This is the easy option for the AFL - to just do nothing different, so it will most likely be what prevails!
... but really, taking say 3 or 4 promising u/23 players each year form each club in Sydney would hardly damage the comp, and when they return as 24 yo's, surely they enhance their club and the comp with the experience and professionalism they bring ...
As for support, the AFL did something similar not so many years ago with the "Redbacks", who were a selection from each of the Sydney u/16's comps who formed an elite composite team that played in the u/18's Sydney comp and was supported by and large by most clubs.
Somewhat different here, being that the players would mostly be 18 to say 23, but as I suggested before, it would not take much imagination and organisation to use the teams as cross promotional tools for both the NEAFL AND the senior clubs alike ... opportunity that is currently being wasted due to amateur mismanagement ...
... but hey, if it's just a small insular football code that we want in Sydney, then kudos to the people who are doing such a good job achieving that!!!
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