Re: ECNL-08

by Checkpoint Charlie 15/09/20, 04:24 pm

smugrr wrote:Looks like the Celtic 08 teams are better than their other age groups.

#MAGA

by TheRealFakeNews 17/09/20, 05:24 pm

Come on @CenTex... where are this weekend's predictions. My, this forum is boring...

by cenTex 17/09/20, 07:46 pm

Weekend guesses:
Sting Austin -4 Tulsa
Celtic -3 Classics Elite
Sting Austin -3 Celtic
Tulsa -2 Classics Elite

With only two teams making the playoffs in this age group, Sting Austin is the only team in action this weekend with a chance to participate. Will be very important for teams with designs on a playoff spot to not drop points against bottom-half-of the-table teams. The margin of error is very thin to make top two, especially with preseason favorites Sting Black and Solar yet to stumble so far.

And yes...This forum has gotten very boring.

by cenTex 19/09/20, 07:52 pm

Got Sting Austin vs Celtic right today (4-1).
But big swing and a miss by me on Classics Elite. I hear they are much, much better than I gave them credit for. Nice 2-0 win over TSC today. I expect a tight game vs Celtic tomorrow.

by smugrr 22/09/20, 09:57 am

Full slate coming up this weekend. Thoughts?

by cenTex 22/09/20, 12:22 pm

I think we're still a month or so away from being able to draw many firm conclusions, but here's my two cents on how things are starting to shake out. Top to bottom, this looks like a really good, competitive league so far.

Oklahoma: The two Oklahoma teams appear likely to both finish in the bottom 3. Either has enough weapons to play spoiler, though.

South Texas: Challenge and Classics Elite are solid and good enough to sneak up on anybody, but Sting Austin and Albion appear to be the class of south Texas. Their matchup this weekend is the game of the week. The winner will feel like they have a real shot at securing one of the two playoff spots.

Dallas: Sting Black has been impressive. Solar and Texans have taken care of business against the OK teams, but it would be a mistake to read too much into that. Let's see how they do against other playoff hopefuls. DKSC, FC Dallas, and DKSC have had mixed results so far. Any are good enough to compete for one of the 2 Playoff spots, but the FCD vs DKSC game is the other game of the week this weekend. Winner stays in the mix.

Five teams have yet to drop points - Sting Black, Solar, Sting Austin, Texans, and Albion.

Weekend guesses for the week 1 rematches:

Solar -4 Tulsa (Solar with a 9-1 win in week one)
Texans -1 Celtic (Texans with 3-0 win in week one)
Sting Austin -.5 Albion (week one game postponed)
FCD -1 DKSC (0-0 draw in week one)
Black -3 Royal (Black with 7-0 win in week one)
Challenge -1 Classics Elite (Challenge with a 7-0 win in week one, but CE with better results since)

by Checkpoint Charlie 24/09/20, 12:10 am

cenTex wrote:I think we're still a month or so away from being able to draw many firm conclusions, but here's my two cents on how things are starting to shake out. Top to bottom, this looks like a really good, competitive league so far.

Oklahoma: The two Oklahoma teams appear likely to both finish in the bottom 3. Either has enough weapons to play spoiler, though.

South Texas: Challenge and Classics Elite are solid and good enough to sneak up on anybody, but Sting Austin and Albion appear to be the class of south Texas. Their matchup this weekend is the game of the week. The winner will feel like they have a real shot at securing one of the two playoff spots.

Dallas: Sting Black has been impressive. Solar and Texans have taken care of business against the OK teams, but it would be a mistake to read too much into that. Let's see how they do against other playoff hopefuls. DKSC, FC Dallas, and DKSC have had mixed results so far. Any are good enough to compete for one of the 2 Playoff spots, but the FCD vs DKSC game is the other game of the week this weekend. Winner stays in the mix.

Five teams have yet to drop points - Sting Black, Solar, Sting Austin, Texans, and Albion.

Weekend guesses for the week 1 rematches:

Solar -4 Tulsa (Solar with a 9-1 win in week one)
Texans -1 Celtic (Texans with 3-0 win in week one)
Sting Austin -.5 Albion (week one game postponed)
FCD -1 DKSC (0-0 draw in week one)
Black -3 Royal (Black with 7-0 win in week one)
Challenge -1 Classics Elite (Challenge with a 7-0 win in week one, but CE with better results since)

#MAGA

by smugrr 25/09/20, 11:06 am

Anyone watching the ECRL-Texas side of 08?

by shutout 25/09/20, 11:22 am

Good Question!!!! Anyone? ECRL 08???

by checkpoint.charlie 25/09/20, 11:34 pm

shutout wrote:Good Question!!!! Anyone? ECRL 08???

#MAGA

by smugrr 28/09/20, 02:16 pm

Any results?

by cenTex 28/09/20, 02:26 pm

Black 5 Royal 0
Solar 5 Tulsa 0
Austin 1 Albion 0
Texans 2 Celtic 0
DKSC 3 FCD 2
Classics Elite over Challenge. Not sure score.

by cenTex 30/09/20, 11:15 am

Another rematch weekend. My guesses (with Sept 13th results in parenthesis):
Sting Austin -3 Challenge (Austin 3-0 earlier)
Solar -3 Celtic (Solar 2-1 earlier)
Albion -3 Classics Elite (Albion 3-0 earlier).
Texans -3 Tulsa (Texans 5-1 earlier)
Sting Black -2 FCD (Sting Black 3-1 earlier)
Sting Royal -.5 DKSC (Sting Royal 1-0 earlier)

by Ntxsoccerdad1 04/10/20, 06:23 pm

FCD 0 Sting Black 0
DKSC 3 Royal 0

by NTXSoccaDad 04/10/20, 06:28 pm

Solar beat 6 Celtic 2
Texans 3 TSC 0
Sting Black tied FCD 0-0
DKSC 3 Sting Royal 0

by 08GSoccerPRA 04/10/20, 09:09 pm

I still stick by my
1a Sting Black
1b Solar
3. DT
4. DKSC
5. Sting Austin yet to play any NTX teams..reluctant to make a call on them just yet.
6. FCD
7. Sting Royal
8. Classics Elite
9. AHFC
10. Challenge
11. OKLA
12. Tulsa SC

by cenTex 04/10/20, 09:43 pm

Sting Austin 3-0 Challenge

by Truthiness 04/10/20, 10:51 pm

08GSoccerPRA wrote:I still stick by my
1a Sting Black
1b Solar
3. DT
4. DKSC
5. Sting Austin yet to play any NTX teams..reluctant to make a call on them just yet.
6. FCD
7. Sting Royal
8. Classics Elite
9. AHFC
10. Challenge
11. OKLA
12. Tulsa SC

I think Sting Austin has played a tougher slate of games than Texans so far (or Solar).
1a. Solar
1b. Sting Black
Gap
3. Sting Austin
4. DKSC
5. FCD
6. Texans
7. Albion
8. Sting Royal
9. Classics Elite
10. Challenge
11. Celtic
12. Tulsa

I know Texans have been perfect so far, but I'd rank them like that for now. 3 through 10 is a wild guess right now and I wouldn't argue with any order. Should be much clearer in a month after those top 6 mix it up a bit with one another.

by 08GSoccerPRA 05/10/20, 08:58 pm

I’ll agree with your list and agree it’ll shake
Out nicely in the next month.

by cenTex 12/10/20, 09:02 pm

Weekend guesses :

Challenge -1 Celtic
Solar -1 FCD
Texans -1 Royal
Albion -3 Tulsa

Challenge -1 Celtic
Solar -2 Royal
Texans pick'em FCD
Albion -3 Celtic

by cenTex 17/10/20, 08:52 pm

Bunch of 1-1 ties today...
Challenge 1-1 Celtic
FCD 1-1 Solar
Texans 1-1 Royal

by 08GSoccerPRA 21/10/20, 03:19 pm

We are going to see what Sting Austin is all about this weekend.

by cenTex 22/10/20, 01:05 pm

Not many games this weekend, but there's plenty of top-of-the-table intrigue.
Game of the week is DKSC vs Sting Austin. DKSC needs a win in order to stay in the title mix. Sting Austin is out to prove they aren't just the "best of the rest, non-Dallas division" but are a legitimate conference title contender. I'd like to see them pull off a W vs a solid Dallas team before I'm ready to pick them to beat one. They get two shots at it this weekend.

My guesses:
Sting Black 2-1 Sting Austin
DKSC 3-1 Classics Elite
Sting Austin 1-1 DKSC
Sting Black 4-0 Classics Elite

by cenTex 24/10/20, 10:13 pm

Sting Austin 1-0 DKSC

Game was more lopsided than the score suggests.
Sting Austin left it late to secure the winner, but it could have been 2 or 3 to zero at that point.

The win sets up a big game between two of the three remaining undefeated teams tomorrow (Black vs Austin). Should be a very good game.

by smugrr 25/10/20, 03:19 pm

On the RL front, DKSC won easily over Sting Austin. Perhaps they do not have much depth past the A team.

by cenTex 25/10/20, 03:37 pm

smugrr wrote:On the RL front, DKSC won easily over Sting Austin. Perhaps they do not have much depth past the A team.

There isn't a lot of depth. We didn't even really have an 08 team at all last year. Pulled over 95% of the top Lonestar 08 team to make the ECNL team, and then pieced together the RL team. I imagine more depth will arrive as they get older.

Close game today for the 08 ECNL vs Sting Black. Black won on a late goal. Good game and can't wait to do it again.

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