Western Pride won the NPL Queensland a few years ago before getting relegated and recently merged with a club in 5th or 6th tier, Brissy, Gold Coast and up North are the only places where professional teams get based, although we usually have a tier 2 team (Jets in QCup, Force in NBL1) Apparently we tried to bid for a Ipswich/Western Corridor ALM team aaaages ago and also went for the 17th NRL slot, not really surprised it didn't happen