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Quote Originally Posted by The Hacker View Post

True. Kids will always get better if they play better opposition but I guess the downside is how long can a kid get towelled every week year after year before they have had enough. There are pretty much 4 teams who are only going to take points off each other and if you’re not even getting points there then the game can get hard to love.
There’s a few in the older ages groups now who came out of 13s/14s from clubs down the bottom and they def deserve to be playing NPL.

It’s definitely tough, but it does make tough players with the right mindset as well. Hard call to say that at 13 they don’t deserve to be playing top tier football because of how players all develop at different times.

It’s definitely hard to get the balance right and every kid is going to have a different developmental pathway.