News after last nights final game in the women?s side of the Jets academy is Ryan Campbell is only going to be the A-League head coach and will have no official role in the academy, obviously he will still be around watching and looking at players to bring into the A-League squad, but they are now looking for a new TD and first grade coach. Will be interesting to see who they bring in for both roles and how much of a change the it will have on the system as a whole.
Syd Div 1
A much greater pain in the you know where
(80 rows of teams to update, and then look over the club championship?most teams have done an extra 10 rounds since my last update)
Club Championship: (remembering this excludes 13s)
1. WSW ~ 190Pts (GD+62)
2. Apia ~ 185Pts (GD+49)
3. Sydney FC ~ 182Pts (GD+78)
4. SD Raiders ~ 178Pts (GD+44)
5. Newcastle Jets ~ 173Pts (GD+27)
6. Manly United ~ 172Pts (GD+28)
7. Marconi ~ 170Pts (GD+35)
8. Syd Olympic ~ 163Pts (GD+13)
9. CCM ~ 162Pts (GD-22)
10. Syd United ~ 158Pts (GD+18)
11. Wollongong ~ 152Pts (GD+2)
12. Hills United ~ 146Pts (GD-37)
13. Blacktown City ~ 143Pts (GD-31)
14. St George ~ 129Pts (GD-53)
15. NWS Spirit ~ 117Pts (GD-108)
16. Sutherland ~ 103Pts (GD-120)
N.B. Mariners and Syd United seem to have a round in hand on everyone else (at least 5 matches a piece not added into Dribl)
Jets places
13s ~ 6th
14s ~ 7th
15s ~ 7th
16s ~ 6th
18s ~ 4th
Other academies (13s~18s)
WSW ~ 4th, 11th, 1st, 4th, 6th
Syd FC ~ 1st, 1st, 3rd, 13th, 13th
CCM ~ 13th, 12th, 15th, 2nd, 2nd
Total Goals/Goals against by academy: (excluding 13s)
Jets ~ 236 Goals/209 Goals against
WSW ~ 228 Goals/166 Goals against
Syd FC ~ 286 Goals/208 Goals against
CCM ~ 236 Goals/258 Goals against
Best overall in League (all clubs excluding 13s)
Syd FC for total goals scored
WSW for least goals against
Interesting that Mariners seem to only pick up once Sydney FC drops away, wonder if there is any correlation there
There are some big differences in the age groups for the competition in general?there is clearly lots of variation in the depth of talent
Just looking at the 13s for example
Sydney FC has 132 GF Vs 14 GA for a GD +118
Apia has 141 GF Vs 26 GA for a GD +115
The bottom performers
NWS Spirit 25 GF Vs 108 GA for a GD of -83
CCM 46 GF Vs 90 GA for a GD -67
Last minute side note
With 13s GF go up beyond 400 for 2 teams, GA go up to 414 to mid 300s for 3 teams
Biggest GD still remains for Sydney FC at +196, followed by Apia (who have scored the most goals (422) at +164. Lowest team drops to -191, followed by a -173
A 387 goal variation?wow
With 13s our GD moves to +33 (292 Goals Vs 259 Against)
Great to see the Jets U18 boys clinch a semi finals spot with another win on the road in Wollongong who have been very strong at home. Could end up 3rd if results go their way next weekend at St. George.
Also the U16's keeping themselves in the frame but relying on another result next week.
Club Championship (excludes 13s)
1. WSW (209Pts)
2. Sydney FC (197Pts)
3. SD Raiders (195Pts)
4. Apia (193Pts)
5. Marconi (187Pts)
6. Jets (183Pts)
7. Manly (182Pts)
8. CCM (178Pts)
9. Syd Utd (177Pts)
10. Syd Olympic (169Pts)
11. Wollongong (165Pts)
12. Blacktown City (159Pts)
13. St George (151Pts)
14. Hills Utd (150Pts)
15. NWS Spirit (130Pts)
16. Sutherland (108Pts)
Not sure how many clubs get relegated in NSWF in Youth (as I check the details for last season ~ looks like 2)
Positions of clubs above the Jets + mariners 13s-18s
1. WSW ~ 5th, 8th, 1st, 4th, 8th
2. Syd FC ~ 1st, 1st, 3rd, 14th, 13th
3. SD Raiders ~ 3rd, 2nd, 4th, 15th, 10th
4. Apia ~ 2nd, 3rd, 2nd, 10th, 15th
5. Marconi ~ 11th, 4th, 11th, 8th, 7th
6. Jets ~ 6th, 9th, 8th, 5th, 4th,
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8. Mariners 12th, 10th, 15th, 2nd, 2nd
It's interesting how some of the big clubs die away in the older ages of 16s and 18s?I wonder what percentage of those ages are playing up in the clubs reserve or NPL 1st grade and side stepping 16s and 18s to play with, and against adults
Last season Jets? finished 2nd in Club Championship (namely due to the successes of the 16s who had a great year, and finished 1st) ~ total 198 Points (which would have had them 2nd again)
The (7) clubs above finished
WSW 1st, Jets 2nd, CCM 3rd, Syd FC 5th, SD Raiders 6th, Marconi 7th, Apia 14th
Best improver is clearly Apia shifting up 10 places in a season.
While the Jets finished higher last season, I feel 2024 has been a success, with a higher average position ?6.4th?; median of 8th (last season average of ?8th?; median of 9th)
The relegated clubs 2024 positions:
NWS ~ 15th, 16th, 12th, 7th, 14th
Sutherland ~ 14th, 5th, 16th, 12th, 16th
Looks like they will be replaced by:
Northern Tigers (who won Div 2 with 253Pts +116GD)
Bulls FC Academy (250Pts +189GD)?
3rd place was 207Pts with +68GD?so clear runaway winners in Div2, and interesting, all A-League clubs will have their academies in Div 1 in 2025, That's cool!
That's a good thing, and good to see Jets after a long time now comfortable up there.
Would make sense to think some of the non-academy teams have the best players bypassing 18s and going into 20s, while this probably isn't needed for the academy teams, though no doubt have some quality younger players playing up already as well.
Saw a list of the team changes in the current 14s team, 8 new inclusions (didn't see the other age groups)
In one hand it's nice to see it's not a closed shop...on the other, it made me curious how the club helps the kids to transition out of the academy
I would like to think it wasn't just a pump and dump set up, especially that by the time of their selection/de-selection, most teams would be full
I'm more curious as to why at least one ex-Jets coach was told which players were being dropped before the players were? Got told this morning that was contacting the parents of these players about signing up for his team because they were no longer at the Jets and these parents had no idea their sons weren't being retained.
Also heard that and can verify. But also there was more than one coach from another club also doing this. Recruitment is very partial depending on which crowd is in charge at start of each year.
One hand, It doesn't really matter anyway as those getting cut or leaving were gone regardless of when email sent.
On the other I suppose it does give some clubs an advantage to poach the better players.
Gve is back
I wasn't concerned about the advantage but rather telling people outside of the club about cutting a player before informing the player, lacks professionalism (yes I know it's Jets academy and they never show much professionalism). May not have been the Jets but rather a coach just doing what they want of course.