Quote Originally Posted by sapdad View Post
Parents on here really dont need to be bagging the selection of 12 years old kids who have just achieved something really cool.Heaps of kids will be upset to miss out and thats fine.But some of the unexpected selections i heard are really talented kids and maybe they are there because they fill a specific skill set rather than just picking the best 16 centre mids and strikers.The jets need to be a team,temperament matters,coachability matters and it looks like thats what they tried to do.If you dont agree,ok but bagging out selectors and kids is pathetic.As Doopche said,id trust the selector more than random internet parents.
Have a year or two in the NPL space before you make your mind up about how you think football works in Newcastle. I can tell you across age groups there's some that have had suspensions and others have been repeatably pulled up on behaviour. It is just best to put no weight on the selections and progress football away from being worried about selections like this. Its nice if it happens but it often doesn't mean someone is a better footballer than someone else. It's just football in Newcastle.

We haemorrhage absolutely great footballers because of the belief that to "make" it they have to be selected by the jets. We need to sell a different story in Newcastle, and we need to start selling it soon with the amount of teams increasing in this space and players dropping out as they get older (even more so in the women's football space).

When people ask I often link it to a 100m race in athletics, you know you lost if you come second or third because simply the other person was faster on the day. In football, you can come first and the person waving from the stands gets selected.