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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]you heard it here first, 2011 half players on cut list 2010 handful new doc on the move.  kids will be giving choices stay as practice squad or out the door.  start shopping around boys[/quote]

You are wild. They are going to cut half of their undefeated team? See how that doesn't make sense? Maybe try talking to the coach, who finds this all hilarious by the way. [/quote]

What is actually hilarious is the assumption that any coach at DCU is in the know about anything happening on the management or strategic side of the academy or the club.  Especially with a new director coming in and assessing the efficacy of everything and everyone.  The coaching side of DCU is literally a revolving door of employees with very little continuity year after year and the new director has no allegiances to anyone on the current coaching staff.  I wouldn't rely on the coaches to know anything about a strategic decision made by DCU.  That is for sure.  They don't even know if they will have a job next season.

The reality of any high level academy system is that kids get cut quite frequently for new and better talent.  At these ages in Europe it is not unusual or unheard of for an academy to completely reload a squad (meaning 10÷ players) regardless of winning or losing.  It is about finding the potential professionals and putting them in the system. The team could be very successful now in terms of Ws and Ls, like DCUs 2011s,  but management may not be seeing the pro potential in the pool after assessing them for a period of time.  Professional academies want to win for sure but good ones don't really care if a u14 squad is undefeated.  What they care about is do they have the best talent they can get that has potential to make them money.  And that means if they have made a calculation that a group of players have a very low ceiling in terms of pro potential, they get cut.  It is that simple and the players might be actually pretty good today, but signs are showing that they have limited upside potential for the future.That could be due to size, power, speed, agility, toughness, mental fortitude, technical ability, physical potential, any number of things. Good today doesn't equal good potential 4 years down the road.  Very different talent assessments and calculations.  If any team was reloading it would.be.because they have too many limited upside players and there are players with higher ceilings out there that can come in now or next season.

No idea whether this claim about the 2011 team reloading is true.  Seems unlikely to be honest but with DCU you never know.  But if it is true, I wouldn't be surprised given the circumstances at DCU with a new director coming in and wanting different things.  [/quote]

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So one person makes a ridiculous troll statement about half a dcua team getting cut and you wrote 18 paragraphs waxing poetically about arbitrary what-ifs, maybes and could be

Is this drug or alcohol induced?[/quote]

The PP presents a pretty strong argument as to why the supposed troll statement could in fact play out.  Interesting point of view actually.[/quote]

A few players removed and new talent brought in… yes- accurate argument and not a new move.  Happens every season.  Half a team removed…I won’t say impossible but extremely unlikely. Not how any of the academies work.  [/quote]

At younger ages in Europe half a team getting dropped is not totally out of the ordinary.  It's big business.[/quote]

The 5 2011 VDA boys are getting cut from DCU.  [/quote]

Don't know if that is true or not.  Doesn't really matter.  Some kids will get dropped for sure.  Normal.

But end of day, the longer a kid stays in DCUs system, in its current state, the less likely they are to be a top player as they get older.  It just is what it is.  2011 team will suffer the same fate as the 2008s, 2009s and 2010s. 
Dominated u14 year locally and regionally because they took the best players and relied on physicality to get dubs, but can't really compete with national or even regional competition one and two years later because physical dominance and long balls is not working as everyone else has caught up and  there is no development or concept for how to play.   Maybe the new director changes things...[/quote]

What does physical dominance and long balls have to do with the DCU U14's?

You clearly have never seen the team personally or even a photograph to call the team physically dominant. 
Also definitely haven't seen them play to say booting long balls is their playing style.

You're just stewing in your own hate and envy juices [/quote]

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