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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few things..... [b]DA rules don’t allow for bloated rosters, there are upper limits[/b].  Second, an attack on DA for being anti-development has no place in this thread.  Feel free to start that topic (again, as nauseum, ad infinitum), but the discussion doesnt belong here.  Finally, demeaning the talent at a club isn’t very classy.   There are plenty of talented kids at Spirit who chose that environment for the coaching and atmosphere.  For every talented kid who has a “better option” there is one who was bumped out of the “better option” club for another talented flavor of the day.  Over and over. That doesn’t spawn development, what it spawns is nastiness and rancor.   I’d prefer a healthy environment with uneven talent to that any time.  To each his own [/quote]

The upper limits of the DA rules allow for bloated rosters.   If you have more players on your team roster than you can have on a gameday roster, the team has a bloated roster.

Not a rule, but DA guidelines for some agegroups say that every single FT player on the roster should play at least 50% of the available game minutes each month.   Does WS abide by that?  [/quote]

Playing time stats are available on the US Soccer website.  If you have evidence that WS is breaking the playing rules, please by all means contact Torres and US Soccer.
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Ignorant response.

The 50% PT is a guideline, not a rule.  So even if they "violated" it, there would be nothing to report.

I said nothing about whether I thought they were or were not following the guideline.  I simply asked a question.

PT stats are not available for U14, and U13 game reports are not even listed online.  Even for U15 and above, it can be hard to track because they do move players up and down quite a bit, so just because a player is listed as "not rostered" doesn't mean she didn't play that weekend.  She might have played up a year.  From the outside, I would also have no way of knowing whether a player was left out due to injury or illness as opposed to just being left out.

I figured WS parents would have a pretty good idea though.

If the answer to that question is yes, they do make sure everyone plays at least 50% of the minutes each month, that would take some of the air out of the criticisms about the bloated rosters, wouldn't it?

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