So if we dont lose them to schools at 14, we lose them to the Mainland elite teams and then they do not return anyway.. Seems to me its a no win situation for the clubs building there own coaching programmes.
What are everone thoughts on the Danny Halligan thing... He works for Mainland coaching the PDL academy team, this consists of players from all our clubs. Mainland told the clubs who objected that they were going to develop these / our players make them better when they return to our clubs at the end of the academy period. Now Halligan is apparently taking the whole team (our players) as a group to play at Woolston Tech under his coaching. Now is this abuse of his position at Mainland or is it not... And will Mainland allow this to happen... I am sure they will. I know that CSFC will lose players that they originally invested time at younger age levels..
So if we dont lose them to schools at 14, we lose them to the Mainland elite teams and then they do not return anyway.. Seems to me its a no win situation for the clubs building there own coaching programmes.