Quote Originally Posted by sapdad View Post
its been said already but for the life of me i dont understand why clubs dont have 2 teams all the way through so their 13's are made up of 15/16 kids from their own program that have been playing together for a few years.clubs going to one team in 11 and 12 then need to find more really good kids for their 13s anyway.i know some clubs are confident there will be a line up of good kids wanting to play for their club but other clubs have buckleys of attracting more talent.all the while the better run SAP programs have 2 good teams and have been adding kids in all the way along to strengthen.cant wait to see all the shocked faces when those same clubs dominate NPL youth and everyone wonders what the secret is.
You are spot on regarding the numbers. SAP should provide each club with a 13s squad. If it doesn't, it has failed in what I think is or should be, a KPI. SAP was supposed to help remove the problem of insufficent numbers feeding into NPL. If a club has only one team, where will they get the rest of the kids? (Rhetorical, as we all know what will happen).