And the numbers for ACFC speak for themselves last season too.
Auckland City easily won the Youth League with the recruitment process they went through last year.
The Club had open trails last season they just chose different options than you maybe think they could of to make potential players aware of them.
Maybe they only wanted players of the standard that had already been identified by NZU20s or maybe the Coach last season sought advice about potential players from Chris Milicich.
So this year more Ellerslie players trailed but only 2 made it so either way the numbers maybe say more about the Standard of Ellerslie's players than the percieved flaws in ACFC's recruitment process.
Just a question for you though, Last winter Season Central Utd played Ellerslie 1st team 3 times, Reserves twice, and U19s twice so do you not think its safe to assume that the ACFC Youth Coach (Who also coaches 1st Team and 19s at Central Utd) would of had enough chance to identify any players he would be interested in for NYL?
Central Utd U19s easily won the U19 Winter Comp in Auckland last season.
With Onehunga Sports and Three Kings Utd 2nd and 3rd respectively.
And Three Kings Utd won the ACFC U17 Tournament as well as the Metro U17 Comp
Its surely no coincedence that players from these 3 clubs take up 22 of the 30 places in the ACFC Youth squad.
I understand that you want the opportunity for as many of your players as possible to have an a chance to play NYL (Which is probably more just as much a benefit to Ellerslie than ACFC if they do make the squad)