Dad Coaches at Club and High School

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dad coaches who have their kid on their team are a real problem

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Asscough had two kids on Bolts. One never should have made the team. The other never should have started. One never made a college team. The other was a bench warmer. The college bench warmer is somehow on a professional team in Ireland ? Oh!! It’s Kerry FC !!!! Wonder how he got on that team ?!?!?!
wink!!!

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Asscough had two kids on Bolts. One never should have made the team. The other never should have started. One never made a college team. The other was a bench warmer. The college bench warmer is somehow on a professional team in Ireland ? Oh!! It’s Kerry FC !!!! Wonder how he got on that team ?!?!?!
wink!!!

Spite does not become you.

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What a wonderful thing !!!!
Paying Big money to Bolts to have a Dad coach!!!
double Whammy!$!$!$!$!$

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In less than an hour, I will be setting up a field for tonight's U-15 session. Following our game on Sunday afternoon, as a team, we identified a few of the areas where we performed well; we then briefly indicated a couple of things that could have been tightened up, which will become the thrust of tonight's session. After the game, I remained at the field for about 30 minutes, which tends to be typical. In that time players dropped by, some parents came over to converse, and we engaged in positive, constructive discourse. I am not deluded into thinking that every parent is entirely satisfied with their son's playing time or perhaps where I choose to play them on the field. That said, I find most of them to be reasonable and respectful, and I'm comfortable that they likely see me in the same way. Yes, my son plays on the team, and while he is not the best, he is one of the stronger players. I didn't start him on Sunday, because I felt he practiced poorly last week, and he recognizes that fairly or unfairly he (and I) may be held to certain standards that the other boys are not when it comes to playing time. In some ways this has pushed him to become more consistent, and in other ways it has simply introduced him to certain things that can feel a little unfair in the world. While perception may be termed reality, I would like to believe it is not; however, we are both sensitive to how others may perceive things. It seems like there's been a lot of dad-coach bashing, which, of course, this particular thread invites, but on behalf of all those dad-coaches out there, I think there are a good bunch of them trying to get it right.