Seems like you are reading it correctly, 2cents.
6 South Sound FC Red
7 Synergy FC McCreery
11 Wenatchee Fire Black
15 CB United Navy
21 Cascade FC
22 FC Crush Academy Sky
23 Maple Valley Premier Marauders Blue
24 Bainbridge Island FC Blue
26 Seattle City FC Saprissa
29 River City Reign
30 Spokane Sabers Terris
so if you look at team standings before the pdl you will not find many of these teams in the top 20 or 30. with or without the pdl, the top players from these teams would probably leave and go to their closest team that is a stronger team. take #6 for example. there are a number of girls that started with this club and before the pdl, they left and went to stronger teams. now many of these girls are on odp, some have won a national championship in club soccer and they are doing what they want to do. this would not have happened if they had stayed at their club which has historically been a select level club. if has been the way soccer has been long before the pdl. there are just not that many girls playing soccer at the older age groups and they begin to join forces as they get older. we aren't going to have 50 equal teams. come tryouts i guarantee you, the top players from these teams are going to look at who are the top teams in their age group and they are going to go to their tryouts, and it is going to be those that have consistently for the past 10 years tended to be on top, not just the one hit wonder. look at u15 crush. they don't have tons of girls at their tryouts because even though they are on top, it is still a gamble as a rogue team. the parrots didn't even have tryouts, you just called the coach and asked to come and kick the ball around with the team.
Am I reading this correctly?
The smaller clubs/Associations should just stop trying to create top teams because their players will probably leave anyway.
Weakening the top league to force players to leave their teams by excluding the teams that would make it a stronger league because the top players should leave to play in a weaker league on a stronger team.
12 year olds will be driving themselves around going to tryouts looking for the top teams.
There are not enough players to go around so everybody should just play for Crossfire, Eastside & Wash premier.
If a team beats your team you should quit your team and go to the team that beat you.
New Orleans should have given up years ago and sent their players to New York.
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