What's the best price/quality portable goal set? So far I think the fold fast is my favorite but it's damn expensive!!
You should be a lot more specific about what you are looking for. Portable goals come in all different shapes and sizes. I manage an amateur team in an area where publicly available soccer fields are at a premium. We've been forced to hold our practices on a baseball field without proper goals. Last year the lack of full-sized goals to practice on showed in my team's poor finishing and lack of ideas in front of goal in competitive matches. So this year I used a substantial portion of our budget on a full-sized portable training goal to correct the problem. There is a dearth of reliable reviews of these things and even fewer comparative articles. So when I decided to get the Golme "Professional Training Goal", I wasn't fully confident in the choice. I picked it probably more because I was wary of the durability of lightweight, thin, 24' crossbars. I thought the need to stake it down under serious tension would be a problem and would mean that it could not be used on AT. Having only used it for two weeks now I have to say that I'm impressed. I haven't done too much stress testing of the goal but it seems to hold up just fine. Setup is easy and quick, albeit definitely a fairly inflexible procedure. My chief complaint is that the velcro straps that secure the base of the net net to the bottom of the frame are free to slide up and down the vertical frame tubes. This then permits the net to "ride up" like a tight skirt as shots hit the back of the net, and then balls can pass through to underneath. It isn't too hard to do a makeshift fix, but it should be easy enough for the designers to correct this with the next update. If it breaks on me I'll be sure to post an update.
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