Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
Yeah I guess that's the balance huh.
Getting the 'toughness' as well as the actual footballing ability.

My impression was that coaches believe that it's easier to teach tough kids how to play football rather than footballers how to be tough.

If that's the idea then cool.

It just made me wonder if maybe the removal of the old school ethnic clubs has transformed this way of thinking. Because as a kid every time we played one of those old school Sydney clubs they were always WAY better footballers than us. We were always a bunch of classic white kids coached by a blood and guts type bloke, and that only went so far.


Just seems like it's all come full circle and GVE's wet dream of robots with good engines is alive and well.
Quote Originally Posted by The Dunster View Post
When you apply a business model to junior sport you get business results - namely profit becomes the goal rather than a better quality footballer. The same applies to music, tennis...you name it.
Business models seek to maximise sales , revenue, or profit. They do not seek to maximise skill.
The proof is in the outcomes though.
How many players from the NNSWF region can you name that have truly achieved something either here or overseas in the last 10 years?

Surely if this system, and the current way of thinking, worked then we would have more?