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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone tends to over react to the idea of 18 on the roster and things that tend to be forgotten are:

1. The games are longer.
2. The actual ratio of subs remains relatively in tact as it was with 9v9. Lots of teams have rosters of 14 kids. Maintaining that roster for 11v11 is actually pretty thin.
3. As kids adjust to the bigger field and the bigger ball they need to be subbed more than you realize. The kids by now look too big for the 9v9 field but they will look like ants on the big field in the fall. 
4. Things do get a bit more social with kids at this age. School functions and priorities can have an affect. 
5. Injuries, especially on the girls side start rising at U13 and will climb to their peak at U15-U16. And these are no longer the 4 week broken arms that just wrap in bubble wrap and throw them back out there kind anymore. These are injuries that can start at being out for four weeks for concussions on up to season ending ACL tears.

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+1. I was really, really not happy about having 18 players for U13, but wow...so many unforeseen things (injuries, bar mitzvah, catholic thingy, military family move, burnout) have happened that now I see the coach was right all along. [/quote]

^ This sounds like a coach.

This was not our experience at all. Very few wanted to miss games or practices, maybe 1 kid might not be at a game but rarely enough to cover the suggestion that we'd be scraping for subs. [/quote]

Mileage may vary. If kids on your team didn’t get injured your both fortune and lucky.

But just because it wasn’t your experience doesn’t mean that rostering 18 kids is bad or anti-development or a cash grab. [/quote]

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