Quote Originally Posted by Goatscheese View Post
No they didn't and are now looking for players.
From what I heard they had decent amount of players chose not to trial and requested to play in Community Teams instead of NPL or went to other NL1 teams. Most of the 2021 players that were keen, were retained in the NPL teams for 2022.

Looks to me like a lot of kids were happy being toward the top of the table in 2nd division teams and weren't that interested in being NPL up agasint the traditional powerhouse teams.

To be fair a quick look at the 2021 ladders show why:

u13s W GD
9th 1 -64
10th 2 -67
11th 0 -125

u14s W GD
9th 3 -60
10th 3 -59
11th 3 -67

u15s W GD
9th 1 -31
10th 2 -58
11th 1 -72

u16s W GD
9th 3 -46
10th 1 -55
11th 1 -52


Thats alot of teams/players having very rough years, and it happens year on year. I can see why so many kids/parents would be happy playing NL1 at clubs like Cooks Hill where they know theyll be fighting for top of the table.