Does anyone know the Eels Junior pool in absolute numbers or estimated and how this compares to the other sydney teams(West tigers, Penrith, Manly, Bulldogs, Souths, Roosters, Cronulla), regional teams(St George, Newcastle, Canberra), interstate teams(Cows, Broncos, Dolphins,Titans, Melbourne) and finally New Zealand.
Might be a difficult question but be interesting to know how we compare and to what baseline pool we draw from for our elite Junior pathways (Harold Mathews etc...)
Further do we have arrangements with elite sporting schools Westfield Sports High/St Pats Blacktown including Rugby schools like say Joeys/Kings?? Are we ahead of the curve do we have more numbers then say Penrith ,Dogs and West Tigers ? no point developing Jnr Pathways and have an elite centre in Kellyville if our pool is small and its being erroded by the Dogs Penrith and Wests and even the rest for that matter...
We used to bang on about our pathways and enourmous Jr league but how true is it, and is local teams becoming less of a pool and its more our scouts that have the key to success watching talent all over the country.
Nice to know anyones thoughts?
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Don't want this to come across the wrong way but quite a lot of this info is online so if you Google something like 'parramatta junior pathway participation numbers' there's some good stuff. I googled it myself and had a poke around