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Youth coaching and game management philosophy - is this acceptable?
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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 828160" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>See I always thought I'd improve the team when I got on :lol:</p><p></p><p>I don't think any youth team should be solely about winning or solely about being fair and giving everyone an equal crack of the whip. If they have no chance of winning, they probably won't turn up. But if players start to believe they're being treated unfairly, they stop turning up as well and are probably less committed to winning when they are there. A team gets burned by that less slowly and less surely, but it gets burned nevertheless once the injuries happen - or at that level, once the better players start getting poached. If I'd hung around my football team a couple of years longer, I'd have been starting because the academies took a lot of the players. My rugby club is surprisingly immune to having players poached - we're more likely to nick other people's reserves - but there's been attempts and cases where we're thought players were going (only for them to return).</p><p></p><p>But then, I quit the football team partially because I didn't have friends there. My rugby club is very tight knit socially. Friendship matters a lot here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 828160, member: 42330"] See I always thought I'd improve the team when I got on :lol: I don't think any youth team should be solely about winning or solely about being fair and giving everyone an equal crack of the whip. If they have no chance of winning, they probably won't turn up. But if players start to believe they're being treated unfairly, they stop turning up as well and are probably less committed to winning when they are there. A team gets burned by that less slowly and less surely, but it gets burned nevertheless once the injuries happen - or at that level, once the better players start getting poached. If I'd hung around my football team a couple of years longer, I'd have been starting because the academies took a lot of the players. My rugby club is surprisingly immune to having players poached - we're more likely to nick other people's reserves - but there's been attempts and cases where we're thought players were going (only for them to return). But then, I quit the football team partially because I didn't have friends there. My rugby club is very tight knit socially. Friendship matters a lot here. [/QUOTE]
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