College Poaching

College Poaching

Anyone see Deaker on sport last night? undertaker22008-05-15 21:17:02

Yes the latter only.

Mostly football players stay with thier Colleges. Its more a problem in rugby (allegedly).

A Wellington College 1st XI player moved to the College this year from Pram Coll for the football but I'm not sure you could call that poaching.

How can they call it poaching. The colleges had nothing to do with developing the player in the first place. You could say the Colleges are poaching kids from the clubs. nightz2008-05-16 09:59:16

poaching in rugby in the porirua region is starting to go in reverse, Mana College have been actively poaching top players from outside of the Porirua Basin......its no secret this has gone on for years. There were plenty of Viard boys who played 1st XV in 4th form who wound up at St Pats.

Jerry Collins was poached from Tawa College - thats a well known FACT.

Come on nightz its poaching!

It's secondary school sport. Who really gives a sh1t anyway. In the long run, if a better school gets a good player better exposure, then good on them. I went to a school who had the entire 1st XV on scholarship, plus 4 in the second XV who couldn't make the 1st XV.

Mana College do not poach players. I have watched 12 of the current team come up through the school from year 9. There are two who have joined in the senior years from other schools (one from Tawa) and two recently arrived students from Fiji. Hardly a consistent poaching policy!!

Basketball is more of a problem than football or rugby in my opinion, as players follow top coaches around.

mags poached joe simpkins from naenae coll but then again can't blame him haha

All this talk of poaching is making me hungry. I'm off to tell the woman to cook me some eggs (poached of course)

College football should be played midweek and kids should be allowed to play for their clubs right through.
OK The first XI get looked after but what about those who dont make it. I have seen plenty of Central League Players who, as kids, never made rep teams in the Hutt Valley  (Where most schools allow them to play for the clubs). The only reason they survived to contribute at an older age is that they were allowed to grow up in a football environment, being coached by people interested in the sport, with proper facilities and developing some kind of club loyalty.

Couldn't agree more with your first sentence, UIron.

I've never said this before in my life and am unlikely to again: JR is dead right.

There is a similar set up with junior cricket in the UK but the opposite way round I believe where you play a short, limited overs game for your club on Wednesday evening and then for your school on Saturday. But JR is exactly spot on.

Yes the girls football works very well. All the Porirua Basin girls play in the Wednesday leagues for college but then choose a club for Sunday. Some elite players go to clubs in Wellington but we have a good mix (inc social players) in our new Porirua City Div 3 team. The college girls mixing with the more experienced girls gives them more understanding of team play, tactics etc on the Sunday which they take back to college games.

Orpewise - I have it on good authority from 2 kids IN THE TEAM. I live 2 mins from
the school and have family there........do u want more credibility?

Rugby: James Soliolo doesnt count...he was ours through junior school to year 11 then went off to WellC and Viard then back to us. Taniala is the only 'poaching' claim I will accept (ex Tawa). So I dont know where the other claims come from frankly.

If we were talking basketball then its a different story....players follow coaches and success at most of the top ten schools nationwide.

I wish we could be accused of poaching in football...I think our 14-0 home defeat last Tuesday kills that concept!!!!