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will Crabs be better than DCE or NL?

Wondering who is shaping up as the third strongest team.

The shortest answer is probably a word for some phenomenon, but I'm not a sociologist, so, you'll have to take the semi-short answer (and I have two).

1. People will follow a toxic leader and accept whatever bizarre behaviors or excuses, as long as the leader keeps winning, and other less weird market options (teams) seem less successful aka "NL is a chump team, they'll never win HoCo." ML being nowhere near a HoCo championship for 2 years straight, and neither of those at the hands of their accepted rival (Hawks) was definitely "more than enough" for the families to see, given the absurd level of talent they have.

2. To the sadness and surprise of club directors everywhere, given the out of control pricing of everything in our lives, most families are evaluating how they spend their money, which I know for a fact impacted a lot of roster changes (and a lot of half-full camps) this summer. "Why am I paying $3K for this guy to yell bad instructions at my kid every week?" and "why wasn't this covered at practice last week?" is a valid question in the case of many club teams including ML.

Who did FCA Blue, Hawks, or Crabs add that made them better?

It sounds like Hawks added a couple kids but based off past post and the infamous rumor mill, the pickups they added aren’t game changers. This would make sense based on how deep they already are. My question is why add players that won’t have an impact? Goalie✅, Defense✅, Midfield✅, Attack✅. They arguably have the top players at every position.

It sounds like Hawks added a couple kids but based off past post and the infamous rumor mill, the pickups they added aren’t game changers. This would make sense based on how deep they already are. My question is why add players that won’t have an impact? Goalie✅, Defense✅, Midfield✅, Attack✅. They arguably have the top players at every position.

Who did FCA Blue, Hawks, or Crabs add that made them better?

That would be an argument you would lose. The "only" "best" players they have are a pole who they don't take off the field so not sure if he's LSM or D, and the goalie.

I’ll take the bait. Who would you say are better? Goalie Hawks, D pole Hawks, two way Midfield Hawks, Attack scorer and distributor Hawks.

But didn’t Madlax [Censored]? If they got 8 kids from an average Madlax team, who cares?

Attack and Midfield are good…. VERY Far from the best. Defense and Goalie are exceptional. Faceoff kid is very good.

I don't think Madlax was very good but if you take 8 of their players, add them to the BLC players, add a few True kids, sprinkle in some real coaching and you may have a good team.

The only teams that were better than Madlax were Hawks and FCA— who are both top 10 in the nation.
DCE will be the 3rd best team in HoCo. Best coaching in the area, and a great mix of kids pulled from 3-4 teams.
NL and Crabs will follow closely. Hawks and FCA still cream of the crop in DMV/Baltimore. And likely got better this off-season.
Madlax bottom of the pack. Quite the fall from top of HoCo 3 years ago.

I agree, the point was Madlax was 2nd tier and fell apart while everyone else got better. Karma.

The only teams that were better than Madlax were Hawks and FCA— who are both top 10 in the nation.
DCE will be the 3rd best team in HoCo. Best coaching in the area, and a great mix of kids pulled from 3-4 teams.
NL and Crabs will follow closely. Hawks and FCA still cream of the crop in DMV/Baltimore. And likely got better this off-season.
Madlax bottom of the pack. Quite the fall from top of HoCo 3 years ago.

I agree with above Goalie and D pole. The two way midfielder is better on both sides compared to most. The fogo is average at best.

If I am not mistaken, The Hawks D unit and Goalie gave up just over 3 goals a game in HoCo last year. I don't think anyone was close to that. Their FOGO's are serviceable, and their attack is only as good as their ball movement. This summer they had two kids at LSM that gobbled up ground balls off the wing against us, not sure if they picked up a pole to play summer only or what. FCA definitely has an abundance of talent at mid and attack. I think offensively FCA is unmatched and defensively Hawks are unmatched.

If I am not mistaken, The Hawks D unit and Goalie gave up just over 3 goals a game in HoCo last year. I don't think anyone was close to that. Their FOGO's are serviceable, and their attack is only as good as their ball movement. This summer they had two kids at LSM that gobbled up ground balls off the wing against us, not sure if they picked up a pole to play summer only or what. FCA definitely has an abundance of talent at mid and attack. I think offensively FCA is unmatched and defensively Hawks are unmatched.

I think the Hawks offense is just fine-- some quick research shows they dropped 29 (!!!) goals on FCA in just two FCA games. FCA may have run up the score on some lesser teams, but I think the "unmatched" moniker is a Huge stretch