Queensland Country (NRC team)

{{About|the National Rugby Championship team|the amateur representative team|Queensland Country Heelers}}

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|coach = Rod Seib

|captain = Angus Scott-Young

|league = National Rugby Championship

|season = 2018

|position = Runner-up (finals)
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Queensland Country is an Australian rugby union football team that competed in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). The team is one of two Queensland sides in the competition, the other being {{Rut|Brisbane City}}. Queensland Country is organised and managed by the Queensland Rugby Union (QRU), with the coaching and training programs used at the Queensland Reds extended to players joining the team from the Reds, Premier and Country rugby teams.{{sfn |QRU Annual Report|2013|p=5}}

The Queensland Country team in the NRC draws its identity from the Queensland Country representative team that has played in regular City-Country fixtures in Queensland since 1902.{{sfn |Purcell |2002 |p=2–4}} The same colours have been adopted for the team in the NRC competition and, while the Heelers' cattle dog logo is not used, an emblem based on the traditional Cooktown Orchid logo of the Queensland Country Rugby Union has been adopted. The Queensland Country uniform is blue and white, with a crest of the orchid logo inside Queensland Rugby's traditional 'Q' on the jersey's chest.

The NRC was launched in 2014, reinstating the national competition after the Australian Rugby Championship (ARC) was discontinued following the first season in 2007. The Queensland Country NRC team plays in various Queensland regional centres. Existing QRU staffing roles and infrastructure are utilised, and the training base for the team is at QRU's headquarters at Ballymore.{{sfn |QRU Annual Report|2013|p=5}}

History

Rugby within Country Queensland began to gain significant popular support after the first intercolonial match between New South Wales and Queensland in 1882. Prior to this, Melbourne rules (Australian football) was more often played. Regional centres such as Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Maryborough and Charters Towers established their own rugby unions in the 1880s and 1890s.

=Representative team=

{{main|Queensland Country Heelers}}

The first City-Country match between Brisbane and Queensland Country (selected from the rest of Queensland) was held at the inaugural Country Week carnival hosted by the QRU in 1902.{{sfn |Purcell |2002 |p=2–4}} Despite several successful seasons, the Country Week carnivals ceased following the rise of rugby league after 1909. The start of the First World War brought rugby union to a halt in Queensland after 1914. Although the QRU was eventually revived in 1928–29, rugby languished in country regions of the state for many decades.{{sfn |Purcell |2002 |p=2–4}}

City-Country matches were resumed in 1965.{{sfn |Purcell |2002 |p=6–7}} 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 discontinued in favour of State Championships in 1983.{{sfn |Purcell |2002 |p=12}} While the format of competition has varied over time, City-Country matches between the Brisbane and Queensland Country representative teams have remained regular fixtures since.

{{Further|Queensland Country Championships}}

={{Anchor|Aces}}East Coast Aces (ARC team)=

File:East Coast Aces logo.jpg

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).

The East Coast Aces, based on the Gold Coast, was formed as one of two Queensland teams supported by the QRU in the ARC, alongside the Ballymore Tornadoes. The Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Aces said that the team had selected a name that would embrace the various stakeholders at club level. He added:

{{blockquote|text=Our team will draw on players and supporters from Cairns to Coolangatta—and possibly even rugby fans in northern NSW—in what is an exciting development for the code in Queensland.|sign= Peter Murdoch|source= Steering Committee Chairman, 2007.}}

File:East Coast Aces Jersey Template.png.]]

Queensland's two teams in the ARC were aligned with existing clubs and regions. The East Coast Aces team was aligned with Queensland Country and the Queensland Premier Rugby clubs south of the Brisbane RiverSouths, Easts, Sunnybank, and Gold Coast. The Aces played home matches at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast. The QRU had initially considered basing the team out of Ballymore, before settling on the Gold Coast. The Aces' colours were black, blue and gold.

The head coach of the Aces was John Boe, who was also head coach of the Gold Coast Breakers - one of the Ace's feeder teams. Boe was a former All Black and World Cup coach (leading Samoa at the 2003 tournament) and a previous assistant coach at both the Chiefs and the Highlanders. The assistant coach for the Aces was former Wallaby Garrick Morgan.

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. The Aces team was disbanded at the end of the ARC. The team had incurred significant financial losses, with an average home attendance for the season of just 1,428, the lowest in the ARC.

=National Rugby Championship=

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In December 2013, the ARU announced that the national competition was to be relaunched, with the National Rugby Championship (NRC) commencing in 2014. Expressions of interest were open to any interested parties, with the accepted bids finalised in early 2014. There was initial interest from Queensland clubs and regions in forming NRC teams themselves, but to eliminate the risks to sub-unions and clubs, the Queensland Rugby Union decided to organise and manage two teams centrally in the early years of the competition.{{sfn |QRU Annual Report|2013|p=5}} On 24 March 2014, it was announced that the Queensland Country and Brisbane City teams would play in the NRC competition.

Anthony Fainga'a was Queensland Country's captain for the inaugural season in 2014. Fainga'a was initially named as captain again for the following season but he was forced out through injury and James Tuttle became the captain for 2015.

Sponsors

Queensland Country secured Bond University as principal partner in 2014, with the team officially known as Bond University Queensland Country.

Home grounds

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The Queensland Country team has its training base at Ballymore in Brisbane, the traditional home of Queensland Rugby. The team has scheduled home matches at the following locations:

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|colspan=3 align=center style="font-weight:bold; color:#777;" | Home venues for the current season

Gold Coast

|Bond Rugby Field

|align=right|5,000

Gladstone

|Marley Brown Oval

|align=right|6,000

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|colspan=3 align=center style="font-weight:bold; color:#777;" | Home venues for previous seasons

Brisbane

|Ballymore

|align=right|24,000

Gold Coast

|Cbus Super Stadium

|align=right|27,000

Ipswich

|North Ipswich Reserve

|align=right|5,500

Mackay

|Stadium Mackay

|align=right|12,000

Rockhampton

|Rugby Park

|align=right|5,000

rowspan=2|Sunshine Coast

|Noosa Dolphins Club

|align=right|3,000

|Stockland Park

|align=right|12,000

Toowoomba

|Sports Ground

|align=right|9,000

Townsville

|Hugh Street Grounds

|align=right|5,000

Current squad

The squad for the 2019 NRC season:

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colspan="100%"|Queensland Country squad – NRC 2019{{hsp}}{{efn-ua|group=Squad|Initial squad was named in late August.{{cite web |title=Bond University Queensland Country squad announced for 2019 National Rugby Championship |url=https://mailchi.mp/news/qru-media-release-bond-university-queensland-country-squad-announced-for-2019-national-rugby-championship |publisher=Queensland Rugby Union |date=26 August 2019}}}}
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  • {{flagicon|AUS}} Tom Kibble
  • {{flagicon|AUS}} Jeremiah Lynch
  • {{flagicon|ZIM}} Connor Pritchard{{hsp}}{{efn-ua|group=Squad|name=rd1|Francis and Pritchard weren't in the original squad but were named in the team for {{nowrap|Round 1}}.{{cite web |title= NRC Team Hub - Round One: All the teams, times and RUGBY.com.au stream details |url=https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2019/08/29/nrc-team-hub-round-one |publisher=Rugby.com.au |date=29 August 2019}}}}
  • {{flagicon|AUS}} Angus Scott-Young (c)
  • {{flagicon|NZL}} Dillon Wihongi
  • {{flagicon|AUS}} Harry Wilson
  • {{flagicon|AUS}} Liam Wright1

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Notes:

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colspan="100%" style="font-size:85%; text-align:center"| Bold denotes player is internationally capped. (c) Denotes team captain. 1 denotes marquee player.

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Records

=Honours=

=Season standings=

National Rugby Championship

:

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! style="width:25em; text-align:left;"| {{spaces|1}} Play-offs

2018

|2nd

| 7

502299211+88424

|align=left| {{spaces|1}} Grand final loss to Fijian Drua by 36–26

2017

|2nd

| 8

602316204+112529

|align=left| {{spaces|1}} Grand final win over {{Rut|Canberra Vikings}} by 42–28

2016

|8th

| 7

106248346−9837

|align=left| {{spaces|1}} Did not compete

2015

|8th

8206230336−10619

|align=left| {{spaces|1}} Did not compete

2014

|8th

8206208281−73311

|align=left| {{spaces|1}} Did not compete

Australian Rugby Championship (Aces)

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! style="width:20px;"|Pts

! style="width:25em; text-align:left;"| {{spaces|1}} Play-offs

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|align=left|2007

|align=left|8th

| 8

206163343−180311

|align=left| {{spaces|1}} Did not compete

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=Head coaches=

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=Captains=

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=Squads=

:

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colspan="10" style="background-color:#f2f2f2; cell-border:2px solid black; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; text-align: center;" |2016 Queensland Country squad – NRC
colspan="10"|The squad for the 2016 National Rugby Championship season:{{cite web

|date=15 August 2016

|title=2016 Bond University Queensland Country Squad announced ahead of Buildcorp NRC

|website=Reds Rugby

|access-date=15 August 2016

|url=http://www.redsrugby.com.au/News/NewsArticles/tabid/581/ArticleID/17471/2016-Bond-University-Queensland-Country-squad-announced-ahead-of-Buildcorp-NRC.aspx

|url-status=live

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818084006/http://www.redsrugby.com.au/News/NewsArticles/tabid/581/ArticleID/17471/2016-Bond-University-Queensland-Country-squad-announced-ahead-of-Buildcorp-NRC.aspx

|archive-date=18 August 2016

}}

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Props

Hookers

Locks

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Loose forwards

  • Jack Cornelsen
  • Lolo Fakaosilea
  • Maclean Jones
  • Conor Mitchell
  • Apisai Naiyabo
  • Angus Scott-Young

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

  • Mack Mason
  • Mitch Third

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Centres

Wingers

Fullbacks


Notes:
(c) Team captain
Bold denotes internationally capped players at the time
1 National player additional to contracted squad.

:

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colspan="10" style="background-color:#f2f2f2; cell-border:2px solid black; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; text-align: center;" |2015 Queensland Country squad – NRC
colspan="10"|The squad for the 2015 National Rugby Championship season:{{cite web

|date=7 August 2015

|title=Bond University Queensland Country squad announced ahead of the 2015 Buildcorp NRC

|website=Reds Rugby

|access-date=8 August 2015

|url=http://www.redsrugby.com.au/News/NewsArticles/tabid/581/ArticleID/15875/2015-Bond-University-Queensland-Country-squad-announced-ahead-of-Buildcorp-NRC.aspx

|url-status=live

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150808055347/http://www.redsrugby.com.au/News/NewsArticles/tabid/581/ArticleID/15875/2015-Bond-University-Queensland-Country-squad-announced-ahead-of-Buildcorp-NRC.aspx

|archive-date=8 August 2015

}}

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Props

Hookers

Locks

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Loose forwards

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

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| width="30%" style="font-size: 95%;" valign="top"|

Centres

Wingers

Fullbacks


Notes:
(c) Team captain
Bold denotes internationally capped players at the time
1 National player additional to contracted squad.

:

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colspan="10" style="background-color:#f2f2f2; cell-border:2px solid black; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; text-align: center;" |2014 Queensland Country squad – NRC
colspan="10"|The squad for the 2014 National Rugby Championship season:{{cite web

|date=1 August 2014

|title=Queensland Country NRC squad announced

|publisher=Queensland Rugby

|access-date=1 August 2014

|url=http://www.redsrugby.com.au/ArticleDetails/tabid/526/ArticleID/12077/Queensland-Country-NRC-squad-announced.aspx

|url-status=live

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801043358/http://www.redsrugby.com.au/ArticleDetails/tabid/526/ArticleID/12077/Queensland-Country-NRC-squad-announced.aspx

|archive-date=1 August 2014

}}

[http://www.rugby.com.au/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1699/ArticleID/12000/Qantas-Wallabies-player-alignments-unveiled-for-2014-Buildcorp-National-Rugby-Championship.aspx Qantas Wallabies player alignments unveiled for 2014 Buildcorp National Rugby Championship]

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Props

Hookers

Locks

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Loose forwards

  • Ben Adams
  • Jack de Guingand
  • Lolo Fakasilea
  • Mitch King
  • Beau Robinson
  • James Turner

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

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| width="30%" style="font-size: 95%;" valign="top"|

Centres

Wingers

  • Giles Beveridge
  • Pierce Fitzgerald
  • Todd Winkley

Fullbacks


Notes:
(c) Team captain
Bold denotes internationally capped players at the time
1 National player additional to contracted squad.

:

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colspan="10" style="background-color:#f2f2f2; cell-border:2px solid black; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; text-align: center;" |2007 East Coast Aces squad – ARC
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Props

Hookers

Locks

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Back row

Halfbacks

Flyhalves

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Centres

Wings

Fullbacks


Notes:
(c) Team captain
Bold denotes internationally capped players at the time

See also

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