I would have thought the EJ's home games would have been best scheduled in the dead of Winter at Speers Point when the chance of wash outs is high.Originally Posted by I changed my user name
The chances of wash outs this time of year is slim so use the grass fields
Why cant they use grass pitch ??? with all the whining from NNSWF about cost to maintain the synthetic surface I would have thought it common sense to schedule EJ games on grass pitches and xfer to synthetic if wet. Plus this would be fairer to teams coming to facility once a year. No doubt surface is different and takes a little while to get used to, massive advantage to train on it 3 nights then play on it.
So does this fixture now become a 6 point game in the second round or have they changed the stupid rule to actually play washouts in this level this year. As it involves the EJ's watch for the rule to be ignored if it is still in place
Kids were told it would be a 6 point second round game. Will have to wait and see i guess.
Olympic ended up winning 17s 5-0. They looked sharp and have started the season well.
My understanding is that grass pitch was offered by jets
Maitland declined ???
Teams had warmed up and were ready to play
Not sure about the grass pitch story. Had a look when driving out and it didn't really look ready to play on. Grass was long and didnt appear to be fully marked.
Pitch is marked and yes grass was probs a bit longer than desirable , but is trained on most nights so can't be to bad
I can't see it would be any worse than pitches maitland would have played on last year in A grade
I am still hearing EJ's wanted to play but maitland were gone!!!!!!
Should have been played !!!!!
That's pretty form of Maitland if true.
If the chance is there to play the game it should be played. Not called off due to the attitude of one side.
imo, in this situation, if all the accounts are correct:
Game scheduled for NNSW Facility Speers Point.
Emerging Jets Home game.
Too hot, game can't be played on it. Fair call.
EJ offer another ground for the game.
If Maitland refuse, they should need to provide a venue/propose a replay* or forfeit the match.
*What a load of shit NPL Youth don't reschedule matches. Farce if ever I have seen one. If 12G can reschedule matches...surely our "Elite" Junior competition can reschedule some matches, especially with the new facility, it should make it easy as.
Tbf, the non-NPL juniors aren't scheduled to play almost every week for 18 weeks. There's also redundancies built into the juniors seasons to allow for wash outs, like weeks off. You also don't have the field being used both days like NPL would with the juniors and seniors. Pitch standard is also another thing the NPL needs to consider, that's far less of an issue with junior games.
Or maybe all washout games could be played at Speers Point midweek? Don't need to worry about pitch quality there.
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Totally agree with you, went to a few trials this year for junior NPL , saw a lot of talented kids get rejected over kids with less talant , then you hear in the back ground so and knows the coach , his son goes to school with him, its the coaches son etc , its a shame lots of talented kids getting overlooked becuse of this
Really ??? So what you are saying is that clubs/coaches bypassed more talented kids because of a personal reason.???????
Well maybe........perhaps they do know a kid and know his abilities over a time period.
But I believe most every club would pick the talant on offer.
Hard to imagine real talant being overlooked by more than one club
Please name the trials you went to
In the 17s this year, if you had the abiliy you would have found a club. The standard of trialists was below what it was last year. This may have been in part due to some boys opting to play Newfm 17s with their home club.
Having said that, Adamstown 17s picked up a boy who could not make the Cooks Hill 17s, and he is working out great.
Ultimately everyone needs to remember team selection is all about opinions.
Yes by not naming you implicate all clubs
Name the clubs and age lets see if others can add some input as to possible reasons
Correct selections are subjective
Kid missing cooks hill and getting a gig at buds proves this
Hence my comment that I don't believe several clubs would overlook talant
Agree.
South Cardiff, Adamstown , Charlestown , ages 15s and 17s , many other people at the trials witnessed this as well , some people even spoke to the selestors about this , they were not the parants of the children not selected , just surprised in what they witnessed , i agree some kids have a bad day and not trial well and get in by reputation .
Go for it WB and FR...
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