Pathetic Souffs Juniors

[alien]

Wasn't the much hated platinum league a step away from this current messed up system to one where the nrl had more control over juniors and development.

Easts and Souths would have both been in the "Central Sydney" junior district.

 

[DiegoNT]

Easts and Souths would have both been in the "Central Sydney" junior district.

I don't think the districts were quite set in stone, and were merely put forwards as to what the set up may be like. Either way if the majority of those clubs were already part of the souths juniors set up then possibly the central sydney link up would have gone to souths and roosters may have gotten another district that didn't have an obvious pathway to the nrl (like the central coast maybe)

 

[Perth Red]

It's such an antiquated notion to believe that kids who happen to live in your area somehow have an obligation to sign for the NRL club should they become decent players, especially when that NRL club isnt putting any money into the Jnr set up. The more things change the more they stay the same in rugby league.

What is the point of the nswrl? Surely it is their job to manage grass roots RL in. Sydney and be making decision on district structures?

 

[siv]

It's such an antiquated notion to believe that kids who happen to live in your area somehow have an obligation to sign for the NRL club should they become decent players, especially when that NRL club isnt putting any money into the Jnr set up. The more things change the more they stay the same in rugby league.

What is the point of the nswrl? Surely it is their job to manage grass roots RL in. Sydney and be making decision on district structures?

Yes it is and in NSW the old districts as at 1984 all still exist. Only Newtown stopped being a district club with no U16 or U18 representation when they left the comp in 1983

 

[big hit!]

most newtown junior district clubs were absorbed by souths. the newtown district encompassed the old marrickville council area + earlwood saints and hurlstone park, even though the latter two are suburbs in the old canterbury council. earlwood went to st george district and hurlstone park are extinct. i'd say erko would be within newtown's football boundaries back in the day too as it's a neighbouring suburb, but there was never a club called Erskineville as far as i can recall.

anyway, the district gentrified which is the reason newtown eventually disappeared, as well as most of the clubs too. greeks and yugos (serbs/croats/maceos), then vietnamese, and now the hipsters, all had/have little interest lacing up a footy boot and getting physical.

 

[big hit!]

surely souths can't sign every promising kid within the souths district. there's going to be overflow and they've got to go somewhere. if it's not easts, then it will be elsewhere. f**king petty from souths to take such a stand.....and i'm a souths supporter.