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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ certainly not.  The best kids at 11 are not usually the best at 11.  Rosters at our Club later on (with everyone still there) reflect this.[/quote]

Looking at rosters at an individual club may give you a false view of what is happening - because the players in those clubs are not randomly selected and a middle of the road club likely had very few really good kids in the first place.  Such a club typically draws a lot of kids who are fairly close on the ability spectrum - and thus they can swap places on that spectrum over the years without really going from bottom to top (or vice versa) when considering the general population.  Thus a kid who moves a small way in ability when measured against the general population may move from second to first team and appear to have progressed significantly when in fact the real movement has been quite small.

For one of those kids to have truly become one of the "best" kids they need to have acquired the ability to play at DCU - or at least be a strong starter on the next tier of teams below this.  That would be a significant development - and it is rare.[/quote]

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