Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
where are these places?

also, everything costs money. these kids gonna just wake up one day with the skills of Griff?

Facilities cost money, equipment costs money, coaching costs money, sports science costs money, travel costs money.
all of it costs money.
Too true, just look at New Lambton Juniors this year, they have to train some teams on the hockey fields as they don't have enough fields to cater for the number of players they have.
There simply isn't enough money in Australian football to support junior development as it is don in other codes.

We aren't other countries, we're our own and we have to deal with our own problems. Whilst our systems are far from perfect, too many armchair critics make a much bigger deal about how bad it is than is truly the case.