Post by ballerman on Jul 23, 2019 18:10:22 GMT
If have to do it the tournaments are always well organised and run but, in my opinion, the Premier NL division should be doing the same thing at a national level season round with top 10/12 teams nationwide.
Aspire programme is fine and a good idea in theory but if coach education/ideology was adequately disseminated like we've been promised multiple times by BE/EB/GB then clubs could be doing the same work and then open final selection process for tournament would show players who have massively improved after not making aspire as opposed to those who've not moved on.
Generally all our efforts at this age should be to improving the depth of the talent pool.
The coaches are (largely) club coaches but few of them achieve anything with their own clubs - assuming Final Fours is an achievement. But they get themselves appointed to Aspire and then "recruit". Parents see someone wearing a BE polo shirt and assume they must be better than the club coach that produced their kids as players and move them. So you get lots of "good" players at a club and then they all moan about court time whilst the club that did the developing starts again.
As for Premier NL division clubs doing the development - now you are kidding. And yes, why do academies get their players by recruiting? Because they, too, can't produce and develop.
It's a s**t show and it's about time it got better