CURLY wrote: ↑Thu 01 Apr 2021 8:36am
Given that recruiters and talent scouts for TAC teams gravitate to the private school games of course they are of more chance to go through.
Really Curly, look at the reality of the situation and what you are suggesting and take off your blinkers.
The recruiters will go to the private school games where they will see up to 10 scholarship kids who are on the radar due to sustained performance spread across two schools as it's bang for buck.
Do you think they should be scouting back block leagues where they might find one kid who hasn't been successful in entering the pathway programs? How is that time and money well spent?
So these kids they don't know enough about should be getting a go but aren't because of the private school focus and not because they are not good enough at this stage of their development?
Perhaps your judgement is the issue Curly, you clearly lose the plot when it comes to football and have had to be banned from labeling AFL officials cheats on this site. Perhaps you need to lose the chip on your shoulder and deal with the inferiority complex. Your belief in being discriminated against by authority and perceived privileged people is becoming so irrational it is bordering on paranoia.
CURLY wrote: ↑Thu 01 Apr 2021 8:36am
First hand experience when discussing players that didn't get into development program's is that they simply don't know enough about the kid.
So an invested coach in a back block league wants to know why his kid didn't get in the development squad and he gets told above. What do you expect them to say, he's not up to it? Those squads are so expansive and the rep games at junior level allow coverage far and wide. I'd suggest its a very rare few that are good enough not getting picked, very rare few.
You are a 500 game legend and a 4 x coach of the year as you have posted on this site.
You don't think by you speaking to selectors about players is not the same as private school coaches calling selectors to discuss players? With your immense football knowledge and standing in the game I'd say you are stating you do exactly the same as the private school coaches but your kids don't get selected.
CURLY wrote: ↑Thu 01 Apr 2021 8:36am
They also have people pushing them forward all the time it's a pretty common theme for private school coaches to be calling recruiters and pushing for their player to get a gig.
There we have it, the Curly excuse factor.
The umpires cheat against us, the AFL cheat against us and favor the big clubs, it's a conspiracy.
The Private School kids make it because people are pushing for them, not because their good enough to get scholarships and get selected, there is an unfair advantage to the privileged.
You push your kids forward as well but it is unsuccessful so someone in authority must be to blame hey Curly? It's the privileged private schools and their coaches, nothing to do with the fact they have provided scholarships to the elite talent, it's all privilege.
FFS Curly start teaching your kids resilience and stop making excuses if they aren't up to it.
Kids in Queensland, NSW and Ireland for that matter get academy positions without ever kicking a footy in a match and local comps in VIC (removing covid affected times) have that many levels of rep squads and matches you'd have to be pretty average not to be on a radar somewhere.