Teams are going to have good/bad games, so measuring margin of victory to validate flight 1 status is silly.. Free kicks were rewarded due to fouls that stopped scoring opportunities.. Beach had there fair share. My only concern with teams playing up is lack of size at this young age. Refs seems to call in favor of smaller players when a legal collusion occurs, which limits the bigger players to play freely and takes away from the game. Season just begun, let's wait til the end to start making assessments of other teams.
SCDSL - Flight 1/CSL GOLD /SDDA Flight 1
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Yeah, we at Beach aren't great, but to say Arsenal Dominated? Maybe had the edge for parts, but to say you dominated would be looking at it through rose colored glasses and was not the game I saw. Beach had stretches when they were on the front foot. At least the free kicks Beach scored off came off legitimate fouls. The corner Arsenal scored off was incorrect. Should have been a goal kick.
Why are we talking about refs??
Teach the players how to move the ball
DefenseWins
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GTO, why is this team playing up?
our 05 flight one went to DA and we took their place
Wez
DA
Does that mean they are playing against mostly B04 boys in DA games?
Wez
DA
Why not wait to move them into DA next year then?
Wez
DA
Wow, they're really going young.
How does that make sense?
How does it not?
Nice response...
Never said it doesn't but as I had stated in previous response, IMHO, playing up 11v11 on various sized big fields doesn't really benefit them to only move back down to 9v9 at U12 Academy next year. Sure, maybe it's more challenging for them playing older players, but does it for all of them? There easily could be an Aug 1 and later 06 going up against a July 31 and prior 05. That's basically two age groups up from last years matrix. What good does it do that kid?
So I'll al for your opinion again, how does it make sense?
The transitions from 9 v 9 to 11 v 11 can be rectified in the months leading up to the seasons. But generating the confidence and experience from playing against stronger competition is much more valuable.
And what's the guarantee they are gaining confidence? If they are struggling or just getting by enough to compete, how's that become valuable experience? I'm not saying that's the case with this particular team but in general not all 06's are going to do well enough playing up that the outcome will be what you say it is.
Just my opinion
They gain most of the confidence when they return to their age group. They will notice that the speed of play has slowed down and they are the ones now dictating most of the plays.
Couldn't agree more.. I understand individual players playing up for their special talents, but not entire teams due to lack of fielding an age appropriate team. Maybe flight ll would've of been a better fit, older boys still but, but mixed talent levels. I'm sure the boys will play their hearts out, but when they play the flight 1 top teams and get humbled, coach better have a good halftime speech. Just my opinion.
But does the speed of play really slow down? From flight 1 on the big field to Academy level on the smaller field? I would agree with you if it was on the same size field but it's not. Some might even go as far as saying the game speeds up at that level.
So current 2005 age group will be U13 academy next year and the current 2004s that are U12 academy currently will jump to U14/15? Does anyone know where an academy matrix can be accessed for the 2017/2018 season? The 2005 age group really gets the short end of the stick in the whole academy roll out. It is beneficial for 2005s to play up at 2004 academy this year if they are able to do so.