A refreshingly positive view on the future.  It will be very interesting to see the products of the NC and if it really has made a difference.  Among the skills they're teaching these kids, I hope they have drilled in perseverance, and that the results in a game are usually a reflection of what you put in. 

Interesting Arnie claimed how these kids could do things Aussies previously have not been able to do.

He was on record a few years ago castigating the national youth coaches for not selecting athletes who could run all day. He also stated they had been warned.

At the same time it is terrific Arnie is proactively looking at national youth for future senior team prospects. 

We have the u17 and u19's competing in WC qualifiers over the next 2 months. 99>02's. lets see how they go. There are some very good players in these age brackets my only concern is the amount of time spent as a team. With some luck we could see both in WC's next year. U18's 2000/01 born left for Japan this morning, first game on Thursday. 

People have been touting the impending outcomes of the curriculum for 10 years however youth results have gotten more & more absymal & fewer & fewer are playing in the A League on a regular basis.

I'll believe it when I see it.  

I have mixed feelings about this as well. 

This system has proven in the last 5 years, that improvement is minimal to non-existent. I'm not sure how in one to two years we can all of a sudden say, in our current system, that improvement in producing players will be good to exceptional. 

Yeah you can get your one in a million player (Arzani) but ultimately every country in the world has that.

We need to respect youth, bring in transfer fees, more opportunities, fierce competition Pro/rel, all of the things we don't have in the current system.  To guide/mould the players that we want.

The NPL is a prime example of where our players do the bulk of their development. Adelaide UTD, Perth Glory, CCM, Brisbane, City are all at the right end of their respective NPL leagues. 

Transitioning these players from a do or die environment into a merry-go-round environment can effect their mentality into putting them into a false sense of security. 

Lokolingoy is a prime example, scored 20+ goals to get SFC promoted, got involved with the senior set-up, and probably felt, OK, I've made it. And has stagnated heavily due to the environment.

Just my two cents.

Both the u17 and 19's have progressed to the last of the wc qualifiers. If both can make the WC then times might be changing. 

you can only quote times are a changing after qualifying 2-3 times on the trot not once in a while.
Then you can tell your system is working.

Ds98, Lokolingoy is a classic example agree but he's also been used very sparingly by GA.
Having watched near on every home game he's thrown on late in the 2nd most times, I know thats not easy but I've hardly been impressed for one moment tbh.
I know some have raps on him due to his PL2 period but I've hardly seen any ball skill moment that excited/impressed me.
He runs around like a headless chook.
Maybe Corica will get him feeling more comfortable we shall see.

Fair point but we have to start somewhere. These 02's have been in the so called system for the longest so lets see.

JDB, don't get me wrong I'm not being negative but more so lets wait and see right.
I believe any top potential kid from 00 on should be well up to a standard better than in the past but lack of real game time experience thrown in PL1 or AL for eg as once was.
That is one good piece of the puzzle missing imo.

heres hoping x2!! 

LFC i agree 100%. We see a lot of young lads heading OS  through lack of opportunity here in the HAL and its hard to disagree with this. Maybe with a few more teams added these lads will get there chance. As for the qualifiers lets wait and see. 

To qualify for the Youth World Cups it is often more difficult to qualify than Senior World Cups.

There have often only been 24 teams in Youth World Cups. There have been 32 teams in seniors.

sure granted D, fact remains be it 24 YNT's or 15 whatever, qualifying sure is great ! but doesn't mean a thing talking about improvements in systems unless its done again and again.
A 1 time is yippee but lets not get ahead of ourselves and justify this or that eh.

We have good youth prospects across the pitch except for up front 

says the coach who refused to give kids a go at Sydney (and publically stated it) 

It was quite enlightening to hear from that the FFA NC is starting to bear fruit the major problem is the lack of opportunities that’s after that.
This must be solved if we want to beat fruit of that in national team level after all that’s the ultimate success is how many good players are in the national team I.e like Belgium, Japan, France etc.

Youth level football results are nice but it’s not the end all as it supposed to be, I also think Asia have ramped up in youth development which is another why we are struggled at youth level of late.

But I do think there is some very interesting prospects especially at u20 level, there are already 3 lads from this group that already and are about to play close to senior football in Europe and I think we know who there names are.