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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at it this way your paying for training actually more than you are games usually 3 nights per week 1.5 hrs each session. Games 1 per week 1 hr. So in theory your kid is involved with the entire team "on the field" more than 75% of the time. If your kids not keeping up with the rest of the team as far as development sorry. Its a team game if you want to remain on the team keep up wit everyone else. Its not fair for you to slow down everyone elses development waiting for your kid to catch up.[/quote]

This is a great point if your ds/dd really loves soccer. The time spent at practices out weigh the games by a lot.[/quote]

To the person that seems like a travel coach advocating for the weakest player to watch games. Put it this way, Games are fun. Fun means returning to the team. Playing less than 50% is no fun to someone who thinks fun is top priority. You can't argue what is fun to someone. And yes, people do talk to coaches and nothing changes until the starters no longer produces results. Why are you so persistent in arguing with a rec parent? It's showing immaturity and lack of decision making on your part. The rec parent wants a lot of playing time. ok. So what, let him have it. Be the bigger person. [/quote]

Then why are you not playing in rec? Why are you choosing travel over rec?[/quote]

Well, obviously because we are dumb enough to believe that if our children love soccer, and are willing to put the work in to get better, we might be able to find professional coaches interested in nurturing their development, along with teammates with similar interests.

I agree that kids who are not that good and not interested in getting better would be better suited for rec. But the interested kids working hard to get better tend to not have much fun in the rec environment, where players don't attend practice and many don't even show up for games.[/quote]

Ive got news for you, if at 9 years old you are hung up over 5-10 minutes on a Sunday morning travel isn't for you. [/quote]

You must be a troll, a horrible person, your attitude is poor, horrible coach, or all the above. I wonder if your team is happy with you. You shouldn't be near kids.[/quote]

Nope, quite the opposite. I'm happy where my kids are playing. I have a good relationship with current and past coaches. I have no entitlement issues with my kids and their clubs. I ask opinions and advice from coaches and parents. The more people I talk to the more things I learn not only about my kids but also about the perception of them that coaches have.

I've learned to trust my eyes and my ears. I try and enjoy the game, the team, the parents, the coaches and the players on their terms not mine.

I get frustrated at times, I also am proud sometimes. It is a long road and the reality is identify the level and commitment that is right for your kid and your family. If you think suggesting rec is a snub, it is not. But if you want all the benefits of rec but the "prestige" of travel that you have built up in your mind you will not be happy. They are not the same, they are not run the same and they do not have the same goals.

Playing time expectations from a variety of clubs have been posted. 50% playing time is the only number any club will offer as a goal for playing time in travel. That's it. That is what you are signing up for. If that does not meet your expectations then you are in the wrong place. Right or wrong, regardless of what you want to believe travel soccer should be that is what it is. [/quote]

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