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File:Brisbane City versus North Harbour Rays NRC Round 8 (5).jpg|[[Quade Cooper]] takes a conversion for Brisbane City
File:Brisbane City versus North Harbour Rays NRC Round 8 (6).jpg|Brisbane City scrum down against North Harbour Rays
File:Brisbane City versus North Harbour Rays NRC Round 8 (47.jpg|Brisbane City win a lineout against North Harbour Rays
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==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 05:06, 13 October 2014

Brisbane City
Founded2014
LocationBrisbane, Australia                                     
Ground(s)Ballymore Stadium
(Capacity: 24,000)

Suncorp Stadium
(Capacity: 52,500)
Coach(es)Nick Stiles
Captain(s)Curtis Browning
League(s)National Rugby Championship
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.redsrugby.com.au/NRC/BrisbaneCity.aspx

Brisbane City is an Australian rugby union football team based in Brisbane that competes in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). The team is one of two Queensland sides in the competition, the other being Template:Rut Queensland Country.[1] Brisbane City is organised and managed by the Queensland Rugby Union (QRU), with the high performance programs utilised by the Queensland Reds being extended to players joining the team from the Reds and Brisbane Premier Rugby.[1][2][3]

The Brisbane City team in the NRC takes its identity from the Brisbane representative side that first played in 1878.[4] The colour scheme and a similar logo have been adopted from the Brisbane representative team for the new competition. The Brisbane City uniform is yellow and blue, with a crest featuring the traditional Brisbane City Hall logo inside the iconic Queensland Rugby ‘Q’ on the chest of the jersey.[1]

The NRC was launched in 2014, reinstating the national competition after the Australian Rugby Championship (ARC) was discontinued following the first season in 2007.[5] The Brisbane City NRC team utilises existing QRU staffing roles and infrastructure, with the team's home ground and training base located at QRU's headquarters at Ballymore.[1][2][3]

History

The development of rugby in Brisbane is inextricably linked with the overall development of the game in Queensland. Brisbane representative teams have been drawn from the premier clubs in the Brisbane competition for more than a hundred years. There have been many changes in the clubs participating since the 1880s and the current clubs are Norths, Souths, Easts, Wests, Sunnybank, GPS, University and Brothers.[4]

Noted Australian rugby players such as Mark Loane, Andrew Slack, Tony Shaw, and Michael Lynagh have worn the Brisbane City jersey.[4] Many visiting provincial and international teams have included a game against Brisbane on their playing schedule. While most games in Brisbane against touring teams were played as a Queensland representative side, there have been four occasions when a Brisbane team has hosted international opposition: 1904 Brisbane v British Isles, 1908 Brisbane v Anglo-Welsh, 1932 Brisbane/Ipswich v All Blacks, 1951 Brisbane v All Blacks, and 1954 Brisbane v Fiji.[4]

Representative team

Even before the establishment of the Northern Rugby Union, which later became the QRU, teams playing in the Brisbane competition combined to play as Brisbane. The first such game recorded was played against Ipswich on 17 August 1878.[4] The rise of rugby in country areas provided a challenge for Brisbane City rugby players. Intercity matches have been played on a regular basis for the duration of the game’s history in Queensland, with cities such as Charters Towers (before WWI) and Toowoomba (in the 1930s) providing stiff competition.[4]

The first City-Country match between Brisbane and Queensland Country (selected from the rest of Queensland) was held at the inuagural Country Week carnival hosted by the QRU in 1902.[6] Country Week carnivals became sporadic with the growth of rugby league after 1909, and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 brought rugby union to a halt in Queensland. The QRU was revived in 1928–29, but rugby languished in country regions of the state for many years.[6]

City-Country matches were resumed in 1965.[7] From 1968 until 1982, annual Country Carnival competitions were held from which the Country team was selected to play Brisbane and other representative sides. The Country Carnival was replaced by State Championships in 1983,[8] and the format of the competition has varied over time, but City-Country matches between the Brisbane and Queensland Country representative teams have remained regular fixtures since.

Ballymore Tornadoes (ARC team)

Ballymore Tornadoes logo.
The Ballymore Tornadoes jersey for the 2007 ARC.

In 2006, after setting up a consultative process culminating in a working session of some 70 delegates from around the country, the Australian Rugby Union announced that a new, eight-team national competition would commence in 2007 to compete for the Australian Rugby Championship (ARC).[9]

The Ballymore Tornadoes was the Brisbane-based team in the ARC, and the team played its home matches at Ballymore Stadium. The team's colors were maroon, blue and silver.[10] The Ballymore Tornadoes side was one of two Queensland teams supported by the QRU in the competition, alongside the East Coast Aces.[11]

Queensland's two teams in the ARC were aligned with existing clubs and regions. The Tornadoes were aligned with six Queensland Premier Rugby clubs north of the Brisbane River – Brothers, GPS, Norths/QUT, Sunshine Coast, University and Wests.[12] Chris Roche, a former Wallaby who played 17 Tests as well as 49 matches for the Reds during the 1980s, was the head coach of the Tornadoes. Paul Healy was the assistant coach.[13][14]

The Australian Rugby Championship was terminated at the end of 2007 after only one season of competition, with the Australian Rugby Union citing higher costs than budgeted and further projected financial losses.[15] The Tornadoes team was disbanded with the end of the ARC competition.

Records

Year Pos Pld W D L F A +/- BP Pts Play-offs
2007 7th 8 2 0 6 180 229 -49 3 11 Did not compete

National Rugby Championship

In December 2013, the ARU announced that the national competition was to be relaunched, with the National Rugby Championship (NRC) commencing in 2014.[16] Expressions of interest were open to any interested parties, with the accepted bids finalised in early 2014.[17] There was initial interest from Brisbane clubs in forming NRC teams themselves,[3] but to eliminate the risks to sub-unions and clubs the Queensland Rugby Union decided to organise and manage two teams centrally for the first year of the competition.[2] On 24 March 2014, it was announced that the Brisbane City and Queensland Country teams would play in the NRC comptition.[3][18]

Brisbane City secured McInnes Wilson Lawyers as principal sponsor for the 2014 NRC season.[19]

Stadium

The home ground for the Brisbane City team is Ballymore Stadium.[1] Ballymore was built in 1966 and is the spiritual and administrative home of Queensland Rugby.[1] It was home to the Super Rugby team the Queensland Reds until they moved to the larger Suncorp Stadium in 2006. The stadium has a capacity of around 24,000.[20] Test matches have also been played at Ballymore, including Bledisloe Cup matches,[21][22] and a semi-final of the 1987 Rugby World Cup.[23]

Current squad

The squad for the 2014 National Rugby Championship season:[24]

Props

Hookers

Locks

 

Loose Forwards

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

 

Centres

Wingers

Fullbacks

Captain Denotes team captain, Denotes that a player is unavailable due to injury, Bold denotes player is internationally capped.

Australian national players allocation

On 21 July 2014, the Australian Rugby Union unveiled the recognised Australian national players, players who were in the 32-man squad for the June Test series against France. The players are as follows:[25]

  • Quade Cooper takes a conversion for Brisbane City
    Quade Cooper takes a conversion for Brisbane City
  • Brisbane City scrum down against North Harbour Rays
    Brisbane City scrum down against North Harbour Rays
  • Brisbane City win a lineout against North Harbour Rays
    Brisbane City win a lineout against North Harbour Rays


See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "NRC frequently asked questions". Queensland Rugby. 2014. Archived from the original on 3 July 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b c QRU Annual Report 2013, p. 5.
  3. ^ a b c d "NRC update part 1: Queensland, Perth, Melbourne and Canberra". The Roar. 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 3 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 8 July 2014 suggested (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Brisbane City History". Queensland Rugby. 1 August 2014. Archived from the original on 1 August 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "Australia relaunches National Rugby Championship". rugbyweek.com. 24 March 2014. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ a b Purcell 2002, p. 2–4.
  7. ^ Purcell 2002, p. 6–7.
  8. ^ Purcell 2002, p. 12.
  9. ^ "2006 Annual Report: Rugby services" (PDF). Australian Rugby Union. 31 May 2006. p. 47. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ "ARC Team names and logos announced". qru.com.au. 2 June 2006. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 21 February 2007. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "Queensland Rugby begins planning for new competition". rugby.com.au. 14 February 2006. Archived from the original on 25 October 2008. Retrieved 20 February 2007. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "Ballymore Tornadoes team overview". Queensland Rugby. 2007. Archived from the original on 10 March 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ "Former Wallaby and ex-AB to coach new Qld national teams". worldcupweb.com. 23 February 2007. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2007. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ "Tornadoes announce fitness test lineup". qru.com.au. 2 April 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2007. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ "ARU pull plug on Australian Rugby Championship". ESPN Scrum. 18 December 2007. Archived from the original on 12 July 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  16. ^ Orme, Steve (10 December 2013). "ARU unveils new national rugby championship for 2014". Sportal. Archived from the original on 15 August 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ "ARU unveils new domestic competition, a third tier of rugby". The Australian. News. 10 December 2013. Archived from the original on 3 July 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ "Australian Rugby Union says National Rugby Championship to start in August". ABC. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  19. ^ Slack, Andrew (27 September 2014). "Former Wallaby Andrew Slack says National Rugby Championship a winner in a host of areas". The Courier Mail. News. Archived from the original on 2 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ "Ballymore Stadium". Austadiums.com. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 21 February 2007. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  21. ^ "Australia v New Zealand at Brisbane". ESPN Scrum. 19 July 1992. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  22. ^ "Australia v New Zealand at Brisbane". ESPN Scrum. 16 July 1988. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  23. ^ "IRB Rugby World Cup - Brisbane". ESPN Scrum. 14 June 1987. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  24. ^ "Curtis Browning to captain Brisbane City in inaugural Buildcorp National Rugby Championship". Queensland Rugby. 1 August 2014. Archived from the original on 1 August 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  25. ^ Qantas Wallabies player alignments unveiled for 2014 Buildcorp National Rugby Championship

Sources

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