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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From what I've seen at the younger ages, SYC is very good about recruiting fast, strong kids with some technical teaching them how to play a rough, physical game. The boys get yelled at a lot by parents and coaches throughout games. They know how to win. But at what cost?[/quote]

+1000 very hostile environment at the younger ages. Since teams play up, they always have 1 year older kids play down an age to help stack wins.[/quote]

How does this happen since refs are required to check roster player cards prior to the game?[/quote]

If a team is playing up a year,  a year older player is playing on age. [/quote]

Yeah, teams that play up are full of talented kids but we’ve played enough of them to know a few of the kids are on age, especially goalkeepers.[/quote]

SYC sort of "plays up" some age groups, but then will put a few key on-age players on the team (e.g., a strong on-age goalkeeper) making it just a mixed team with some players playing up and some players playing on-age. They get to pretend they're "playing up" though because they are all such superstars lol. [/quote]

Oh come on, there's no "pretending" when it's 3/4 of the team an age below and a couple on age.  It's about getting the right competition level for the kids, and if having 2 on-age kids makes it a more even match, then great for both teams.  They're younger and can develop on both sides.  You prefer they play on age like they have in a few locals and decimate the competition 13-0?  That's no good for either team.[/quote]

I think it’s the marketing that’s prob off. My club has 2/3s of a team playing  up and it was still named as a combined age group team.

In one season, when promotion was on the line, a clubs team playing up had to win one more game to secure promotion. They benched a few of their regular kids who all showed up, and played starters on their top on-age team.  Since then, I’m just very skeptical of clubs touting their teams playing up. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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