Alright, well I've been busy w/ basketball so I haven't been on here much, but to my surprise I see that there's a whole topic on 1A soccer! Let me start off by saying that I think we're all sick and tired of the guys from Blackville-Hilda coming on here and saying that they are a top 3 or 4 team. Face it guys, YOU'RE NOT! You haven't proven it in the past, so I have no reason to believe it this year. I think that Striker33 is about the only one that made an accurate top 10 least for the upcoming season. This is what I know so far about some of the teams that will be competing in 1A this year. Academic Magnet is a team that I don't know a whole lot about, but I do know that they played a tight game with Christ Church last year and from what I've heard that only lost 3 seniors last year and only like 1 or 2 of them started. I know that Christ Church lost Tomek (by the way did anyone see him play on ESPN 2 a few days ago?) who is their best player, Jake who can throw the ball into the box everytime off a throw-in, and was also a major scoring threat, and their starting keeper. That won't be a problem though b/c their backup keeper is the guy that used to keep for my club team and he's pretty good. I also know that they lost at least 2, 3, or maybe even 4 more seniors, but nobody that really stands out. Southside Christian lost 3 seniors last year, one of which we will miss. 1 of the other 2 was out practically the whole season for grades and the other one couldn't even trap the ball. We have a freshman coming up that will be able to step up and somewhat fill the spot of our midfielder from last year that we lost. I'm not gonna say that we're better than anyone else, but we can compete. I don't really know much about Buford, but I've heard that they lost their top 3 scoring threats. Dixie is always gonna be a tough team. They are physical and they give it 110% at all times so they're not a team that you enjoy playing. I know they lost their leading scorer and their goalkeeper(who was the best player on their team). Blackville-Hilda is all talk and no game, and the other teams I don't really know much about. Here's my top 10 picks for the start of the season. Now keep in mind this isn't the order of who I think are the best teams, but this is how I think that the league will turn it out.
1. Christ Church (they've won state like 4 yrs. running)
2. Academic Magnet
3. Buford
4. Southside Christian
5. Governor's School
6. Dixie
7. Blackville-Hilda
8. Wiliston-Elko
9. Wareshoals
10. If you think your name should be here then you suck anyways and you will lose many games.
736. Landrum Cardinals- by the way we trashed them at their gym in basketball! hahahahaha