I know there are a few members here from Manalapan. I have posted about this on the Manalapan Facebook Pages but a certain supposed Pro 2A member of this forum is Anti 1A and feels it is ok to censor and delete posts on his Facebook Group Manalapan Residents. So I am posting here with permission in the hope others share through their own social media and interactions. Manalapan Soccer Club (MSC) decided a week before tryouts this season to force an outside training organization called GPS on all travel teams U8-U12. There was a meeting at which very few questions were answered. However it was clear what the costs would be. For my younger daughter it would cost $2,300 to continue playing travel soccer in Manalapan, or $34,500 for the team. Her and her entire team decided to leave Manalapan for Millstone where it is costing us $500 each for the season. It is a shame it even has to cost that much for a game that can be played in the Barrios of Brazil with a ball of tape. This decision to force GPS on the families of Manalapan was made by the Executive Board of MSC. This amounts to 4 members. When confronted their answer to many was you have a choice play somewhere else. Many did. A club that used to have 22 Teams U8-U12 now has 10 and no 2006 U12 Girls Team. Now it has come to my attention that not only is the cost ridiculous to play soccer in Manalapan it costs more in Manalapan for the same GPS Program than it does in Marlton or Mantua (Clearview). For the U11 & U12 boys and girls it costs $500 more in Manalapan than Marlton for the same exact thing, and $150 more in Manalapan than Mantua. However in Mantua they get 3 training sessions a week vs 2 in Manalapan. That is 90hrs of paid training vs 60hrs of paid training over the course of the season. There are also 4 additional tournaments which cost on average $900 for a team to enter. Each tournament is 4 games. That is an additional 24hrs of a paid trainer on top of the 30hrs of training sessions or 54hrs more paid training over the course of the season. There is only two explanations why the cost is more in Manalapan. Either the executive board cut side deals for themselves, or they did a poor job negotiating. Either way it is the families of Manalapan who suffer. The MSC is a private non-profit organization, however they receive tax payer dollars in the form of $1 yearly field rentals. If they are going to act like a for profit organization, and force parents to spend thousands a year with a for profit organization, then they should be paying fair value for the field rentals. Below is a cost comparison between GPS in Mantua, Marlton, and Manalapan. The MSC initially replied to me with a lie that Marlton and Mantua are subsidizing the costs of the GPS program. I know this is a lie because I contacted both towns and they are not subsidizing the costs. Why would the soccer club lie? What do they have to hide? Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk