2020 Premier Club SAP

[sammydog]

This is a very interesting development. There are a number of girls-only comps in U9 community, but the vast majority of clubs are not NPL. If the girls SAP is to get off the ground current SAP clubs will either need to get on board, or Northern will need to issue licenses to the likes of Merewether, Kotara South, Kahibah, Mayfield, Dudley etc.

I am sure some of the NPL clubs will be eyeing the money coming from the World Cup in a couple of years, so wouldn't be surprised if they started running girls teams in the near future. I would be surprised if this happened next year though.

I would personally love to see Northern grant some of the community clubs girls SAP licenses for next year. These community clubs have put in the hard yards with girls football and deserve the recognition. Knowing Northern, I worry that they will alienate the community clubs and only grant licenses to NPL ones. We shall see!!

A

We have worked our arses off to develop womens football at our club, and the prospect of the WPL clubs having SAP from U9's scares the crap out of us. There is 28 teams in the U8's girls across the three member zones, slide them over to the 8 WPL clubs ( a few of which have very few junior girls) and you will gut community girls football. Many teams at various clubs wont be viable after they have been picked apart.

As it is we lost 10% of our juniors to Emerging Jets, WPL and WPL development teams in the last off season. We worked hard and recruitment far out numbered the loss, but it still hurts.

Community clubs being granted SAP licenses though, not a chance . We are only here to bring kids into the sport to be picked off. We had aspirations of WPL, but have given up. I wont hold my breath for a SAP licence.