Just search the name, she turns up in a recent social media post and they clearly say secretary. Everything I've heard tells me she's still there. I hope that Football Australia do something, but also it's hard to see them doing anything at the moment. They seem pretty rudderless at the moment...

Exactly right. The issue is also exacerbated by the size of Australia and the lack of a A-league youth structure. If we were a smaller country, there would be less of an issue, because the A-League clubs would hopefully be able to get their act together, have a high performance youth league for...

Thanks mate. I think unfortunately it highlights a bigger issue around Australia in that State Feds run the bulk of things and there's not much oversight above. Every state federation has different ages for NPLY and different high performance set ups for U9s-U12/U13. They all run their own high...

So she's the current secretary believe it or not: https://www.bbfc.org.au/club-structure. So again not sure how conflict of interest isn't flagged especially when the lead of the review panel works at Sport Integrity. I don't know much about the lead, but haven't heard him mentioned much in...

Well if Yoogali were to stay in, you'd only have to promote two clubs. So now you're only having to find 2 clubs to come up and that's a much more manageable task. It's a shame it's happened this way, because I do agree with the premise of expanding the NPL, but kicking out the Riverina clubs...

I'm from Canberra and this is really sad. Been involved in the NPL space, I can confidently say that nearly everyone I talk to supports having Yoogali and Wagga in the NPL. While Yoogali have never been a top four team, they've made the NPL on merit and continue to be a competitive team against...

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I’m waiting to hear back from a group accomodation enquiry so I can put some rough costs together. Will let you know once I do. In regard to the reason, I think match quality has a lot to do with it. Come u16/u17 most countries have high performance leagues, where top academies play each other...

So a couple of reasons. 1) Absolutely this is an age bracket where it’s been identified that development falls off. So more games against higher level opposition hopefully helps boost that. 2) U16s is an important year for U17 Joeys identification. So 6 months of consistent games generates...

Noting the pushback that A-League teams get, I imagine the push back would be even harder against a national team. I think if you were to do that as well, it would be a fixed squad and therefore harder to bring players in and out of that team. I think what you'd be looking at instead is the...

Feels like I've been here forever funnily enough :ROFLMAO: Yes, the big focus at the moment seems to be on coach education in Football Australia world. There's nothing wrong with this and it's good coaches are getting educated. But I think we're at a stage now where it's becoming obvious our...

Hi all. Been a follower of the forum since it's inception and was a stalker on the old forum as well. I've been a coach in the youth performance space for the last 10 years. In that time, it's become apparent that we need the best players in the country playing more often against each other...