No one deserves any preselects for anything
it is interesting that people are told different things depending on their geographical location though.
If, and it's a big if, Private Acadimes are better than what the National Body can provide then economic stratification is guaranteed. GG's post backs this up as the players he listed there where players in Chch of those age bands who were not nessacarily the #1 players around....so their advancement is enabled by economic opportunity.
I understand this is the way of the world and the same arguement can be levelled at FTC for instance. However the answer to why Chch sucks at U17 boys NZ squad being send them to Nth Island Academy if they have $ is a bit depressing really.