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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They hinted that players will be placed on the correct team. They specifically avoided anything Aug specific. However I got the feeling they would put an Aug birthday on a B team with their grade before letting them play down on a lower grade team.[/quote]You must be a psychic because they didn't discuss August kids or school grades.

It was about how clubs are going to handle reorienting kids into their new age groups for fall 2026 / tryouts and how the discussions might go with parents and to a lesser extent the kids. Clearly big clubs that care about wins will force kids to play on age and other clubs with less leverage might allow Aug-Dec up for a year. Ironically they spent 10-15 minutes talking about how playing up on age should only be done in rare instances where the player would dominate on the upper age. It was all theoretical because clubs are going to make the decisions on playing up not the leagues.[/quote]

I thought it was interesting because they talked about alot of what people have said here like "why don't they grand father older teams" "cant they come up with some way of keeping teams together".  People here have been suggesting that they do that as some sort of rule change, and the way they were talking about it on the podcast (which of course makes plenty of sense) is basically like sure! Clubs can try to do that if they want, like all these decisions are up to the clubs.  Because the dates are shifting back and not forwards, they can change or not change teams or players however they waint.

They also talked alot about how those conversations with parents are likely to go. As a parent of a fall birthday kid who's club decided to make the u-little changes a year early, so she's already playing on a 14/15 team, the conversations I had with our DOC last year were almost identical to what they suggested on the podcast they would be.  Mine moved from the second 14 team to the top 14/15 team and they might as well have been standing next to the field listening to use talk to DOC about that move vs moving up to the top 14 team. [/quote]

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