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Chicken or the Egg,
Do you want better practice or better gameplay?
Do you want individual development or team development?
Really sounds like tide may be shifting and somebody has enjoyed surfing on the waves so long they have forgotten how to tread water.
Possible Tidal Wave coming with SCUFC, CUFC, and MPSC and whomever else gets caught up.

Practice makes the player. However, I have yet to find a quality player that enjoys time on the bench.

So if the 30 to 40 rostered players are the better players practicing together it would be the most beneficial place for their development?

Yes, all things being equal.

Training from multiple coaches or mainly one perspective?

If I'm not mistaken 9 of the 29 are developmental players and not "full team". I believe the Academy requires each FT player to get "X" amount of playing time, "X" number of starts, and to play in "X" number of games.

I could be wrong but it seems I remember reading it somewhere.

Do not sell yourself short, I do believe you can tell who is and who is not a quality coach. I think there are quality coaches at all the clubs and players that become students of the game and elevate their play are able to glean the positives from their various coaches. The great players are the ones who are able to see past the posturing and self promotion and use the good to excel as well as recognizing the bad and most importantly, avoiding it.

I agree with your post.