ok, so this post came about after reading simon hills articles in this months mag.

i was having a chat with my younger cousin the other day. we were speaking about his football try outs. he said, practically the whole school turned out to tryout for the football team. he said, football never had such big turnouts before, it was always enough players to make the team, so everyone who turned up was in. but not the case anymore.

he says everyone at his primary school has a soccer ball. everywhere you go, you see one. at break time and lunch time, everyone is playing soccer, hes never seen it like this before.

now this got me excited inside to hear of such a thing. i then wandered, but what happens next? what happens to keep these lads interested? what happens to make sure that the numbers dont dwindle and this is not a phase?

simon hill said in his article about giving free tickets to kids for a-league games and other incentives such as that.

if there really is as much interest as my cousin suggests, then what are the FFA doing to make sure that the kids continue with the interest and it does not just die out during league and union and afl season. there must be some incentives and programs to make sure the game is booming at a primary school level.