Quote Originally Posted by KITZ View Post
You can't tell them that young kids are human beings though and deserve a bit of transparency and honesty though (not a handout, just be honest and don't waste peoples time) - especially those that were part of the pre-academy and handed another $300 invitation AFTER THE TRIALS saying hey we'd like to have you in our pre-academy again, without feedback from said "open trial".

Hard to keep giving the club any benefit of incoming change when young people can't even be afforded a smidge of respect as human beings or respond to an email for that matter, all they are going to end up doing is losing more and more of the supporter base.
I feel sorry for the U12s kids and parents in the pre-academy this year who were told that if they want to be in the U13s they have to join the pre-academy only to then rock up to the trials and see plenty of kids that were never part of the pre-academy invited in.

Just like this rubbish with Lakes, we've been approached saying the pathway into the Jets is to come to Lakes, yet I know kids at other clubs have been invited in to train with the Jets with a view to select them for next year.