1987 Brisbane Rugby League season
Sport | Rugby league |
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Number of teams | 9 |
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The 1987 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 77th season of Brisbane's semi-professional rugby league football competition. Nine teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Redcliffe and Past Brothers clubs.
Season summary[]
Teams played each other three times, with 24 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top four of Past Brothers, Northern Suburbs, Redcliffe and Wynnum-Manly. The 1987 season is significant as most Rugby League historians view it as the final season of the BRL as a top tier competition, as the entry of the Brisbane Broncos and Gold Coast Giants into the NSWRL Premiership in 1988 devastated the BRL by stripping it of mainstream media coverage and players. This led to lower attendences and television viewership, with the competition essentially becoming a second tier league, before it eventually merged with its companion statewide competition, the Winfield State League, to form the Queensland Cup in 1996 (A Brisbane finals series was still run, but the season was merged into the new competition).[1] However, there is debate that the competition, although vastly inferior to the NSWRL from 1988-1994, maintained first-grade status until 1995, when the Australian Rugby League Premiership ws introduced.
Teams[]
Club | Home ground | Coach | Captain |
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Langlands Park | ||
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Neumann Oval | Ross Strudwick | |
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Bishop Park | ||
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Corbett Park | ||
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Dolphin Oval | ||
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Davies Park | ||
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Purtell Park | ||
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Kougari Oval | Wally Lewis | Wally Lewis |
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North Ipswich Reserve |
Finals[]
Home | Score | Away | Match Information | |||||
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Date and Time | Venue | Referee | Crowd | |||||
Semi Finals | ||||||||
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30-7 | ![]() |
30 August 1986 | Lang Park | Eddie Ward | 9,800 | ||
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25-16 | ![]() |
6 September 1986 | Lang Park | Ian Irwin | 7,500 | ||
Preliminary Final | ||||||||
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24-16 | ![]() |
13 September 1986 | Lang Park | Eddie Ward | 7,612 | ||
Grand Final | ||||||||
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26-8 | ![]() |
20 September 1986 | Lang Park | Eddie Ward | 25,000 |
Grand Final[]
Brothers 26 (Try: T. Bailey, J. Kilroy, M. Coyne, T. Rea, C. Mohr. Goal: T.Rea. )
Redcliffe 8 (Tries: T. Sandy. Goals: R. Keogh 2.)
References[]
- ^ Page 6, THE POST-BRONCOS BRISBANE RUGBY LEAGUE COMPETITION - http://www.rogerswebsite.com/rl/Post-BroncosHistory.pdf
- ^ 1987 BRL Grand Final - Brothers v Redcliffe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOkkHCowzck&t=297s
- ^ 1987 Brisbane Rugby League Grand Final https://web.archive.org/web/20041225094700/http://queensland.rleague.com/flashback/1987gf.php
- ^ 1987 BRL season on Rugby League Project https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seasons/brisbane-rugby-league-1987/results.html
- 1987 in Australian rugby league
- Rugby league in Brisbane