For the last 2 year's I've been helping to coach my son's rugby team. However, as he's an August birthday and small for his age he dropped down a level this year. So did another 3 kid's and speaking to their parents they all hated playing that age group for one reason or another but loved the younger one.
There has been an announcement tonight that from next season, the kid's need to play their age groups.
I'm fairly sure that all of them are now going to quit playing. Which is a massive shame as the club and sport are rapidly losing players. All because of stupid bureaucracy.
I wish we followed nations like NZ and let kid's play in weight/size groups and not age (if my son was 1 week younger he'd be fine to stay where he was).