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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am just curious - if the team is up by a bunch (5 or 6) and its pretty clear the other team isn't going to make a huge comeback, has your coach or have you encountered a coach that tells the team to back off in the second half? Have everyone touch the ball before trying to score again?  Stuff like that. If so, how do you feel about it? [/quote]

Not back off but do more with the ball before trying to shoot or just trying to keep the ball from the entire team. For one game, they were no longer allowed to score by the refs (mercy rule). But most of the time, our coach plays everyone in their opposite position. Strikers as defenders for example and vice versa; goalie on the field, etc. I think that’s the right thing to do. 
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OP here  - After being absolutely slaughtered for most of the year, we won 3 in a row. But in these three games, coach asked the team to pass it around more before scoring. They had to even pass it back to the goalie before advancing. And I am pretty sure if they did pass it around and everyone touched it, it still wasn't supposed to be our top scorers to take the shot.

Our players have played all positions all year. They had their "normal" positions that they played a lot, but every kid played almost every position except goalie.  Goalies played 20ish minutes of the field every game, but not every kid played goalie. Like I said, we got slaughtered...a lot. It was really hard to watch getting slaughtered when your kid is not in their normal position and feeling a bit lost. I know it was for development. I just didn't know how common it was for a coach to tell his team to take those kinds of actions.

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This is very common, probably more common than not. On another note, if your team was getting that consistently slaughtered, then your coach did not do a good job placing your team or otherwise selecting competition. One or two disasters is fine for development, but beyond that, the demoralizing outweighs any utility.[/quote]

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