Quote Originally Posted by AVB View Post
This simply isn’t true, the majority of 2021 youth players who were keen to progress to the NPL were retained.

The club had a very decent team in the age group that would have player u16s in 2022 - In 2021 the u15s ran 2nd and in 2020 they won the u14 Grand final. The issue was simply the existing players not being interested in playing NPL despite all efforts by the club to convince them otherwise. Turns out that when the bottom 3 or 4 teams get flogged every week by the top 3 or 4 teams it turns players away all together.
Geez. A bunch of decent 15yo arent up to the challenge of playing with in the top grade for 1 year. Yeah they might finish bottom 4 but they might not. Theyll learn more there than whipping NL1 teams year after year.
Sounds like these pea hearts should go straight to Church comp cause All Age will be a little tough.