A booking fee applies to tickets purchased online. A team which made its home on the site of a redeveloped dump. Kenneath Bromwich 13. As we came to the end of the decade we finished one win short of a clean sweep on grand final day. It started at 11.00am when the siren sounded to start the Colt?s grand final through to 4.30pm the end of the A grade grand final. In the early 50's one of the major problems was transportation with Bus services on the Peninsula very limited and virtually non existent after dark, most players either walked or rode bikes to training. The hooter went and it was over," Benson said. Addition of a 17th team will mean the season will expand from 24 to 26 rounds. If the club saw fit to name the projected oval after Mr.Kreb?s wife a reduction in the purchase price would have been considered. Although a separately licensed Dolphins (NRL) team is scheduled to compete in the fully professional 2023 national competition,[2] the Redcliffe squad will continue to play in the Queensland competition. Beetson, whoserved as the captain in Queensland's first Origin side in 1980, became the game's seventh immortal in 2003. This list has 114 members. At the other end of the 60's (1969) Trevor Harken became the first home grown junior to come through the grades and play for Queensland. Senior Dolphins Players from all eras are invited to the 2019 RedPhins Past Players Reunion on Saturday 1st June 2019. The repayment of this loan was not necessary as in 1983 the Old Boys turned it into a grant. ? As the club goes from strength to strength and the hopes and dreams of the club?s forefathers coming to fruition, the Dolphins must continue to change with times and continue to be the benchmark for all Rugby League clubs in Queensland. Redcliffe, jokes McInnes, have always had a great way of losing premierships. L.U. In the early '90s, he was playing with the Canberra Raiders under then-captain Craig Bellamy. In 1960 the Club used a total of 30 players in first grade. Obviously theres a tremendous amount of work that goes into that, but Im sure a club like Redcliffe will give it a really good go. Its big enough for people not to know all your business, but small enough for you to know a lot of people. Also two weeks earlier the third grade side won their grand final to make it four out of a possible four grand finals. Redcliffe's current home ground, Kayo Stadium, formerly known as Moreton Daily Stadium and Dolphin Oval, was first opened in 1979. The Redcliffe Dolphins odds might not favour them to push deep into the 2023 season, but they undoubtedly have some serious talent on their books. Beetson and Yow Yeh roomed together at Redcliffe and in 1966, when both men were signed by Balmain, their transfer fees helped Redcliffe finance the construction of their clubhouse. "Our charter, asthe league's club, is to look after the Redcliffe and District Rugby League Football Club," he said. Growing up through the club, I got to meet guys like Bob Jones and Des Webb, and they were really instrumental in my childhood and junior football, says Civoniceva. We name Redcliffe's 75 best players in the club's 75th anniversary season. Redcliffe Dolphin players Des Webb, Keith Howard and Cliff Robinson after the 1959 reserve grade grand final. The NRL has revealed the new team that will join the league in 2023 will be The Dolphins. The long awaited change came in 1952 when, on our first visit to play in the Kilcoy competition, three Hornibrook buses including the detached semi-trailer bus moved off in convoy from the Redcliffe Showgrounds to make the trip to Kilcoy. The Dolphins have a rich history beginning in 1947 that has led to an NRL berth in 2023. (Supplied: Redcliffe Dolphins) Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article abc.net.au/news/qld-redcliffe-dolphins-nrl-rugby-league/100543074 Copy link Share For a limited time, players who purchase their ticket online can access special pricing on the Dolphins Heritage jersey and replica tee. All the way back in 2012, the NRL flagged the possibility for expansion in 2023. That ride began in 1996, and has culminated in Redcliffe assuming the mantle as the state competition's most successful club. They reckon there was more than 35,000 people there. "I am getting goosebumps again, talking about it," he said. However, the 1988 admission of the Brisbane Broncos team in the National Rugby League (NRL . To access all the features of this site you need to Log In or Sign Up. Kodi Nikorima 15. "Back then in the mid-'90s there was bugger-all work around and the peninsula was doing it tough. Today, Redcliffe Leagues Club is one of Queenslands premier licensed clubs boasting 30,000 members and 200 staff. The club has lost three grand finals in the past decade, and has not won the competition since 2006. The Dolphins become the NRL's first expansion team since Gold Coast, who joined the premiership in 2007. He returns time and time again to the video of Bevan Bleakleys try in the 1975 grand final. To give you an idea of the toll it took, at the start of the season I was at 16 stone 10, and I finished it at 12 stone six. "It was quite advanced back then and we put that all into the game plan and it really turned things around defensively," he said. Everyone played out the season and as it turned out, everyone did get paid for that year, which is a credit to the club," he said. A Isaak Ah Mau Sam Anderson (rugby league) Lauta Atoi B Arthur Beetson Barry Berrigan Wayne Bond Mitch Brennan Rory Bromley Tom Butterfield Greg Byrnes C Dane Campbell Robert Campbell (rugby league) Luke Capewell Daly Cherry-Evans Mark Christensen (rugby league) Petero Civoniceva Trent Clayton Chris Close Greg Conescu Gavin Cooper Steve Crear I knew your mum loved her footy, Leis told McInnes simply. The appointment of Ken McCrohon, the 1956 and 1957 Australian fullback, as player-coach was seen by the Brisbane Rugby League as authenticity that the club wanted to further its standards. Willie Atkins #230. Unfortunately the Burleigh Bears pipped us at the post in first grade 12-10 but the season can be considered a success going from no teams in the grand final in 1998 to three teams in 1999. Redcliffe Dolphins Reader is a former commercial director at the Broncos, and exudes confidence that the Dolphins could stand on . Seventy years ago, on the evening of 27 February, 1947, a group of men gathered at the Redcliffe Council chambers, 40km north of Brisbane. I went to see Brothers play Redcliffe in the 1987 BRL grand final, and it was packed, remembers Greg Mallory, a Brothers supporter and the author of Voices from Brisbane Rugby League. Welcome to Redcliffe Leagues Club | Corner Klingner & Ashmole Roads, Redcliffe QLD 4020 | 07 3203 7333 | Elite Rewards. When he was chosen for Australia he received a telegram and 25 pounds from the club. Despite not being Club champions for the first time in three seasons, Easts pipped us by a point but we got the ultimate revenge defeating the Tigers in the Qld Cup grand final as well as the three BRL grand finals. In 1965, Redcliffe won its first Brisbane Rugby League Premiership. Redcliffe Dolphins fans in the stands. The transition of moving to Dolphin Oval from the showgrounds in the early 80?s for training purposes presented some initial problems. The answer is simple: pick the Redcliffe Dolphins, full stop. For the second time in three years the club was the BRL first grade premiers. The result three wins to the mighty Dolphins. The grandstand almost shook at the old Lang Park as the final whistle blew. We learnt from our coach Barry Muir who was also the Queensland coach that other teams hated coming across that bridge. Catch up with old friends and team mates and take in all the action of the Village Motors Dolphins Round 12 clash against the PNG Hunters from the Corporate Area at Dolphin Stadium. This forward planning precluded objections in the years ahead when the club would eventually build and served to notify intending housing developers that a licensed club was on line for that particular area. ? The 2001 season saw the Redcliffe Dolphins come within four seconds of achieving back to back Bundy Gold Cup premierships. Jesse Bromwich 9. Under-17 and reserve grade teams win the grand finals in their debut year. DOLPHIN Oval may be upgraded to a $12 million stadium, capable of holding 10,000 people and attracting National Rugby League trials and games. Redcliffe Dolphins player Liam Hampson was a rising Queensland rugby league star. Without the help of the federal member for Petrie Dean Wells, and his government?s contribution through their C.E.P funding, combined with our own financial arrangements with the Commonwealth Bank, the project would not have been possible. A lot of the elderly ladies supported the club year in, year out, whether we were getting flogged or winning premierships.. 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The big prop forward grew up just over the road from Dolphin Oval, went to the local schools, jumped off the famous old jetty, progressed through the junior ranks at the Dolphins and described Redcliffe in his autobiography as my heartland. Once again the Dolphins rose to the challenge making the grand final. Strengths/weaknesses of the bid: The club has a rich history and an army of rusted on fans ready to support the Dolphins' NRL expansion team. "I remember Dessy Webb assembling the whole club before the training session kicked off and saying, 'listen, guys, things aren't travelling that well financially for the club'," Murray said. So his family found a new way, Dolphins the NRL's 17th franchise aim to grow the game in northern Brisbane, Dolphins' talks with Wayne Bennett to coach NRL expansion club 'progressing nicely', The NRL is set to announce its new expansion team. They have won a record six Queensland Cup titles in the. Most Consistent Forward: Nev Edwards One of those players was Waverley Stanley, the founding director of Yalari, a not-for-profit Indigenous education organisation. It was the big thing in town, most people had a team, and it was the way Brisbane defined itself. He hadpenned it that day on the back of a beer coaster and a piece of toilet paper on his way from Lang Park to Dolphin Oval. The game was an exciting and absorbing battle with our boys putting in a magnificent effort only to go down in a photo finish to the Toowoomba Clydesdales. Moreton Daily Stadium, Dolphin Oval and the hills around it were developed on the site of an old refuse dump when the team outgrew their original home at the Redcliffe Showgrounds. Since the competition was established in 1996, Redcliffe have qualified for 11 grand finals, lost six and won five. Indeed the Redcliffe Dolphins are one of the great survivors of Australian rugby league. In 1998 the goalposts for the competition again moved with the introduction of feeder clubs into the competition from the Brisbane Broncos, Melbourne Storm, Townsville Cowboys and Adelaide Rams. The area was offered to the club for 10,000 pounds. "In 50 years, we have had three chairmen and I am the shortest-serving one in my 11th year," Jones said. The club had now acquired a tract of land, which they could develop through the years and at their own pace for senior and junior members and they would be able to control their own destiny all year round. From time to time they made use of this mode of income too add further facilities to Dolphin oval and jerseys for schools within the district. Formed in 2000 from a merger between Margate and Redcliffe Soccer Clubs, the team competes in . Beetson also returned to Redcliffe as player-coach in 1981, and for years ran the local Moreton Bay Hotel. The teams Redcliffe played were Beaudesert, Surfers Paradise and the Brisbane Trades and Labour Cup side. From humble beginnings in 1947 at the Redcliffe Showgrounds the Dolphins has become a rugby league powerhouse, producing some of the game's greatest players and now on the cusp of entering the NRL. After multiple upgrades between 2016 and 2020, the stadium has an approximate capacity of 11,500 including 10,000 seats. Sun Cable: How Australia's biggest renewable energy project hit a snag, Why community batteries could be the next step in the solar power revolution. It was a heartbreaking loss for the team, undone byaMal Meninga pass in the dying seconds of the game. The NRL is expected to propose the Redcliffe Dolphins as the expansion team for 2023 after striking a deal with News Corp to inject an extra $75m into the sport over five years. The original colours were gold and then blue, before maroon and white was set upon in 1952. The first priority was to set up a licensed club trading 10.00am to 10.00pm seven days a week. The Redcliffe Dolphins had achieved what many thought they would never see again in their lifetime? The Redcliffe Dolpjhins Under-8s team in 1997, featuring current Manly and Queensland player Daly Cherry-Evans, holding the ball in the front row. Wayne Bennett has officially been confirmed as The Dolphins head coach and will lead the Redcliffe-based team into their inaugural NRL season in 2023 after signing a four-year deal. One of his favourite personal memories was stealing some limelight after the Brisbane Rugby League '94 grand final when he recited his poem The Mighty Mighty Fins. "When they did the redevelopment, they cut out half those hills and you would still see rubbish bags, so it has come a long way from there," Graham said. At the service that day was Queensland and Kangaroos star Petero Civoniceva. The Redcliffe Dolphins had no such problem. In those consolidating years of the 50's, games were played in a very competitive basis against teams from Caboolture, Kilcoy, Woodford, Brisbane All Blacks, Aspley/Bald Hills, Sandgate, Zillmere, Pine Rivers and Dayboro. They were challenged firstly by Redcliffe in only their second season. The Redcliffe Dolphins will join the NRL in 2023 after officially being unveiled as the competition's 17th team. The players were then told that there was no guarantee they could be paid for the remainder of the season and if they wanted to leave the club before it ended, they could and would be paid up until that point. The success of the Dolphins on the football field has been mirrored by the success of the Leagues Club in the community. Besides those coming from Redcliffe other players had to be brought in from outside and they came from rugby union (Eagle Junction Club) and players from Brisbane Rugby League clubs who were invited to play for the club on Sundays. Trevor Benson said he remembered Des Webb, who was then president, pulling out his own credit card to buy kegs. The people of Redcliffe are a slightly different breed, removed from the rest of Brisbane by the bridge that spans Bramble Bay. Klingner & Ashmole Roads, Redcliffe QLD Australia 4020 | 07 3203 7333, Copyright Redcliffe Leagues Club - All Rights Reserved. The 1996 season saw the introduction of the Channel Nine Queensland Cup competition running across the full season instead of as in the past only half a dozen games early on in the season. But with stage two of Redcliffes new stadium set for completion later this year, Jones believes the club will have better facilities than many of the NRL sides. Today, Redcliffe Leagues Club is one of Queensland's premier licensed clubs boasting 30,000 members and 200 staff. I was the auditor there for 30-odd years, and Redcliffe has never ever not paid a bill. It hasbeen a 74-year-long tale of wins, losses, resurgence from bad bank balances, and the tireless devotion of generations that has culminated in a fairytale new chapter for a team once called "Shellgrit". Alf Charlish became President in time to enjoy the fruits of the previous duo?s labour when the 1965 premiership came along. Before the official opening match in May 1979 against fittingly our proposer into the big league Northern Suburbs, finances were stretched to the limit. 1996 The Dolphins again win the Brisbane Rugby League premiership, and also enter the new state-wide Queensland Cup competition. was a wing of the original Moreton Bay hotel, transported for use as dressing rooms and a clubhouse. NRL CEO Andrew Abdo addresses the media following news the Dolphins have been confirmed as the competition's 17th team.Dominic Lorrimer Sean O'Sullivan 8. That's our focus. a first grade premiership. ? At the other end of the 60's (1969) Trevor Harken became the first home grown junior to come through the grades and play for Queensland. Civoniceva played his club football for the Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 1998, 2000 and 2006 NRL Premierships . Throughout the 1960s, a number of famous players came through the ranks of the Dolphins to represent Queensland and Australia, including Trevor Harken and Arthur Beetson. "We thought we shouldn't be left at the whim of someone making a decision outside our club, we should put ourselves in a position where we can, you know, be in control of our own destiny," he said. The success of the Dolphins on the football field has been mirrored by the success of the Leagues Club in the community. In January 1979, the committee proposed to name the complex Don McLennan Oval, but at the recipients request the ground was declared Dolphin Oval within the sporting development area of Talobilla Park. There is talk about a fifth COVID-19 vaccine dose, but how many should I already have and who is eligible? 128 T he year was 1978. . Previously the club ran under 18, reserve and first grade teams. In the 1970?s, Eric Harris as the National Fitness Council and Brisbane Junior Rugby League Secretary ran fitness camps at Tallebudgera and clubs could take advantage of the facility to organise fitness programs with passing, tackling and playing the ball variations. DOLPHINS 2023 NRL SQUAD Development players: Harrison Graham, Michael Roberts, Jack Bostock, Jeremiah Simbiken Train and trail contracts: Cody Hunter, Setu Tu, Trai Fuller, Bailey Butler, Tyler. Redcliffe Dolphins has revealed plans for a $12 million stadium at Dolphin Oval. Benson said he felt privileged to play during a periodthat marked a handing over of the old guard to a new generation of players who became entrenched in the club's history. ? Established just after World War II, they had no less than the mighty Artie Beetson playing for them in the mid-1960s, have won countless premierships and their whole storied past is a cherished part of the rich fabric of the region. The president at the time, Des Webb, called it the greatest day in the clubs history, while the current president, Bob Jones, believes it marked the beginning of a golden era that lasted until 2006. [9], Media related to Redcliffe Dolphins at Wikimedia Commons, This article is about a rugby league club in the. Ive been connected with the club ever since in one way or another.. With this in mind Don McLennan was given the responsibility of becoming joint secretary and soon organised representative games for the district team. Harvey who had strong Rugby Union ties and Maule who was playing for Brothers in the Brisbane competition both accepted readily and enthusiastically .So shortly after on Thursday, 27th February, 1947 the Redcliffe Peninsula Rugby League Football Club was born. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, as Brisbane rugby league fans found a new loyalty for Broncos, iconic clubs such as Brothers and Fortitude Valley were forced to merge and many others had to fight to remain relevant. With no gravity flow for the sewerage to Klingner Road, expensive pumps had to be acquired, power for floodlighting had to go underground to the main oval and the tunnel from the dressing rooms to the main oval was transhipped from Western Australia which cost $9000. For many this was a dream come true with the chance to play representative football for those worthy. After investigations, it was learned that show cause notices were about to be served on the juniors by the council and the Liquor Licensing Commission for noise and breaches of the liquor act. Redcliffe players in the 14s are Anthony Allison, Shaun Barnier, Mitchell Breed, Josh Elks and Blake Marshall. It is to be replaced by a statewide competition. When he died in 2011, the funeral was held at Dolphin Oval. As we came to the end of 1995 which will be remembered as the most tumultuous years in the history of this game we came to the end of the BRL competition as we know it. ? The juniors, now under one administration, along with the training and playing facilities of Dolphin Oval which are a show piece of Rugby League in Queensland. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/qld-redcliffe-dolphins-nrl-rugby-league/100543074, Get breaking news alerts directly to your phone with our app, Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article, Dolphins' coach 'super excited' for future, Aviation industry awaits answers why Qantas issued 'unusual' mayday alert, Are the climate wars really over? Outside of a few classic NRL controversies Israel Folau and Payne Haas have seen to that the talk of the town in the offseason heading into 2021 has been one thing: Brisbane expansion. The first fixture game for the club was played against Souths at Davies Park on April 2 1960. A youthful Petero Civoniceva before he went on to become an NRL great. November 1st is when the Dolphins can officially start signing players for the 2023 season. The Redcliffe club, although losing some outstanding players, should be very proud of the system they have in place, which leads their most promising products into the ?Big Time?. Dozens of jerseys worn by Dolphins alumni adorn the walls of the clubhouse, from Tom Maules tattered old representative jumper to the Queensland and Kangaroos jerseys of the modern era. This was a strong competition for the boys to be introduced into often playing without the full compliment of players. Redcliffe people have always been very parochial, our supporters are long-term and weve always had our own identity. I made a promise: I was born here in Redcliffe and I would have walked over broken glass to play here to get them started. Over the years the club has embraced more skilful players, not just the hard men, but one thing has stayed the same: Redcliffe people are loyal to their own. Originally worn by teams in the early 1980s when Village Motors came on board as Major Sponsor, the jersey has been released in 2019 to celebrate the ongoing partnership between the Dolphins and Village Motors. McCall described the win as "shaking the monkey off the club's back". And it represented yet another change of direction for the club. Stay on current site or go to US version. After a decade of coming of age, the club looked to the 1970?s as their next step in establishing itself as a progressive club in the Brisbane Rugby League. Peninsula Power Football Club is a football (soccer) club in Redcliffe. The club, which turns 70 this year, has grown into the most successful side in Queensland. Don was seconded to the chairmanship of the juniors and did not return to Secretarial duties until 1970. Redcliffe still has a bit of a country feel about it, says Jones. 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