All good mate. My strong reaction was because I also assumed you were an outsider! My apologies.
I get too used to mainlanders on this thread trying to tell us that our team won't work because of the completely fictional north/south divide. As you say, our population is more spread out, so it makes more sense to spread our games out.
If I were setting up the league from scratch now I'd use the same model for Queensland with Brisbane and the Gold Coast. I'm too young to know, but perhaps the Bears did play games in both cities when they started?
EDIT: Yep they did. Played their home games out of both Carrara and the Gabba in the early 90s.
No stress.
The issue with the Bears though, is even though they were the Brisbane Bears the early years were very much at Carrara because of Christopher Skase, rather than in Brisbane
The Gabba as it was then wasn't in great shape (liteally) for AFL, if you google images "old Gabba teardrop shape" you can see why it wouldn't have been a great viewing experience, think of a game being played on the the dimension of Elwick. Until the dev work was done on the ground, full time in Brisbane at the Gabba wasn't really an option.
It wasn't so much as a sharing between the two locations, it was having the name of one, being based in the other.
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