10cc do you know why Waimak reserves are playing Pressies?
Guess with no PDL B pool (which ideally should mirror div1), relatively few options for "next tier" clubs to introduce promising youth alongside older players in a true Play Development League where primary focus should be on just that unlike in the Reserve grade branded as PDL is at moment, winning the competition. Mixing quality youth into a lower senior grade (provided a club has one or more in the first place) is not ideal. Perhaps failed U21may be better off changed into a true PDL league to mirror div 1 teams, so that it can be used mixing a limited number of older players and help bridge that gap.
Now that is a bloody good idea! Nice.
I agree its a good idea, but for a club like burwood where all the lads are under 20 the U/21s was a good fit - just poorly executed. can see them doing very well in div 4.
The senior sections are gunna need a bit of a shake up - will we see div 1 become a strictly feeder grade for clubs outside of MPL? Will clubs like parklands, pap redwood and the like step up for a div 1 slot?
How many clubs in Div 1 [none MPL club] have a youth policy of any sort to make this any better than U21?
Burwood yes so when are they in to Div 4? See note below.
Yes a feeder league is what Div 1 [before all the club amalamations] was a few years ago with MPL clubs having teams of young and older players mixed together giving the development that some don't get from being given 10 mins at PDL.
Don't expect the likes of Parklands [top div 2] and Pap Redwood [highest teams in Div 6 and lots more below] to be the clubs to keep the lower grades [below MPL] competitive in numbers of quality teams.
The problem comes that a club wanting to put in a new team or in some cases more than one team in a division has to start in division 6 no matter how good they are.
FC20 as a case Div 5s should be the clubs MPL team [a bit tongue in cheek here] they haven't had the same team on the park twice yet.
When you have an ASB prem player [do fc20 have any others?] turning out amongst other talented players that I know of from Superyouth/PDL/Div1 level playing div 5 because of the above noted ruling. Sure not all players want to train twice a week if at all but had to start back at the bottom because they wanted to play as a group of mates together and too many teams in div one or two for that club already.
How does thas help other teams they play against when the scores already 5 or 6 in 20 odd minutes. The same will happen next year when they move up to division 4.