I haven’t followed the A-League since its inception but I’ve never seen so many young Aussies getting minutes and performing well. The likes of Toure, Silvera, Wilmering, McGree, D’Arrigo, Genreau and Metcalfe all look really really promising and this can only bode well. Not to mention the fact that the U17s will return soon and Powell, JCP and Teague will likely get minutes. Is this the birth of a really good young cohort? 

Certainly a good number of young players getting their chances, finally, and doing well. 

It’s definitely quite promising and refreshing to see.

I was certainly impressed with Silvera after seeing him play for the first time, great control and 1v1 ability.

I always knew we had talent in Australia that just needed the chance to shine, can’t imagine what’s also out there if more clubs and managers are prepared to be give them a go too.

Been a good week for Aus youth football! We got a way to go but also we got great hope for the future too! 

And another 20 or so spots open up next season too.
Really glad to see it happening

Sam Silvera should be called up for the Jordan squad. 

It doesn't matter if he's played less than 10 senior games at club level.

Should probably make this a separate thread for posterity but:

Toure Vs Silvera:
Who is more likely to have a standout season?
(And peering into our crystal balls) - Who is more likely to be important to the socceroos over the long term? (Assuming Toure commits to Australia)

Toure more likely for Liberia

Silvera was been in the WS Wanderers Academy for a while and the FFA squads for a while, so Aust more likely.

The Wanderers Academy certainly has done well.

Heart and Mariners regulatory come raiding.

It's very exciting to see a bunch of young players coming through - Metcalfe, Toure, Genreu and now Silvera to name a few. City (despite all their off-field woes) have done tremendously well in establishing an academy that is pumping out talent, same as WSW. It won't be long before the national squad is primarily composed of players from those two youth systems. 

I also think this will be the year that Riley Mcgree stamps his authority as the number 8 in the Socceroos midfield, he's quality. 

Courtney-Perkins, Baccus, Mourdoukoutas, K Pop.

Dunno if it's called raiding, players know they have a chance of being in the shop front if they go to the mariners, silvera would have been riding pine at WS if he'd even made it out of the youth squad.
Scouts are paid to spot talent, thats being undervalued.
Besides you wanna talk raiding, wait till you see what the other clubs do to the mariners at the end of the year, happens every year to the mariner since the 2013/14 championship team.

Koutroumbis I wouldn’t have in thevsquad.

Others from 98/99/00 not mentioned.
Buhagiar, piscopo, oneill, vujica, pasquali. Russell, Scott, Atkinson, Cordier, pierias, Akbari, Adam, ivanovic, brimmer, delianov,Suman, freke, gauci etc etc

Big clubs raid minnows' academies the world over.

It’s no different to when everyone was emptying their ball sacks over players Sarkies, Leijer, Burns, Djite, Antonis, Amino et al who were going to go to Europe and become huge stars.  

I mean Silvera, just one A League game, ONE GAME... and people are talking about him like’s the second coming.  This is current generation is no different to previous generations, in fact possibly worse, at least 90% of the above names will go on to become major flops.  Rather than looking at the “current crop” we should be trying to indentify which one or two, possibly none, have the potential to play at the high levels of Europe.  

People have been talking about Silvera after all of the games he’s played so far both in the league and cup, not just after today.

Agree with this observation 100%!

Reading some of these posts highlights what killjoys there are on this forum. Heaven forbid some people should search for, and celebrate, positives in Australian football. To paraphrase Robbie Slater from earlier tonight, nobody is saying these kids are going to play for Barca, but good performances and talent should be called out, and even talked up. 

Anyone rate the kid Dylan Pierias from Western United? Kid runs like a gazelle, if he could score he would be a useful player

Is Silvera at any risk of being poached? 

I'm very happy and excited seeing who scored in A League games. Lots of young names. However, the must not mask the issues we have. Use what we've achieved while cleaning up a lot of the issues still around. 

so next year we have a 12th club and the year after a 2nd division? Right in time for our SAP graduates to come to the fore and get game time across 2 divisions

So true. Many of our young players would be a little wick compared to youngsters developed in other countries. Just look at the players that have come out of the Ajax academy

Just eye watering watering what comes out of the football factories of Portugal, Netherlands, France, England and Germany as examples. Fact is players amongst the 24th to 100 best in Portugal would still make up half of the Roos squad. Their technical abilities are amazing. 

DDS is still young too ppl forget

Tbf some of thise guys had good careers

Pfft. Mariners a big club is utter garbage. They are just doing what they did for years and raiding western sydney clubs. Gypsies tramps and thieves.

Heartle$$ a big club. Garbage as well. Why don't they have a Melbourne first policy instead of raiding since Football Victoria claim to be stronger than NSW?

Too many wanting to be negative for the sake of it sadly.

Too many are nitpicking when something good happens when sometimes it's good to appreciate the result of a player or team.