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Ali Brigginshaw
Ali Brigginshaw (born 1 December 1989) is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL Women's Premiership and Valleys Diehards in the QRL Women's Premiership. Primarily a , she is the captain of the Broncos, Australia and Queensland. Background Born in Ipswich, Queensland, Brigginshaw played her junior rugby league for the North Ipswich Tigers but was forced to give up the sport when she was 12. Playing career In 2009, Brigginshaw returned to rugby league, playing for the Souths Logan Magpies. That year, she made her representative debuts for Australia and Queensland. In 2013, Brigginshaw was a member of Australia's 2013 Women's Rugby League World Cup-winning squad, starting at in the final against New Zealand. In 2015, Brigginshaw broke her right fibula in three places. During her recovery she took up Muay Thai and boxing, becoming a national champion and the Australian Golden Gloves Novice A champion in the 69 kg category. In 2 ...
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Ipswich, Queensland
Ipswich () is a city in South East Queensland, Australia. Situated on the Bremer River, it is approximately west of the Brisbane central business district. The city is renowned for its architectural, natural and cultural heritage. Ipswich preserves and operates from many of its historical buildings, with more than 6000 heritage-listed sites and over 500 parks. Ipswich began in 1827 as a mining settlement. History Early history Ipswich according to The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld,: 1866-1939), Thursday 18 January 1934, Page 13 was tribally known as Coodjirar meaning place of the Red Stemmed Gum Tree in the Yugararpul language. Jagara (also known as Jagera, Yagara, and Yuggara) and Yugarabul (also known as Ugarapul and Yuggerabul) are Australian Aboriginal languages of South-East Queensland. There is some uncertainty over the status of Jagara as a language, dialect or perhaps a group or clan within the local government boundaries of Ipswich City Council, Lockyer Regional C ...
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Brittany Breayley
Brittany Breayley-Nati (''née'' Breayley; born 7 February 1991) is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays for the Burleigh Bears in the QRL Women's Premiership, and Ormeau Shearers in the SEQW Holcim cup. Primarily a , she is a Queensland and Australian representative and played for the Brisbane Broncos and St George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL Women's Premiership. Background Born in Mackay, Queensland, Breayley-Nati is of Māori descent and began playing rugby league for the Mackay Magpies in 2008. Playing career In 2014, while playing for the North Ipswich Tigers, Breayley-Nati made her representative debuts for Australia and Queensland. In 2017, she won the Queensland Women's Representative Player of the Year at the QRL Major Competition Awards. On 2 December 2017, she started at hooker in Australia's 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup final win over New Zealand. In June 2018, Breayley-Nati, along with Ali Brigginshaw, Heather Ballinger, Teuila Fotu-Moala and ...
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2019 NRL Women's Season
The 2019 NRL Women's Premiership was the second season of professional women's rugby league in Australia. Teams Pre-season Regular season The season again operated under a round-robin format, with games played as curtain-raisers to the 2019 NRL Finals Series as well as two standalone matches. The top two finishing teams will then contest the Grand Final, which is to be played before the men's Grand Final on 6 October. Ladder Ladder progression * Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top two. * Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round. * Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round. Grand Final Individual Awards Dally M Medal Awards Night The following award was presented at the ''Dally M Medal Awards'' ceremony in Sydney on the night of 2 October 2019. Dally M Medal Player of the Year: Jessica Sergis ( St. Ge ...
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2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup
The 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup was the fifth staging of the Women's Rugby League World Cup and was held in Australia between 16 November and 2 December 2017. Pool and semi-final matches was held at Southern Cross Group Stadium in Sydney, with the final held at Brisbane Stadium. The final was played as a double-header with the men's final. Teams Qualifying Five teams (Australia, New Zealand, England, Papua New Guinea, and Canada) qualified automatically for the World Cup. A round-robin tournament featuring the , , , and was to decide the sixth and final team. However, the , , and withdrew at short notice due to various logistical issues; therefore, the tournament was scratched, and the qualified automatically. Pre-tournament matches Before the World Cup it was announced that France would host England in two tests in Perpignan, and Papua New Guinea would host Australia in Port Moresby. Squads Venues All the matches were played at Endeavour Field ( ...
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Ali Brigginshaw WRLWC 2021
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. The issue of his succession caused a major rift between Muslims and divided them into Shia and Sunni groups. Ali was assassinated in the Grand Mosque of Kufa in 661 by the forces of Mu'awiya, who went on to found the Umayyad Caliphate. The Imam Ali Shrine and the city of Najaf were built around Ali's tomb and it is visited yearly by millions of devotees. Ali was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, raised by him from the age of 5, and accepted his claim of divine revelation by age 11, being among the first to do so. Ali played a pivotal role in the early years of Islam while Muhammad was in Mecca and under severe persecution. After Muhammad's relocation to Medina in 622, Ali married his daughter Fatima and, among others, fathered Hasan ...
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Dally M Medal
The Dally M Medal is awarded each year (annually) to the player voted for as the 'Player of the year' over the National Rugby League (NRL) regular season. The awards are named in honour of Australian former rugby league great Herbert Henry "Dally" Messenger. The award has existed since 1979, but has only been adopted as the official award for the Player of the Year in the NRL since 1998. Prior to that the official Player of the Year, in both the New South Wales and the Brisbane Rugby Leagues, received the Rothmans Medal whilst the Dally M Medal was awarded by the ''Daily Mirror'' newspaper. Voting After each game, rugby league sports commentators vote to award three votes to the best player, two votes to the second-best player, and one vote to the third-best player. Additionally, a player will lose three votes for each week of suspension that he incurs during the season. The votes for each round are made public up to Round 12 (26-round season), then are kept secret; this allows ...
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Ipswich Brothers
The Rugby League Ipswich is a rugby league football competition based in Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, Queensland. It is under the administration of the Queensland Rugby League through the Queensland Rugby League South East Queensland Division, South East Queensland Division, which also administers the Brisbane Rugby League premiership, Brisbane and Gold Coast Rugby League, Gold Coast competitions. Ipswich Diggers, Representative team Selected players from the Ipswich Rugby League, represented Ipswich in a representative side called Combined Ipswich, also called Ipswich Diggers, whose teams compete in the statewide competitions the Cyril Connell Cup and the Mal Meninga Cup. Seasons Premiership winners A list of premiers and Grand Final results since 1980. Ipswich Rugby League Club Teams The Ipswich Rugby League currently has 12 clubs, for senior and junior. All clubs are in the junior division but not all are in the senior division. The clubs curre ...
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2019 NRL Grand Final
The 2019 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2019 National Rugby League season and was played at Sydney's ANZ Stadium. The match was contested between defending premiers the Sydney Roosters and the Canberra Raiders. The match was won by the Sydney Roosters 14–8 in a tight contest to claim their 15th premiership title, making them the first club in 26 years to win consecutive premierships in a unified competition since the Brisbane Broncos in 1993, and the first Sydney Roosters side to win consecutive titles since 1975. The Clive Churchill Medal was awarded to Raiders five-eighth Jack Wighton as the game's man of the match. The game is one of the most controversial grand finals, infamous for a reversed "six again" decision by referee Ben Cummins which preceded the winning try. Background Sydney finished second on the premiership ladder with a record of 17–7. The club comfortably defeated South Sydney 30–6 to qualify for the prelimin ...
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St George Illawarra Dragons
The St. George Illawarra Dragons is an Australian professional rugby league football club, representing both the Illawarra and St George regions of New South Wales. The club has competed in the National Rugby League since 1999 after a joint-venture was formed between the St. George Dragons (est. 1921) and the Illawarra Steelers (est. 1982). They officially formed as the game's first joint-venture club on 23 September 1998 and it remains the only inter-city team in the NRL. The team has its headquarters and leagues clubs in both Wollongong and the Sydney suburb of Kogarah, and trains and plays games regularly at WIN Stadium in Wollongong, as well as at Jubilee Oval in Kogarah. From 2006 to 2018 the club was jointly owned by the St. George Dragons 50% and Illawarra Steelers 50%. In August 2018 WIN Corporation purchased the Illawarra Steelers' 50% stake. The Dragons reached the grand final in their first season in 1999, losing to the Melbourne Storm. St. George Illawarra is one ...
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Sydney Roosters
The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional Rugby league, Rugby League Football Club based in the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) and parts of inner Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. The Roosters have won fifteen New South Wales Rugby League premiership, New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) and National Rugby League titles, and several other competitions. First founded as the Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club (ESDRLFC), it is the only club to have played in each and every season at the elite level, and since the 1970s has often been dubbed the glamour club of the league. The Sydney Roosters have won 15 premierships, equal to the record of the St George Dragons. Only the South Sydney Rabbitohs have won more premierships. The club holds the record for having won more matches than any other in the league, the most Minor premiership, Minor Premierships and the most World Club Challenge trophies. The Sydney Roosters are one of ...
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2018 NRL Women's Season
The 2018 NRL Women's Premiership (NRLW) was the first season of professional women's rugby league in Australia. Teams Pre-season Only two of the four sides, the Brisbane Broncos and New Zealand Warriors, took part in pre-season trial games. The Warriors played two fixtures against a combined Auckland side, while the Broncos played the Papua New Guinea Orchids as a curtain-raiser to the Brisbane Broncos-Manly Sea Eagles NRL fixture. The Sydney Roosters were due to play the North Sydney Bears but the game was cancelled due to player availability. They instead underwent an opposed session with the Roosters' under-20 Jersey Flegg Cup side. Regular season The inaugural season will operate under a round-robin format, with games played as curtain-raisers to the 2018 NRL Finals Series. The top two finishing teams will then contest the Grand Final, which is to be played before the men's Grand Final Primarily in Australian sports, a grand final (sometimes colloquially abbre ...
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