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Being all sydney teams doesn't really matter, the fact that there was still Queenslanders and Kiwis relocating to play for those nsw clubs, makes it the same as it is now, the amazing part is the fact that its during a salary capped era... wery wery hard to sustain that amount of quality, maybe it aso has to do with the fact that the cap went up aswell, otherwise we'd have lost more experienced players in the 1-17 roster sooner
I hear you, but there was a strong QLD comp that had many good players in it. To prove the point there are now four Queensland teams and Melbourne runs its junior programmes in QLD too. So that's four and a half QLD teams. That is not the same as saying there were QLD players in the NSW competition back then. Not even close. SOO proved that QLD were competitive. They were always pissed off that NSW looked down their noses at them because they had a few decent teams themselves.
Add to that the fact that back in the St George/Souths glory days, it was unlimited tackles, just bash and barge...
