I just looked through the MVP records on the u21 main page- this is Cove Convicts 8th MVP.
His first MVP was my first season of coaching (season 28), Thomas Perera. He was a gun PG.
His first 5 were all from the same PG type training which he had the training nailed for us. There were many more of his trainees obviously that played significant roles for our nation without winning MVPs, most notably in season 41, our World cup 3rd place, Jimmie Waterworth.
More recently, he has turned his hand to training bigs for us. I do give him credit for a lot of our successes over those years, that type of player is something we have been lacking over the past 8-10 seasons. I'm not sure why that sort of player isn't being trained commonly by Australian managers. Passing seems to be abandoned on a lot of our trainees these days.
We have many more very loyal Australian managers that have contributed significantly over the last 43 seasons. We have some amazing local managers. Hopefully we can pull something special out in the next couple of seasons. What I know is that Cove Convicts will keep producing talent and doing what he can. I will keep training and keep producing a player most seasons from the Redbacks. But we need more than that, we need more managers producing more depth if we are to rise the ranks.