Quote Originally Posted by parksey View Post
Um no we should be making sure they have the best possible coaching here to both make our league stronger and create players who can go on to play in the top leagues.
We don't have the coaches to do this....we have Mums and Dads mostly coaching kids who have NFI about the game and probably follow other sports. Then you have a bottom up funding model that gives nothing to the grassroots.

Kids with a bit of quality just get sucked in to these dodgy academies with the parents paying overs for dodgy links to overseas clubs. Then you have the NYL which is a complete cluster**** and a top flight league limited in terms of clubs with most first XIs half filled with foreigners.