Quote Originally Posted by Ghost of Plague View Post
Again with this shit?
So don't learn to play guitar as you'll never be in a famous band, don't learn to cook because you'll never own a restaurant and don't learn to swim because you'll never win gold at the Olympics?
What crap.

Some kids just love football, some kids love representing their club and communities.
Some parents just want a happy healthy environment for their kids where they learn way more than just kicking a ball and meet people who have some goals in life.

If youre too poor to afford it or your kid didn't make it im sorry. Maybe just leave the ****ing kids alone who just want a bit more out of life.

While we are the subject of made up stats, id argue less than 1% of parents walk around crowing how their kid is gonna play in the Prem. How bout leaving the 99% alone to enjoy their kids having a go at something.

Miserable pricks.
This is fair comment but it doesn't have to cost over a $1000 to 'have a go at something'. Like it or not football are losing kids to the game purely based on costs, its a sport it shouldn't have to be that expensive that you have to decide whether you can afford it or not for your kids to play at the highest level. Senior amateur player wages are slowly killing the 'elite stream football' and we as a nation will continually get globally worse until something is done. The elite kids in every state federation in Australia maybe top 50 or 100 kids should be the ones that are getting free registration not the 20 to 30 year old NPL 1st graders that just piss all their cash up the wall on a end of season trip. We have it all wrong.