To think this was mismanaged

[Badhairday77]

So dd2 plays football for a team. The team play 11 a side and all was going well. At the end of the season the coach resigned.
It has taken the club about 4 weeks to contact parents re a plan. I suspect that at least partly due to the uncertainty 6 of the 15 players have resigned leaving us with not enough players to form a team or a coach.
Aibu to think that more should have been done by the club sooner even if just promising relief coaches until a replacement could be found.
Feeling cross that the season has now started and dd no longer has a team.
I did foresee this happening and have made enquires but most club have already had trials and recruited at this late stage.

Oh come off it, I bet not one of you here is a football coach. Bunch of hypocritical martyrs.

OP, I'm sorry your daughter is now going to be missing out. If she was in a league, who were the other teams? Can you now offer your time to the club to help them source a new coach?

Girls clubs are not a easy to find as boys clubs.

Already tried that. Think we did it too late for this season. excited

This happened to my son's team last year except the coach did not resign until two weeks before the season started. The good players left for other teams. I advertised everywhere and contacted the FA (they were useless ) but to no avail. There us a shortage of coaches . I think volunteers are put off by the lack of parental support and the massive time commitment as many have no assistant coach.

I don't think it's fair to say OP is the problem, there's a lot of projecting going on. It's sad your DD is missing out and it's okay to be annoyed about the situation, yes OP WBU to be pissed off at the club but she has said that

I dont think you can just say OP should become the coach, how pissed off would you be as a child if your coach was someone who had 0 football skills?

I only said that to say that we don't do high profile fundraising.
Anyway have to get younger dds sorted for school.

Our local team was set up by parents as we didn’t have one. It’s now been going several years. However I know that several times it has almost folded because of the behaviour and expectations of parents on those volunteers who are running it. Some of their behaviour was shocking. No wonder so many teams fold....

Oh come off it, I bet not one of you here is a football coach. Bunch of hypocritical martyrs.

Read the thread. I did a coaching course to support my son's team.

If I wasn't, how would that make me a martyr?

The op has seen the team fold before, but not stepped up to help run so this could have been managed to her expectations.

I only said that to say that we don't do high profile fundraising.

By high profile I don't mean, so the whole league knows. I am talking about high profile as in, only doing stuff they get attention for. They don't turn up an hour early to walk the pitch, or do an evening course, or pick the food up, or help out organising matches because no one sees that stuff. They only do the fund raising that everyone sees.

Teams generally fold because the parents don't support it enough and/or hand shit out when something isn't done perfectly. They seem to forget that the rest of us are doing the best we can, while working full time and running a house.

I actually enjoy it, but it's time consuming. But its worth it so our kids are disappointed like your dd is now.

In my area there's normally about 10 girls teams from under 7s but by under 12s there's only a couple left. Lots of children lose interest by secondary school age, and it's more likely to be girls unfortunately.