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Old January 9, 2008, 06:05 PM
Gowza Gowza is offline
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national players are important but another big problem with the NCL is lack of direction for players. in most domestic leagues the goal for a player is simple, perform well consistently and you'll be considered for the national side. this isn't the case in the NCL, in the NCL talent comes first and performance is somewhat ignored. which means the most talented NCL players know they don't have to perform that consistently to be considered for the national team. which means they don't work hard to improve which is why the standard isn't as good as it could be.

imo the selectors should start selecting on merit, select consistency first then talent, pretty soon the players who are getting free rides or players who think that they're so talented they don't need to work that hard to get a national call up will realise they do have to work hard to get a call up.

as for national players playing in the comp, i think they got a decent run this year, in australia the national players don't get that many games either in the domestic comps. but it definately does help the standard and does give the national players a chance to work on their skills. i think if the national players can play 5 or 6 rounds of NCL every season then the NCL should count themselves lucky because in other countries national players can play even less in the domestic comps than the BD national players do (and in other countries domestic comps are often longer than the NCL), 5 or 6 rounds is pretty good.
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