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On what form do you base this prediction?

The issue is scale. It's great that 10 & 12yo kids or whatever get recognised and have a great weekend of rep footy in June. Designing a 10 week comp is totally different in all respects. I agree that intensive rep footy shouldn't start till around 17, before that it's all about early developers

If you are picking squads of 14/15 yo's and creating a 10 week rep season for them, you are picking winners in that age group, which IMO is way too early to be seperating the wheat from the chaff. Your experience only demonstrates that on occasions dead set fuckwits are allowed to coach kids...

They are 15! Give them 6 weeks of high performance training,give them a couple of games to put what they've learnt into practice and send them to the beach for summer. The idea of picking winners at 14,and rep seasons that go for months is counter productive IMO.

because Friend has assembled an unbalanced squad? The squad is not lightening quick,but it's not slow either.We are not regularly burnt on the outside,or run down easily. We are losing games due to poor skill/decision making,not to conditioning. Pennington is exactly the type of player we are...

Hmm, being on the same side of the argument as Campo is more disconcerting than comforting....

No doubt, our 7's guys are not the pick of the crop. But that's the case for every other 7's nation as well. It's a talent identification issue because our coach is hopeless. He seriously doesn't know who to pick. He says he wants to go into breakdowns less, but recruits breakdown specialists...

Jeez, there's a fair bit of bile there Slim. Hope it's not from anything more serious than your budgie looking a bit sickly.

Because the SS guys have real jobs. The amounts they receive to pay NRC might get them a weeks holiday somewhere cheap. There's a lI'm it to what you can expect for opportunity

Do an extra year for a rep jumper? It's not a year it's 6 months in most cases (bottom age kids born first 1/2 year, top age 2nd 1/2) Pathways is designed for elite athletes with a heavy workload,not for average students to maximise ATAR !!!! Not to mention kids who do pathways who do not seek...

I'm not suggesting any rules are being broken. If you can't see it's absurd that a kid does pathways next year to participate in a 6 week local Schools comp,that's ok. We can agree to disagree.

My post refers to no one in particular, just to the pathways option generally. When the kid is 'top age' and is too old to play for the School, or to trial for rep jumpers in his second year of year 12, there are zero participants. Funny coincidence?

What is rubbish, is that the practise is allowed. It was designed to assist high performing national athletes that couldn't cope with both their training load/ and missing weeks to compete on an international level. Here we have kids who are basically saying the load to compete for their School...

Get a coach with just 1/2 a clue. He has tried to recruit a squad of medium paced/ strong in contact players. Look at the players in the back up squad, that's all there is. That will beat Uganda most weeks, but is not competitive against the stronger nations.

So, in summary. Our goal is to now finish in the top 8 when we can. The below par performance was due only to the rookies lack of experience. Seriously, this bloke would turn our girls side into a shambles.

Don't know who's saying there's a problem with SS. It's the strongest its been for over a decade. SS clubs have a problem with how BP treats them, big difference. Anyway, playing 3/4 grades & colts 2/3 away from higher grades helps nothing, but will cause serious problems. Scheduling SS games...

Because 2's are totally reliant on 3's backup. To run squads seperately,you need in excess of 50 players in 1/2's Effectively you're suggesting that 3's either sit on the bench all year waiting for injuries in 1/2's, or go out of their way to back up for a squad that they no longer have any...

A brand so shitty that the Marlins have to spend three times what the Rats do,to field a competitive side? ......If you call not making the playoffs competitive :)

St George Dragons don't have 4th grade but they do have a squad of 30+ of full time professionals to field one team each week. It's one thing to ask a 3rd grader to sit on the bench for 2's, immediately after they have played. It's another to get them all to drive from Narrabeen to Coogee...

How does unscrambling the egg, improve participation in any way? It is what it is. Investing in the grassroots will improve things, the kids don't care if they are in clovelly colours or in Easts gear. Probably neither they or nor their parents know the difference when they first register.