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Brisbane Rugby League
SportRugby league
Number of teams9
Country Australia
Premiers Past Brothers

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 for two more seasons, 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 was introduced.

Teams

Club Home ground Coach Captain
Eastern Suburbs Langlands Park
Fortitude Valley Neumann Oval Ross Strudwick
Northern Suburbs Bishop Park
Past Brothers Corbett Park
Redcliffe Dolphin Oval
Southern Suburbs Davies Park
Western Suburbs Purtell Park
Wynnum-Manly Kougari Oval Wally Lewis Wally Lewis
Ipswich North Ipswich Reserve

Finals

Home Score Away Match Information
Date and Time Venue Referee Crowd
Semi Finals
Redcliffe 30-7 Wynnum-Manly 30 August 1986 Lang Park Eddie Ward 9,800
Past Brothers 25-16 Northern Suburbs 6 September 1986 Lang Park Ian Irwin 7,500
Preliminary Final
Redcliffe 24-16 Northern Suburbs 13 September 1986 Lang Park Eddie Ward 7,612
Grand Final
Past Brothers 26-8 Redcliffe 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.)

[2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ Page 6, THE POST-BRONCOS BRISBANE RUGBY LEAGUE COMPETITION - http://www.rogerswebsite.com/rl/Post-BroncosHistory.pdf
  2. ^ 1987 BRL Grand Final - Brothers v Redcliffe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOkkHCowzck&t=297s
  3. ^ 1987 Brisbane Rugby League Grand Final https://web.archive.org/web/20041225094700/http://queensland.rleague.com/flashback/1987gf.php
  4. ^ 1987 BRL season on Rugby League Project https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seasons/brisbane-rugby-league-1987/results.html
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