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In the realm of strategic assistance, what about funneling some of the players from Victoria that need a competition toward Norths? With the unfortunate demise of the Rebels there should be a few more players to go around between Wests and Norths.

"hope that real estate job is going well, you're scrummaging against a very motivated and possibly angry Taniela Tupou this weekend"

He was there last year putting big shots on, haven't seen him this year

Fanatics and Michael Rubin might be good at providing an e-commerce platform, but don't allow them to grab exclusive rights to producing the actual merchandise. They have a track record of anything they touch taking an immediate nose dive in quality and durability.

It makes a big difference in 5G because most other clubs struggle to have experienced depth at those positions and the average 5G player is smaller or less skilled than higher grades. Ends up being pretty simple, forward dominant rugby where size has a disproportionate impact. Yeah not all...

Souths don't struggle for forward and in particular front row depth since they have a surplus of larger gentlemen of a certain demographic at the club. That can win you games in 5G and 6G by itself. Forward talent tends to even out across the competition when you get to 4G.

In terms of population centres that have preexisting clubs; Sunny Coast and Logan seem to be the best. You could also throw in Ipswich, Caboolture, and something toward the Wynnum/Redlands area further down the line. There's a separate discussion to be had about whether amalgamating them into...

Baseball is in a worse position. Imagine cricket but they play 160+ 4-5 hour long matches a year. Completely dilutes the meaningfulness of any game you watch and the actual game itself is largely standing and waiting for something to happen with none of the crowd culture you see in cricket. If...

There's sometimes a suburban team or a team from the sunny coast that's keen for a friendly match. Caboolture comes down to Brisbane to play Colts 4/4.5/5. Sunny Coast Brothers and Noosa were both interested in coming down. Or alternatively a large portion will play 6G that friday night...

20-30 extra players paying rego and buying tins/merch/Tigerburgers without any of the extra investment Prems requires seems like it would be an easy sell financially. More potential points in the Doughty Shield every weekend since 5G counts for that as well.

Rather not give the exact club since the Brisbane rugby scene is a disconcertingly small world. But you've probably seen me around in lower grades. Couldn't bring myself to consider Norths and commit to an uphill battle every saturday morning for 3g or 4g when I had no preexisting ties. Every...

That's still absurd that a few guys being pulled up to 2s causes every grade below to be undermanned when you have a theoretical pool of 60 to pull from. Was there there a festival that weekend or exams on for students?

Tapping into the Sunny Coast talent pool is a good idea, but I'm not sure it helps their perception problem if they turn into a transitory proving ground for talent that isn't already playing Colts 1 or Prems elsewhere. Take away clubs affiliated with a university like UQ and Bond because...

My first instinct is to say no because of proximity. But from Wests to UQ is just as short of a drive as Norths to Brothers. Same with Easts to Souths. So it's not purely an issue of competition in the same area. They produce talented juniors and colts all the time, so I don't think it's a...

Such a rough look that Brothers is cramming 6 grades into their limited field space while Norths is down to 3 grades on a massive ground. Unsure how you turn things around when you're in a bad spiral like that.

many people are saying Dave Rennie's guitar actually jumped out of its case and severed all those ligaments under the cover of darkness

Wasn't that always on shaky ground? I swear they forfeited a game or two in recent memory.

I'm not sure to be honest since it's 3rd hand rumour. But I think they're the reason why Sunnybank was able to put together a late entry 5G team this year.

Honestly don't enjoy looking at the scorelines and seeing Norths struggle every week. People I know always mention that they respect the guys over there for still showing up for eachother despite the results not being there.

Could be a zillion different things. But if I had to guess based on watching the documentary and listening to interviews players gave in the aftermath, Eddie's insistence on ramping up the workload during RWC prep and the event itself to a higher than typical degree contributed. Every single...