What a joke, your response is. In the Parramatta district, clubs such as wenty are a disgrace.
The supposed 'vendetta' is because the bigger clubs poach the better players from other clubs, and hold on to their weaker players, if they cant field an additional team, they send those less talented players home. They been raping other clubs for years, are that big and powerful, want to dictate how the eels run the juniors.
If clubs aren't restricted to 2 teams per age group, the comps will have to merge. The bulldogs, saints, balmain and souths have merged their 15's and overs, because there isnt enough 'competition' in their own comps
Sometime the little guys need to win too.
Wow, what an incredibly restricted view of the world you have.
So there is a vendetta, thanks for confirming that.
The Eels run the juniors, hmmmm, no, two people run the juniors and the rest just follow.
The last time I looked there was no competition committee and all changes to rules and competitions were passed through a junior league forum where no agenda was distibuted before hand and every desicion was made via ambush.
If clubs are restricted to two age groups, who is going to pick up the 300 hundred + players that suddenly find themselbes out on the street?
Surely not the smaller clubs as they just dont have the capital and human or terrestrial resourses to take that influx, therefore around 70-80 kids will be distributed to smaller clubs and the rest will be forced to find another sport close by because a) the parents have already stated they wont travel and b) they wont be able to afford playing at a club that can't subsidise their children. It will come down to a matter of cost.
The inner west and south of Sydney competitions have been forced to merge because of a lack of playing numbers in their respective districts.
This is because of the stiff competition they face from soccer, AFL and rugby, not because one or two clubs were bigger than the rest, that has been the case since 1908.
The merged competitions are now growing and it wont be long before they pull apart again and go back into their districts.
And by your narrow view of the world it is about winning and losing huh?
Wenty have been around for 99 years and have not always been a rich club, if you bothered to research their history they went through the same process that every club goes through, they start off small and by good management and offering they grow and expand.
Do yourself a favour and read their history, you might learn something that is being kept from you by the morons at the junior league who you so resolutly follow.
http://www.wentyleagues.com.au/yourclub/History.aspx
What is a disgrace is that people are willing to try and drag down such a great club and other clubs such as hills district who have an equally proud heritage and dont have the backing of a licenced club yet still manage to put 400 + kids on the park each week.
Surrounded by Rouse Hill, Winston Hills, Lalor Park and numerous Penrith clubs they fight each year to retain their kids and in the process do such a great job that they attract players who want to be there.
It amazes me that the stooges for the junior league always seek a way to try and drag these clubs down.
I have never once heard them say, what a great job they do to keep rugby league alive and growing in their district and how wonderful it would be if other clubs followed their base model as a way of improving their own operation, or better, actually asked Wenty and Hills to mentor smaller clubs which I am sure they would do as they are here for one purpose.
To propogate rugby league, not like the peasents in the junior league who restrict the competitions to the point of strangulation.
In case you havent noticed, there are massive holes in age groups from 12's to 17's and dont even mention A Grade, that's a disgrace however instead of planning to shore up those age groups against the rising threat of AFL the junior league choose to try and denigrate the two clubs who are winning the battle, WTF?
Let me guess, you are 35-45, have or had a son playing at, lets say, Marconi, Merrylands or maybe Parramatta Junior Eels and got roped onto the committee and suddenly became the secretary of the club.
You were promised by the junior league that your club would be looked after if you followed them and you duely did, never stopping to think of the impact your weak actions would have.
You now find yourself trapped in that you dont understand why these rules are being put in place but you have been assured it is for the betterment of your club and you blindly follow, or better still, you are a junior league executive who cant stand the fact that for the last 10 years you have been responsible for the mismanagement of the district and will do anything to distract people away from that fact.
Shame on the people that try and drag a club/s down because they are successful.
You should be applauding them and trying to emulate them but instead you try and destroy them.
What good are you to the game of rugby league.
The tall poppy syndrome at it's best right there folks.
