Originally Posted by
sapdad
The JDL program has produced a higher standard of technical ability,but it hasnt benefited clubs who developed them.Your example above if Im correct had their 2 best kids go to the superteam that was almost entirely recruited from outside their own juniors.Does that make the recruiting club succesful?Problem will be that the superclub will lose players next year to various other programs and will recruit from outside again.So the club will look good from afar from a results basis but what have they actually done to raise the standard of the whole age group?and most importantly,is it the clubs job to train the kids or just recruit?Because there is no benefit to developing is there?On the flip side the consistent top 3 youth clubs develop kids, the Jets and other higher levels come and take them and what do they get for it?Then they are forced to recruit outside their kids and everyone blames them for buying a comp.The only upside is that we stay the course,get NNSW to bring more and more kids into the JDL structure and hopefully give the clubs a reason to keep developing them.The downside is if we go back to the old system,it becomes more exclusive and we end up like the womens NPL where the top tier talent just goes to where the best deal is and walks the comp every year.The JDL system needs a good generation to even begin to get real results.Im happy to keep it going.
