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The season is winding down and the end can't come soon enough. The director decided that one of the glorious changes he was making was to quit throwing money away. Makes sense, right? Except that he views any saturday without games as a $6000 loss. nevermind that the Saturday is smack dab in the middle of a 4 day weekend and we traditionally host a drop in tournament on that day. Pretty much every game in every age group was a forfeit.

Our team had the seven required players so we were good to go. The other team borrowed a couple players and we were off to the races. The coach for the other team was my new BFF, mister "i have a tiny penis so I'll make up for with hypercompetitiveness". The teams were pretty equal for the first 15-20 minutes. Lil Lookout and B were moving and passing well. The defense was solid and the rest existed peacefully unaware of the game around them. We went into the break up by 2 points. Apparently that was completely unacceptable to the other coach because his wife brought his other two sons over. nevermind that they are two and a half years too old for this league and play club ball. Whatever. After five minutes it became pretty clear those two wouldn't pass to anyone but eachother. They're good players and significantly bigger than my average player so they pretty much had the run of the field. By the end of the game LL, B, L, and a few from the other team just stood and watched as the two players dribbled and shot. I asked them why they weren't playing and they all just shrugged and said it was stupid. LL said he wasn't going to get hurt trying to tackle them because the refs weren't calling any fouls. Eh, can't argue with that.

The other team won 8-4 and my kids couldn't have cared less. My BFF walked around with his chest puffed out having avenged his earlier loss in the season. Cool.

Half the coaches in the age group have already announced they aren't coming back. The same happened in the next age group too.

As it stands club practice is 2-3 nights/week in August and early September, but games don't start untiil the end of September. Lil Lookout really doesn't want to go four weeks without a game so it looks like I will be signing him up for another session of indoor even though I won't be coaching it. He played a game with a U10 team this week. He was nervous about it because some of those players are three years older than him but I reminded him that they are the same players he was nervous about when he turned five and they were eight. That settled his nerves a bit and he played pretty well. He scored a couple of real crackers and had one outstanding assist. Looks like it is off to U10 he goes for the next session.