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I would put Looney's behind Hawks for Defense; trust me Hawks are much different team this year. They will be hard to score on. A lot of good goalies but the Hawks kid is the best I have seen and he is even bigger this year.

you pick up some B team players and now your D is considered #1? Unlikely.

Hawks goalie is okay, but he is not clearly better than some of the other goalies in the elite division. Quickness beats size. Also, with a weak D a goalie will face a lot of 1 on 1s and won’t be able to do much.

1st seed and Bye - Crabs
2nd seed - Hawks
3rd Seed - True
4th Seed - DCE
5th Seed - Looneys

Best FO - Crabs
Best Midfield - Hawks
Best Attack - Madlax
Best Defense - Looney's
Best Goalie - Looney/DCE

1st seed bye - Crabs - double holdback FOGO and Looney's defense puts them over the top.
2nd seed - Hawks
3-7. DCE/MadLax/True/91/VLC
8-9. Looney's/FCA
10. TC

1 seed and Bye - Looney's
2nd seed - Hawks
3rd seed Madlax
4th seed DCE
5th Crabs - Florida kid won't be able to make it every weekend

Best FO - Crabs
Best Midfield - Looney's
Best Attack - Looney's
Best Defense - Looney's
Best Goalie - Looney's

Looney’s will be in a tough spot. Looney’s will be a demoralized 0-3 team in tournament play as they go into their first HOCO game at then end of the month. It will be difficult to pull together after blow out losses to LI and Tigers.

I think you underestimate this team; they are better than last year and that team was in every game they played.....even against Crabs and Hawks. Do they win at Bloom; who knows, but I bet they keep it to a few goals against Express and Tigers and beat VLC outright. Defense and Goalie play will lead the way and the additions on offense (top 2-3 attacks at 26) and they my surprise a few teams!!

Will be lucky to stay within 10 goals vs those teams

looneys have never played LI or Tigers. They have no idea what they are up against. Blow out loses.

If kids break away from the club daddy pack on their high school team, will they suffer when they have to come together to play club? Question for the experts on BOTC.

Here’s some advice. Worry about how your own son is playing, how he is developing, and whether he is still enjoying the game. Radical, I know.

Looneys will roll this year. We lost the cancers on the team and picked up some true TEAM players. Crabs and Hawks avoiding us in Spring.

They'll be better. The high school coaches are way better and have consequences. Even at a club like NL, they have 3 high school coaches who are stretched really thin and always choose coaching high school over the club when there is a conflict. This also means they care more at the high school level.

You lost the best defense in the league

If a club director tells you that your MS kid will be coached by a HS coach at club, and that this automatically "means the coaching is good," rest assured is at least half false if not 100% false.

The ironic thing is that about 50% of HS coaches are such awful youth coaches, that you are better off when (inevitably) they do not show up to coach the youth team.

The only (related) worse thing I can think of, is to have public HS coaches evaluating 4-5 foot tall youth players at tryouts. Which is how teams get "that huge kid with the bad back who can't run but also can't shoot."

Cancer? Sure - you lost 3 of the nicest, most talented kids you had. Just look at your goals against last year. They were the only reason you were in games.

The trolls are out tonight!!!

Hawks and DCE goalies are top. But this class is deep with goalie talent.

Better to peak in two years than now.

I agree with this one...pretty impressive goalie play from a bunch of kids.

91 Goalie is the best!!!

Sincerely,

Dad

Cancers? Come on. We are talking about middle school boys.

Are some MS boys friendlier than others? Sure. Are some better teammates? Obviously. Do they showboat, or hog the ball sometimes? Yep.

Do MS boys misbehave, or say notIntelligent things sometimes? Yes, and so do adults.

Each boy left the team for his own reasons, some for what they think is a better club/team/coaching staff, others because they thought they would get more playing time, or win more games, or some other reason.

My son is still on the Looney's 2026 team. He enjoys playing with his buddies, likes his coaches, has fun, and is continuing to improve his game. There was no and there is no player on the Looney's 2026 team who could even remotely be considered a "cancer" to the team.

ML - Lost Goalie and Attack to VLC, Lost SSDM and Attack to TRW...

1st seed and Bye - Crabs
2nd seed - Hawks
3rd Seed - Looney's
4th Seed - DCE/Madlax
5th Seed - Madlax/DCE

Best FO - Crabs
Best Midfield - Hawks
Best Attack - Madlax
Best Defense - Looney's
Best Goalie - ??? VLC/DCE/HAWKS[/quote]

I would put Looney's behind Hawks for Defense; trust me Hawks are much different team this year. They will be hard to score on. A lot of good goalies but the Hawks kid is the best I have seen and he is even bigger this year.[/quote]

Hawks and DCE goalies are top. But this class is deep with goalie talent.[/quote]

I agree with this one...pretty impressive goalie play from a bunch of kids.[/quote]

Hawks dad and DCE dad having a a bro moment. Nice to see. Who's the big spoon?

I would put Looney's behind Hawks for Defense; trust me Hawks are much different team this year. They will be hard to score on. A lot of good goalies but the Hawks kid is the best I have seen and he is even bigger this year.[/quote]

Hawks and DCE goalies are top. But this class is deep with goalie talent.[/quote]

I agree with this one...pretty impressive goalie play from a bunch of kids.[/quote]

Hawks dad and DCE dad having a a bro moment. Nice to see. Who's the big spoon?[/quote]

I think they meet in Florida, you know different zip code so its fine

Hawks and DCE goalies are top. But this class is deep with goalie talent.[/quote]

I agree with this one...pretty impressive goalie play from a bunch of kids.[/quote]

Hawks dad and DCE dad having a a bro moment. Nice to see. Who's the big spoon?[/quote]

I think they meet in Florida, you know different zip code so its fine[/quote]

Must be an IMG thing.

My son is still on the Looney's 2026 team. He enjoys playing with his buddies, likes his coaches, has fun, and is continuing to improve his game. There was no and there is no player on the Looney's 2026 team who could even remotely be considered a "cancer" to the team.

Agreed. My son is on 26 Looneys....Only cancers are the parents.

You just described every club team in the country.

Way too much talk about a club that is irrelevant in this area and more than likely will fold shortly.

He’s right. Let’s get back to talking about The Predators.

Crabs will roll through HOCO undefeated.
There is no debate. They upgraded in positions they didn’t even need to. No team will come within 5 goals of them this spring.

And all the parents should be super proud that the Crabs 9th/10th graders beat up on everyone’s 8th graders. Congrats.

Troll/ hater post. Focus on your son; trust me he needs work.

I think it's a pretty accurate post. They will probably go undefeated. I don't think they have a single true eighth grade starter on that team.

Have to love how the parents don't hide from it either. Total joke. How many kids are from out of state?

Isn't that roughly the same as Hawks, Madlax, and DCE?

Nope everyone single one of them is a holdback; youngest kid on the team was born Aug 2006

Again point to a club in the HOCO league that doesn’t have holdbacks? Move on; it’s an old topic.

Completely False. Have a friend whose son is on the team; he’s on age as are others.

They would go 0 and 3 this weekend if they played any real team. Varsity kids will not be there because of hs games.