The pathways for kids is very broad. You have your junior grassroots club, school footy and auskick.tipper wrote:morell wrote:No, not at all I don't know what the solution is. I really don't. I am just saying that the AFL teams being successful is more important as that is where the $$$ and people are.
In all reality I cannot see the SANFL surviving - at least not in its current form. Like someone else said, it's now your grassroots club for your local and junior footy and the AFL for your professional footy. In a crowded marketplace where the consumers are time poor, I just don't see what role the SANFL plays...
it might be where the spectator numbers are, but supposedly the sanfl is the pathway for sa kids to make it to the afl. how does it go for your precious league if all the talent has no where to learn here in our state? its like killing the golden goose. short term gain, but then absolutely nothing in future.
its all good though. when the league folds the afl will find somewhere for the reserves teams to play, they will look after the power and crows, **** everyone else as long as they are looked after hey.
I think we will see more a more resources poured into grassroots junior development. So your PHOS Camdens, Paynehams, etc as the main vehicle for junior development, then I think there will be an elite junior comp setup, like the TAC cup in Victoria, for the final phase before the AFL.