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And one of their main arguments was that you only get 9pts for going into admin.

This is also a problem we encountered. We had 10 when I was helping out which meant everyone was only getting 2 quarters. Now he’s in a team of 8 which is just about right when you factor in that some of them might not be there each week which generally means they’re all gonna get 3 quarters more times than not. For me at their age, it’s all about the encouragement isn’t it. Get your message across during the game but do it in the right way. Even if they make a mistake just say good effort and maximise what you can. We’d played a lot of friendlies and one team we played wow, never heard anything like it from a grown men talking to 6 year old boys.

The problem I faced that in the former team, playing at level 5 my lad was head and shoulders above the rest of them, ability and understanding of the game, and he got frustrated that he wasn’t getting player of the week/MOTM more often than he did, so we made the decision in the end for the parents to vote. The final straw came for him when one of his own players tackled him And also at the age they’re at we were simply giving every single player regardless of ability the same amount of playing time (which for me is the right way to do it) and similar to you literally the only reason I was doing it was so him and his friends all had a team to play in. The annoying thing about u7’s is a lot of teams go in at a lower level than they should be and just waltz past teams. First game of the season, his former team had their first “league game” and their coach came over to us and said “we are too good for this level” and proceeded to absolutely batter them. He’s now moved to a level 3 side, where he is by no means the top dog there, so that’ll bring more out of him as well as playing against better opposition in more competitive games but more importantly he’s enjoying it more than getting pasted every week at level 5 even if his new team loses, he’s still enjoying it as well as enjoying training more and I think a lot of that is because he’s now got an impartial coach.

It says it all when the sour relationship between her and Rudkin means she’s the one to leave. Genuinely wouldn’t be surprised to see our good friend Anthony get the job.

Wantaway player - Soumare or Winks?

Young lad has moved teams to another local team but a bit higher level. Had a very awkward phone call to make with my friend who I was running it with but had to follow what my son wanted. Happy I can just go and watch him train and play now rather than having to get 8 6yr olds to listen at the same and also him not having the pressure burden of his dad being a coach.

They got a small round of applause. Thought they’d have walked the trophy round the ground but didn’t. An interview with Ian Holland and that’s about it.

Not true.

He was good next to Winks. Hopefully we can get a trio of them 2 and Ramsey starting regularly.

You must’ve been in the concourse or something and missed his assist?

I’m struggling to name 2.

Yep, totally agree with this.

By a distance

Bin

Well that was so disappointing. But at 1-0 up the game is never out of the opponents reach. Absolutely dominated but that’s no good when you can only muster up one shot on target. Played some lovely football at times but that counts for nothing. Yet again, every single one of their chances came from us trying to be too intricate or clever. We are yet again, way too easy to play against. Sit in deep, knowing exactly what we are going to do, then try and hit us on the break. We looked a lot sharper with Daka starting and being a bit more direct. I think going in at half time we were so comfortable but then we came out for the second half and the same intensity wasn’t there. Work to be done.

Yeah, you are probably right. Will be interesting who the t20 one is as I doubt it’ll be Handscombe, but surely it’ll be an all rounder.

I know, I was there

Be nice to see Matty James back tonight.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if Kimber gets just a white ball contract with someone. Certainly could be of use to a team in all 3 formats in Division 2 mind. Looks like Van Beek won’t be coming back next season either.

Woakesy retires from international cricket. The way the older generation in the last few years have been treated after giving so much to the red ball team is nothing short of a disgrace.

Probably all the spare time they’d get away from them to get Leroy round

American fans doing their best LCFC fans impersonation by trying to beat the traffic

Doesn’t matter when the pairs are so good! It’s 3 day event not a single day!

Come on then let’s get this last half.

They’re sinking anything within 10ft