimmage. I had a great vantage point from my car, right behind the benches. They have some very good players. I guess the coaches are not very experienced though. When S2S, and most teams, scrimmage, we are essentially running a high tempo practice. We try new things, new positions and get everyone involved. This may have looked like a game, but it was merely a practice. The SYAG coaches had, what appeared to be 1/3 of their team riding the pine for almost the entire game. He actually told the players that weren't playing that if they wanted to see the field they needed to get better. Who does that? Why would coaches shorten the bench in a scrimmage? Doesn't that go against the whole concept AND effectiveness of a scrimmage? The coaches were demeaning and demoralizing the players on the sidelines and on the field. I actually felt bad for the players and parents. My wife said she would have pulled our son off the field if he played for them. The offensive coach Said something about the starters "sucking" and the defensive coach was just a very mean man. Conversely, our coaches were joking with our boys and keeping spirits high. I guess there's a difference between teams that have nothing to prove and teams that just desperately desire respect. Well, I lost any respect for them after that.
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Couldn't agree more - scrimmages are for teaching. The SYAG coaches screamed the whole game at their players - but never told them what they were doing wrong or once attempted to explain the situation so it doesn't happen again. They are a good solid team - but my son wouldn't play for those coaches if it were free...

There is a pretty good one in foxboro Mass. this weekend

Thanks SYAG for coming over for a scrimmage. What happened last night should have just stayed there, similar to the 5 other scrimmages we've had this spring. Your team is good, no doubt, but the fact of the matter is it was a 'scrimmage', not a tournament game. You have no clue how many starters might have missed it b/c they had a conflict that would not happen for a tournament. You have no idea how many boys might have been resting b/c of a minor injury that wasn't worth aggravating for a 'scrimmage'. Did you notice we had a pole taking multiple face offs? Do you think that would that happen in a tournament game?

S2S is far from perfect, there's a lot of work ahead for the boys and the coaches but we're talking about a scrimmage on a Wednesday night in May. A tune up to work on lines and new plays and identify areas of focus for practice so the team is ready when the tournaments begin. Our tournament schedule is posted on the website, sign up for one and let’s watch the boys play when it counts.

I hope the coaches learned their lesson. One and done with these clowns.

Quick observation - was good all around tough game...both teams competed and got after it...not sure why anyone has such animosity towards either team...two legit teams playing lacrosse - question is why is anyone posting anything about a scrimmage? Either way was an interesting game to watch...

Is this the same SYAG team that competes in PAL?
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Not even close. They aged out of PAL last year.
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How can 6th graders be aged out of PAL when there are divisions up through 8th grade??

Are there no tournaments Memorial Day weekend?

Wow, very interesting observations about this scrimmage.
Both teams played great, showed off some very talented players.
I observed all players playing and coaches from both teams were instructing the players on field.

The scrimmage ended in a tie if I counted the score correctly. Both teams had great plays and mistakes. The takeaway here is learning what the negatives were and working them out while improving on positive play. I think it would be anyone game if these two teams were to compete in a tournament.

However, for now I am giving the advantage to S2S given they have more experience and a travel organization behind them.

I'm on the outside looking in on these last few posts and have no involvement with this age group at all but it looks to me like the s2s parents are giving more of a blow by blow of last night scrimmage than the other group of parents . So if what happened at the scrimmage stays at the scrimmage no one told the s2s parents

Hey Outsider, let's stop talking about it so that hopefully everyone else catches on.

S2S had those exact same excuse at their last scrimmage against Outlaws and Warriors. Almost word for word as the last post after those scrimmages.

S2S had those exact same excuse at their last scrimmage against Outlaws and Warriors. Almost word for word as the last post after those scrimmages. [/quote]


What ever makes you feel better about your team...

A lot of people will make excuses after they play our boys. We told you that we were going to shock some people.

Shock???!!! You run a zone D. people would be "shocked" if you could run with the better teams, not just slow them down.

Hate to show my ignorance but what does SYAG stand for & where are they from.