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have to agree with all of the above

What team is WP (ie what is the acronym)?

Not leaving for now but don't hold your breath about keeping him for long. He's a smart guy. That Taz team is ready to implode. So much banter between offense/defense parents. Each in their own groups and talking how the other is not doing their job. They all hate the wizard behind the curtain who pulls all the strings. The wizard believes everyone loves him. Yeah, right people are scared to lose spot because of him. They may be only filling 1/2 spots and replacing a few by the blindside effect. Ask how those cut players felt last year. A lot of empty promises made to rope people in. Let's see who makes the team and didn't go to tryouts.

express beat them 6-3 the first time. They did not crush anyone that tournament. Then the championship they magically beat a team 10 goals? Go ask your kids if any starters played. Not one.

Legacy didn't even have evaluator's and the clinic style tryout sucked.

Are you debating whether he did or whether it made a difference?

What "A" tournaments/ teams did they play last year to get into every championship??
I have not seen that team at one of the 22 tournaments we played the last 2 seasons,,,,not 1!!!!!!

The guys with the clipboards were taking dinner orders....

faceoff dad is disgruntled....

Heard Express kids went to S2S. Just typical rumors?

Write your check and be happy with the opportunity Or Go AWAY.

again with parents of dame team talking crap about other parents

That's a joke right?

TB had a good team last year. Had a few really talented kids. They played well in some B tournaments. I'm sure they will be good this year too. And they could be one of the better teams on LI. But with the exception of Taz and WP, the rest of the teams are being watered down by the emergence of all these new clubs. So each team will have 2 or 3 really good players and then a bunch of good players and then the kids that are new or average. All these teams are creating a lot of turnover and will be harder for each team to hold onto the better players. That's really good for the top 2. But let's remember that other than us the parents and the guys making all the money. No one gives a crap about 5th, 6th or 7th grade lacrosse. And with the new recruiting rules. People care less about 8th or 9th grade lax now too. Maybe just pick a team, have the kids make some friends get better and worry about an academic scholarship.

And they got my order wrong. No tip

Who cares who makes the team and did not go to tryouts? I'm sure parents that have kids that were or are going to be cut. I hope all the parents that were happy where the played last year and had a good experience see these posts and realize the grass isn't greener and its 6th grade lacrosse. No one is gonna give you a scholarship to Maryland yet. Put your egos in check for a minute and be a parent, not an agent.

I saw the same thing. The tryout was delusional with the people running it. I had more fun watching the deer run on the fields! It's a shame that the kids who really tried hard and looked better than the Legacy helmets never had a shot. Waste of money.

Supposedly Express A had a decent amount of turnover. For the better. They will be better and deeper.

The best run tryouts year after year is by far 9D1. And my son is not even on the team.

Interesting, I had a similar experience at a recent try-out by a top-flight outfit. What impressed you?

Any truth to the rumors that Sean Keenan was not coaching Taz this year? Was he at tryouts???

tryouts were good. do not listen to all the blow holes!!!

No argument to much of what you posted - the parents (and I guess clubs) of the top three teams are caught up with their little 'club' that they think they own. The problem is that their club is the AA club, not the A club. No argument that they are the best of the best, but there is a group below their club that is part of the A level - no, those teams are not part of the AA group, but they are they are definitely way better than the B and C teams of which there are way many more of. Were this a locale that was not a hotbed of lacrosse, one could make the argument that there were only a few teams in "A", but this is Long Island, and there are and should be a lot more teams considered A than the handful these folks want to consider. In actuality, they do themselves no favors with how they assess teams - they actual water down the meaningfulness of being an elite team by only considering 5 - 7 teams as their peers. There actually probably are about `20 LI teams that should be considered "A", with the top 5 - 7 they currently call "A" being "AA". Thsi also pretty much true for most, if not all age groups on LI. With regards to tournaments and who has played in which, there are A tournaments and then there are AA tournaments - any AA team should win a general A tournament (or bracket); likewise a non-AA team would have a tough time in a pure AA tournament.

So year after year you continue to go to tryouts for the bloated cost and the opportunity to a experience great evaluation to be measured and come up short.

Sounds like the best...........

not true... He is coaching!!

OK GC daddy. We'll see if you last the year. Just because your son is big doesn't mean he can play. It'll show.
Plus good luck with Schwalje, he could care less about your kid or your family. Hope he shows up this year! He dismantles the tram every year.

He is right though...better and deeper they will be.

youre right.. it does seem that way... say what you want but I took my kid tonight and all I can say are those kids are incredible. The parents all seem to like each other. Which reading between the lines on this site doesn't seem to be the case with some of the other clubs in this caliber. All the coaches were present and attentive. Seemed like the best to me.

Holdbacks!!!!!!!

Try Team Long Island

What is WP?

It's too easy to yell that. It's the rallying cry. GC always has a bunch.

It's sad and pathetic this year what they did. Moving boys down to 2025, moving kids down to the B team and just taking big holdbacks. These boys are not better they are just bigger. Maybe if Schwalje was a good coach and around he could teach these boys but he's not. This team may as well just be the GC town team.

Sorry your son got cut or demoted.

My son plays for another year, but I do know someone who was cut.

You are a complete IDIOT. Why would they take holdbacks? They took the best kids because they want to compete in 2018 for the WSYL Championships. If they were too old they wont be able to play dummy. Go back to trolling other grades on this site. You are a total creep.Holdbacks HA not many on LI at this age...Go to MA or MD..they are all Holdbacks

My son is a good player. But not on the caliber of some of those WP kids. He has fun going against those kids and he gets some practice going against some of the best. We aren't going there to play for them as he is already committed to a program. But it's a good work out. Well run. If you haven't been, I suggest you go

agree for the most part but I have news for you --- unless DRASTIC changes are made, this team has no chance competing for WSYL. Which I am sure is completely fine for many parents. Big expense on top of a VERY steep "tuition."

DRASTIC changes were made at the tryouts this year for Express 2024. Ask any parent that was on the team last year that was moved down

What are the DRASTIC changes?