Originally Posted by
northern_swan
One JDL team per club sounds like a great deal until you look at that in detail.
An u12 JDL team will have 10-12 players. Where the top clubs have 2 u12 JDL teams, 20-24 players are in those squads. They will “lose” 2-4 players to the jets. That means, these clubs will have 16-22 players to select their 13s team from. The surplus will flow down the pyramid.
If each club were restricted to 1 JDL team per club, at the end of JDL, the NPL clubs would be looking to find 3-?players to fill their team. That could look like a club like South Cardiff developing a squad of 12 players for 4 years, only to have 6 of them go to Edgeworth forU13s (as an example)
On the other side, using the same clubs as an example, Edgeworth could have 22-24 u12 players, “lose” 4 to the jets, then direct 4-6 to South Cardiff, thus keeping all of the kids in the pathway.