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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps a tad off topic but our club has now moved a 3rd kid off our U9 team up to a select U10 team. The reason given is for the benefit of the kids moving up that they need to be challenged more. I have been in coaching for years and have never experienced this. The detriment to our team losing 3 terrific kids has been to make us very uncompetitive with A teams from other clubs. We’ve had to backfill with B players who just aren’t ready for the faster pace of play. I’ve posed the question to our club this effect of this is very demoralizing to our players and parents and we’ve already lost players who want to play sports on teams that are more competitive with the teams they play. The question I have is if the older select teams are so “select” why do they need younger kids to fill their rosters? I’ve contacted other clubs (large clubs) and they all say they highly discourage moving up. I am suspect that our club is short players on the older teams and they are poaching better younger kids to fill rosters. My observation is smaller clubs have difficulty finding enough kids for select teams so bring up younger better kids but the effect on the younger teams is they are short of quality players and become uncompetitive. [/quote]

Yeah, having dealt with this some of this as an assistant travel coach over 2 years, I would say the smarter play is just have the younger players guest player for the older group instead of moving 3 players up to fill slots.  Then have the club double down on recruiting the 10 year olds to come out.  When they take away your 3 best players, then that can demoralize your team and cause division also when other girls ask why the 3 best girls left.   Also, your 3 best girls probably art really ready to move up to 9v9 with full offsides and the ball flying in the air a lot more and significantly larger kids.   They would get more touches on the ball remaining at 7v7 thus enhancing their ball mastery skills.   Someone has to get out to Rec and surrounding elementary school recruit new players into the club.[/quote]

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