Quote Originally Posted by Goatscheese View Post
The fact is with more kids involved the higher the chance of finding the few gems and the rest developing better without it. The less kids involved the smaller number of developed players around
Any suggestion that we need to start having club championships from U9s is absurd. However, I will say that throughout the year teams do need to be playing against teams of their own ability and this needs to be assessed. Northern knows this but can't be bothered doing it properly. We saw that with the shambles of using the 5 aside courts and then ignored the results anyway, was nothing more than raising funds for them.
nah. The gems will find the top anyway. "Developing" all kids will just mean that all-age can pass better and clubs can make a lot of $$ in the mean time.

Club championship was an option not an ideal solution.

And Northern have somewhat fixed the inconsistency with the phase 3 draw.