Yup, which is what will make promotion and relegation interesting. At the moment there’s players who have come out of NPL and aren’t interested in competing at that level once they have a go at it - and it only gets faster and harder as they get older.Originally Posted by Goatscheese
So in that sense will they continue playing football if pushed out of their comfort zone or have to continually move to a team that sits where they are comfortable playing.
the top of NPL will be right, but I also think that the majority of clubs have shown reasonable concern about the fallout in that space that will be continually shifting. If the bottom of the table are around the same as the top of NL1 there’s going to be a lot of movement in that space for possibly little payoff. If one club has an off year (maybe like olympic who looks like they have lost a lot of players in the younger groups) a demotion for their youth could cripple their club for years to come including players feeding their first grade team. A lot of clubs especially since covid have realised they need to have a sustainable balance of their playing pool.
I dont have the answers but can see why there’s concern there. I still do wonder if they went out across a broad range of clubs and actually brought this to the youth players instead of clubs and parents what sort of responses they would get. They are the ones playing after all and most of them are pretty switched on.
*id also suggest if losing players to the jets could cripple a club in the youth space, does that mean clubs become actively against promoting their players into a higher pathway as well?
Guess we will see what happens soon!
