Quote Originally Posted by WOW2.0 View Post
One parent in the academy told me the other week, the boys are told simply to constantly kick the shit out of opposition players. That as a club and a team, the would average less than 30% possession. Wonder how much truth there is to that.
Regarding kicking the opponents:
Maybe at a team level, definitely not happening at the club level. My son has never been instructed to do that.

On the possession part, VEO came in handy for this.
I just checked the analytics studio.
The team averaged 56% possession for the season and had less than 50% on 5 occasions.

Other boys squads:
50%
62%
49%
51%

Interestingly the team with the lowest average possession is also the most successful team of all 5 boys youth squads.