Quote: The Avenger "I'm sure the answer to your question is out there somewhere, why do you expect me to do your research for you?
This discussion has centred on UK clubs so I don't see the relevance of your question as I alluded to in my first response to it!
It's been clearly stated by a number of posters on this thread that there are clear differences between what is happening in Australia and here.
Junior coaches at Scholarship level teach far far far more than just basic skills, there's no waxing lyrically because there's no need, just factual information.'"
Junior coaches at Scholarship level can teach everything under the sun. They could literally be the only RL coaching, and the only contact with RL a kid has up until that point. It doesn't create pro's.
The fact is that players who are picked up at 16/17/18 into academies and junior academies are picked up because of their talent, not because their coaching at scholarship level in Wakefield is better than elsewhere, and frankly its pretty pathetic to claim those kids, the vast majority of whom won't go on to even make a single SL appearance, as evidence that youth development at your club is working. Because all I hear is the excuse although Wakefields youth development is brilliant, there just aren't the results
and for all your attempts to play on emotion and pretend im bad mouthing volunteers, it wont work. Its also pretty apparent that you are devaluing not only the players input, but his amateur coaches input, his academy coaches input, and the actual commitment it takes to blood a young player in to the first team at pro level by vastly overstating the effect of scholarship coaching at certain clubs.
I noticed you have still failed to answer my question as well, ill ask it again, how many of the Wakefield 2009 Academy GF squad have made it to an SL career?
