Perhaps - I hope you are right. However I am looking at this from a different angle. I am looking at the impact on a club not the kids, which then affects the kids.

You are correct on your thoughts about the individual players. What I am saying is, there will be significant impact on clubs of kids leaving a club because they donÂ’t want to play second tier - unless they deeply connected to the clubÂ’s culture and stay. This then affects a mid to lower level clubs ability to retain players and then build a strong first grade - unless they are simply happy to spend big every year for players developed by other clubs. I can see several of the existing clubs really struggle after decoupling occurs.

The feedback and concern from NPL club executives on just this matter suggests there is real concern.