There are seasons defined by silverware, and seasons defined by something harder to put on an honour board — and 2025/26 was, for the UTS North Sydney First Grade unit, a season of the second kind. We finished tenth of twenty in the Belvidere Cup and bowed out of the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup at the pool stage, and yet this was a summer rich in individual brilliance, in the blooding of the next generation, and in the kind of fine margins that, had a few fallen our way, would have told a very different story.