Muzzie, Im NOT saying they are producing robots dude... sheeesh. My crack about private school fees was just that, a crack about the fact the soccer, at any level, is too expensive...  not just wog clubs wanting to fleece parents so that they can sit around and eat pumpkin seeds, glorify their foreign ancestors and watch their overpaid players win ethnic battles against their "enemies" here .... 

PS. I agree, whoever deleted previous posts be it in another thread or here is WRONG, for I know one of mine vanished as well.

True. There wouldn't.

The NC isn't prescriptive in any case.

I wouldn't hesitate to guess that 90% of the embittered old blokes complaining about the NC who bleat endlessly about 'the NC producing robots' have never read the NC.

It's a great resource for any coach, particularly a grassroots noob. Anyone other coach that knows their stuff can use it as a starting point and modify it as they see fit.

Are people suggesting there are NC FA policeman checking every club in Australia for compliance? 

NCB interesting your youth experience through your era that I find quite opposite to mine.
Lets go further back, back in my day, I went to a Gov school, we played the Tasman Cup as it was called back then.
There was no issue if you were a Rep player back then.
I can't really recall how many games but that it was but a inter school comp.

My local Club down the road from home was one of the stronger Clubs of the Association those days, 70/80's.
From U10 on you had Dads as gaffas and some were ex players or in the know of the game.
This was Club Div1.
Some of them ended up being Rep coachs through those formative years.
Now our training back then, yep fitness was an objective, we actually started by doing 10laps of the 2oval reserve.
I never minded that for fitness isone key of the game, even running single file last man would sprint to the front and repeat.
We used alot of ball, juggling, trapping, heading practice And shooting prac obviously great for the keeper as well.
Alot of forwards/mids vs the defense/keeper plays - in today called small sided games with purpose looking for a finish !
We played out set plays, corner set plays.
Then there would be a half pitch game to end proceedings, with 2 squads again you could say small sided game for thats 11 or more a side.
Alot of one touch/control/and moving for another hole.
It was on like mad and I luved it, the competition was rife.
I think it showed why we won the comp 5yrs on bounce, 2yrs undefeated, Champions of Champs obviously being Prem winners.
Wow in between the above there was the introduction of the Association 6ASide comp as well.
In amongst the local Club goings on many of us were selected for Rep since about U11/12's onwards.
That was another 2 nights training that my ol man was struggling to make on time those days.
Far more intense training, 1v1, dribbling,ball control,6v6,beat 2 players shoot, back to the goal turn control cross shoot - not much re fitness for most done in Club training.
Rep was great and another level naturally playing all over Sydney.
Therefore compared to your experience I feel mine has similar traits to today but maybe not as polished.
I was in awe of some players I played with, so many imo could have gone way up, ala NSL +, typical of Aus many liked and were good at cricket, or surfing as well and didn't care to go higher.
A problem still to this day living in the Land Of Oz.

PS. I agree, whoever deleted previous posts be it in another thread or here is WRONG, for I know one of mine vanished as well.

I remember 6 aside was introduced to cairns when i was 15 and i played a bit with friends we played on a full court pitch under lights. That was around the turn of the century

It sounds like u had small sided games back then which is good! There was probably quite a bit of variety in training though it does sound like fitness training without a ball was common to both of our experiences. In england they dont have ball free fitness training either, not sure if this was always the case or new. 

The nc does promote getting up to speed with fitness using ball drills, but i suspect this is what everyone does these days?