Ipswich Jets

Ipswich Jets
Club information
Full name Ipswich Jets Rugby League Football Club
Nickname(s) The Jets,
Website ipswichjets.com.au
Colours Green, Gold, White
Founded 1982
Current details
Ground(s)
CEO(s) Wayne Wendt
Coach(s) Ben Walker & Shane Walker
Captain(s) Keiron Lander
Competition Queensland Cup
2014 5th
Current season
Records
Premierships 2015
Runners-up 4 (1988, 1989, 2002, 2008)
Minor premiership 1 (2008)
Most capped 258 - Danny Coburn

The Ipswich Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Ipswich, Queensland. Their name comes from nearby RAAF Base Amberley, one of the largest airbases in Australia. The Jets compete in the Queensland Cup competition. Originally in the 1980s their colours were green and white, but in recent years gold has been added to the combination.

History

Ipswich were one of the earliest teams to join the Queensland Rugby League after it was founded as the Queensland Amateur Rugby Football League in 1909. Ipswich even contested two of the QARFL's first three grand finals, winning the title in its first year in the competition in 1910. But a long absence from the competition started shortly thereafter, and Ipswich was not represented in Queensland's top league again until the mid-1980s.

From 1982 to 1985, an Ipswich representative team competed in the statewide comps. The following year, an Ipswich team was introduced to the Brisbane Rugby League premiership. They were coached in the 1980s by legendary Australian halfback Tommy Raudonikis. The team's most famous product was Allan Langer, who in 1987 was selected to play halfback for the Queensland State of Origin team while playing for the Jets in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership, even though he was not as yet playing in the New South Wales Rugby League's Winfield Cup which was, at that time, fast becoming the premier rugby league competition in the world.

Kerrod and Kevin Walters also played for the club with Langer in their early years. When all three played together for the Brisbane Broncos later, they were dubbed "the Ipswich connection". Kevin later returned to coach the Queensland Cup side in the mid-2000s before moving to Europe to coach in Super League. Their brother, Steve Walters, played originally for Booval Swifts in the Ipswich Rugby League.

The Jets reached the Grand Finals of the 1988 and 1989 Brisbane Rugby League premiership.

Ipswich continued playing in the Queensland Cup when it was founded in 1997. In the 2007 Queensland Cup, the Jets caused a surprise by upsetting many of their more fancied rivals and pressing for a semi-finals spot, when they had been predicted by most tipsters to finish last.

At the end of the 2008 Queensland Cup preliminary rounds, Ipswich finished four points clear at the top of the ladder, winning their first-ever Queensland Cup minor premiership. As Kevin Walters moved to Europe to pursue a career coaching in Super League, his assistant and former teammate at both the Canberra Raiders and the Broncos, Glenn Lazarus, was promoted to head coach.

Brothers Ben and Shane Walker who assisted Lazarus in 2009 and 2010 have been appointed co-head coaches in 2011, 2012 and again in 2013. Shane played 149 games for the Broncos and South Sydney from 1996-2006, while Ben 135 NRL games for Brisbane, Northern Eagles, Manly Sea Eagles and South Sydney between 1995 and 2006, as well as 44 games for the London Broncos (1995–96) and the Leeds Rhinos (2002). Ben was the NRL's leading point scorer in 2001 when he scored 279 points (18 tries, 103 goals and 1 field goal) in his only season with the Northern Eagles.

NRL bid

In 2010 the Jets announced they will be part of a bid for a licence in an expanded National Rugby League.

List of results

Brisbane Rugby League premiership (First Grade)

Queensland Cup

Players

Current roster

Name Position Junior Club Birth date World Cup Eligibility
Carlin ANDERSON Runners Son 3 October 1995 Australia
Marmin Barba Wing/Centre/Fullback Mackay 21 February 1991 Australia
Chris Walker Centre/Wing Toowoomba 29 July 1985 Australia
Nemani VALEKAPA Centre/Wing 21 May 1989 Australia
Brandon McGRADY Centre/Wing Mackay Norths 13 March 1984 Australia
Josh CLEELAND Halfback/Hooker Rockhampton Norths 25 November 1984 Australia
Keiron LANDER Lock Quilpie Magpies29 May 1987 Australia
Josh SEAGE Wing/Fullback Swifts Bluebirds 13 September 1992[1] Germany
Dane PHILLIPS Second Row/Lock 16 September 1988 Australia
Kurtis LINGWOODOCK Second Row Ipswich Swifts 1 November 1990 Australia
Sam MARTIN Second Row Ipswich Norths 8 May 1989 Australia
Tyson LOFIPO Second/Front Row Ipswich Brothers 4 April 1988 FijiSamoa
Gerico CECIL Prop/Second Row Blackbutt 11 July 1990 Australia
Kurt Capewell Prop/Second Row Charleville3 August 1985 AustraliaSamoa
Troy O'SULLIVAN Hooker Noosa Pirates 26 November 1988 Australia
Matt PARCELL Utility Fassifern 30 October 1992 Australia
Billy McConnachie Utility Fassifern 30 October 1992 Australia
Liam CAPEWELL Utility Charleville30 October 1992 Australia

Allan Langer Medal

The "Allan Langer Medal", named after the legendary Ipswich halfback is the Jets' player of the year award. [2]

Walters Family Medal

The Walters Family Medal is the Jets' players' player of the year award and honours the famous Ipswich footballing family of brothers Brett,Steve, Andrew,Kerrod and Kevin, of which all but Steve played for the Jets.

Dan Coburn Medal

The "Dan Coburn Medal", named after the Jets' greatest ever player Dan Coburn who over 13 seasons most as captain played 258 games for the Club, is the Jets' clubman of the year award.

References

  1. ↑ NRL. "Josh Seage". Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  2. ↑ "Sweeney wins Allan Langer Medal" article at qrl.com.au (22 September 2008)

External links

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