W league player rule

[juniorsupporter]

Anyone know how West Adelaide has been allowed 4 Wleague players?

[Marinos]

Anyone know how West Adelaide has been allowed 4 Wleague players?

After the rule was changed, two clubs fought it aggressively and it was changed to exclude goalies from the cap.

Ironically West Adelaide were not one of those clubs.

[billy the kid]

I think we should be welcoming the players back to the club of their choice. Not socially engineered by FSA rules that determines when a club meets its W League quota. Generally a home grown player can return to their club/ City over the years have had a decent W league quota and that most were home grown. I don't think limiting the number actually works. Will it result in one team becoming a quasi W League team? I always maintain that it's up to a club to build a high performance environment where a player achieves their potential.

Happy to read another viewpoint

[juniorsupporter]

I agree- I think we are the only league with such a limit.

[united92]

I think we should be welcoming the players back to the club of their choice. Not socially engineered by FSA rules that determines when a club meets its W League quota. Generally a home grown player can return to their club/ City over the years have had a decent W league quota and that most were home grown. I don't think limiting the number actually works. Will it result in one team becoming a quasi W League team? I always maintain that it's up to a club to build a high performance environment where a player achieves their potential.

Happy to read another viewpoint

Depends where you draw the limit for "home grown". A large amount of players started at a different club in juniors and ended up at City. To me, that's not home grown

[Marinos]

Depends where you draw the limit for "home grown". A large amount of players started at a different club in juniors and ended up at City. To me, that's not home grown

Origin of every United player in last year's WNPL vs "home grown" club. Only two playing for their "home grown" club.

Willacy - West Adelaide (Para Hills / Adelaide City)
Holmes - Adelaide City (Cumberland / Fulham)
McNamara - Adelaide City (Adelaide City)
I Hodgson - Adelaide City (Fulham)
E Hodgson - West Adelaide (Cumberland)
Johns - West Adelaide (Uni)
Campagnale - Adelaide City (Adelaide City)
Dawber - Adelaide City
Mullan - Inter (Sturt)
Condon - Inter (Pt Pirie / Uni)
Kirkby - West Adelaide (Adelaide City)

[juniorsupporter]

According to FSA, "home grown" means having played for a club for one season prior to being signed by United- "home grown" does not mean the club where they started playing as a 10yo (or whatever). I am interested to know how the term is being defined here... what exactly is meant in this discussion by the term "home grown"?

I still think players should be able to play where they want. As BTK said earlier, if you have a quality program it will attract quality players.

[billy the kid]

Thanks Junior.

I can however, see the two aspects of home grown and why the FSA rules exist. Freedom of choice is key

[Ga Pala]

no where enough quality in the local league to allow a free for all. should def be capped at 2 W league players per WNPL team.

[billy the kid]

And reward the incompetent teams/clubs and dissuade a player from continuing to play if she has to accept a spot with Fulham? The idiocy of ay such restriction is that the NTC continues to have a team in the WNPL at the expense of a club based team. That's the problem with the WNPL

[Marinos]

And reward the incompetent teams/clubs and dissuade a player from continuing to play if she has to accept a spot with Fulham? The idiocy of ay such restriction is that the NTC continues to have a team in the WNPL at the expense of a club based team. That's the problem with the WNPL

It's the same in every NPL comp around the country, but curious...at the expense of which club team?

[juniorsupporter]

I don't think any other member federation has a restriction on the movement of W-League players.

And I don't think it's particularly good for elite player development for girls to stay in the NTC team past 17-

[Marinos]

I don't think any other member federation has a restriction on the movement of W-League players.

And I don't think it's particularly good for elite player development for girls to stay in the NTC team past 17-

I didn't mean the rule, I meant the NTC in the comp

[juniorsupporter]

[terryball]

And reward the incompetent teams/clubs and dissuade a player from continuing to play if she has to accept a spot with Fulham? The idiocy of ay such restriction is that the NTC continues to have a team in the WNPL at the expense of a club based team. That's the problem with the WNPL

this is why they should become the adelaide utd development squad .