The issue I have is that guys who should have been available for QAFL duty were used as top-ups for a NEAFL side they have absolutely no affiliation with. If they're serious about growing the game in Western Sydney, give a kid from the local comp there a go instead of disrupting our comp. Or as Thommo suggested, ask the guys who are on the bye if they want a run (if you can call being stuck in a pocket with a bunch of strangers and copping a flogging a run).PBC and Labrador would have the same arrangements, every club just does it differently.
All clubs have an association with a NEAFL clubs and their excess players. Every NEAFL listed player is listed with a QAFL club as well, and there is a pre-season draft to determine this (for players that haven't nominated a former club of theirs etc)
If a club believes in their QAFL list and doesn't want NEAFL blokes coming in and out, they deliberately draft top-end NEAFL talent pretty safe in the knowledge that they will never see them.
If they feel like they could do with some top-up players, or have gaps in their list - then come NEAFL draft day - those clubs deliberately target the bottom end of the NEAFL lists in the draft, pretty safe in the knowledge that those blokes will play most weeks for them in the QAFL.
The place you don't want to be is have a bunch of guys associated with your club that are around the bottom of the best 22 for their NEAFL team, or next in line for the best 22 - as they are the types that will come and go week to week and continuity will suffer.
sounds like Broadbeach are in that scenario, while Labrador and PBC are not.
the structure is exactly the same for all clubs though.