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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Call it what you like depending on the club and league -- as kids get older, there seems to be a group of players who are perceived as not good enough to be on the "top team" but good enough to want to hold onto.  They are given apparent opportunity to be challenged and improve their game so that they at some point can make that "top team"....  How often does it happen?  How often is it just a means of stringing a kid along when he/she would be better off moving to a new club, coach, system that would either be truthful about the prospects, or see something different in the player?

Do all these players get some guarantee of at least a limited number of games with the "top team" or is practicing with that group considered a fulfillment of the promise?  Do they all pay the same as the top team?  Do they ever actually move up or are any slots always filled by outside players?  At our club there are several players in this situation in various age groups and I've never understood exactly how it works.  Anyone who has knowledge or a DC in such a position able to elaborate?[/quote]

Here is how it works at Arlington and I have seen this for a few years now.  Three or four of the red team players get to come to one practice a week with the academy team.  Over the course of the year they will likely play one or two scrimmages with the academy team - but not more than that.  Then, if they are good enough, they will be offered a full spot the following year.  In my experience it has only been one player each year who has been offered a full spot - but it is based on ability rather than a numbers game - so if two kids had been good enough they both would have got spots.[/quote]

Our Club is similar, except some players only get to practice with the "Academy", but are never part of the roster. They play games with their own team. Then we have our "bench warmers" who are part of the roster but get 10 min. of game time. As much as the coaches hype it, "keep working hard and you'll get a chance", they really don't as Coaches stick to the original Roster. [/quote]

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