Part of the licencing requirements is that you MUST field juniors in all age groups. you can't just choose not to like in lower divisions. that's why it is supposed to be the Premier League for the region, you must be able to fill development requirements to keep feeding players though into premier competitions. Otherwise, the whole comp falls over. I don't know if you've seen the A-league at the moment? because we didn't value our youth we are now paying for it.
It's short-sighted to not see that its all one big system.
It's also not how it works around the world, because the second/third/fourth and so on tiers for example in the UK also have youth feeding the pipeline, the difference being overseas those lower-tier clubs make significant amounts of money if they can sell a youth player to a higher tier, it makes them valuable to the club.
that's where we fall over in this country because youth are considered by some as having no value and theres those who only want to have a whinge about anything they can find to complain about.
BTW there's already an opportunity for those clubs from ZPL its called the FFA cup.... happens usually every year...
To be fair, I wonder how many of them are keeping tabs on who should get the 321 when they’re already trying to manage 22 adults acting like children on the field, plus the 10-15 people on the sidelines wanting their 2 bobs worth, plus dealing with all the numpties in the crowd too, it’s hardly surprising the 321 isn’t always what people agree with.
Middleby Gone
Lawrie Out
For all the decent players jaffas have, they cant put together a decent game. Attack is dismal, defence is shite. wtf is Pascoe doing? Hope they arent paying this imposter. Pathetic
Adamstown you are a disgrace, get out of the comp now, why do we put up with mediocre teams, Adamstown, lakes and valentine offer nothing year after year, there needs to be change, to lose 9 nil is disgraceful, time for change, bring back relegation, clubs need a voice
Adamstown have made the semis in reserve grade and U16s and most likely will in U18s too. Edgeworth won’t make it in any of these except possibly U18s but it’s a 50/50. I agree there should be relegation but don’t say shit like that when clubs like Edgeworth r spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on players and clubs like buds and lakes have next to no money. These clubs rely on their juniors and are actually developing players (at least buds are) as evident in my first sentence.
The NPL is 7 grades u nongdong, maybe the league should stop paying shit tonnes of money to these “elite footballers” and pricing kids out of football... there’s a suggestion.