Romania were pretty much done. Three games in a week is a young man's game. How did the season predictions hold up for canucks4ever?
Romingers!
You are old enough to be the Dad of Tigers GoalieI am 4 years away from my prime in goalie years. I am off to europe for some tryouts this summer not over 35 time yet.
Congrats to Campo on earning promotion!
I think they've gotten a bad wrap the last couple of years because the face of the club has been @Soccer Coach, and it really is a face that only a mother could love. However, even she probably wishes she would have had better access to birth control down in Guatemala or whatever Latin American country he actually emigrated here from.
I know some of the individual players on Campo and they are good guys, so I'm happy for them, and imagine it's a bit of vindication to do it on their own terms without an arrogant blowhard trying to take all the credit.
Also, with the rules being what they are and the possibility that Fury wouldn't have been able to take the Premier spot if we finished 2nd, it's probably better that Campo fully earned it instead of getting it by default again
Sounds like rinos are just trying to get rid of their bogey teams...
As arrogant and as big of a twat that @Soccer Coach is, he did it his way. Yes the players performed but this was a team in shambles before @Soccer Coach took over. Kudos to him and his players on this. Enjoy every minute of it.
I would have loved to read the nonsense in the VMSL premier thread if he was still the coach.
I haven't checked the site for a couple days...wow! Congrats to Campo and @Soccer Coach for promotion. Back to back promotions...unheard of and I can't remember the last time it happened. Maybe once or twice in the last couple decades?
Are we finally seeing the fruits of the divisional alignment from a few years back? Lots of good quality div2 and div3 sides nowadays. Now how do we bridge the gap at the very top!?!(from div1 to Prem)
I realized last season when discussing in the div.2 forum that there are new players(teams) in town that should be taken more seriously as contenders and that the old guard are slowly fading. One of those teams on the up was Campo, and although I could not believe how a team that almost got relegated to Div.3 could be pushing for the top of the table, I realized they must have picked up some new players and I acknowledged they were not the same team. Other good teams that popped up were Storm, Greencaps, snipers. I even said teams like 13th Legion and Euro were playing below their roster ranks and this year they both had decent seasons.
Anyways, I'm not sure how many pick-ups they made from last year but Dezza would probably know since they've played them 7 or so times over the past year.
One thing that is nice to see is an entirely different team going up to Premier. It's usually the same teams getting bounced up and down. And although this is just an amateur competition, players still want the chance to play at the highest level possible while they're still playing competitively.
Absolutely congrats to Campo. Even if the players are different, the coach has a big part in keeping the group together and focused on the goal whatever that might be. When a team wins a coach never gets credit when it loses he/she always gets blamed.
Dezza your team has been in DIV 1 for how many years? How many times did you go up to Premier?
If we are speaking soccer, he has shown he knows the game and makes some good points on the game and how it is in lower mainland. I do not agree with all of the points of course but some are very fair. Lets say like hiring of HPL and TD's who have never played the game or cannot demonstrate how to make a pass longer than 20m. They will get kids to demonstrate for other kids. Brilliant!!