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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, there is absolutely no responsibility of the player to find out what improvements need to be made and work towards improving them?[/quote]

Sure as I said earlier, if a kid has discipline issues it is no problem to follow team or club rules on that as long as they are actually written out somewhere.  Every club typically does that.  Missing practices and games might be a issue too, but clubs and coaches typically do not press on those because (a) typically it is not the kid’s issue or decision to show up late, or miss a practice, and it is not a discussion that most coaches or club officers want to get into; and (b) rules have to be uniformity enforced. So, if bench player is late to pre-game warmup and rule is he must sit the first half, that same rule will apply if star player is late the next game.   As an aside, I remember once fairly early in my kids u14 year her coach was ticked that people were late showing up at the field for a tournament so he said the first 11 kids start and play the first half.  They were all pretty good so not a big deal except the starting keeper was not in the first 11.  So, had to wing it that first half.  Pretty funny but parents and kids were good at showing up on time after that.

As kids get better, grow, get faster or slower over time you may find that different players start or get more playing time.  But, still, other than disciplinary issues every kid must play at least 50% of every game with no exceptions.  If a coach does not want to do that then the easy thing to do is not put a kid on the team and don’t take his/her parents’ money.   [/quote]

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