Originally Posted by Anonymous
Just wait until 2020, when 24 comes back and teams up with the beast and other mid.....the LI dads will go beserk!


That’s where you’re wrong. Again. We like playing the MD holdback teams. Great for our kids. Competitive games. Just don’t know why you play 12/13 year old teams. For me, I always wanted my kid to play up. He’s good enough, but too small, so reluctantly he has stayed on grade. It never entered my mind for him to ever play down. Why would I do that? The more he is challenged, within reason, the better for his development. Common sense. I was shocked the first time I went to MD for a tourney and learned that most of the kids were a year older than my kid, and playing down. Why would anyone do that, I thought. Absolutely the worst thing for a kids development. Do MD teams need T-shirt’s that badly. Still blows my mind how prevalent it is in MD, and how some teams, like Madlax, take it to the extreme.