Quote Originally Posted by Onyatoes View Post
Excellent point. Good ZPL teams are in and around the middle to top NL1. Dudley, Mayfield. NL1 clubs are mostly stale and taking the piss. Put New Lambton, Belswans and Cooks Hill up immediately. Forget the whole facility bullshit. If they are ready they will grow. I just went to Alder Park and New Lambton had 500 people there and their own Club where everyone retired to after was rocking. A weakened team missing a few 1st team players pushed Edgey all the way. They are ready to go and a fence or dodgy old stand means nothing. If Valentine is NPL New Lambton is the friggin Nou Camp. All other NL1, into ZPL. 1st Res 18s. If ZPL teams can field 13s to 16s they enter a decoupled Youth comp. Let Singo, Toronto and Wallsend play in a ZPL and re plan and build. Westy, Kahibah and Southy Youth in a decoupled comp. The thing is though, not a Northern representative in sight tonight at Alder Park. They won't even know the score.......abysmal.
No clubs in ZPL want to have U/18's and especially no juniors below that. I commend the work that clubs in NL1 have to do because it's a hell of a lot more than what we have to worry about in ZPL.