Quote Originally Posted by MFKS View Post
That still false info

A club can currently play First Grade standard players in the 20s if they so desire

Early this year I watched Magic flog someone in the 20s and they had Dino Faj and Matt Hoole who would get a start at all clubs in the NPL running around in the 20s as they had not got a spot in first grade for them

I even commented on it in this thread

I watched Magic the other month playing someone in the 20s I thinking Azzurri and they had 3-4 first graders on the park

So clubs can play blokes down to bring them back from injury, find form ,drop for discipline etc

What you though are advocating is clogging the system up with over age players on the downhill of their career coming out the arse end of first grade and just sitting in the 20s preventing opportunity to the 18s coming through

If the player isn't good enough for first grade any more the club has to be brutal and say so

It is after all a competition where selection is based on ability and merit. It not everyone wins a prize any more

There always a day you are not good enough for the level you once we're at. It happens to EPL players it happens to Socceroos it happens to HAL players

The coaches make a decision and everyone moves on

Why is an NPL player entitled to keep living the dream when time has passed him by??
I do feel you have lost touch with the local game and your delusional thoughts on age groups are way off the mark. U/20's do not work, never was it going to work and never will it work. Players are developing older and in my opinion we need to go back to 22's or 23's. This has been proven in other countries that experimented with this ridiculous age restriction.

I also feel the cap is not working, scrap it and have free for all. The clubs with forward thinking committees will survive and the clubs with poor committees will drop off.

Newcastle produced more NSL and Internation players under the old system of First Grade, Reserve Grade and U21's, that in it's self is reason enough to prove that young players in reserve grade benefit from having quality older heads mentor/coach them on the field in real time.