The best players didnt play but because of long term commitment other come through,
Korfball clubs esp nl look very short term ie who is the best 8 now right they have to play no matter what and thats not good

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Sorry marc what part of my post didn't you understand.?
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I also agree on the short termism. Except for a couple of examples in the NL who do develop very young players... I don't think NL teams give themselves the choice of playing newer players as they don't have them. I would love to see local leagues adopt a new player policy, as in, any club with a team at local level must bring a certain number of names into the league in that year who have never played Korfball before in order to get a team promoted from that league.

Yes it would be hard work in the short term and require effort and teamwork and god forbid we do any of that, but nobody can argue the long term benefits.

Anyway, coming back to topic a little, I see no reason why clubs shouldn't recruit on here at any level. Is our sport really big enough (in any country) to get snobby over what methods of communication we use?

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There is no reason why Kingfishers should not be actively targeting players in clubs at the top of the NL who are likely to spend their season warming an NL bench and cheerleading their club's first team

Ross is quite right in pointing that Kingfishers have lost a number of really good quality young players in recent years to university and this continues to present problems for clubs that focus on progressive junior programs.

The only reason Nottingham was able to win the cup and compete for the NL title was because of the progressive junior programs in London and Kent in recent years.

Sadly as Steve points out the trend has been for players to join already dominant and successful clubs and all too often we have judged coaches purely on team performance, not taking into account they players they had at their disposal.

What we need are more players looking for a challenge rather than an easy route into the National squad or NL finals

In my 32 years in Korfball every club move I made was to a club that was either brand new or in the middle of the table, and in each case I was able to play a key role in that clubs achieving success. When I joined Mitcham they had finished well down in the NL table the year before and when at the time I moved on to Croydon they had never won a raffle.

When both achieved success it tasted a lot sweeter as a result

On the LinkedIn discussion you don't support underhand poaching. On this forum, you state that you don't understand that Kingfishers do it publicly. Any suggestions on how this should be done instead then? (within the British korfball context where clubs lose 10-20%(!) of their players every year)

Secondly, even if this is not your method of choice, why do you have a problem with this approach? I think it is very commendable to recruit publicly.

Thirdly, virtually every club (including the Dutch ones) publicly announce when they're looking for a coach, so why should the recruitment of players be any different?

Fourthly, if Man Utd (or any other company or organisation for that matter) were short of volunteers / players / employees, I'm sure it would be very common for them to recruit via the most-common communication channels.
Incidentally, Man Utd's vacancies are here: http://www.manutd.com/en/Club/Jobs.aspx

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So Manchester United can recruit new players on a football forum?

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We here a lot about 'poaching' and how terrible it is but why shouldn't clubs that are short of NL quality players not seek to persuade players from other clubs to join them, especially ones who will spend the NL season bench warming and cheerleading.

The only problem comes when being a member of a certain club is seen as route into the national squad but hopefully we have moved past those dark old days

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