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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...

Similarly I can anecdotally say that a lot of trainers and physios that work with rugby players incorporate a significant amount of not only mobility work, but also running mechanics drills borrowed from sprinters. Load management is in widespread use with every professional set up using...

I'm was being partially tongue in cheek but there's some truth there. There are fellas who dabble in a bit of league of legends/valorant/CSGO that are pretty handy on the field, have a Stan subscription, and went on tour for the RWC. But your blokes who are throwing down a couple grand on a...

Not worried about e-games. To put it euphemistically, the demographic that is willing to spend money on that was never inclined toward sport or leaving the house in general to begin with. They won't cannibalize much from existing sports. I don't really think we have a choice on whether or not...

You're not wrong, Petaia has all the clubs in his bag. The problem with him is that he doesn't employ them consistently or effectively. All the respect in the world to Jock Campbell but he isn't the athlete Petaia is, and yet the Reds feel more settled with Jock at 15. I think you get the best...

Suli shouldn't be starting for the Reds let alone the Wallabies. I think Wright has to get the nod over Petaia because it's unfair to keep picking on potential when it hasn't worked out while Wright has been delivering actual results this entire season.

Easts Prem grade shirts with the subtle light blue stripes inside the dark blue stripes might be the best looking ones in the comp. Hope they gave the designer free tins for the year.

Yeah there's no point in sending a 19 year old out to get smashed by 28 year olds in their athletic prime. They'll just go into survival mode and avoid taking risks as opposed to being given the freedom to experiment, make correctable mistakes, and develop some flair that will ultimately result...