Your assumption is that an august or July birthday kid is bigger than a September-December kid, and it’s completely false. My kid is a September birthday and I can assure you the one week difference from him playing his age or being considered a hold back does not equate to him being bigger than the rest of his team. In fact if he was an August birthday I would argue he would be at risk for injury in the next age up.
Y’all wanna preach safety until you don’t. What it really boils down to, is your little Johnny is at the bottom of the depth chart and all these summer birthdays who are barely older than him are the problem.
This should be focused on the double holdback and the kid who is clearly more physically mature who decides to go hold back instead of working harder.
But the true colors of the issue with lacrosse are being shown on this thread.
Btw. There is only one other thread that is more toxic than this one on BOTC….clowns.
You should be happy... your less mature kid won't have to play against holdbacks anymore. Or wait you held your kid back and is now playing him against kids who are on age and also less mature?
I have two July birthday kids, both play on age for a top club and start. Both are the youngest on the team. I will be happy to watch all the kids 1-2 years older play against kids their own size for once. The change benefits my kids none given they already start over the holdbacks but watching parents like you get all upset because the advantage for your kid is gone is well worth it. The most blow hard dads are the hold back chest pounders.
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