Juniors - Pathways General Discussion

[Lestronge]

You reckon a mini bus will be run from Ryde, Dundas, Carlingford, Concord, Leichhardt, strathfield 3 times a week taking 1.5 hours in peak hour?
I can tell you now, if your a gun Balmain junior living at Concord or Strathfield and the Dogs say "hey, you are travelling to Cambelltown becasue they wont let you play for Balmain, how about travel 20 minutes to us"...what u think the parents are gonna tell him to do?

I’m telling you that manly and the roosters already do it . Probably the dogs as well . The raiders would have to as well considering where their players come from .
As to what each person does I dunno , each to their own , but your implying it’s this outrageous thing and it’s absolutely not . Not even a little bit . I think the issue is Balmain kids not wanting to go to Campbelltown . It’s that simple . And honestly if that’s where the best academy is and that’s where I was recruited to and want to go , I can’t see any kid caring . If that’s where they want to be .
I used to catch the bus to my local station jump on a train 40 minutes to a school near there , go to rugby rep training till like 6.30, jump back in the train to Merrylands catch a bus to Merrylands oval and , go to rams training , then catch another bus that went from there all the way to a km away from my house and walk home . Twice a week . I’d get home at 9.30 . Back in the days before mobile phones and in the middle of drug wars . So where there’s a will there’s a way .
If the tyranny is distance and geography, you try and take as much of the bullshit out of the equation , so kids aren’t doing what I was doing when I was 17 .
If it’s about getting our elite kids training out of the academy . Which they all should be .

 

[Lestronge]

There were kids in the 90's that travelled to the gong and to parramatta from Campbelltown area.

Yep I was one of them . All you had to do was jump on a train that went from Campbelltown - Penrith at any station on a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon , sometimes Friday’s and you could see the boys from whichever schools doing it . Especially the ones who went to westsfields . I’m sure there still is .

 

[Merlot]

I’m telling you that manly and the roosters already do it . Probably the dogs as well . The raiders would have to as well considering where their players come from .
As to what each person does I dunno , each to their own , but your implying it’s this outrageous thing and it’s absolutely not . Not even a little bit . I think the issue is Balmain kids not wanting to go to Campbelltown . It’s that simple . And honestly if that’s where the best academy is and that’s where I was recruited to and want to go , I can’t see any kid caring . If that’s where they want to be .
I used to catch the bus to my local station jump on a train 40 minutes to a school near there , go to rugby rep training till like 6.30, jump back in the train to Merrylands catch a bus to Merrylands oval and , go to rams training , then catch another bus that went from there all the way to a km away from my house and walk home . Twice a week . I’d get home at 9.30 . Back in the days before mobile phones and in the middle of drug wars . So where there’s a will there’s a way .
If the tyranny is distance and geography, you try and take as much of the bullshit out of the equation , so kids aren’t doing what I was doing when I was 17 .

scott fulton bused them out of the west to manly ,basically made his positive reputation from it