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Message: [QUOTE="Allo, post: 3278551, member: 8190"] Parramatta, Newcastle and Gold Coast join the NRLW this year with the Warriors dropping out. Our ranks will cop a massive blow with about a 70/30 split of girls based on the GC. Also mentioned is ‘talent equalisation’, so yeah we’ll have maybe 50% the team we did last year. I can only hope the bond of winning premierships will keep some key players. Millie Boyle, Tamika Upton, Tarryn Aiken, Tazmin Gray, Chelsea Lenarduzzi, the Temara sisters, The Breayley-Natis, Georgia Hale, Karina Brown and Jessika Elliston just to name a few are all from the GC area, and even Romy Teitzel is now living with Tamika. Most of these players are ours and now we might look a lot more like Valleys+Panthers going forward rather than the Burleigh Bears + Friends. We’ll definitely keep Ali, Robbo, Meg if she manages to recover in time and Natassja will probably join, Lavinia Gould, hopefully sign Brianna Clark and Lauren Dam. We’ll lose Fressard to the Knights probably as will Dragons lose Kelly. Titans will already have Shaylee Bent and Jamie Chapman ready to go, maybe grab Zara Canfield back off us too. Will be a very anxious time. Provided the talent spread actually lifts the standard, then expansion is a good thing, but I don’t think the depth is there yet. Should’ve been four teams again for 8 weeks, play each other twice and two finals. The conspiracy thinking in me is this is just another way to wreck the club, by putting our only competitor within 600km into the league, and happens to be where most of our players are based Edit: a report says a proposed scheme is centrally contracted elite players which are then distributed amongst the clubs. Fuckery of the highest order to ensue no doubt The whole setup is typical NRL administration. There’s 10 weeks until round one and teams don’t know who they can or can’t sign and thus don’t know what positions to target. There was the National Championships a month ago and it should’ve been finalised before that happened. While I’m sure scouts from all involved teams were there, they could’ve focused their efforts in tandem with their work with the State comps. Not to mention the impact this will have on the players’ lives. They all still have jobs and now have to try and get 8 weeks off work with only a couple months notice. Terrible, but expected, work from NRLHQ [/QUOTE]

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