And a lot jump out of NPL who decide they don't like it there as well after the first year or two.
Maybe it means there's a place for the competition below to exist for the youth, but I think the chest beating that goes on up the top of that comp is misguided - I did hear a lot of commentary when we played NL last season about how they deserved to be in NPL more than us.
But they completely missed the point that if they wanted to be in NPL they would have been in the NPL to begin with slogging it out with the rest of the boys even if it meant not being at a club at the top of the ladder.
I think Cooks hill this season will demonstrate why just moving the teams around like suggested doesn't really solve anything, best case teams coming up realise they are just going to get flogged and wait to go back down, worst case kids will leave the sport even more than they are already due to the constant upheaval, or even more disruptive they will be jumping ship in even more numbers each season to try and stay in the top tier of football every year.
There really isn't the amount of players who want to be in the top tier by 16's as it stands now (i.e see cooks hill - no 16s). Decoupling was a serious consideration when we moved clubs to not end up being stuck next season in a team who weren't likely going to stay in NPL, which meant either moving to a club that likely wouldn't be down there, or playing up and potentially being out of youth football before that point.