Dangerous Territory

Unhappily, I feel we are in very dangerous territory.

I have heard some rumblings from parents about other parents finger-pointing in the stands at other kids during games when things have gone wrong. I've also heard rumblings of kids picking at/on each other about bad plays.

This has to stop.

In practice today I told our players:

• Nobody has room to point fingers at anybody else. Everybody, myself included, has made mistakes.
• We lose as a team.
• We win as a team.
• We need to pull together to win.
  
• If we pull together we can't help but win games.
• If I hear anybody picking on anybody else in practice, I'll send the offender home for the day.
  

I think everybody on the team has improved their skills, but everybody has room for a lot more improvement. Our talent level is not that much different from the teams with much better records. But in order to get the wins we deserve, we need to play together, pull for each other and work as a team.