From my basic understanding the only reason we will leave Burleigh is to start our own team in the QRL and follow the dolphins model. Most of our regular nrl players in the titans QRL sides and our overflow developing players and northern rivers titans reps graduating into tweed until they are first grade ready.
We already sign kids from marsden and let them play at Logan or somewhere close to them. We don’t really force many players to move to x or y club
The problem we are having is two fold, 1 nsw clubs don’t have affiliation rules to follow because they have full pathway representation which means they can work combinations easily. And 2 we as the titans are essentially trusting that Burleigh will do the right thing and play our development players where we want them to play. But it doesn’t work sometimes like schoupp as a second rower or degroot having to play centre. Burleigh have done similar like swap players sides or drop them out all together without communicating properly (or what the clubs perceive anyway)
So it’s a rock and a hard place. Ideallly we could like the dolphins have our foundations teams and affiliates teams but it will take the QRL to look at their rules and charters to figure it out. Talent spread makes a more even comp in theory but even the storm are entering the nsw cup to get around affiliate limitations