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Haven't seen Natick play this season saw them last year year though.
Just a few points from a coaches prospective.
If your going against a team that has talents players all over the field you can't pressure high so you have to drop your D off so you won't get beat on a simple give and go or a two or three pass combination.
As a coach you would rather see the other team posses the ball and walk the ball up the field. If their team wants to move the ball around in the middle of the field that's fine as long as the deffensive team is disciplined and stay with their responsibilities they will be fine.
So just for the on looking parents playing possession is fine looks great but their just playing what the defense is giving you.
parents please stop with this it's ugly soccer if your not possessing the ball. If any ones seen a European soccer team play they first look for the long ball. Or how many times would a team play the ball around in their defensive end then when the other team pressures them they play it to the keeper who then kicks the ball as far as he can?
So point is you can play a possession game when you have better skilled players than the other team.

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Haven't seen Natick play this season saw them last year year though.
Just a few points from a coaches prospective.
If your going against a team that has talents players all over the field you can't pressure high so you have to drop your D off so you won't get beat on a simple give and go or a two or three pass combination.
As a coach you would rather see the other team posses the ball and walk the ball up the field. If their team wants to move the ball around in the middle of the field that's fine as long as the deffensive team is disciplined and stay with their responsibilities they will be fine.
So just for the on looking parents playing possession is fine looks great but their just playing what the defense is giving you.
parents please stop with this it's ugly soccer if your not possessing the ball. If any ones seen a European soccer team play they first look for the long ball. Or how many times would a team play the ball around in their defensive end then when the other team pressures them they play it to the keeper who then kicks the ball as far as he can?
So point is you can play a possession game when you have better skilled players than the other team.

You sir are an uniformed coach. I'm tired of seeing long balls constantly bombed down the field in hopes of a striker getting on the end of it. If the girls are not good enough to play possession then the coaches need to work with them to get better.

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[QUOTE=Unregistered;2117949 If the girls are not good enough to play possession then the coaches need to work with them to get better.[/QUOTE]

By the time they're 15 or 16 it's too late. If they can't string three or four passes together under pressure or be able to do a three pass combination under pressure, no amount of training will get them better at that at this point their development. This is something they should have mastered at age 10.

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Haven't seen Natick play this season saw them last year year though.
Just a few points from a coaches prospective.
If your going against a team that has talents players all over the field you can't pressure high so you have to drop your D off so you won't get beat on a simple give and go or a two or three pass combination.
As a coach you would rather see the other team posses the ball and walk the ball up the field. If their team wants to move the ball around in the middle of the field that's fine as long as the deffensive team is disciplined and stay with their responsibilities they will be fine.
So just for the on looking parents playing possession is fine looks great but their just playing what the defense is giving you.
parents please stop with this it's ugly soccer if your not possessing the ball. If any ones seen a European soccer team play they first look for the long ball. Or how many times would a team play the ball around in their defensive end then when the other team pressures them they play it to the keeper who then kicks the ball as far as he can?
So point is you can play a possession game when you have better skilled players than the other team.

The reality though is that most HS teams have only two or three talented players (who pick up bad habits because every one else is playing bad soccer). So when these teams play each other, it just becomes like a ping-pong match- ball in the air a lot, ball kicked from one end to the other kind of game. no thanks. I'd rather watch paint dry. This is just bad, ugly soccer.

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Brave coach? No I would not call him a brave coach. He plays that brand of soccer because he has the talent. Period. Anyone can coach strong talent. Even you. Let's see how he does rebuilding the team next year. BUT he will probably be gone just like the talent.

A brave coach....one of the funnier things I've ever read on TS, and that says a lot. He wouldn't be so "brave" without the talent. He'd probably be doing many of the things he is railing against.

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The reality though is that most HS teams have only two or three talented players (who pick up bad habits because every one else is playing bad soccer). So when these teams play each other, it just becomes like a ping-pong match- ball in the air a lot, ball kicked from one end to the other kind of game. no thanks. I'd rather watch paint dry. This is just bad, ugly soccer.

Or how about this. Give me the address of your D next club game so I can attend and pick apart everything the team does wrong. No doubt I will comment about lack of skill and undoubtedly will see some level of kick and run soccer that you so despise. Who really give a *** if the HS game is terrible. Just don't watch or play. The kids are out there having fun. JB forgets that his job would not exist if stars couldn't have all of these low level teams paying for there nice field. Does he really think club soccer is attractive?

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By the time they're 15 or 16 it's too late. If they can't string three or four passes together under pressure or be able to do a three pass combination under pressure, no amount of training will get them better at that at this point their development. This is something they should have mastered at age 10.

Nobody masters this at age 10. They haven't mastered it in h/s, college, or the MLS.

This is one of the most ignorant and stupid threads ever. And that is saying something.

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Nobody masters this at age 10. They haven't mastered it in h/s, college, or the MLS.

This is one of the most ignorant and stupid threads ever. And that is saying something.

I agree. JB is ignorant and stupid. Thanks for coming.

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I'm sure his players are hearing this - "all HS sucks, except you guys." Sure they are

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I'm sure his players are hearing this - "all HS sucks, except you guys." Sure they are

Isn't it awesome living in a time where the truth is taboo to say?

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Isn't it awesome living in a time where the truth is taboo to say?

And tell me again why we have to bash the girls about how terrible they are. What's the point? It's a sport meant to have fun. The majority already know what they are. No intention of playing on the NT like your GDA daughter or player.

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Natick plays some of the nicest soccer in Ma. Thre are only three or four other teams that try to play a possessive type game.

This is funny. Certainly because it's dopey and hyperbolic, but mostly because of the number of club coaches coaching high school teams that are loaded with club soccer players. Doesn't sound like it's money well spent.

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Not the poster but it is pretty douchey to publicly berate HS soccer if you're actually coaching HS soccer. Doesn't matter if he's right or not, or his team plays good soccer or not.

Correct. It's obnoxious and arrogant.

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And tell me again why we have to bash the girls about how terrible they are. What's the point? It's a sport meant to have fun. The majority already know what they are. No intention of playing on the NT like your GDA daughter or player.

It's not complicated. His future isn't in HS soccer, it's with Stars GDA. No coach that walked into that job a couple years ago was going to walk away after a just year or two, it wasn't a mystery that they'd be very competitive for the South and state title, but it's not like he's planning on staying forever or doesn't have every incentive to bash HS soccer before he leaves. At some point, he'll actually convince players from his own school to play GDA, not just all the other schools around him.

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By the time they're 15 or 16 it's too late. If they can't string three or four passes together under pressure or be able to do a three pass combination under pressure, no amount of training will get them better at that at this point their development. This is something they should have mastered at age 10.

Classic TS, the perfect marriage of arrogance and ignorance.