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South Women - another big loss

Does any other club have two returning visa imports? Starling is full time I believe.

Maybe this is Forestville’s fault as well?

Starling and Reed would be the highest paid import combination in the league.

IMO take a season or two off, play premier league reserves and rebuild - we should only have teams that are of a standard. Only problem it means byes or a different draw to the men. How long will players turn up and commit when losing significantly all the time. We have found in juniors clubs that do this lose players from this experience.

South have no-one else to blame but themselves. Its not about southern stealing players/jnrs. The only jnr you could claim that for is C Harnett but she also was a Southern jnr as well.

They picked a coach 5-6 years ago who had never coached before.
Had no intention and was very vocal about not developing jnrs.

Yet the committee did nothing about it. Quite the opposite in fact they left her in charge and renewed her contract year after year.

Where were you all when she had no South jnrs in her squad? Happy to point the blame as southern right now, but very short memories you all seem to have.

I take my hats off to Chas and his assistant coaches who have stood up to help coach, mentor and develop these girls. Great move getting the imports to move on.

I would rather watch juniors from a club get the opportunity to play PL and lose than watch a team made up of ring ins win a game (Tigers)

Tigers have very few Club juniors in the PL team and those that are there make up the numbers and never get on. Unfortuneately most of their quality juniors do not play at the Club anymore as they were being asked to travel to Henley Beach twice a week to train even just to play 23's.

Would you rather spend all of your money and resouce on winning a PL title or having a good junior program.

Souths junior program is well ahead of the Tigers based on ladder positions.

Given 90% of a Club is made up from their Junior program I dont think South should be too concerned about the performance of their Womens PL team.

Why should they be punished??? They're not doing it on purpose. If centrals didn't have their superstar imports they'd probably lose to them.
They just need a couple of players, open up the chequebook and who knows. What is the problem is that junior girls in this state are centred around a few clubs, a lot of bench players are happy sitting instead of playing.