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Good story this morning. All the presidents quoted. Some left field thinking. Genuinely hardproblem to solve. Think clubs have to generally recruit from nearby junior clubs. That's the starting point. 

not much doubt that the WAFC haver already got plans well underway and it'll be dog's breakfast given past efforts and their reluctance to abolish Mandurah's zones - that alone will free up vast areas for re-purposing

wait to you hear what they have done with junior community clubs. Yr 8 and above teams effectively now have salary caps on points like amateur and WAFL clubs do. If players are recruited or switch clubs they are given extra points for not going to the closest club or if they are in a development squad etc. Max 20 points. To top it off it is being backdated three years!
If you are over 20 points - you lose e-points at the start of the years so effectively drop games depending on how far over you are..
Talk about destroying the game and almost forcing kids to quit footy.
Kid that have clubs fold or may go to a new club closer to school rather than home will be penalised.
Far too many useless grubs at head office figuring out ways to destroy the game further.
Its already a joke - with a team of 15 you need about 8/9 parent volunteers all doing it for nothing.


 

I had a mate telling me recently he was required to use an I pad at junior footy to ensure all kids got the same game time, and if there were better players who played too much then sides also lost or got docked points. He reckons as coach he spends more time checking times on the I pad than he does watching the game and providing feedback to the kids on how to get better or even just play the game.

No wonder we don't have talent pools of kids coming through anymore. I wonder if you are able to give out a best player award or if you have to give everyone a certificate each week

so much for the Mandurah lies of going it alone
alignment extended into 2029
time for the WAFC to remove their zones 
entirely

Southerner wrote:

so much for the Mandurah lies of going it alone
alignment extended into 2029
time for the WAFC to remove their zones 
entirely

WA football has a disease.  It’s called Peelmantle and it eats away at a fair and even competition.  It can be cured, but requires someone with balls and brains.  Hopefully, in the near future, we can find this person.

Been like that for a few years PH at least.

My son, who played up until 2 years ago (year 9) the football club had the same thing with the Ipad and players game time. My wife would be the representative for our club on the bench/interchange area with the Ipad and would let our coaches know constantly throughout the game, the kids game time and how much this or that person had and who needed to come off etc.

This allowed the coaches to concentrate more on the game, but of course the bigger picture is that you can have your best player(s) going really well, but you have to take them off to ensure that all kids get a certain amount of game time. My wife would relay the message that, so and so (insert childs name) has had this much time and needs to come off for example.

Crazy stuff really. 

The only way around this is having a team with very few on the interchange bench.
 

Is this Footballs version of DEI. Is this an AFL directive, does the SANFL do the same down through their junior district teams?

The rules aren't even applied the same in the 3 junior comps here. 
Metro North, South & Central all operate under different rules or at least allow different rules. Seems as if it's at the discretion of who's running that conference.

Its junior footy and having coached in metro zone for the last 7 odd years I don't have an issue with it. Every kid, regardless of how good they are gets on the ground for minimum 70% and all my rotations were how it's run at a decent level. Back six start, 1 or 2 for that line on the bench and every 3 minutes they rotate. When everyone has been off you start again.

At year 10/11/12 many are looking for that time on the bench anyway.

If you're sitting there monitoring how long each player is on the ground you're not doing anything to help ALL your kids get better at football. Our job is to not just develop the top end talent at grass roots level. We are there to ensure every kid enjoys being there and wants to come back. Go and look at the drop off rates from 10's to 11/12's and then in to colts.

Rarely has my interchange steward had to come and tell me someone was short on time. No parent or kid of mine has ever questioned their game time either.

I have a few flags under my belt so it will not cost you a flag by looking after every kid, I'd say it makes it easier as you now have buy in from every kid.