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[font=Comic Sans MS]I'm very proud of the fact that my U10 boys team have been very successful and won the B division title this fall season! They worked very hard and are playing beyond even our expectations culminating with an exciting 2-1 victory against the next best team in the league. Unfortunately, the day before the close win, we played against a team of lesser talent who is now saying we shouldn't have even been in this division after the game we played against them. I can assuredly say that we did almost everything we could, short of shooting it into our own goal, to keep from scoring against this team; but how do you tell an 8- or 9-yr. old player not to shoot when they're at the six?? Instincts take over and they do what they've been training to do. We ranked our team in this division because we were unsure of our abilities. We lost half our team from last year due to age and of the new players, one is still technically U8 and they all came from a non-competitive rec program. We lost 2 of our experienced players when parents split leaving us with 10 boys to play 8v8 for the season!! I apologize for the rant, but to say we deliberately placed ourselves to win a cheap piece of tin in a small town league is ludicrous!! We are very excited about being promoted in the Spring -- we'll get to see how we stack up as coaches against the best in our area and the boys will get a chance to play in exciting matches again!![/font]
Jim Noll
Coach - Dover Lightning (U12 Boys)
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| Hi Nollster, First - congratulations! The obvious answer if you are absolutely dominating a team and scoring at will, is simply to remove one or more of your own players to even the game up. A totally dominant team does not improve without being stretched and the dominated team becomes disheartened which is also undesirable. No-one really wins in such a situation! As coaches we should always look at the Big Picture! GTQ
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