Just listened to the first half, interesting his point about sponsorship f tournaments.
I do however think that a lot of the rest has been done by people on this forum or suggested by people on this forum. ie a national skills test (promise but never came)

I do however have a problem with the small player pool notion , if you have a small player pool why do you burn so many promising players at the stake and why do you only look in the capital cities for talent instead of all over the country. the qas is 2000km from cairns how many kids play between cairns and Brisbane. A regional state team of 20 is put together for the entire state outside of Brisbane. ffs is that the best use of your player pool?

2nd half now

Get dad to stop telling him to kick it. AND HOW TO FUCK DO YOU DO THAT when dad thinks my boy has a fantastic boot.

Thanks Arthur, when I have time look forward to listen to that link.

krones, I hear you re Fathers incl mothers as well.
Your qld based so I don't know what rules apply for jnr rep but down here the 2 clubs I've been associated with the last years once your kid is selected rules and stds are quite specific that all parents are to shut up from the sideline, no screaming blahblah from the sideline only the coach giving instructions but encouragement is fine.
Got to say I used to head over to the opposite sideline having some stoopid boistrous parents - wish they'd learn to stfu and that their kid isn't ronaldo !

The small player is an issue at hand for donkeys years - obviously they keep picking those jnrs who grow earlier for the sake of having big units out run out jump the yet to develop kid who many times has more skill and better read of the game.
You see this at every trial I imagine around the country - I can understand the logic but why not have a criteria pick the bigger kids capable of being the CB pairings and maybe 1 CM for example ?
Resource has always been our anvil as you mention therefore regional areas are not being looked at enough for talent - I don't know what can be done to improve this anbody have ideas ?

Barca you posted in one post :
"the best will eventually go to the a-league or to AIS/NTC not to the NPL which is seen as secondary. Thats the FFA's aim.They are trying to rebuild the pathways which were broken along time ago probably before the NSL ended to when the A-League started, its about funnelling the talent to the a-league level more efficiently".

During trails prior to xmas from one guy I know close to FNSW had mentioned from this years Regional League finish that up to 40 kids will be selected to filter into A-League academies that as we know are in the making so seeing your post makes me feel that at least things are going ahead to a degree.

With the kiddies about to start soon, a good time to keep an eye on this for 2015. Happy New Year all.