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7:05 am, first post of the morning on TS, and we get the request and rapidly the link right after to a thread started by a guy named beentheredonethat that begins with SEVEN consecutive posts from beentheredonethat.
Apparently subtlety is not in play today.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostHere is a primer about club soccer.
Understanding the New Soccer Landscape http://talking-soccer.com/TS4/showthread.php?t=104051
As was pointed out earlier threads like it tend to get awfully snarky but it you read through it you'll get a pretty good idea of what club soccer is all about these days.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostOne thing can be said about this link is it actually does lay out the whole club scene pretty well. The information is there as well as all of the hate spewed from the various camps.
BTW, love the title of this new thread. Direct and to the point. And the lead-in fiction was not overdone. Just enough for a lead-in to today's treats.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThanks to those who are offering advice. As for finding this site, it comes up quick when you start googling or trying to figure out the club soccer scene. My family has been involved for 6 months now... Long enough to hear many different perspectives and acronyms thrown around at my daughter's games. And long enough to get recruited by people and find it crazy that idle chocolate kids are recruited. I readily admit I am naive and trying to figure this out. I have no agenda. But when you type in certain clubs and things like "best youth soccer club" and your region of MA, talking soccer comes up. I have a full- time career and a few kids and don't live and breathe my daughter's hobby. But her hobby that she began in preschool has become to her more serious than that. I am trying to guide her through something I don't fully understand and was just looking for opinions or, even better, unbiased information.
As for age, it's u11.
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Use your head. He was trying to type 'middle school',screwed it up, and his smartphone changed it to 'idle chocolate'.
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Since I seem to get blamed for just about every post on this site these days, here's my two cents about the club soccer scene and how to get information about it. I hope you find it helpful.
Club soccer is a lot like taking a taxi ride. The single biggest mistake you can make is getting into a taxi without a clear idea of where you want to go. You'll end up on a very expensive site seeing tour otherwise. The next biggest mistake is trusting the taxi driver to navigate to your location on the route they choose. What you end up doing is taking the long way around because the longer you stay in the cab the more expensive the ride gets and the more money the cabbie makes.
If you are new to all of this you will find no shortage of opinions about what [b]YOUR[b] tip should be. Half of the people you talk to will tell you that you are nuts for taking the trip in the first place (truthfully it can more be like a roller coaster ride at times) while the other half will try to convince you that you either need to take a limo or take a bicycle to get to your location. My advice is that even though there are a lot of members of the fellowship of the miserable on this site you actually want to listen to all of them and simply pick out the stuff that makes sense to you. Just go into it knowing that there is no one size fits all answer and what you are really going to find is about a million shades of grey.
The key thing that I have learned after almost 13 years of club soccer is that you want to know where you want to go, what you are willing to pay to get there and then figure out the most direct route realizing that the taxi driver has a vested interest in keeping you in the cab.
--BTDT
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSince I seem to get blamed for just about every post on this site these days, here's my two cents about the club soccer scene and how to get information about it. I hope you find it helpful.
Club soccer is a lot like taking a taxi ride. The single biggest mistake you can make is getting into a taxi without a clear idea of where you want to go. You'll end up on a very expensive site seeing tour otherwise. The next biggest mistake is trusting the taxi driver to navigate to your location on the route they choose. What you end up doing is taking the long way around because the longer you stay in the cab the more expensive the ride gets and the more money the cabbie makes.
If you are new to all of this you will find no shortage of opinions about what [b]YOUR[b] tip should be. Half of the people you talk to will tell you that you are nuts for taking the trip in the first place (truthfully it can more be like a roller coaster ride at times) while the other half will try to convince you that you either need to take a limo or take a bicycle to get to your location. My advice is that even though there are a lot of members of the fellowship of the miserable on this site you actually want to listen to all of them and simply pick out the stuff that makes sense to you. Just go into it knowing that there is no one size fits all answer and what you are really going to find is about a million shades of grey.
The key thing that I have learned after almost 13 years of club soccer is that you want to know where you want to go, what you are willing to pay to get there and then figure out the most direct route realizing that the taxi driver has a vested interest in keeping you in the cab.
--BTDT
How about your two cents on wiping one's butt replete with another analogy to aid those with difficulty comprehending?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSince I seem to get blamed for just about every post on this site these days, here's my two cents about the club soccer scene and how to get information about it. I hope you find it helpful.
Club soccer is a lot like taking a taxi ride. The single biggest mistake you can make is getting into a taxi without a clear idea of where you want to go. You'll end up on a very expensive site seeing tour otherwise. The next biggest mistake is trusting the taxi driver to navigate to your location on the route they choose. What you end up doing is taking the long way around because the longer you stay in the cab the more expensive the ride gets and the more money the cabbie makes.
If you are new to all of this you will find no shortage of opinions about what [b]YOUR[b] tip should be. Half of the people you talk to will tell you that you are nuts for taking the trip in the first place (truthfully it can more be like a roller coaster ride at times) while the other half will try to convince you that you either need to take a limo or take a bicycle to get to your location. My advice is that even though there are a lot of members of the fellowship of the miserable on this site you actually want to listen to all of them and simply pick out the stuff that makes sense to you. Just go into it knowing that there is no one size fits all answer and what you are really going to find is about a million shades of grey.
The key thing that I have learned after almost 13 years of club soccer is that you want to know where you want to go, what you are willing to pay to get there and then figure out the most direct route realizing that the taxi driver has a vested interest in keeping you in the cab.
--BTDT
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostDon't be surprised if there is a major disconnect between where you want to go and what it costs to get there. Plenty of us have to settle for a gypsy cab.
--BTDT
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI think once you have some experience you can spot things pretty easily and you don't have to settle at all. The big thing is knowing where you are want to go. What it takes to get there is pretty variable and is usually more a function of personal preference than anything else.
--BTDT
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostObviously not for some, but cost is a huge factor for many families. It is not realistic to pretend otherwise.
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