Quote Originally Posted by GO AWAY View Post
Bit of a tug of war, 18s coach, who knows his stuff, reluctant to play his boys up, with them in the semi finals and 20s no chance, makes sense. Just hard on the 20s, the bench players from the 18s have been filling in for the 20s.

So what is more important, winning U/18 comp or development of players thru to be first graders.
Maybe if younger ones were developed thru there might not be the need to be paying to bring back the Goody's & Smiths at the ends of their careers.

Ask the 18's would they rather stay in 18's to make semi's, to be fair its unlikely they can win, or would they rather play 20's. I'm sure if at the start second round players would have jumped at the chance. Same for your better 20's play them in firsts

if you can't make semis in first grade the back half of the comp is were you make your changes, see if your 18's can step up to 20's, see if your promising 20's can make the jump to firsts

This is a bit of what I mean by having a strong committee, the 18's coach needs to be told to pull his head in, it's about the club not him.