Player Movement?

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With the birth year change I'm assuming there's been some significant player movement between clubs. Within the 2005s, is anyone aware of significant changes (good or bad) among some of last year's stronger teams? I'd be interested in hearing which teams feel they got stronger and which lost some of their best players.

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Serious question - is your 2005 your oldest child?

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Serious question - is your 2005 your oldest child?

Pretty safe bet, I'd say.

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Serious question - is your 2005 your oldest child?

Oldest or only... sure bet!

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With the birth year change I'm assuming there's been some significant player movement between clubs. Within the 2005s, is anyone aware of significant changes (good or bad) among some of last year's stronger teams? I'd be interested in hearing which teams feel they got stronger and which lost some of their best players.

At this age it doesn't really matter much and that would be hard to determine. There will be a lot of movement until U14 anyway. Others can correct me if I am wrong. My daughter's U12 team only has 6 players from last year, a few 2005s from the U10 team who came up and several new players. I expect this is similar elsewhere.

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At this age it doesn't really matter much and that would be hard to determine. There will be a lot of movement until U14 anyway. Others can correct me if I am wrong. My daughter's U12 team only has 6 players from last year, a few 2005s from the U10 team who came up and several new players. I expect this is similar elsewhere.

Sounds exactly like our team. I am curious if that's the same as everyone else...but will find out soon enough.

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At this age it doesn't really matter much and that would be hard to determine. There will be a lot of movement until U14 anyway. Others can correct me if I am wrong. My daughter's U12 team only has 6 players from last year, a few 2005s from the U10 team who came up and several new players. I expect this is similar elsewhere.

Similar here, with about five players on the team from last year returning, joined by a mix of kids moving up from the team a level lower last year, kids coming up from an age group lower last year, and one player new to the club. The rest of last years' team moved up to the next age group (some due to birth year, some asked up due to playing level), with a few not returning to the club due to shifting focus on a different sport.

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Just by laws of averages/statistics (how many kids born August thru December?) you'd be hard pressed to find a team that wasn't impacted by the age change. Only way would be if the team was already heavily loaded with early month birthday players.

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With the birth year change I'm assuming there's been some significant player movement between clubs. Within the 2005s, is anyone aware of significant changes (good or bad) among some of last year's stronger teams? I'd be interested in hearing which teams feel they got stronger and which lost some of their best players.

Ok 2005 dad

1) Virtually all teams had significant shakeups. There's no telling where it will all fall out
2) Even without the shakeups it's about one week into the season. A little early to be saying who is king of the U12 mountain
3) Some kids were playing 8v8 until this year; they have a bigger adjustment now vs the kids who started playing 11v11 at U11. It's real soccer now and some kids don't transition well to 11v11/big field
4) Puberty changes it all up. In the next two years kids who were studs will suddenly not be studs any longer, kids who weren't studs suddenly are.
5) Also in the next two years you'll see multiple kids drop soccer altogether, possibly even your own (and definitely if you're already obsessing about who is #1 at U12).

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Ok 2005 dad

1) Virtually all teams had significant shakeups. There's no telling where it will all fall out
2) Even without the shakeups it's about one week into the season. A little early to be saying who is king of the U12 mountain
3) Some kids were playing 8v8 until this year; they have a bigger adjustment now vs the kids who started playing 11v11 at U11. It's real soccer now and some kids don't transition well to 11v11/big field
4) Puberty changes it all up. In the next two years kids who were studs will suddenly not be studs any longer, kids who weren't studs suddenly are.
5) Also in the next two years you'll see multiple kids drop soccer altogether, possibly even your own (and definitely if you're already obsessing about who is #1 at U12).

Great rant, however, most U12s are still playing 9v9 this year. Way to put this dad in his place, though, that'll teach him to not to be posting "just curious" types of questions on TS....