CCM Foxtel National Youth League 2016/17

[Rowdy]

It's baaaaaack !

Central Coast Mariners has confirmed that Academy First Grade coach Ben Cahn has been appointed the club’s National Youth League boss.

The 28-year-old arrived on the Central Coast at the start of the 2016 PS4 NPL 2 season to lead the Central Coast Mariners Academy and help develop the next generation of Mariners stars.

Although the PS4 NPL 2 season has drawn to an end, their campaign has allowed the likes of Trent Buhagiar, Liam Rose, Tom Heward-Belle and Adam Berry to gain invaluable minutes under their belts during the Hyundai A-League off-season.

Under the tutelage of Cahn in the Academy set up young players such as: Ryan Peterson, Reece Papadimitrios, Shelford Dais, Adam Pearce, Lachlan Wales and Tom Lyons have all been involved with Hyundai A-League pre-season fixtures.

The aspiring coach is looking forward to his next step with the Mariners’ Foxtel National Youth League team as well as plying his trade under Paul Okon assisting with the Hyundai A-League squad.

“I’ve really enjoyed my time with the Mariners on the Coast so far,” Cahn said.

“It’s been a challenging NPL Season for many reasons but it’s given me a great background into the culture and environment we have here on the Central Coast.

“There are certain names from our academy teams that have been pencilled in to the FNYL squad but we are also very open to expanding our network and playing group so we will commence an open trial process that will allow us to look at not only players from NSW but also from interstate as well.

“You only have to look at some of the most recent Hyundai A-League pre-season games to see the representation of the academy there, most players that have played in our NPL first team this year have at some stage had an extended period of training with the A-League squad.”

The Central Coast Mariners will be holding NYL trials for players born between 1997 and 2000.

For Sydney residents only the open trial date is Tuesday 13 September at Northbridge Oval, Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge, at 6:30pm.

For interstate players who have been approved to attend, trials will be held on Saturday 17 September and Sunday 18 September at the Central Coast Mariners Centre of Excellence Bryant Drive Tuggerah (9am start both days).

 

[Rowdy]

The 2015/16 NYL saw a revamp of the format from that of the previous years, due in part to many of the A-League clubs frustration at bearing significant costs.

Remember reading last year that Tony Sage say : "For us the cost is about $450,000 a year. In my discussions with the other owners Adelaide pays around $220,000 and Brisbane about $300,000."

Threatening, along with other clubs, to pull-out of the competition, "We are just looking at ending flying teenagers around the country at huge cost to everybody."

Sage also said that many of the A-League clubs were already fielding teams in their corrosponding State Federations NPL competitions, with Syd and WSW the only teams at that time who weren't. The Mariners talked about handing the responsibillity of their Youth over to Central Coast Football as a possibility.

So the competition had a revamp of the format, the 10 clubs divided into two conferences;

Conference A
Adelaide United, Brisbane Roar FC, Melbourne City FC, Melbourne Victory and Perth Glory

Conference B
Central Coast Mariners, FFA Centre of Excellence, Newcastle Jets, Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers FC

Within each conference, the teams played each other twice over 10 rounds (4 home / 4 away – 8 matches and 2 byes per team), with the the x2 teams finishing in 1st place of each Conference to go on to play in a Grand Final to decide a National Champion.

Sydney FC beat Adelaide, 5-2 last season to become 2015/16 FNYL Champions, which was actually played at Central Coast Stadium

Why post a recap of all this ???

 

[Rowdy]

I was actually under the impression that the NYL had been 'scrapped' in favour of A-League Clubs playing their Youth through the NPL competitions in the various State Federations, which is what we (CCM), WSW & SydFC just did!
(The Jets in the NNSWFF NPL also.)

The news of Ben Cahn being appointed and players selection trials about to begin is great news in of itself, BUT I've heard zero from any other sources, in particular the FFA about a 'Foxtel NYL 2016/17' announcement.

Anyone ???

 

[Rowdy]

Mods plz delete this thread, didnt notice that there was still a NYL thread 'pinned' waaaay down at the bottom of the 'pinned' list.

Re-posted all the above in there.

BTW, there are threads 'pinned' that could do with removal imo, too many .... just saying.