Quote Originally Posted by Why Blue View Post
You seem to be constantly complaining about the poor level of quality available in the NPL, NEW FM, Zone etc correct ???

NPL Youth is in its first year, lets give it a chance, from what I have seen clubs are getting behind it as they realize it could provide some kids in the years to come.

Maybe what we need to do is stop trying to develop socceroo's and maybe concentrate more on developing kids thru club environment give them a path that they can see, rather than leading down a road that will probably, for most, crash head on with some sort of failure.
I think we stopped worrying about developing Socceroos players a long time ago.

Whilst ever our aim is to not be producing the best in the country we are selling ourselves short. It should be our goal to be looking at our NT and being able to see quite a few from the NNSW region in the squads that go to WC and not be cheering on one bloke the Jets poached from elsewhere who is just passing through our club on his career journey.

As for the EJ program yes it should be free but serious question is where is the money coming from?? Tinks already pumps his coin in and to fully fund the EJ program is looking at more of a loss to his hip pocket and considering he wants out of the Jets as if he is gonna commit to more loss??

The selection process needs to be looked at big time cause they are not getting it right. By and large the better kids are ending up there but there are quite a few slipping through the cracks that needs to stop. Hopefully in time this is rectified.

As for giving the NPL clubs a chance Yoof development has been there domain for a couple of hundred years. Results are in and they ain't pretty.

To rely solely on them when the joints are run by volunteers with varying levels of abilities and then add in the fact that NPL clubs are more focused on winning a trophy by buying a side to win the comp then you could argue yoof development is not at the fore front of their goals