Just for clarity we had Stuart Turner (ex essex pro) when I went through the public school system. However, he never went near any age groups other than the school first XI (ie, u18). He was a PE teacher for most of the school year other than April-June. A school would never allow him to cherry pick kids at 11-16 to coach them as there would be uproar by parents whose kids were not given the same treatment. What do you do get is a lot of wealthy parents who pay for private 1 on 1 coaching outside of the school system and you get a lot of ex pros who are like vultures at local clubs with a large number of public school kids (what they never tell the parents is they have zero chance of making their son a county player). What is also a bone of contention for local clubs down here is that schools take kids to school games on a Saturday afternoon to the uproar of clubs. The reason being is that a lot of school matches are mis-matches (ie, school A has a strong school side and school B has a weak side which changes year on year depending on intake) so the clubs miss out and the kids learn nothing about the game or themselves.
I cant comment on Durham too much but we do seem to have a brilliant set up for developing players.
