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Corey Jensen
Corey Jensen (born 8 January 1994) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL. He previously played for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League. Background Jensen was born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia and was raised in Bowen, Queensland. He played his junior rugby league for the Bowen Seagulls and attending Bowen State High School. In 2011, Jensen moved to Townsville to attend Ignatius Park College. Playing career Early career In 2010, Jensen played for the Townsville Stingers Cyril Connell Cup side and was selected for the Queensland under-16 team. In 2011, he moved up to the Stingers' Mal Meninga Cup side and toured England and France with the Australian Institute of Sport team, alongside future first graders Kodi Nikorima, Euan Aitken, Nene Macdonald and Brendan Elliot. In 2012, Jensen started the season playing for the Stingers' Mal Meninga Cup side again before making his NY ...
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Townsville
Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of 180,820 as of June 2018, it is the largest settlement in North Queensland; it is unofficially considered its capital. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. Townsville hosts a significant number of governmental, community and major business administrative offices for the northern half of the state. Part of the larger local government area of the City of Townsville, it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland, adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef. The city is also a major industrial centre, home to one of the world's largest zinc refineries, a nickel refinery and many other similar activities. As of December 2020, $30M operations to expand the Port of Townsville are underway, which involve channel widening and installation of a 70-tonne Liebherr Super Post Panamax Ship-to-Shore crane, to allow much larger cargo and passenger ships to utilise the port. It is ...
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Brendan Elliot
Brendan Elliot (born 1 January 1994) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a er, and for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League. He previously played for the Sydney Roosters, Newcastle Knights, Gold Coast Titans and the Manly Sea Eagles in the NRL and Leigh Centurions in the Super League. Background Elliot was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He played his junior rugby league for the Runaway Bay Seagulls. He also played rugby union while attending The Southport School, before being signed by the Sydney Roosters. Playing career Early years From 2012 to 2014, Elliot played for the Sydney Roosters' NYC team. 2014 On 3 May, Elliot played for the Queensland under-20s team against the New South Wales under-20s team. In round 17 of the 2014 NRL season, he made his NRL debut for the Roosters against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, scoring a try on debut. On 2 September, he was named at centre in the 2014 NYC Team of the Year. ...
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2018 North Queensland Cowboys Season
The 2018 North Queensland Cowboys season was the 24th in the club's history. Coached by Paul Green and co-captained by Johnathan Thurston and Matthew Scott, they competed in the NRL's 2018 Telstra Premiership. The team finished the regular season in 13th position and did not qualify for the finals. Season summary Milestones * Round 1: Johnathan Thurston played his 300th NRL game. * Round 1: Johnathan Thurston played his 271st game for the club, becoming the Cowboys' most capped player. * Round 1: Jordan McLean made his debut for the club. * Round 2: Antonio Winterstein played his 200th NRL game. * Round 2: Jordan McLean scored his first try for the club. * Round 7: Ethan Lowe played his 100th NRL game for the club. * Round 11: Jason Taumalolo played his 150th NRL game for the club. * Round 11: Francis Molo made his debut for the club. * Round 13: Mitchell Dunn made his NRL debut. * Round 13: Jake Granville played his 100th NRL game. * Round 13: Enari Tuala scored his first NR ...
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2017 North Queensland Cowboys Season
The 2017 North Queensland Cowboys season was the 23rd in the club's history. Coached by Paul Green and co-captained by Johnathan Thurston and Matthew Scott, they competed in the NRL's 2017 Telstra Premiership. The club became just the second 8th-placed side to make the Grand Final, ultimately losing to the Melbourne Storm. Season summary Milestones * Round 1: Ben Hampton made his debut for the club. * Round 2: Johnathan Thurston scored his 2,000th point. * Round 3: Shaun Fensom made his debut for the club. * Round 3: Kane Linnett played his 150th NRL game. * Round 4: Kyle Feldt played his 50th game for the club. * Round 4: Gideon Gela-Mosby made his NRL debut. * Round 4: Gideon Gela-Mosby and Kalyn Ponga scored their first NRL tries. * Round 5: Shaun Fensom scored his first try for the club. * Round 7: Corey Jensen made his NRL debut. * Round 11: Ben Hampton scored his first try for the club. * Round 15: Kyle Laybutt made his NRL debut. * Round 16: Gavin Cooper played his 2 ...
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List Of North Queensland Cowboys Honours
The Australian rugby league team North Queensland Cowboys and individual team members have won a variety of titles and honours since their foundation in 1995. The club has appeared in three grand finals of the National Rugby League premiership, winning in 2015, and has reached the finals ten times. Individual player awards include the Paul Bowman Medal and other honours awarded annually by the club itself and by external bodies, such as the Rugby League World Golden Boot Award which has gone to the Cowboys' Johnathan Thurston three times. Team honours Premierships Runners-up Minor premierships None Finals appearances *11 - 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2022. Club awards Each year the Paul Bowman Medal is awarded to the Cowboys' best and fairest player of the season. The medal was named after Bowman, following his retirement in 2007. Paul Bowman Medal Players' Player Club Person of the Year Rookie of the Year Most Improved Coach ...
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2022 NRL Season
The 2022 NRL season is the 115th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 25th season run by the National Rugby League. Teams The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 16th consecutive year. This became the second longest stretch of time (after 1947-1966 - 20 seasons) of a continuous line-up of teams in competition history (overtaking 1967-1981 - 15 seasons). Pre-season Pre-season matches were played between 12 February and 28 February 2022, before a 10-day lead up until the beginning of the regular season. It featured nineteen matches across three weekends, including the 2022 All Stars match, which was won by the Māori All Stars 16 – 10, and the annual Charity Shield match between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and St George Illawarra Dragons, which the Dragons won 16–10. The Titans were scheduled to play the Warriors in their second trial match but the match got postponed and then cancelled due to floods in the area. Regular season Op ...
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2018 NRL Season
The 2018 NRL season was the 111th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 21st season run by the National Rugby League. The main competition, known as the 2018 Telstra Premiership due to sponsorship from Telstra, featured 16 teams playing 25 weekly rounds of matches from March until September, resulting in the top eight teams playing a series of finals matches to determine which two teams reached the 2018 NRL Grand Final. Teams The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 12th consecutive year. Pre-season The 2018 pre-season featured the 2018 World Club Challenge match with the NRL premiers Melbourne Storm defeating the Super League champions Leeds Rhinos. Regular season With the City vs. Country representative game having been scrapped, the NRL scheduled 6 games to take place in regional areas of New South Wales and Queensland as a replacement: Tamworth, Bathurst & Mudgee, and Toowoomba, Gladstone & Cairns. The overall structure of the season's d ...
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2017 NRL Grand Final
The 2017 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2017 National Rugby League season and was played on Sunday October 1 at Sydney's ANZ Stadium. The match was contested between minor premiers the Melbourne Storm and the eighth-placed North Queensland Cowboys. The Melbourne club won the match 34 – 6 to claim their third premiership title. Melbourne fullback Billy Slater was awarded his second Clive Churchill Medal as the game's official man of the match. The match was preceded by the 2017 NRL Under-20s Grand Final and the 2017 NRL State Championship. Pre-match entertainment was headlined by American rapper Macklemore, who attracted controversy for his scheduled performance of "Same Love" during the ongoing nationwide postal survey on same-sex marriage. The match was broadcast live throughout Australia by the Nine Network. Fairfax Media described the 2017 NRL Grand final as "one of the most one-sided grand finals in the NRL era". Background ...
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Penrith Panthers
The Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith that competes in the NRL. The team is based west of the centre of Sydney, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Penrith are the current reigning NRL Premiers, having won the title four times. Penrith were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition in 1967. Penrith struggled for almost twenty years before finally reaching their first finals series. The club achieved its first Grand Final appearance in 1990 but were beaten by the Canberra Raiders 18–14. The following year, Penrith met Canberra again in the 1991 Grand Final, this time winning the game 19–12. Penrith won the NRL premiership again in 2003. Their most recent premiership achievement was over the Parramatta Eels in the 2022 Grand Final with a 28–12 victory. After losing the 2020 Grand Final to the Melbourne Storm, Penrith became the second club to retain the premie ...
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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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Queensland Residents Rugby League Team
The Queensland Residents rugby league team is a representative rugby league team consisting of players who compete in the Intrust Super Cup (Queensland Cup) competition. They currently play an annual fixture against NSW Cup Representative Team, often as a curtain raiser to a State of Origin game. The team is administered by the Queensland Rugby League and regularly played its home matches at Suncorp Stadium, until 2015, when they starting playing at Brisbane's Langlands Park (now known as Suzuki Stadium). Up until 1995, the side played against touring international sides and went on tours to countries like New Zealand and France. A number of Queensland Residents players have gone onto play for Queensland in State of Origin, including Daly Cherry-Evans and David Taylor. As Residents selection has no bearing on Origin eligibility, a number of players have gone on to also represent New South Wales, including Trent Hodkinson and Jamie Buhrer. New Zealand internationals Jeremy Smit ...
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Queensland Cup
The Queensland Cup, currently known as the Hostplus Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the highest-level regional rugby league football competition in Queensland, Australia. It is run by the Queensland Rugby League (QRL) and is contested by fourteen teams, twelve of which are based in Queensland, with one based in New South Wales and one in Central Province, Papua New Guinea. The competition is the present-day embodiment of Queensland's top-level club competition. It replaced the Winfield State League in 1996 and accompanied the Brisbane Rugby League, before becoming the premier competition in 1998, following the disbanding of the Brisbane Rugby League. History Origin and establishment Since its inaugural season in 1922, the Brisbane Rugby League was the premier competition in the state of Queensland. Like its counterpart, the Sydney Rugby Football League, the Brisbane Rugby League was thriving, boasting big crowds and large, loyal supporter bases with their respective clubs ...
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