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Originally Posted by SeoulFire
Yeah it is much easier to take when a team gets four up and plays keep-away for the rest of the game. Much better.
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Yeah, thats hell.
I think this is stupid. What are they trying to accomplish with this? They're trying to protect certain people's feelings, they're not trying to promote the development of talent or skill in any way, thats just a convenient dodge.
"Practice doesnt make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect."
- Vince Lombardi.
What he attests to with that statement is the fact that in order to develop players to be better players, they have to be training and practicing at the pace that they will see in a game.
So, playing games with no scores diminishes overall drive. Great. You'll have one kid ripping it up and giving it 110% but then little Timmy on defence is picking flowers and staring at the sky because no matter what he does he cant lose...or win, so whats the point in being there at all? For fun? For development? I dont find wasting my time in a goalless endeavour all that enjoyable.
Furher, the kid who was giving it 110% is wasting his time too. Great, he too can neither win, nor lose, but at least hes got a forum in which he can push his development with less pressure, right?
But then the lack of pressure itself hampers development. Its great that one kid is trying, but if Timmy just lets him walk on by without a challenge then one kid hasnt learned to defend and the other kid hasnt learned how to evade pressure from defenders or how to get past defenders. How is this promoting development for anyone? What skills are they learning?
Being able to do something at half pace, or with no pressure on you has absolutely no bearing on anything game related, all it does is leave you unprepared for actual in game scenarios.