Charles Mac
Team Captain
I agree. We cannot have situations where clubs do not field juniors. It is no good for the future of that club and it hurts player retention at opposition clubs. If little johnny doesn't have a game for 3 weeks then little johnny will go and play in another league where he will get a game every week. This then will snow ball onto a lack of senior playersThere is a very consistant theme amongst juniors , whereby clubs further than 10 klms and less than 50klms to a large city/ population struggle with junior numbers .
I don't wish to elaborate much further than that .
For the most part junior numbers are steady , fwiw this year is the first year in many that every club has had u17' and u14's , which can only be good for all .
As much as individuals hate missing out on playing a whole game clubs suffer terrible if kids go 2-3 weeks without game which has happened in te past.
To my knowledge this rule would have had an effect on possibly two occasions in the last 5 years .