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They didnt play down. The leagues were set up differently. Some teams were only age based and some were grade based. Some teams were young and some old. Little screwy but worked out as no one ran away with any league. This year its only grade based.

You will get your chance very soon big mouth

CRABS 2019 will be awfully embarrassed when THUNDER beat them in the Autumn Classic!!

No doubt. Kevin Durant has a sick elevator shot!

I think someone struck a nerve

Some of you guys need to give fantasy football a try. This thread is running out of FCA vs. Breakers vs. Crabs who has better pre-puberty boys comedy material.

Crabs 2022 is a new team playing against Hawks, Manhasset, and Looneys in GT Fall invite. What are the odds they go 3-0?

O-3

Odds very good. Manhasset is a town team not club. Looneys not very good. Hawks where ok last hear they picked up a few players. They never beat any of the top teams from 11uA or AA last year.

Depends on how many holdbacks on Crabs team?? More holdbacks better the odds. and how many holdbacks on other teams reduces the odds. Need to know these things first.

All r weak.

The Hawks did beat the NPYLL champion breakers during the regular season, but lost to them in the championship game. Not really my definition of 'ok'.

Dude, they're 5th graders. There aren't holdbacks. There are some kids that went to pre-first, but those kids were born in the summer so they are only a month or two older than my son who has a September birthday and would be on age.

Hawks need to beat the cannons and arden to be considered a top 2022 team.

Hawks beat Cannons easily twice in Ayla fall league in the past couple weeks. Hawks beat Arden in indoor last year and lost to Arden in Npyll season and at summer exposure.

Hawks beat Dbacks 2022 that's funny. Indoor 6on 6 you count that as a win on a 60 yard field.

When you dont go in the grade you are supposed to Sept 1 in MD, it is called holding your child back. Whether it is kindergarten or 9th grade the child was held back. It is great that the MIAA parents can hold all their summer babies back but the majority of MD does not. And all prefirst arent summer babies, some are older than that , You son born in Sept sees no issue, but the child born in May,June,July and Aug does at young ages. Why do these children get shafted??? Where is their prefirst exception to apply for?? So dude it is an advantage at young youth level. and not in the spirit of youth athletics. No worries tho, Uncle Ryan says it is OK and encourages it.

Do you honestly think these kids are put in prefirst for athletic reasons? That's ridiculous. They have no idea whether the kid will be an athlete. I agree that there is an issue when kids are repeating grades in middle school so that they can be bigger in sports, my older son lost his spot to a holdback that was repeating 8th grade this year. But, when talking 5th graders, none of these kids were "held back" so that they could dominate on the lacrosse field.

Npyll are the only "real" games. Most tourney and indoor games are jokes.

You are offending a lot of Canadians who think the outdoor games are jokes and indoor is all that matters.

agree. any boy playing lacrosse outside of this league is just wasting his time

It's come straight from the parents mouth that they held little bro back cause big bro didn't pan out

Who said it was for athletic reasons? You did. MIAA schools hold the majority of their kids back that are born in summer months. Most have no choice. There are many that are born before summer and do prefirst also. Multiple reasons.And yes some parents have athletics as a reason. That isnt the issue and you should do what is best for your child. But just because your child is held back shouldnt give him an advantage in youth athletics that others dont enjoy. Why do the prefirst get this playing down advantage in youth sports. Why dont all summer born children get this advantage if they want it ?? We are talking youth sports right?? Goes against the concept of fair play in sports.

I still remember the lacrosse players at my ACC school from a generation ago being Baltimore kids who had trouble putting on their shoes without mommy and daddy. The LI lacrosse guys you could drop off in a jungle and they'd figure it out. Sure they were all great lacrosse players, but the Baltimore kids were soft. Now those same Baltimore guys are lacrosse parents. Pre-first and 8th grade part two are just typical patterns with typical excuses for them. I thought then maybe those guys were just privileged sissies, and now I know. Too bad young men get raised like this. They won't be able to deal with anything in life more complicated than a ground ball in a lacrosse game.

Duke

Not Duke. They didn't even have a team.

Baltimore kids are sheltered. Kids who leave the Island for college are prepared. A Crab may be physically bigger, stronger and faster and may even be that without holding back grades in a few instances but they can never have the mental toughness to stand taller and stronger when facing a challenge on their own. Because they never practiced doing that as kids. Go get a non fat no dairy latte and think about that for a while.

Crabs are going to kick a litle Long Island [lacrosse] very shortly..
That "fake tough" crap is old.

And - a New England kid will run circles around you anyway.

I seem to remember those blue collar boys from Westchester and West Genny being some tough SOB's. too.

- not a waste of time, but the irregular field sizes, uncut grass, unlevel fields with holes, insufficiently trained and inexperienced refs, 1 ref per field, irregular time rules and lengths, weird timeout rules, no quarters, brave hearts, no end line balls, no scoreboard, no visible timer, and other crap that goes on at far too many tournaments and leagues will not be seen at Npyll games.

You are a joke...the population density of LI is significantly greater than the Balt metro area...of course more kids will go onto Div 1 lacrosse...true, there are some very good LI lacrosse players. Challenges, what challenges do kids on LI face...there is a pizza joint every block, strip malls everywhere, the Gold Coast, Garden City...talk about sheltered...come play an MIAA schedule...Baltimore is smaller, but def holds its own vs LI...and don't even argue about sheltered...now go get a couple slives of pepparoni pizza and a bag of zeppoles and mow my lawn!

Fake tough is what Baltimore lacrosse is all about. US Lacrosse sets calendar aged club team guidelines, and Maryland runs away to change their youth leagues to grade based soon after it is published. Yeah, I remember when I could beat up on my little brothers friends when I was 12 too.

Hawks like to eat Crabs

That's fca

Ouch! that is funny if true

Fact. Long island was grade based before Maryland. The only long island club that went by age was team long island.

Bunch of clowns. I could use a few long island dads to rake my leaves.

And then shove them up your arse!

You couldn't afford it.

About to kick some LI [lacrosse]? That's not working out too well. Crabs 2017s just got curb stomped by LI Turtles. Don't even belong in the same tournament. TALK IS CHEAP.