Whole other can of worms in your pandora's box there!
But I think off the envelope thinking is required. Prickly has offered a few; I've offered mine, Broonie's chipped in. We can't let the league stagnate for 3-4 years while we wait for a bunch of kids in Selwyn and Waimak to grow up, ffs.
I also think getting a perspective from Auckland would be useful. I've heard from someone who knows these things that Auckland 14-15 years old female players are light years ahead of ours. National Fed tournament results back that up.
And how many of Mainland's outreach programmes into schools over the last X years are being converted into club registrations?