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You can certainly change it up, but in my experience, putting in a different kid who is weaker at the position is unlikely to change the tide.

Change the tide of what? THAT game in immediate short term? or the long term tide of a team's dynamic over many games and season?

Couple potential reasons why that center mid doesn't get changed.

* center mid can't play any other position 
 * "different" kid is weaker in that spot because no one else gets a significant chance at center mid 
 * "different" kid is better center mid, but coach can't take the potential fall out

Better to not be exposed, right?   
 
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All I can say is that my son's coach recently had their team scrimmage a team two levels up.  When everyone was in their best position, the team didn't look bad - the game was close.  As soon as he rotated people out to their less than ideal position, things fell apart and the team got clobbered.   There's tons of ways to give players chances to develop in other positions - scrimmages during practice, games where the team is already ahead.  But I don't know of ANY travel coach who rotates kids to a less than idea position when the team is behind and the game is going poorly.[/quote]

I do.  And sometimes it's a game changer.  A couple of salient points:  if things are going poorly routinely, then that's a problem anyways.  And then you also are creating a catch 22.  You can't rotate because it's going poorly and you don't want to make things worse.  And you can't when it's going well because now you have to protect the win.

I have seen wingers and midfielders get moved to defense and it turn the game around.  And I'm talking much older, like U15.

But let's remember here.  We are talking U10.  Are they never allowed to make mistakes, learn, try a new position?  That's a little much. [/quote]

Exactly.

Again development versus winning a game.  Everyone would like to have both on parallel upward trajectories.   
A choice usually has to be made.  And sometimes, more often than people want to admit, the other team is simply better.

EVERY coach worth salt should be rotating players.[/quote]

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