Mangongo may well have produced some decent players, but those guys were the product of the back end of a system that was working and was fairly competitive and there was huge incentive for those guys to practice and perform and they did it against good opposition. You can’t say they forced their way in either, at that point the old guard knew they needed integration.
Let’s face it which of those guys really kicked on after the structures collapsed? Hamilton had a world ranking and he could have been some player in a functional system. He also would have been a lot better if he had continued to put in the hard yards, which he didn’t.
Without that background who has stepped up of late?
Nobody really. The best young guy we’ve had who’s gone on to play for the national side has probably been Blessing, and there’s a fair chance of him returning, I guess. That’s one guy in nearly a decade.
Masakanda has been inexplicably overlooked, the other young guys saw there was no pathway and left.
In order for a youngster to get the nod here he’d have to go from school into franchise (no pathways) and peeled off about a dozen hundreds in a row to force his way into what is realistically a poor side. And making hundreds (which no one seems capable of doing) in our shite domestic set up is no guarantee of success at the higher levels.
There are volumes written about the actual administration, the players argument was your best bet and it’s lame.
Are ZC admin worth it?
Re: Are ZC admin worth it?
When you see the black youngsters leaving then you know the system is buggered. 
It’s proof of what I’ve said all along. These guys get into power by claiming they’re doing it for the greater good, but at the end of the day there’s overwhelming evidence to show that it’s just for self gain.
There’s at least 5 really good young black guys that have been forced or elected to try their luck elsewhere. That’s currently more than the number of white boys that have gone to play cricket overseas.
The open hostility and contempt shown to the white lads who left because they supposedly had British roots on social media has gone very quiet.
Turns out it was jealousy over opportunities they had that others didn’t, but as avenues opened up and scholarships were offered they’ve all taken them. Turns out nobody seems that patriotic after all.
It’s proof of what I’ve said all along. These guys get into power by claiming they’re doing it for the greater good, but at the end of the day there’s overwhelming evidence to show that it’s just for self gain.
There’s at least 5 really good young black guys that have been forced or elected to try their luck elsewhere. That’s currently more than the number of white boys that have gone to play cricket overseas.
The open hostility and contempt shown to the white lads who left because they supposedly had British roots on social media has gone very quiet.
Turns out it was jealousy over opportunities they had that others didn’t, but as avenues opened up and scholarships were offered they’ve all taken them. Turns out nobody seems that patriotic after all.