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You all say these teams have no class but i guarentee you that if you were in this game on the winning side and you had a chance to score you would not pass the ball right to the keeper you would rocket it in the net. Everyone wants to score. It is part of the game.

"WhatDoesItMatter" makes great points. Playing my entire life including very competive high school soccer, and collegiate soccer you need some of these types of games to prepare for the Greenville's, Daniel's, Riverside's, and JL Mann's of the world.

just out of curiosity where do/did you play in college?

I've always had coaches in the past who could find something else to work on other than finishing. They beat this team 20-0 the first time around, was there goal to put more than 20 on the board the second time? Good coaches can find things to work on in a mismatched game, you're kidding yourself if you think they were working on finishing.

Good point. They already put 20 in on them the first game. Another thing like i posted earlier. I know defense, gks, etc. want to score but in a game like that you could get every kid on the team a goal and it still shouldnt be
28-0. You know u are gonna blow them out. Coach should say you get one goal you are off or stick them in D.

North Greenville College, but before you say who is that? We played in the ever so tough NAIA division, where Lindsey Wilson rules winning like 9 out of the last 11 national championships.

It's pretty hard to defend 48 goals in two games.. all I can think is.. this is a program that gets 100+ goals scored against it on average every year.

..they finally have someone who can do more than toe-punch..so now THEY'RE running it up.

..i'm not impressed.

i think playing not to score is pointless, its a waste of time. but no starters should have been taken out. give the young benchwarmers time, and if they manufacture goals, then take them. playing them with the instructions to avoid scoring is pointless, they need the game experience. at the same time 28-0 is ridiculous. once it gets to 12-0 15-0 i say call em off. require headers or one touch shots or so many passes.

It's not the ref's responsibility to keep the score down, just to enforce the laws of the game. The coach should try pulling players off the field until things even out. You have to have seven on the field including the goalie. I like this approach better, because I don't like telling kids not to try to score. That can hurt you later. If you tell them to play one or two touch, that usually produces more goals. If you are two or threeplayers down, you can still play good soccer, and keep the score respectable.

L-E Dude-

You would think that but...
Lakewood 11 wins 6 losses
105 goals scored 36 against

Lake City 0 wins 6 losses
1 goal scored 102 against

Probably should look for 1a or 2a games to put on schedule, 3a just too much right now. I really don't know the situation.