Quote Originally Posted by KITZ View Post
If you can't play out from the back by u18 your coach has failed you; as a spectator it was was not a GF worthy game for one team.
I see first grade sides kick if long as well. Does it mean the first grade coach has failed if they decide to take goal kicks straight into the middle third?

17 games a season is also a piss take - does anyone realise the girls NPL played more games this season?
It's going to be 29 next season for U13s-U18s.

18s should be with seniors
This has been gone over already, from what I understand those who actually understand the game and understand player development, at the Northern meeting about it were there and showed how it would be dterimental to the U18s comp and the players to take it out of PYL

anyone who is playing 18s to win a trophy in 18s is either in their last season playing or has missed the point.
So you would be in favour of dropping a finals series for U18s even if in seniors? After all if they playing to win they have missed the point.

They want to play senior football, its all about playing and training with reserve and first grade, not the 16s.
So go join a reserve team if you don't want to play 18s. Playing 18s isn't playing senior football even if it is before a reserves game.


the 18s WANT to be in with the senior squad and not in youth football. Ask the players they will tell you.
Either go join a senior squad, or go to a club where 18s do train with the senior squad, there are clubs that do it under the current structure. And if you want to be in a senior squad but no club will currently have you in their reserves or 1st grade then maybe you still need some time in the 18s to develop.