3 Qld clubs verse 12 in nsw means that there should be much richer pickings in Qld. The same can be said of NZ. If we don't recruit from the best areas then we are negligent as a club.
Deal with players leaving if and when it happens
Sadly it begins from the grassroots level, Like you said with 3 rep teams to play for up there competition is fierce to make squads making good players play even better with that being said schools like Keebra Park,Palm Beach Currumbin & Marsden State just to name a few have great Rugby League programs that keep producing first graders. It also helps alot when they win 8 in a row in State of Origin paving the way for future Ben Barbas and Darren Lockyers.
We basically have a part of the New Zealand side (Perrett,Halatau,Kasiano,Eastwood,Tapau,Pritchard,Inu).
Imo believe we are one of the few NSW teams Queenlanders would like to play for as our club history has many of them.