It has more to do with competitive parents and the ruthlessness of most of the stronger clubs. All the parents want their talented kids to play in the stronger clubs and the stronger clubs show no loyalty at all and will remove their own long term club kids without even giving a 2nd thought. Hoping that SAP will make a difference the more I hear and see it is just making the situation worse.Originally Posted by Retired01
Take Olympic for example they arguably have had the best youth teams for the past 5 to 6 years maybe 10 other than the Jets of course but how many of them have actually made it to 1st grade? You would hope a lot at least enough to not have to recruit older players like Hodgson and the Faj brothers to play who i believe are all in the senior playing group this season and were not last year.
What parents need to start to realise that only 1 to 3 kids from each age group will actually make 1st grade and all the kids congregating at the strongest clubs is actually in the main stunting their individual development and giving them less chance to play 1st grade at the club. Winning by big margins and and not being tested every week is poor development, hence why the Jets have been screaming out to get back to Sydney and hopefully in the next 5 years we will see a better player come out of the that system than we have in recent times and a lot more of them.
Parents leave your talented kids at your local club and to those strong clubs be loyal to your juniors and make them better players rather than discarding them for better ones. Yeah you might not win as many trophies but you will have an even competition and much more loyal players that when they get to 1st grade you not have to pay ridiculous amounts of money for them play to play for you, hence then you can lower your Youth registration fees.
There fixed all the issues in one post. Fat chance of it happening to many ego's at play.
