Quote Originally Posted by Spell Check View Post
Unfortunately this is true.

Some of those kids mentioned going to Magic from Academies had offers to stay but choose to move on. At some point it dawns on most kids and parents that chasing a pro dream in Australia is close to impossible. In Newy it’s many times harder than in the big cities too.

Look at Crowley at Maitland. Comes from the bush to join the jets, released, kills the local NPL, tries the Melbourne scene and is back again killing it here.

It’s a tough pathway. Just watch a video of club youth academies overseas to see the difference in standards. I just hope parents are being realistic with their kids because the fall can be hard.
They work it out fairly quickly once senior football starts. Just look at this forum. JDL page is full of wide eyed mums and dads full of hopes and dreams. NPL youth page starts to find the problems in the system and the conspiracies about why some kids are getting more opportunities than theirs and then by the NPL page, nobody cares anymore and the cycle continues