Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Happy Thanksgiving to all the holdback Dad’s. If you’re not cheating you’re not trying.

how do you define cheating - somebody playing within the rules who is better than your son? like it or not, there are a fair number of players on all good 2028 teams, including your son's own team, who were born before 9/1/2009. it is legal and it is part of the game. sorry to be the reality broker. Try to accept it so you can enjoy your Thanksgiving just a bit.

From the sounds of it we could start by saying it sounds like your’e a cheater, let’s start there. Ok holdback Dad sorry to break it to you but when you make your son repeat a grade or refuse to start him in school when he is age eligible you are a cheater! Only exception is for kids with learning disabilities. No matter your reasons your kid should be playing with kids his own age. USLacrosse and all the parents who have to play against your little holdback are making that abundantly clear. They are going to make rules that they assumed wouldn’t be necessary because what nut job holds their kid back to gain a sports advantage??? Well apparently you do so they are going to make that advantage go away and when it does we will see holdback kids struggling to keep up with kids their own age. Long and short of it is that you are what is wrong with youth sports.

So there are 2 types of people constantly talking about holdbacks. The ones who have kids that they held back because they weren’t good enough to play with boys there own age and the ones who weren’t held back but aren’t good enough to play on teams with holdbacks. If your son was really that good of an on age player, you wouldn’t be on here complaining constantly.