Combine practice

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Players should be developed equally. Some clubs will give the “A” squad an extra training night. Kids develop at different rates, your star at 12 years old may not be your best player at 16 years old. Train the age group together, develop your players, keep rosters fluid.

Agreed! Couldn’t have said it better myself

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Good reasons:

- coach had a conflict/is sick. No brainer if it's rare
- want to push players on the bubble of a B team or younger team/see if they can handle being with bigger/stronger players
- mix it up to learn from a different coach, play different players, switch positions etc

Bad reasons/circumstances:

- assigned coach has too many conflicts and is barely a coach (they shouldn't be a coach OR the club is too cheap and has coaches stretched too thin)
- tossing them together is just easer/lazy coaches stand around on their phones or just talking to one another, not coaching their own kids or the other players

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Good reasons:

- coach had a conflict/is sick. No brainer if it's rare
- want to push players on the bubble of a B team or younger team/see if they can handle being with bigger/stronger players
- mix it up to learn from a different coach, play different players, switch positions etc

Bad reasons/circumstances:

- assigned coach has too many conflicts and is barely a coach (they shouldn't be a coach OR the club is too cheap and has coaches stretched too thin)
- tossing them together is just easer/lazy coaches stand around on their phones or just talking to one another, not coaching their own kids or the other players

The issue is usually the bad reasons/circumstances. If true A and B teams they shouldn't even be doing the same types of drills. There is a reason there is a B team.

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The issue is usually the bad reasons/circumstances. If true A and B teams they shouldn't even be doing the same types of drills. There is a reason there is a B team.

What club is

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The issue is usually the bad reasons/circumstances. If true A and B teams they shouldn't even be doing the same types of drills. There is a reason there is a B team.

Seriously?

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The issue is usually the bad reasons/circumstances. If true A and B teams they shouldn't even be doing the same types of drills. There is a reason there is a B team.

There's usually a great deal of overlap between bottom of the A roster and top of the B.

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The issue is usually the bad reasons/circumstances. If true A and B teams they shouldn't even be doing the same types of drills. There is a reason there is a B team.

Of all the nonsense and flawed statements made on this forum this one is up there for worst takes ever. Tell us all you know nothing about the game without actually telling us you know nothing. Sheesh.

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Of all the nonsense and flawed statements made on this forum this one is up there for worst takes ever. Tell us all you know nothing about the game without actually telling us you know nothing. Sheesh.

Lol damn

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practice makes perfect

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Of all the nonsense and flawed statements made on this forum this one is up there for worst takes ever. Tell us all you know nothing about the game without actually telling us you know nothing. Sheesh.

Sure and ECNL practices are the same as your local EDP club. Difference in talent means there should be a difference in training. You want your top level kid training with someone who won't even make their HS team?

In your world all the kids should be training together regardless of talent level. Is that your flex?

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Sure and ECNL practices are the same as your local EDP club. Difference in talent means there should be a difference in training. You want your top level kid training with someone who won't even make their HS team?

In your world all the kids should be training together regardless of talent level. Is that your flex?

You are making some big assumptions about the A and B teams here. A&B teams at ECNL club are very different from A&B teams at EDP club.