Lost 4-0 to Holt (I think it was 5, but, that’s not what the standings say). Game occurred while Mom and Kevin were down in Charlotte doing the Solo thing Saturday.
Team played like crap. Boys yelled at (again!) by the coaches at the end….not so much for playing badly but for not even trying to do the things we’ve been talking about for 3 months.
In indoor soccer you can substitute at will (in outdoor, it’s only on certain plays at the ref’s discretion). We’re taking this opportunity to provide almost immediate feedback to the boys when things are go awry; one boy is coming off every time he’s pushing or trying to play football. Another boy is playing way more defense than he would like….because he keeps trying to move up and play offense and then we have no defense, so, our solution is that he’ll play defense (which he doesn’t like) until he plays it right. Both Matthew and Christopher got to run to the sideline for, um, encouragement; Matthew to not jump as he ‘attacks’ a player (when he jumps, the player can just go right around him) and Christopher to not give up when someone does go around him.
All in all….a trying day.
