Quote Originally Posted by Taffy View Post
May find it is some older young ones rather than young ones. From 2026 an NPL 1st grade team sheet will need 3 players under 23 and 2 players under 20. So there will be a need to move out some players in their mid to late 20s from NPL.

End of the day the main reason they are wanting to remove thirds is to allow for easy promotion/relegation between all tiers, ZL2 no longer have to now find a thirds when going up, NL1 don't have to find one when going down, ZL1 don't have to get rid of one when going up and ZL2 don't have to get rid of one when going down.

I also suspect long term plan is to bring in U18s for Zone League as well to also help teams be promoted and relegated.
NNSWF and FFA constantly making changes over the last 20 years and for what???? have they made the game any better in that time
game is more expensive to play than ever
a league on life support
hardly any aussies playing in top 5 leagues in europe let alone dominating
NPL crowds are terrible
NNSWF have hardly produced any decent players
football executives getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars
Junior national teams losing to minnows and only made 1 out of last 4 olympics
i could go on for a while
but yeh lets make more and more changes