Bio-banding In Scottish Youth

[WeighorstsWang]

I've just seen a thing on the news where there's a 'few clubs' in Scotland doing this. Effectively, taller players are grouped together as are smaller. Rather than playing in your age group, you're playing against folk your own height. 

Gerry Britton was the one talking of it as Partick were the featured club. He was saying that the taller players will have to develop more skill than just relying on their physicality against smaller opponents. The smaller players at those ages will feel more comfortable and won't be bullied out of the game by bigger opponents. 

In my opinion, it's not perfect but it is surely worth a shot? 

[Abdul Latif]

I get the logic in it, but if you only grow to the height of Nacho Novo you've still got to beat boys like  Bobo Balde/Lorenzo Amarusso/Marvin Andrews etc etc.

Might as well learn young.

[WeighorstsWang]

Smaller players can adapt and grow into the physicality of it all. The major downside I see (think) in it is how would the taller players cope with smaller players buzzing in and around - plus I have this thought it'd just be 22 tall players playing head tennis! 

[an-dee]

They did this in Belgium. In the younger age groups, the more physically developed players played as the 'competition' team and the less physically developed played for the 'development' team. I don't think these squads were merged until under 19 or 21 level. Seems to have worked for them in terms of producing quality young players. Definitely something work looking into in a bit more detail.