Imagine a Saturday morning where you only played at Mackey, with teams of 4 in a round robin competition. Your game was always at 9am or 9.30 and no travelling!
FFA have given Districts a couple of years to adopt Small Sided Games (SSGs) and, at the least, all 6s and 7s games across Canterbury should be SSGs by next year. When I watch the 10s playing on a full size field I really hope that we can adopt the SSGs for the older children sooner, NOT later.
Also see Craig Foster's article from the Sun-Herald, Sunday 18th May, 2008 for more information about SSGs, Parent Behaviour and World Best Practice for Player Development.
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spot on andra - i watched a game of under 10s out at roselands on saturday and just wished that the FFA initiated changes had arrived already - it was on an enormous field and the boys playing on it - as well as the referee, linesmen and even spectators - were hopelessly lost.
I do feel sorry for under 10s still stuck on full fields this year - certainly under 8s and under 9s have a better time of it playing on half fields.
I would be happy to see the FFA changes in place asap - even if mandated as FFV has done.
PS - craig foster's article seems to have been picked up by many parents as timely too.
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