In an ideal world though (and lets be honest, some of them a grand ideals) kids would be 1 club players but things have changed and loyalty is in some respects, an ideal belonging to a generation past - its in our face every other day with Team New Zealand, SBW, Ma'a Nonu etc. They will follow their mates or they will adopt the 'Championship syndrome' (See Miami Heat - Lebron James, Dwanye Wade and Chris Bosh) whereby good players will not stay in a team that is under performing because they want to be winners and migrate with other good players to form a championship team. There is nothing wrong with that at all but there is also nothing wrong in learning to hate losing and overcoming that and the adversity that goes with it. Makes people stronger rather than choosing the easy road. Look at the shit the Warriors took when they looked delighted after getting thrashed. Slightly off topic but they don't hate losing enough to want to change and become winners. I think some kids are more likely to learn to hate losing if they stick where they are and come through their teams helping making them better. Simplistic notion but there is some truth in it.
In an ideal world though (and lets be honest, some of them a grand ideals) kids would be 1 club players but things have changed and loyalty is in some respects, an ideal belonging to a generation past - its in our face every other day with Team New Zealand, SBW, Ma'a Nonu etc. They will follow their mates or they will adopt the 'Championship syndrome' (See Miami Heat - Lebron James, Dwanye Wade and Chris Bosh) whereby good players will not stay in a team that is under performing because they want to be winners and migrate with other good players to form a championship team. There is nothing wrong with that at all but there is also nothing wrong in learning to hate losing and overcoming that and the adversity that goes with it. Makes people stronger rather than choosing the easy road. Look at the shit the Warriors took when they looked delighted after getting thrashed. Slightly off topic but they don't hate losing enough to want to change and become winners.