In the final days of summer on a beautiful warm night at The Greens North Sydney, we brought together our corporate partners, sponsors, members, staff and senior playing group to celebrate the launch of the North Sydney Bears 2024 Knock-On Effect NSW Cup season. Guests sipped on chilled Bear Park Brews and Grizzly Gin-gers, featuring our very own Bear Park Gin, consumed delicious morsels of bao buns, sliders, arancini balls and gourmet sausage rolls and reveled in the feeling that only the anticipation of a new season brings. With one week until comp kick off to go, pre-season is almost done, trial games successfully completed and now the big job of tackling the next 26 rounds begins.

Our CEO, Gareth Holmes, and Chairman, Daniel Dickson, commenced formalities, updated the audience on the club’s activities and officially opened the season. We followed with a Q&A session with our Head Coach Pat Weisner, Assistant Coach Joel Scrivener and Assistant Storm Coach Todd Lowrie lead by our very own legend Greg Florimo. Weisner took us through how the team has been building through the pre-season, the early taste of success in the main two trial games and changes to the style of footy our boys will be playing this season. Scrivener welcomed us into his world of stats and how they are being applied to produce better results from individual players and the team as a whole. Lowrie spoke openly about the positive relationship the Storm and the Bears now have and they are looking forward to s strong season ahead, backed by the Bears.