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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please remember you are a paying customer.  You are paying the club to develop your player.  If your son or daughter is not getting close to 50% game time, you absolutely have the right to bring it to the AGC and/or TD.[/quote]

If they offered your player a spot on their ECNL team and took your money, they have an obligation to develop them.
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You are the Customer.[/quote]

While you’re the customer, you kid is their employee who is not paid anything to make the club revenue and indirectly the coach’s salary. They work for the club to offer a service to you for which you pay for. Kinda warped.

Anyhow, yes they have an obligation to develop your kid. That happens mostly in practice, not games. Having said that, you have to be smart and not sign your kid up for a 24 roster team where they are clearly not in the top 16 players.  Or, at least if you do, have them dual rostered to the B team where they’ll get playing time. Also, if your kid is not being developed, then move them to a different team/club. [/quote]

+100

I would suggest development occurs in practice; the results of that development is seen in games.  If the consistent improvement doesn't occur or if that development doesn't translate to game play, that is why your kid is a sub.

Thinking the club owes every kid at least  50% playing time means the parent doesn't understand the club and how competition works.  Ask the coach and management if the coach is obligated to give Billy/Jane (if they're 13+) 50%; they should laugh at you. Stop living through your kid's achievements or lack thereof. [/quote]

The best clubs give all players decent (i.e. approx 50% minimum) playing time.  One or two players play the whole game, three or four more play 3/4 of the game.  Teams that don't do this are usually not especially good in the first place which is why they fear putting anyone except their top kids on the field in the first place.  And even if they're not terrible, they usually enter a downward spiral fairly rapidly for two reasons.

1.  The subs don't improve, and become weaker and weaker links when they are required to play because of injury or absence.
2.  The better subs leave because they are getting no playing time, so the team constantly has to replace any player who is not a starter, usually with weaker players.  The consequence is that the roster gets weaker and weaker.[/quote]

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