Quote Originally Posted by WOW2.0 View Post
You'll notice I said "a professional club's academy"...not "a professional academy", although they have a more privilige position then say Sydney Utd or Apia, etc

We also have far less competition to thin the talent there is available 🤷

Every business operates to a budget. But being regional our costs would also be lower...we should stop looking at ourselves as "regional"...We are the 7th largest city/urban area in the country (Newcastle/Maitland). Growing at a faster rate (16.16%) than Adelaide (14.52%)...we are larger than the Canberra-Queanbeyan "region" and our national capital.

Agree with the coaching observation, BTW
How do you encourage and ensure that the best kids are involved though as travelling to Sydney every 2 weeks certainly isnt doing that? The coaching isnt doing that either and the scouts only watch a game here and there then picking kids on a random good game then the mums and dads involved to fill the remainder. They need to go back to playing 1 or 2 years above there age bracket in NPL.