bird of prey wrote:It just so happens that a club like pnu has so many juniors that go to colleges in the area.
A lot of the other larger clubs would have a pretty good retention rate of senior players that played juniors there (Modbury, TTG, etc) even though PNU still do.
Why is St Michaels, which has a very strong football program, so irrelevant with their old scholars? I’ve heard there are very few old scholars that play at Smosh.
A few years back SMOSH tried very hard to bridge that gap and in turn get some students fresh out of school to play for them. I think it worked to a degree but it is very hard in the western suburbs as the players are spread over so many different clubs. Henley, Smosh, Districts, Seaton, Flinders, Portland, Rosewater, North Haven.
There doesnt appear to be as many junior clubs on the east side of town. many college players wouldnt even play club footy on a sunday. Would I be right in saying that?
So PAC, St Peters as examples only lose players to PNU, Broadview (I cant think of any other clubs that side of town with juniors).
SHOC would lose to a few more in Brighton, Morphie Parks, Kenilworth, Plympton, Marion.
Its easier to convince a group of 4-5 mates to play together at a team they have for many seasons during school rather then to try get 1-2 players across from a rival club to a old scholars side.