Club? Geez there'd be a few that would know already.
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Absolutely.But is the discussion point here people wanting 9 year olds battling for trophies before they can kick with both feet?Or 10 year olds losing semis because we dont care all that much about offside at that age?Because again NNSW have,for now, decided the age that points and finals and trophies matter is 13's.If parents are that thirsty for success for their kids then surely get them in an ID comp with those incentives from whatever age they can.I just feel like we as parents are forever trying to make this program good for us rather than the kids and it just bothers me.The first crop of these kids havent even graduated from the program and people are on here carrying on about not having enough desire or passion.I have no idea where they get that from because the kids I watch every weekend across many age groups all try their hardest to win.
(and just to be clear im not accusing you of that).
How do the kids feel? Would a little comp over a weekend or 2 at the end make them happy? Is that something they’d like to do?
Devils advocate, can it be a worse idea than the cage matches?
Only 1-2 weeks of the program, at the end. Bit of fun for the kids. Parents get to go to work the next day and pop on their local forum and tell us who won.
I’d be interested to see it trialled with maybe the 2 older age groups. Argument being that it’s a bit of a competitive environment to help them prepare for competitive matches in NPL Youth. Would also be good to see, and would potentially validate the no points/scores approach to this development/elite league. If clubs stick to their fundamentals and try to play out as they normally would, it could be good. If they resort to sticking 2 players high and long ball to them or the game being a mess, it kind of validates the idea to not score and compete for points. (Would you even introduce the concept of offside? Just to delineate it from what they’ve been doing)
Think there’s more reasons not to do it, kind of sends mixed messages too. But, not the worst idea.
It’s an interesting point as to the purpose of this comp/league/kick around. If it’s about their football development and journey, then on paper, I wouldn’t be opposed to some kind of hybrid set of rules between SAP and NPL youth. Eg maybe introduce offside in the older groups. An attempt to prepare and transition them to NPL. (Do many teams “exploit” offside? Would there be many offsides in a game as is?
Or do we not really have a problem going from small fields, no offside, no points etc to big field, offside rules, points. Let NPL a youth clubs educate their players in pre-season.
The problem is this is the only reason it would exist.The kids play to win and learn,the good coaches coach to win the right way,parents for the most part just want to brag.We dont need more of it.Also,with more at stake the behavior towards refs and players will only get worse and im not interested in any of that for my kid.Hes lucky at the moment his coach is amazing and more interested in the process rather than the result and hes a better footballer because of it.He'll get plenty of heartbreak and glory from next year on.Im fine for him to wait til then.
I watched Jaffa’s vs Magic in the 11’s this morning.
2 very competitive games. Both great to watch.
One of them the was the first goalless game of SAP/JDL I have seen in 3 years.
Did anyone got to the first gala day weekend?
If so, how did it go? Any pain points? What worked well?