Jamie Wall

When my kids were playing round ball football, there was a kind of a thing with some of the parents.

Oh, we don't need to keep the score.

My little one's team lost the first nine games of one season.

They lost every single game.

And every practice, we'd be at practice saying, come on, score a goal.

The first time they won, the change in those kids who were only like seven or eight years old was palpable.

They were running to practice the next practice.

They knew what winning was.

They knew they'd scored more goals than the other team.

And they felt it.

And they felt the joy of that.

So I don't buy into that argument whatsoever.

I can't stand it.

JD out, is it?

Well, yeah, I think they lost their first game, so it won't be long.

Yeah, I agree with you.

Yeah, and look, what we used to do, and this is a lot easier in round ball football, but when the kids were really little, if we were playing a team and we were winning at halftime by 6 or 7-0, we just swapped players from some of the teams and some of their kids came on ours and some of them.

And in the second half, some of their kids got to score a goal and the match ended up 11-12 or 5-0.

whatever the score was.

I just didn't like to see any kids sitting on the field getting beaten 11-0 because that just destroys you.