Quote Originally Posted by KITZ View Post
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.
I dont think anyone on here is throwing kids in the bin if they didnt make the Jets.Nor should they be writing kids off if they didnt make TSP, NPL or any other desired level.I just find the argument of shitting on kids achievements because others think they know better laughable.If you, Aegon or me get to pick the team from kids we've watched we will come up with 3 completely different teams and people will have a problem with that too.The 13's team has been picked,im happy for the kids that got in.As for hemorrhaging footballers,who are the people trashing kids that dont make it?Id say 90% of them are parents who throw their toys out if their kid doesnt get in,but probably dont take the time to ask why they didnt get in and learn from it.How that can be the fault of NNSW is beyond me.Out of control parents are the biggest cancer in the program,as they are in all sports.How you get rid of them and keep the kids happy and motivated would require a much bigger brain that mine.Your line about "it often doesn't mean someone is a better footballer than someone else" is spot on.The Jets are building a team and different factors need to be taken into account.