No I don't believe that the House League players practice enough or play enough. They should play the full hour and practice on a seperate day for 1 - 1 1/2 hour. Developing our players is very important.

i agree about the practices, new season and with only 2 days to practice as a team, the team played scrimmages both days, kids need to practice if they want to learn the game and not just chase a ball around a field

Here are a couple of other options 1)increase time on game night to allow for more practice. Perhaps schedule for 6 to 7:15 for first groups, and then 7:15 to 8:30 (instead of 6-7&7-8). It makes it a little late for the younger ones though. 2)drop-in practice sessions on alternate nights focused strictly on skills development. Team affiliation would not be relevant (so regular coaches not needed). This would allow players who want to learn more to benefit from skills development. I prefer those options to adding an extra night, as it is hard to find coaches for all the teams, and an extra night might further discourage people from volunteering. Also, some kids are really there "just for fun", and I like that. I wouldn't want to discourage those players by increasing their commitment to 3 nights per week. They might also choose to just show up 2 nights a week, but then teams might be stuck with not enough players to play more than now.

Having been a coach in this association for the past 4 years, I can state for a fact that we do not practice enough. 2 practices at the beginning of the year and that's it. If you want to develop young players, you need to provide more skil building sessions. I would suggest that the schedule be done as such as to allow for 1 practice for every 3-4 played or as someone else mentioned, extended the times and allows us to practice. It seems that this years, the ref want to start the games right away, not giving us anytime to practice.

the past scores are confusing plz change it