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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over the weekend our team didn't have any subs for a tournament so the coach brought in a girl from a higher team to fill in (which is allowed.)  He then started that girl and had her play the entire tournament, while he sat girls from his own team -- the same three were subbed over the course of each game.  That really bugged me.  We pay for this team, our girls are the ones who got us to the event.  And we lost anyway -- it was always a given we weren't going to win.

Am I wrong to have a bad feeling about this?  Of course she should have played-- f she was subbed an equal amount I wouldn't have had a problem with it.  But this way felt wrong to me.[/quote]

If you are referring to the Striker v. GFR game then you are wrong. The only higher player to start was the goalie, because GFR did not have a goalie available. The other higher girl did NOT start.[/quote]

OP here. Not that game.
And to answer a previous question, we had just enough players. Coach brought in an extra to have one sub.
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So there were 90 min on bench time to be spread between 11 field players? Did you also say 3 players split the 90 bench minutes so 8, including the sub, didn’t sit? Doesn’t sound that egregious to me. Better than having to risk playing a player down with an injury or if a players fitness couldn’t handle the whole tournament [/quote]

It would seem egregious to me if my kid was one of the ones sitting for 1/3 or more of each game while 8 didn’t sit at all. Especially when the team isn’t winning anyway. [/quote]

Yes. That’s why I laid out the math for her. The guest player is a red herring. Doesn’t sound like playing time would be much different on this team if one more regular was there instead of the guest. [/quote]

Maybe not-- if the coach thought this player was so much better they probably subbed less often.  And it's much different when the subs are also paying for the team, vs taking the spot of a player who is.

Funny because we had the exact same situation at a recent softball tournament.  Guest player started every game and played more than my kid (who was subbed out for half the game, while the guest player never sat).  I found it incredibly annoying -- and my kid noticed and felt terrible about it, which was worse.  
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