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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answer is more simple than that. WS-VA is focused on player development more than winning. Difference between a pro club and a club whose entire existence depends on recruiting players and winning games.[/quote]

When a player playing up can't trap the ball, can't complete a pass and is constantly falling down in a game, that is not development.  It is actually hurting the development of the rest of the team who has to pick up their slack.[/quote]

+1. Saying that this is all in the name of development is a cop out. If WS-VA had quaiity players to fill every age group roster out properly and if it didn't cave to parents pushing to have their kids train and play up, they'd roster normally like every other DA.

Look across the country at DAs and ECNLs alike, boys and girls, you never see rostering like this unless they have oversized rosters, have to back fill roster gaps with younger players or something similar.

Show that these players are just too good to play in their age group first. Show me a forward who scores relentlessly game after game in her own age group. Not one who can't score while playing up. Show me a midfielder who dominates in her own age group, not one who plays a team of 03s (Saturday) and can't touch the ball for 60+ minutes. Show me a player who isn't challenged playing 2 years up. Then I will say, yeah, she needs to be moved to 3 years up.

Don't show me a roster of 25, and then claim that development required a player move up. Development is challenging them, not moving them so far up they disappear. That's called the Peter principle. [/quote]

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