I think most people would agree there are enough talented girls in the region to expand the current number of teams.

So I struggle to understand the logic of Macquarie Football not supporting Valentine's PYLG submission yet supporting Kahibah's?

As stated above, Kahibah is already on the doorstep of other clubs, yet Macquarie Football's objection was that Valentine would be cannibalizing other clubs?

In all fairness though, I think a smarter direction would have been to expand the existing club licenses to include at least U14's girls as a first step, potentially 16's (or delay a year or 2) and pushing U17's out to U18's. Clubs having to release 1/2 their 13's each year as they progress to 15's is just a sure fire way of losing players from the game altogether.