CHRIS SANDOW
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News Limited runs the Storm and are not going to spend heaps of money on victorian rugby league development. It already costs them $20 million a year to operate the storm.
I disagree with some of your post. There is not 10,000+ kids playing league down here but there has been a huge growth in the last couple of seasons at my club atleast. We were fielding two teams in almost every age group and could almost field a third in some, which is huge for this competition. In just the one team I was invovled with we had a few players come over from aussie rules and a few from union, so IMO the interest of kids is getting there slowly but the VRL is not supporting it well enough.Re: More Clubs added to the Victoria Rugby League Comp in 2009
The Development Officers that run the school clinics and carnivals are employees of ARL Development www.arldevelopment.com.au not employees of Melbourne Storm, but as I stated in a previous post I believe Storm contribute (like every other NRL club) to the funding of these officers.
My issue is that these clinics have been in operation for some years now through the Development Officers, but we have yet to see any proportional increase in the numbers of juniors playing Rugby League in Victoria. When children are at school and they get told their sports program for the next 6 to 8 weeks will be Rugby League it is not optional - and for the VRL to claim that 10,000+ kids are playing football down here is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. Once the Development Officers and the clubs work hand in hand and successfully migrate a percentage (and realistically even if they got 5% it would be huge) of these kids to playing club football week in week out then I believe credit can be given to the investment made via ARL Development.
The Werribee day is next Saturday 22nd from information I've received, but if you check previous posts on this board there is a club contact - I'll try to hunt it down later for you if I get a chance.
The game that was schedule for Sat 22nd Nov has been cancelled. The Wyndham city council pulled the plug because Mossifel reserve was not deemed fit to play on.
So insted the follwing has been put into place
Werribee Bears vs Cragieburn Pheniox
Saturday 29th November 2008
11am Kick off
Gibbs Reserve
Reservior
BBQ provided
Training is on Sunday 23rd Nov at 12pm at Presidents Park, Wyndham Vale for Werribee senior players
Do the VRL have plans to expand into other places like Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Warrnambool?