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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kid has q3 bday and is repeating age group. On 2nd team now and will be on 1st team next year. Had some new age group scrimmages the past couple weeks and DC looked like one of the best kids out there.[/quote]

Congrats! I think this is what most Aug/Sept parents expected would happen for their kid, but from this thread, it seems that isn't the case.[/quote]

The top team at clubs will be made up of August - December kids.  Whether that is from moving kids from former B teams or kids from outside the club.  We all know that the oldest kids in a 12 month range are on the top teams.  For the former top players on a team, born January - March, get used to reduced minutes, keeping the bench warm or being placed on a lower team.[/quote]

Your club must have a lot of Q4s. There aren’t enough at mine to have such a big effect. Just changes around the edges. Not wholesale change.[/quote]Not even many Q4s on second teams? These is where a bunch are for my kids club.[/quote]

I'd go further than this and say at my kid's club the top players on the second team are very disproportionately Q4, while first teams average 1-3 out of 16-18 Q4 kids currently (according to ECNL grad years posted, I think we're one of the worst around with systemic Q4 underrepresentation).  If clubs only move first team players to first teams, there's going to be a lot of resentment next year as older players fully realize that they are better than younger kids but didn't get a fair look.  Any club which accepts that relative age matters, if others don't, has a chance to steal good players.  By the second half of next year, some teams very accustomed to winning might find they are struggling without the bigger/faster kids who left their club.  Obviously the magnitude of this depends a lot on age group.  I'm anticipating GA teams stealing a lot of quality RL Q4s.

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