Changes to TPP introducing SAP U9s at club level approved by NNSWF Board Wednesday night. Clubs to apply for and be issued SAP Licence before they can advertise for trials to be held.
Draw options being reviewed to have full fixture with options to start a little earlier and finish a little later.
With the season now over any thoughts?
Standout outs for me were Lakes 15s and Adamstown 14s run to the finals
Cant believe trials start 2 days after the GF
Players being asked to sign on the night of trials & if they don't their spot will be given to someone else.. At least let the kid get home and decide what he wants to do instead of forcing them to make a decision there and then
Doesn't help the kids and parents, when some clubs go out of their way to put trials on the same night, I know our TD worked in conjunction with two other TD"s working around each other, while some clubs deliberately put them on same night and times, its out of control at the moment.
They were good value for sure. I think you need to get your calculator out though! They had 3 games washed out which they got 1 point for the draw. They dropped 6 potential points due to wash outs and Hamilton won the league with 11 points more than them! if they had won all the washouts, the best they could have come was 2nd on 50 points. One of the washouts was against the Jets early in the season, when North Coast hadn't quite hit their straps and the EJ's were red hot.
They are a very good side, essentially a representative side, good luck to them, but they wouldn't have been premiers had they won their washouts.
They would have a better chance of being premiers if they had the cushy draw that Hamilton had where they only played one of the top (NCF) 4-5 teams in the second round.
Hullooooooo is been like this for years