The results at the moment are down to the fact that there is no depth in quality in 1st grade to justify more than 6 teams tops. Simple. The better players gravitate to the same couple of Clubs and the others are cast offs or too young and inexperienced. Rosebuds have done it well development wise but it took a few years and a junior club to give it real focus vs a couple of the other programs that get dropped into NPL Clubs as a means of political point grabbing. Let's be honest. Warners Bay are a community club but unlike Rosebuds they have opened the purse strings. Bold move but it won't last. NL did that a few years ago and none remained once they won a trophy and the cash dried up. Overall better quality will come but it takes time. NL seem to have a solid 15s? There's the base, build from there. The rest are unfortunately in for a very difficult year caused purely by a supply and demand issue. There is no supply to justify the demand. If the powers that be are serious about 10 teams, they should embrace what Rosebuds have been doing, look to limit where players of certain quality can go and spread the quality via a points system. Or sit back and watch cricket scores every week.