Collins' ambition to enter a team into the women's equivalent of the Mitre 10 Cup would be entirely dependant on the success of these competitions and how much depth they would create.
"Resources are a big thing we have to deal with but if this all happens then Farah Palmer will happen," Collins said.
"The Farah Palmer team is going to be a result of having a strong women's competition again and I think having a team on that national stage will bring more players into it as well."
Games in the senior competition will be held on Friday, Saturday or Sunday to avoid clashing with other sports schedules, while the age group competitions will be held during the week to enable young women to play rugby alongside other sports.
Collins hoped the schedule's flexible style would encourage young women to play because it wouldn't jeopardise playing different codes.
"We don't want to force them to choose rugby because we won't win that battle yet, especially because it hasn't been around for a while so hopefully playing on a Monday will help that."
For most young sportswomen in Northland, rugby had not been an easy sport to progress in. According to New Zealand Rugby, once girls become too old for the gender-mixed under-13 grade, they must play in an all-female competition. Until now, there has been no programme in Northland which catered for that age group.
"That was usually where the rugby trip ended for women and they would just fall away, so we want to bridge that gap," Collins said.
Collins believed there was at least three or four future Black Ferns in Northland rugby and recent results certainly proved that. For the first time, an under-18 Northland women's team won the Blues region age group competition, one which was traditionally won by Auckland sides.
"Our depth was severely tested but the key thing for us was that our girls were athletic and they looked like a rugby team."
This was coupled with the return of Northland to the women's rugby sevens scene.
Unfortunately, the side did not qualify for the national competition but Collins said this was a step in the right direction for the province.
The numbers tell the same story. Northland's women rugby player population grew the most nationwide from 2017 to 2018, rising over 30 per cent from 1680 players to 2188.
When asked why women's rugby fell away in Northland, Collins believed a lack of service from the local union combined with the nature of club rugby politics prohibited the sport from growing.
"We've got a chance now to start afresh, learn from the past, and move forward so people have the opportunity to be back playing the game they may have fallen out of love with."
Despite the hurdles the new initiative would face, Collins was committed to seeing women's rugby restored to its former glory before the women's Rugby World Cup came to Whangārei in 2021.
"We've got a few carrots along the way so the goal is to a have a Northland player selected to play in the world cup.
"It's a bit ambitious but you've got to have a dream and I can't make everyone else believe if I don't myself."
For more information, contact Scott Collins at scott.c@northlandrugby.co.nz.
