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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you elaborate PP? This is OP. What is so out of the norm? I have only one child and child has only played for two years so I don't know what seems off and what is normal.[/quote]

PP here.

Good coaches have players earn playing time but, while the better kids play more, they ensure that all kids play at least half the game.  The only exception to this might come in a tournament final or a game which could decide a league title - and even then nobody would sit out entirely.

Allowing team mates to belittle each other is just bad coaching.  Yes it happens occasionally even on well coached teams because kids get frustrated.  But if there is a pattern of destructive behavior a good coach (or even a mediocre coach) steps in puts an end to it.

Sending teammates off to practise with a lower team seems odd to me.  It is possible that some of the players are so weak that they are making it difficult for the better players to learn what the coach wants to teach.  If that is the case then I sympathize with the coach somewhat - [b]but the club is at fault[/b]  - those players should not be on the same roster.  And I think the coach should find a better way to handle his problem than this.

Allowing teammates to pass to the better players instead of the player in the best position is also really bad coaching.  No kid benefits from this - not the kid learning to pass to a player in an inferior position, not the kid who learns that he will receive the ball without getting into the right position, and not the kid who gets into the right position and does not receive the ball.

And FWIW all of this remains true even at the highest level and older age groups.  Contrary to what some people suggest - you are actually less likely to find these behaviors on elite teams - because - while the coach may believe he is behaving this way in order to try and win games - his behavior actually results in winning fewer games over anything but the extremely short run.  The best teams at any level - do not do any of these things.  Or if they do, they don't remain the best team for long.[/quote]

Listen, I'll be snarky for a minute - but it's really hard for both all players to play at least half the game AND for the best (or better) players play significantly more.  Unless you have a relatively tiny roster (14 or less on an 11v11 team), there's going to be haves and have nots.  I think that's important to make sure that spread happens at younger ages,  but I think where folks draw the line of when that shift should happen is individual.  Personally, I'd argue somewhere in the U12-U14 range is the right place.

That said - I totally agree with most of your points - including that it's the clubs problems that they've kept the wrong team members together.  Lots of external pressures before it gets to the coach to arbitrate that (unless the coach rolled over and picked the team wo club pressure).[/quote]

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