Quote Originally Posted by The Berlin Wall View Post
What's this I'm hearing about Valo building a "super squad" for u13's next year?!!! Azzurri coaches taking a whole team from that club 12's and offering every kid and dad at TSP a spot in youth there for the next 4 years? & those coaches locked themselves in for 4 years as well?!!!!

Can't be many spots for those Valo kids who been busting a gut and doing it hard there for the last couple.

@Goatscheese - where you at buddy?

This is what JDL has become for a few clubs.Instead of continually developing kids they decide its time to win and throw everything out.As always the clubs,coaches and parents deserve all the scorn that comes with it but the kids are the ones who will wear it.To be fair though its not as if Valo have invented this approach this type of thing has been going on for years at other clubs.Hopefully the kids who are being turfed at Valo get their names down at as many other clubs as possible and trial.They will get a spot somewhere and hopefully dont get lost to the game.A small warning to the Charlestown parents who think they are on a good thing just remember if your kid is a benchwarmer,or they dont win in 13s then the cycle will be repeated and your kid will be replaced so dont burn too many bridges on the way out.