Recent content by noknowledgeatall

Bravo Someone we need at the top of the game with this sort of thinking.

While we rely on deep pocketed benefactors to carry the game it will continue to stagnate. Have to change our thinking to building it into a sustainable business in its own right.

Basically yes. Those clubs set up "off farm" income streams by having clubs and pokies. Means they don't have to rely on chook raffles, player subs and digging into the pockets of their core support group all the time. Sunnybank is the only club that had the foresight to build a business that...

So disappointing to see Qld Prems and Sydney Shute Shield become transit lounges where blokes just fill in time between other options. Why cant we get them to be semi-professional ( ie a few $$$) to bring back the prestige they both once held in world rugby.

NZ economy is stuffed so plenty of blokes looking for any opportunity to get off the land of the long white cloud.

Anyone get out to any of the trails being played last week end? Any news or stories developing from them?

Ben Gunter (Panasonic Wild Knights) Mitch Palm (Reds/Wallabies) Trevor Hosea (Melb Rebels) Mason Gordon (Melb/Reds) Harry Mc - Phillips (Reds) Lachlan Shaw (Brumbies) Xavier Savage (Canberra Raiders) Hookers from recent years Sean Farrell and Jake Tierney come to mind.

Lets hope that Norths can fire this year and we see something like Sydney has been the last few years where various clubs make it to the big dance. Concentration of talent and results into a chosen few does not make for a good comp or the development of additional players to be able to step up.

All clubs have recruited heavily outside the brisbane area , mostly NZ.

I think from what I am hearing that UQ have lost heaps through injury, retirement and moving on.

Ask Browny.

He is building quite a resume of yellow card offences. Les Kiss needs to find some way or someone to instil far better discipline or it will cost them in the crunch games.

Always nice to spend other peoples money I guess

apparently the young hooker Wiggins is heading back to UQ where he played as a colt.

so you are saying that our feeder system needs to step up or we will keep exporting our talent to be dealt with by other countries. Development comes from playing games and being given opportunity. No one arrives on this planet being an expert.