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I'm an Express parent, but not a Chucks parent. We watched the 91 vs Exp game because we know people on both teams. The Express offense was flacid. Slow, small and mediocre stick skills when compared to 91. Scared or unable to dodge the larger, more athletic 91 defenders. You can't list Express and the 91 team in the same class. Express was handled from the first few minutes of the game, which I am sad to say, because I was hoping Express would be the better team. CoachC Sr. will work his magic after that game and you can expect new players and a new lineup before Spring.

They already have 33 or so players how many more can they possibly add?

Yup 4k for a B team dumpster fire

Colleges are now denying scholarships to kids because their travel teams have a poor Fall winning percentage. Doesn’t matter how good you are the College coaches won’t look at you unless your travel team is ranked top 3 Nationally.

This has been the same story for 5 years already... Express keeps pounded their own chest, but the Chucks team has won nothing. And, the revolving door of players is unreal.

“Rush can beat legacy and S2S”

I’d put my money on Rush

Definitely better coached and equal talent

“It was their (express chucks) 4th game of the day”

And?? So that would be the excuse had their been a championship game? Just take your lumps and move on.

The may add players but they definitely have a core that has been on that team for a lot of years.

And that code hasn’t won.

Agreed, with 33 kids on their roster they should have plenty of players to navigate 4 games. Unless they only play 15 or so which seems to be the case.

When you say “new players”….do you mean in addition to the 33 on the roster or do you mean he will shuffle the deck and take the bigger, newer kids to the front of the line? This poor team is the definition of “insanity”….playing the same kids game after game just because of legacy and expecting a different result….I saw some big kids on their sideline barely playing while small kids were getting out run, out defended and out played. That was a tough game to watch-chucks need aize some more aggressive players on the field.

Could be just poor coaching/practices since they always seem to under preform.

What teams are in the Fall Brawl on the 11th?

Frost

Legacy Dune Dawgs

Frost vs Dune Dawgs Round 4

last year i think venom, express, btb, and rush was there too

Surge wins the B tournament today

Surge looked better than they have earlier this fall. Good wins today, especially over BTB. Very chippy game but very entertaining. BTB was a little undisciplined and took way too many penalties. I wasn’t impressed by tri state but I’m sure they’ll be better come spring time. And our Dune dawgs struggled but they battled and fought hard. Good games today

Last year 4 LI teams qualified for WS. Who’s getting in this year?? If it’s 4 again going to be a battle for those last 2 spots

BTB is not the same

Surge v GSB would be interesting match up

Venom and Express for sure

Legacy and Rush have a good shot
Rebels/Surge/S2S (is top kid age appropriate?) will be in the hunt

Every team has bad games, so with the right circumstances any of those 5 teams will qualify. Will Igloo be able to improve in time? Schedules matter, and 91 makes them

GSB vs Surge is not a good matchup, best matchups for surge are those 5 teams + igloo

Some good competition is coming into town next weekend at the fall classic but our big teams aren’t in

Cavalry
True National
West Coast Starz
91 tristate
BBL
FL Crabs
Leading Edge


Hopefully Surge and Rush can do well

New rankings are out, venom is back at #1 and another noteworthy thing is Vernon Bratton is listed as the head coach for Legacy?

As usual Venom has done nothing to deserve being number one so early in the season. They were gifted one last season and gifted it again this season.

But it’s USCL has always been a 91 marketing hammerhead so whatever.

Legacy seems to be going backwards. Didn’t they have huge turnout for tryouts? Did they miss picking up good players or did they lose good players?? Or did they just peak a few years ago? Scratching head on this one.

The buddy system isn’t working

Nobody cares about 7th grade lacrosse rankings especially fall rankings.

Surge cannot hang with those teams. It will be interesting to see if Rush can.

Rush on legacy coat tail. Rush beats legacy at this point.

Disagree surge is the best of B and GSB is the best of C. I think it would be a close game.

Totally agree.

So let’s rank venom 99th since no one cares. Great idea.

They are #1 on LI that’s for darn sure.

They never play.

But when they do, they win

How could the “algorithm” possibly have venom higher than 3D NE?

I know it’s easy to rag on USCL and I know who owns it blah blah but I’m seriously curious as to how that makes any sense.

Does anyone have insight to explain how it actually works?

Sounds like fun for the kids.

They played Sunday. Just not 4 hours away

it was a scrimmage

91 doesn’t like playing Maryland teams.