You are clearly taking playing strategically out of context. Being someone who has played in numerous competitions at almost every level, the best players ALWAYS play more minutes. One plus size of resting the starters is that the other players, who have worked hard and deserve their place in the team, have an opportunity to play more minutes. To refer to them as the "worst 5" is honestly a shameful remark. That's not how teammates should be treated, nor how the starters of the Sturt team treat their fellow teammates. How rude.
Kids and parents do not commit the time and effort at the level they do at Div 1, to lose. And with every tournament comes strategy. Kids and parents who want to play at a level where strategy is not involved, play the lower divisions. And there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with that. They are young kids trying to win a very tough tournament. Every team plays strategically when they can. So stop being a sook and bitching about under 14 players who at the end of the day, are ALL friends with each other - Forestville players and Sturt players.
The fact that you can come on here and have a whinge, when to be honest, Forestville coaches would do the exact same thing, is a joke. It does not teach the kids to "tank". That is just blowing things out of proportion. It is teaching the kids that to play at the highest level, there is a degree of strategy. To be brutally honest, the actual players would not have thought twice about it. And I know this because when you're age 12/13, you're focussed on having fun, playing new teams, bettering yourself as a player and having a great time with your team.
Stop sooking on a public forum, no one actually cares what you have to say.
