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[quote=Anonymous]OP around this age some boys start really having growth spurts and it is the early developers who really get noticed. You need to ask if you and your spouse had growth spurts on the early side or you were later developers.

You don’t get better by not playing in games. I would ask the coach how he is going to get playing time, in what position and if in close games that they want to win will it still be 40% or it might drop down to 10-20%.

Son was in the same position and he stayed on B team while his friend on the team moved up. The parents thought by practicing with better players he would get better but he never played over 50% of a game, and often it was around 25%. So friend went from playing 80-100% to 25%. It started killing his love for the game, his aggressiveness because he was afraid of making a mistake and getting pulled, his confidence, etc.

Spoke to his mom later and she said theye was a sense he was the B player who was pulled up not that he was a legit A team player. In hindsight she wishes he had switched clubs because the A team had played together for a couple of years and when he played obviously one of the original members say and there was a group of parents who were tight and always pulling for their kids instead of any new kid. One of the parents was team manager and it just wasn’t the best situation. All the drama wasn’t worth it and they left after a year. [/quote]

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