Quote Originally Posted by MFKS View Post
Our development of NSL or HAL level and Soccerroos players gave been shit for years

You have to back 15-20 years to find much of note in Middleby and Zane

Before that you had your Lowes Baartzs Maier's Tredinnicjs etc

Recent years we have barely had national league players


As for this thought on these experienced players playing reserve grade. This 5 player concession to me is a cop out and should be scrapped

If blokes are not good enough for first grade play in the Zone leagues

Why exactly is the not good enough players really part of the discussion here.???

If they are good enough they are playing at higher level. If you ain't good enough you find your level and okay zone or all age

No free handouts in life

As for the experienced players why are the coaches and senior first grade players doing???

Are they not able to mentor the kids???
Here are another lot of names to add to your list....Soper, Jennings, Jones, Halpin, Pryce, Roberts of players who came from this area who came through in the 80's and 90's and were either Socceroos or played many years at the top level in the NSL.
We really got to have a long hard look at our coaching methods in NNSW because the last 15 years paint a sorry picture of the lack of developing quality players from this region. The last 10 years or so we have produced the likes of Boogaard, Kanta, Hoffman, decent enough players but nowhere near the quality we had in the 80's and 90's.