Any Burnley Academy people out there? what's the go with NTC this year?
In the past, players at private providers who did not do FTC had the opportunity to trial via a Talent On Location day.
Will this still be the case?
I don't think that is correct.
I'm sure only APFA got invites to TOL and that is because they specifically worked out an agreement with Mainland/NZF. Obviously that will not apply to our location this year.
It specifically says on the Kids NTC invite - No FTC = No NTC. So my assumption is (fairly or not) that FTC is the only pathway for NTC for Chch kids.
APFA players always been at NTC, via TOL. They never did FTC. And the poor relationship between APFA and Mainland was one of the reasons quoted when APFA left town.
Interesting guys. Up here in JAFA land this has been a contentious issue. When launched the federation indicated the role of the provide providers and the opportunities for kids to attend TOL and the NTC via private provider programmes was to be reviewed. To the best of my knowledge there has been no progress on this after 3 years! The reality is that the FTC has essentially been set up in competition with the private providers with kids and parents forced to make a decision which one they attend due to clashes in training, crazy training times, hard to get to locations (5pm at Mt Smart on a Wednesday evening in the middle of winter when you have to get from Titirangi out west Auckland) etc. The up shot has been that large numbers have chosen to stick with the private providers, given the proven quality and results v's the FTC where quality has been variable and delivery against objectives such as inter federation game days has been virtually non existent.
You only have to look at the AFF 98 FTC group that attended the national tournament in Wellington in Dec 2013. My understanding is that not one member from the Onehunga Sports (Wynrs) team that made it all the way to Manchester for the MUPC in Ag 2013 is part of the AFF FTC group and as such have been excluded from the current 98 / 99 northern NTC group.
Hi 2boys. That's pretty much been the experience in the South Island (FTC now in competition with private providers; probably wellington as well), with the difference in the SI being that TOL provided an opportunity to attend NTC for the private provider kids (APFA, and more recently Burnley academy). However I've been informed that there is a move now to totally exclude any player from NTC unless they are doing FTC (but i also hear that the Wellington Phoenix Academy might be treated differently; ie capital football staying in good with nix i guess). A few years back there was talk of an accreditation system but i can't see that ever happening.
So the idealist position of NTC being the best players in the country - and therefore pretty easy to select a national squad - is just crap; which means that the next U17 coach (zoro's name has been mentioned on the U17 thread) will think - where are the best '98/99 players - Auk - wynrs, mags, st kents, st peters, westlake etc; Wgtn - Ole and nix and maybe kaizen academy; then the 3 x NTCs. and somehow have to work out how to see them all, or ask each coach at those organisations who their best players are. sigh.
