I talk big, but apparently will cave—maybe switching clubs
No real question, just a thought dump.
We are with a smaller club, it’s been great. Bigger club is recently in ECNL for team 1 (2-4 teams per age). I’ve always heard mixed things about coaches and parents.
My younger player is good, I finally let him do larger club tryouts but we had no intention of switching. We’ve had good discussions about not making a rash “grass is greener on the other side” change. He gets it, was very happy about the prospect of playing up in our current club.
Anything other than the top team is a pretty lateral move. ECNL, and RL, have been rough for this club.
While I do think my kid can hang with the top team from the games I’ve seen (before age group changes), for multiple reasons I had low expectations—he’s on the younger end now, wasn’t feeling great, missed some of the tryouts, coming from a different club…but he got offered to train with the top team the first week, for further evaluation. I’m shocked.
And now, how can I say No to that chance if he’s offered it and wants it? All my logic went out the window.
I feel like I need to go back and edit all my posts that sounded so confident we would never switch 🙈