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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are adding making this way more complicated than it needs to be and bubble players just don't happen in a vacuum.

1. If your playing time went from 60% to 30% you might be a bubble player.
2. If your player is suddenly seeing reduced playing time and playing in vastly different positions, you might be a bubble player.
3. If a new kid comes in and starts in your kids main position, you might be a bubble player. 
4. If your kid is asked to "guest" in a couple of games on the lower team, you might be a bubble player.[/quote]

Fine. Who cares? I guess if your kid is a bubble player they deserve no feedback, coaching or encouragement?   You you think that it is totally acceptable to cut fully participating youth players mid season because they must know they are bubble players?  It is right to significantly reduce or eliminate the playing time of a fully contributing, committed player because new kids are added to the team (and there is no lower team)?

Basically, you seem to be saying that unless your child starts and plays an entire match, they are clearly bubble players, they obviously suck, they must know they suck, and if they had better parents, they would take them elsewhere.  OK.  You prove my point, which is that it must be all about winning now.  I think that kids can learn from being bench players.  I'm not shopping from club to club because my child isn't a starter.

You do realize that in your C team statements you proved my point, right?  [b]Today's little tiny non-starter may be tomorrow's star.  Today's man child striker could be tomorrow's bench player. [/b]Both need to work, independent of their size, on their other abilities.  But the not quite there kid is less likely to get better (or stick with it) if she's always an afterthought and never gets to play.

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I have seen a couple kids all the way through youth soccer.  One an elite player, one a B team player.  The movement between A and B is virtually non-existent.  Most of the movement is among the players of within those teams - who on the A roster is seeing the most time.  Almost all of the kids on the A teams have the talent to be there - just depends upon how committed they are.   Truly uncommitted kids do drop out, and yes the early bloomers get a brief period to shine while they have 6 inches and 30 lbs on their teammates, but mostly the kids who are the very best athletes at 13 will still be in that group at 18.  It is much more likely they will leave for another team, drop out of the sport, or be injured versus replaced by a new B team player that has blossomed.  [/quote]

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