Hogs no more ?
Apparently not
The U14 Hogs will be back in the GCRU Pen this season
I believe they are now still in the fight. I imagine there are some on the GC that are aiming to disrupt their BJRU ambitions. Not too dissimilar to the knives and back-stabbing by club members of other clubs who didn't want the Bulls to go the previous season. Envy's a power motivator for some.
However I think others would argue that GC is becoming weakened by the loss of a team to Brisbane, but the Hogs have a 2nd team to play on the GC. And besides, you can't do much more to weaken an already weak competition.
Not sure what's to be done on the GC, league, soccer and AFL are booming and union is struggling, although the GCDRU always maintained numbers were on the up and up.
I wonder if GCDRU could follow the basketball model. BB with the lack of numbers have two 'rep' teams (Runaway Bay Seahawks & Gold Coast Waves) who play in the Brisbane comp. Players play their club rounds and those wishing to play in the Brisbane comp try out for the rep team in their region. Not sure how that would work on the rugby scene, but there maybe some merit to having a modified version of the basketball model.
But I do believe there needs to be a change-up on the GC, numbers dramatically die off as they get older which saw any remaining u15 teams last year having to enter the BJRU at different divisions due to lack of teams.