Genuine question about the Perth Bears I'd like everyone's opinion on...
How would the North Sydney pathways work? Are the players contracted to Perth? Because if not, you'd imagine the majority of them will come through the pathways for an opportunity but sign with a Sydney club once they get to NRL standard. Am I missing something?
I think the Bears offer Perth some genuine benefits through ready made Sydney memberships and TV eyeballs to complement the new fanbase being built in WA, but I am not seeing how this pathway thing is going to work out for them.
Same as any current club that has elite juniors and other clubs can raid them
they won’t keep all their good juniors but they will keep some
and more so junior numbers will in the north shore will go back to the numbers of the early 90s
the north shore has a stack of elite men’s and women’s schools and with the collapse of union they can get access to these pathways too
Asquith magpies rl team just produced a current wallaby
Sydney’s north shore is massive in area
and it’s largely been neglected by rugby league