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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I should clarify. The league they play in actually has rules that state players in a higher division cannot play down. Coach skirts the rules by getting players from an elite team not in the same league.[/quote]

You said it was a tournament...  rules are typically different in tournaments.  Players that are carded with a club can typically play on any team at that age group for their club.  [/quote]

I was the PP who misunderstood and thought that the  "elite" players weren't from the same club because the OP mentioned a different "league."  I was confused because usually league placement has nothing to do with the ability to guest play in a tournament.

[quote]I agree the point of club passes is not to stack lower level teams with higher level players. It is mostly meant for threshold type players - meaning bottom of the roster A team kids and top of the roster B team kids. Especially at larger clubs, there's often not a lot of difference between them, and what differences do exist when the teams are picked in May could be erased or reversed by November. The kids who are usually subs on the higher team can benefit from getting some games with the lower team where they will be (and feel) more important and play more prominent roles. The top kids on the lower team will also benefit from getting some minutes playing with and against better players in the more challenging games with the higher team. That's how it is supposed to work. If a club is moving its best players down from a higher team just to help a lower team get results, that's almost never a good thing.[/quote]

Totally agree that the subs from a higher team stand to benefit from "playing down" and tournaments provide a great opportunity for those players to get more playing time. At most clubs, there isn't a huge difference between the bottom part of a "top" team and the top of a second team.   Makes perfect sense . . . if this actually happened  My kids' experience has always been that the top of the top team gets invited to play with lower teams if they are free on tournament weekends.  I've seen this happen, time and time again, on clubs that post on social media constantly about "developing every player" and having a place for players at every level. Nope.  They will take money from players at any level, even those players who should be playing rec. But in terms of interest and opportunity . . . that goes to who they deem as "best" at the time.  This is another way that players who are the "best" at young ages keep getting better, while those bench players at any level struggle to get on the pitch at all.  
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