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Under 10s 7v7 with a big squad

Callum Holtom

Hi Everyone, 
Would it be possible to get some advice?

so this is my first year of coaching, i have taken on an Under 10 girls team, it has a big squad of 14 players. 
how do you deal with the rotation of players? obviously i want to give them all the same amount of playing time which i have told them all they will get. with some of them at a higher level than others, i am finding it difficult to know when to swap them all around? 
we have the 14 turn up each week. i also feel like if i take someone off i have their parents ready to say something to me. 
in fact i had one text me on 'the way they would do things' which was have my set 4 players & swap the others around. i feel like i cannot do that to the girls. 

should i just swap like for like? or could i do things a different way? 

Thank you for your time. 

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    Had a similar situation last season with 14 in our squad for 7v7 matches. Spoke to parents & players early on in season to explain that because of the big squad size, while we try to make sure everyone gets a decent amount of game time, there will be some matches where not everyone plays as much as they want. Everyone who was there on a match day got to play but we didn't time it to exact equal minutes on each game. In any league you'll have easier and harder opposition - when we were playing the weaker teams we gave the weaker players more share of the game time and explained it to the stronger players as letting their teammates have a chance to develop and get longer stretches of play - the kids were all fine with it even though one or two of them moaned occasionally. Repeated to them 'I know you can do it, I know I can always rely on you, but I need to see what X can do."

    We were slightly lucky in that there were usually a couple who couldn't make each match (not the same ones every time obv) but when we had full attendance we asked on the parent group for a couple of players to volunteer for rest weeks so we didn't have quite as many subs to manage per game.

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    Had a similar situation last season with 14 in our squad for 7v7 matches. Spoke to parents & players early on in season to explain that because of the big squad size, while we try to make sure everyone gets a decent amount of game time, there will be some matches where not everyone plays as much as they want. Everyone who was there on a match day got to play but we didn't time it to exact equal minutes on each game. In any league you'll have easier and harder opposition - when we were playing the weaker teams we gave the weaker players more share of the game time and explained it to the stronger players as letting their teammates have a chance to develop and get longer stretches of play - the kids were all fine with it even though one or two of them moaned occasionally. Repeated to them 'I know you can do it, I know I can always rely on you, but I need to see what X can do."

    We were slightly lucky in that there were usually a couple who couldn't make each match (not the same ones every time obv) but when we had full attendance we asked on the parent group for a couple of players to volunteer for rest weeks so we didn't have quite as many subs to manage per game.

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