Rather see a 3rd New Zealand team in Christchurch, they have a better stadium then Sth Melb Criminals, better players and would get way better crowds being the only pro club in all of NZ South island.
Thats fascinating... I wish you well in your expansion bid.
Not trying to be contrary but what happens to all these players once they are too old for the school league? I agree with you 100% that pathways are broken and also to some degree that "Player pathways. Coach development. Nepotism. Infrastructure. Access to opportunity." are fundamental problems that need to be tackled and overcome.... But.... one of the ways that would help towards that is clearing up the bottleneck that occurs once these players reach a certain age and they have no other options apart from:
State body's don't vary that much that I'm led to believe without looking into it, all have pretty similar league/systems down to grass roots you'd think.
I dont think other state federations have a CEO who is married to a club's president.... do they?
Not sure about other feds, but Capital Football has a published doc on how much referees are paid per game:Loading…
footballnsw.com.au
I have a couple of ex team mates still reffing Prem1/O35/45's etc depending where they are assigned.
All for the passion, around $60/70/80/90 bucks depending age/experience don't know what AR's get.
Muz is a local ref be interesting what NNSW pay.
Coaching pay is too low I'm led to believe by some spoken with (talking NPL3 down/YL) , they are pulled pillar to post one guy was saying when your a young bloke, toss either being a student/or work and then get to trainings 2/3/4 nights then weekend games.
MSC is a new remake of Troy in the making
Correct, but you are creating the opportunity for 200+ players to sign professional contracts and focus primarily on their football careers. At the same time 10-12 clubs are also being promoted into NPL to fill the void left by the departing NST clubs (and so on). That's a bunch more players competing at a slightly higher level. We don't need to create more clubs. The country is full of them. When it comes to player pathways one key area that is lacking is the opportunities for the absolute elite players in that 16-22 age group. This is when players are deciding whether they should pursue a football career or not. Adding a couple of new A-League franchises only gives "opportunity" to a dozen or so young players who will waste those valuable years missing out on actual competitive game minutes. An NST also provides an avenue for AL clubs to loan out young players to NST squads to actually get minutes.
Could always be a MoU between NZF and APL/FA that if Wellington/Auckland are relegated from 2nd tier, they are to go back to the NZ pyramid.
Just looking at the NST process there were 32 clubs formally express interest and 26 of those clubs were asked to submit proposals. Obviously the criteria was a bit steep for most, but it does demonstrate there are no shortage of clubs with the ambition and drive to move to the next level.
perfect response... agree 100%
Many of the clubs (and lets not forget they each coughed up 5k I belevie to fund the financial modelling back then) went in to the process knowing they are years away from being ready... BUT STILL want the opportunity to compete ... if nothing else this should be the signal that there are many shoulders under this NST all pushing in the same direction.
Again, you need that level of money to compete. A liveable salary is what, 85-90k a year? Assuming every player is on the 85k minimum, that's 17M a year for 200 players. To also replace those clubs in the NPL, you need to have clubs who can step up. Not many clubs can step up to the NPL level.