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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Scoring a goal can be respect worthy or it can be a simple clean up of a ball into the net due to the work of others, or a mistake on the other team's part.

No need to hype any one player at the expense of the rest, especially when you are talking about an age group where size matters and the player you are hyping can't compete with the size of the opponent.

Some parents need to take a step back when publicly praising their little stars.   There are many other kids on these teams working just as hard, if not harder, than your little starlet.  Don't disrespect their contributions and efforts.[/quote]

Nice plate spinning. The response was to point out that MU was successful at handling and developing play ups. There was a poster this weekend disparaging the U14 play ups. The PP simply pointed to an example of a player in the MU program that was playing up and finding success. You are very bitter. It's pretty obvious given that you are saying this player "can't compete" and yet she is playing up 3 years and scoring goals. Kind of undermines your credibility.[/quote]

A stat line shows just one measure of success. There are many other factors to the game to also be considered. Success at one aspect of the game does make up for other possible weaknesses. A 3-1 loss is a stat line that demonstrates other weaknesses.

It is a team game. If one wants to believe scoring one goal for happened solely based on one playup then by that same logic it could be safe to consider that three goals against could also be attributed to that one playup. It works both ways.

Perhaps the better way to look at it is that the 04 team is strong enough to allow a playup to have a level of success versus believing the success to be the playups and only the playups success. When a team loses it is in poor taste beat ones chest about scoring one goal and doing so demonstrates selfishness. [/quote]

That is an incredibly thoughtful and well laid out post.  I'm sure you will be promptly chastised for it, despite how balanced and tastefully done it was. [/quote]

“Plate spinner” OP here.  The sentiment is exactly right.  It’s not a commentary on whether or not the play up should have happened or not.  Let’s just not get carried away with the impact.  Seems that said playup might have had a more impactful experience playing with the two teams at the age groups beneath 2004, where size would be less of a factor.   Why does said playup need to be three years up when the competition at the two younger years is stiff enough?   Guess MU likes to leave it’s younger age groups hanging out to dry. [/quote]

Size should not matter, looks at all the Pro small players.[/quote]

Of the small professional players I know, they are generally exceptionally fast.  In other words, they don't get routinely beat to the ball.  Messi, one of the shortest pro players, is in the top 5 for speed.

So you can be small, up to a point, but you can't be too small and too slow.  A number of small players are solid too, like Dunn.  She might be the shortest on the WNT, but again, she's fast and she's also strong.  You can't just knock her off the ball. [/quote]

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