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Anonymous wrote:Locally, Transfer from ECNL to ECNL club isn’t happening mid season without a very good reason. It’s just not....and nor should it.

Yes..it’s permissible....that’s were it ends.

Why shouldn't it happen?

Players are customers, they should choose the product they believe in.

Because it causes instability, recruiting, and club hopping.

I don't care. If I was happy at the club I wouldn't leave. As a customer I feel no obligation to keep paying for or attending something that I am not happy with. I don't care if it is inconvenient to the club.

It’s not an inconvenience. It’s a specific rule to prevent specific things that are for the betterment of the league. A club hopper is poisonous.

Anonymous wrote:Back to the topic at hand. Who gets recruited first. The 2023 04 or the 2023 05.

The one who’s a better player at the position the coach needs to fill. And has the right academics for the school.

You people seem like you have ever been through this before. High school needs at least 20. To have 16 or 17 in high school you will be playing short all the time

Anonymous wrote:On Ecnl or Ga teams, 20+ rosters is tolerable and justified. There’s lots of supply and demand on those teams. All other teams need 18. Any coach that tells you otherwise is looking after themselves and the club should a player stop playing for any reason. Good luck managing a large team.

And 4 players don’t dress and/or stay home every game?

Anonymous wrote:18-20 is good. Even up to 22 is helpful but 22+ is too many.

Even then many ecnl teams have composite teams so that all players can get playing time in.

18-20 is good. Even up to 22 is helpful but 22+ is too many.

On Ecnl or Ga teams, 20+ rosters is tolerable and justified. There’s lots of supply and demand on those teams. All other teams need 18. Any coach that tells you otherwise is looking after themselves and the club should a player stop playing for any reason. Good luck managing a large team.

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Anonymous wrote:You need 20+ in high school - multiple injuries happen to every team every year! If it doesn’t happen to your team one year, then every family can have a weekend off every 3 months!

You can pull members from the 2nd team to help! Over rostering is bonus$$ to clubs.

Not true. Often, the 2nd team has games the same days. Also, level of play simply isn't the same. My DD's team has 16 players this year and it is not enough. We've had injuries with one girl out for 4 months. It's hard to enter tournaments with so few players. Also, the girls need to get used to playing together. Pulling in a girl here and there just isn't the same. It's good to have smaller rosters when kids are little but you need the bigger rosters as they get older.

I was talking about 20+ Roster, not a team of 16. Anything over 18 is unnecessary

Not so, depending on the age. 18 is fine for U14, maybe U15. Anything over that, you need the 20 player roster. My son's team has the 20 player roster and there have been far too many games where we've only had 15 players available because of numerous injuries (some soccer-related, some HS-sports related, some from other activities) and conflicts with HS sports (e.g., track/football). I was one of those people skeptical about rosters over 18 and I have changed my mind now that my kid is in that age group.

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Anonymous wrote:You need 20+ in high school - multiple injuries happen to every team every year! If it doesn’t happen to your team one year, then every family can have a weekend off every 3 months!

You can pull members from the 2nd team to help! Over rostering is bonus$$ to clubs.

Not true. Often, the 2nd team has games the same days. Also, level of play simply isn't the same. My DD's team has 16 players this year and it is not enough. We've had injuries with one girl out for 4 months. It's hard to enter tournaments with so few players. Also, the girls need to get used to playing together. Pulling in a girl here and there just isn't the same. It's good to have smaller rosters when kids are little but you need the bigger rosters as they get older.

I was talking about 20+ Roster, not a team of 16. Anything over 18 is unnecessary

Can’t believe you people fall for the big roster bullshit.

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Anonymous wrote:You need 20+ in high school - multiple injuries happen to every team every year! If it doesn’t happen to your team one year, then every family can have a weekend off every 3 months!

You can pull members from the 2nd team to help! Over rostering is bonus$$ to clubs.

Nice idea but it doesn't work that way. The reality is when you cut those extra 5 players at the back end of the roster (players 16-20), most won't just drop down and play for the B team. In an area like this, they leave the club (go to a lower level elite club) and never come back. You need the depth of 20 players in high school ages to survive injuries/conflicts, and if you want to be still be competitive, you carry them on the top team roster.

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Anonymous wrote:You need 20+ in high school - multiple injuries happen to every team every year! If it doesn’t happen to your team one year, then every family can have a weekend off every 3 months!

You can pull members from the 2nd team to help! Over rostering is bonus$$ to clubs.

Not true. Often, the 2nd team has games the same days. Also, level of play simply isn't the same. My DD's team has 16 players this year and it is not enough. We've had injuries with one girl out for 4 months. It's hard to enter tournaments with so few players. Also, the girls need to get used to playing together. Pulling in a girl here and there just isn't the same. It's good to have smaller rosters when kids are little but you need the bigger rosters as they get older.

Anonymous wrote:You need 20+ in high school - multiple injuries happen to every team every year! If it doesn’t happen to your team one year, then every family can have a weekend off every 3 months!

You can pull members from the 2nd team to help! Over rostering is bonus$$ to clubs.

You need 20+ in high school - multiple injuries happen to every team every year! If it doesn’t happen to your team one year, then every family can have a weekend off every 3 months!

If clubs are/were rostering 15-16 kids, I could buy the ‘club/team stability’ argument. But when they are rostering 20+, they are actively selling about 1/3rd of the parents/kids something that they are not fully providing.