1988 Brisbane Rugby League season

Brisbane Rugby League
SportRugby league
Number of teams8
Country Australia
Premiers Seagulls-Diehards

The 1988 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 67th season of Brisbane's semi-professional rugby league football competition. Eight teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Seagulls-Diehards and Ipswich clubs.

Season summary

A new team, the Logan Scorpions, were admitted to the competition, bringing its total to ten teams. Teams played each other three times, with 21 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top five of Souths, Easts, Seagulls-Diehards and Ipswich.[1]

Teams

Club Home ground Coach Captain
Eastern Suburbs Langlands Park Des Morris
Seagulls-Diehards Neumann Oval Ross Henrick Peter Coyne
Ipswich North Ipswich Reserve Tommy Raudonikis
Logan Meakin Park John Barber
Northern Suburbs Bishop Park Greg Oliphant
Past Brothers Corbett Park Greg Holben
Redcliffe Dolphin Oval Graham Olling
Southern Suburbs Davies Park Geoff Naylor
Western Suburbs Purtell Park Barry Muir
Wynnum-Manly Kougari Oval John Dowling

Ladder

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Southern Suburbs 18 13 0 5 358 314 +44 26
2 Seagulls-Diehards 18 11 1 6 431 322 +109 23
3 Ipswich 18 11 1 6 365 275 +90 23
4 Eastern Suburbs 18 10 1 7 394 277 +117 21
5 Past Brothers 18 9 2 7 283 244 +39 20
6 Northern Suburbs 18 9 1 8 317 277 +40 19
7 Western Suburbs 18 9 1 8 240 287 -47 19
8 Redcliffe 18 8 0 10 306 276 +30 16
9 Wynnum-Manly 18 4 0 14 230 409 -179 8
10 Logan 18 2 1 15 202 425 -223 5

Source:[2]

Finals

Home Score Away Match Information
Date and Time Venue Referee Crowd
Semi-finals
Ipswich 11-10 Easts 28 August 1988 Lang Park
Seagulls-Diehards 25-14 Souths 4 September 1988 Lang Park
Preliminary Final
Souths 6-20 Ipswich Jets 10 September 1988 Lang Park
Grand Final
Seagulls-Diehards 17-14 Ipswich Jets 18 September 1988 Lang Park

Source:[3]

References

  1. ^ "The Post-Broncos Brisbane Rugby League Competition - Club football in Brisbane from 1988 to 2021" (PDF). rogerswebsite.com.
  2. ^ Waite, Roger (2017). "A history of Brisbane rugby league (1909-2017)" (PDF). rogerswebsite.com. [self-published source]
  3. ^ "Queensland Rugby League". queensland.rleague.com. Archived from the original on 14 February 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2022.