SLYSA

[stewtim]

Love the 40 minute drive to sportport only to have games cancelled due to damp fields and no more rain on the radar.

[burned]

That's one of the many reasons my team decided to play friendlies and tournaments and are loving it. Zero rainouts and competitive friendlies close to home. Can't beat it.

[Redrocker]

They need to get the field hockey off the Sportport fields. Or designate certain fields for field hockey and certain fields for soccer. It's bad enough the goal mouth get tore up by goalies in soccer, but now they add the field hockey goals inside the 18 yrd box and they are getting detroyed too.

[ckc]

Sportport fields too damp last night?? After being told that, the groundskeeper drives is yard tractor ACROSS the field we were to play on!! Really?? Too damp??

[Redrocker]

The potholes are fixed!!!!!

[ShortFusz]

last night at the Fusz complex, the big talk was SLYSA President Upoff is stepping down.

[overtime]

last night at the Fusz complex, the big talk was SLYSA President Upoff is stepping down.

Well DUH He will no longer have a team after Cup this year cause they are now U-19. Why else do you thing he was doing this? Who do you think funded his team for years? Yep you guess it you, me and all others that played in SLYSA. He was going to step down after last years cup but decided to put the team in for the last year at U-19's with all the other U-19 teams Well at least there are 2 teams this year compared to one last year

[oldschoolsoccer]

why are there so many Gallagher haters out there? look Tommy Howe might be gone but SLSG uses the same development model it's always used and the same coaches that were around then are still there. Tommy didn't teach all those players. Tommy didn't do it aloan and many of the new guys have advanced Tommy's sessions to the modern game! And I look at the current staff and it has many of the local college coaches involved (UMSL, Maryville, SIUE, Jefferson College). Plus guys like Pete Collico, Barney Boyce, Mark Dorsey, Tom Bielicki, Tom Groark, Ken Godat, Kip Thompson, Kevin Kalish and Tim Leonard are all really really good trainers and coaches. All of these guys surrounded Tommy over the years, played for him and are keeping the torch going. Oh and by the way SLSG is turfing the main field at the soccer park and has a partnership with Arsenal. Go to their Facebook and see 2 of their U14s are in Spain with ID2. They have 2 players on the U20s. They just put 4 players into the MLS this past year. They just put one in the EPL. They just put How can you really rip on all this positive news?

"Has many of the local college coach's involved". I wouldn't send my dog to an organization that had any affiliation with a coach from Jefferson College. The aweful thing's that happened (previous coach) their a few year's ago, or the illegal roster they had this past year with the current coach (which caused numerous win's to be overturned when they were caught) should be reason enough to, NOT have any of those type coach's around a SLSG funtion of any kind.

So, I wouldn't be very proud of pointing out that the current, or one he replaced, are involved with "any" SLSG program. It's just another validation on what some coach's will do to either win game's, or the length's, some college's attempt hiding things, so to not tarnish their personal reputation. Coach's who get caught cheating, or hiding thing's as serious as what happened at Jefferson College a few short year's ago should be run out of town, and not affiliadted with a highly recognized organization like SLSG.

[Huskies]

ZZFan, What exacly have the SLSG coaches added to the "modern" game that Tommy Howe started with the old Gallagher? Just because all of those coaches you mentioned coached with Tommy at SLSG doesn't mean they coach the same way he does. A couple of them might but not many of them.

[just4kicks]

Overtime, you would be incorrect.

He also helps train and coach a younger team.

[overtime]

Overtime, you would be incorrect.

He also helps train and coach a younger team.

Helps It is not his team

[oldschoolsoccer]

ZZFan, What exacly have the SLSG coaches added to the "modern" game that Tommy Howe started with the old Gallagher? Just because all of those coaches you mentioned coached with Tommy at SLSG doesn't mean they coach the same way he does. A couple of them might but not many of them.

I have to agree. I don't see much difference in today's SG team's, play on the field either. But I will say this again. They sure seem to decline when they reach the u-18 level compared to when they played u-16 the last few year's. And how long has Howe been gone? Average, or below average, record's the last few year's at the u-18 level is unacceptable with all the "so called" top level training they claim to have.

Elite training should start at the lowest age level.
World class training at the academy level need's to be in place. Don't get me wrong. The training seem's to be pretty good, but it need's to be world class at the academy level to get the result's the United State's Soccer Federation is looking for. I have to believe most Academy coach's in the US would be considered average coach's, and trainer's throughout the world. And that's who we are trying to catch up with isn't it?

I don't know Tom Howe personally, but I do know he was possibly the best trainer in the area just with talking with some of the best player's, and soccer smart parent's, who were lucky enough to train with him over the year's. I here all kind's of different reason's why he isn't with Gallagher any longer, but it seem's to be pretty popular that he was a badass trainer who get's results, wheather people like him or not.

[ShortFusz]

Tommy is gone from SLSG and ain't coming back so get over it already!

ok so the latests is that SLYSA is pitching a merger with SISL. Pops was talking about it tonight at the Lou Fusz complex.

and no Roger is not in this b.c he is a coach.

[jdbone]

[quote="ShortFusz"]Tommy is gone from SLSG and ain't coming back so get over it already!

ok so the latests is that SLYSA is pitching a merger with SISL. Pops was talking about it tonight at the Lou Fusz complex.

and no Roger is not in this b.c he is a coach.[/quote]

Oh, this scares me a bit. I have coached in both leagues and for all its percieved faults,SLYSA is, in my opinion, run much better than SISL. How would that even work with the two different state organizations involved (MYSA and IYSA)? Also, would SISL dump their league admin who is an SLSG coach? Would they normalize costs as SISL is much cheaper than SLYSA? Lots of questions here. Anyone have more details?

[John Smith]

I doubt Slysa and SISL will merge in the sense the leagues would be combined. Currently Slysa has more teams playing, than at any other time in it's history, including when SG and SLSC were a part of the league. Slysa is going strong and very stable in every aspect of their business. They have elected a new president and the board is primarily made up of representatives of the clubs themselves. This is pure speculation on my part, but the only merging I could foresee would be Slysa taking over the admin responsibilities of SISL.

The new presidents first order of business, IMO, should be to get the fields back to the way they were pre-flood. While they are much better than last year, they aren't where they need to be just yet.

[Huskies]

I'm not sure what SISL would gain by merging with SLYSA. SISL finally have a nice soccer complex in O'Fallon, IL. where all of the games are at the same location and the prices are much cheaper than SLYSA. It might be fun to have some SISL teams play SLYSA teams but I'm not sure many coaches and parents would want to drive that far for a league game. Some teams do (Quincy, SASA, etc.) but most teams don't want to.

Is this just another way for the SLSG - Illinois people to get their hands on all of these players and teams in southern Illinois?

[soccernut]

Huskies you are probably right SLSG is most likely behind this lol. Why would slysa want or need to merge with SISL I can't see the deal being good for either side.

[jdbone]

[quote="soccernut"]Huskies you are probably right SLSG is most likely behind this lol. Why would slysa want or need to merge with SISL I can't see the deal being good for either side.[/quote]


I don't think SLSG would be involved in the merger as all but a handful of their teams play in their in-house league. In general, they only have very young (U8) teams and those needing three IYSA league games for state cup qualification playing in SISL.

[Redrocker]

looks like 472 teams signed up for Fall 2012 at SLYSA? is this number up or down? Seems like a good amount of teams.

[upwardsoccer]

Look like an INCREASE...

Spring 2012 - 437
Fall 2011 - 459
Spring 2011 - 444