Quote Originally Posted by stopper2 View Post
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.
Australia in general developed better quality players in the 80's and 90's than it has in recent years. It's not a NNSWF specific thing at all - it is an Australia wide issue.

You need only look at the 2006 Socceroos squad to know that.

Overall, the A-league is the issue more so than NNSWF.

Look at England - Player development there is a complete joke since the EPL commenced.