FOGS Colts Challenge

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FOGS Colts Challenge
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Rugby football current event.svg 2017 FOGS Colts Challenge season
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Sport Rugby league
Instituted1986
Inaugural season1986
Ceased2017
Replaced by Hastings Deering Colts
ChairmanBruce Hatcher
Number of teams 15
CountryFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia (15 teams)
Premiers Redcliffe Dolphins (2017)
Most titles Norths Devils
Website qrl.com.au
Related competition Jersey Flegg Cup
Mal Meninga Cup

The FOGS Colts Challenge is an 11-team rugby league competition run by the QRL. It is the highest level of junior rugby league in Brisbane before players move into senior rugby. FOGS in an acronym for Former Origin Greats.

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The competition provides the highest standard for young players ranging 16-18 who wish to further their rugby league careers and is seen as the first step for young Queensland boys in reaching the National Rugby League. Although the competition is based in Brisbane, scouts from all the NRL clubs have a presence in Colts rugby. Players are chosen from the FOGS Cup for U17, U18, state, and national representative sides, and it is also the stepping stone to play in the Queensland Cup. It is not unusual for young stars in the FOGS Cup to have already signed contracts with an NRL side.

History

The FOGS Colts Challenge, which ran from 1986 to 2017, only featured sides from south east Queensland. From 2008 to 2017, the National Rugby League (NRL) administered their own under-20 competition, the National Youth Competition, which featured the three Queensland-based NRL clubs, the Brisbane Broncos, Gold Coast Titans and North Queensland Cowboys, and a plethora of young players from the state. In 2016, the NRL announced that the National Youth Competition would be discontinued after the 2017 season, in favour of state-based under-20 competitions, administered by the Queensland Rugby League (QRL) and New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL). [1]

In 2017, in preparation for the new competition, the QRL ran a shortened, statewide under-20 competition called the FOGS U20s Cup. The competition, which was won by the Redcliffe Dolphins, ran over nine-weeks, alongside the Mal Meninga Cup, and featured all 15 teams who would eventually participate in the Hastings Deering Colts. [2] [3]

Current Teams

2009 Ladder

TeamPldWDLBPFPAPDPts
1 Souths Logan Magpies 2016132548350+19837
2 Easts Tigers 2014152734372+36233
3 Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles 2013342489398+9133
4 Tweed Heads Seagulls 2011182487425+5027
5 Western Districts Panthers 209292464462+224
6 Norths Devils 2090112447495-4822
7 Burleigh Bears 2081112379488-10921
8 Wynnum Manly Seagulls 2060142422596-17416
9 Ipswich Jets 2050152349522-17314
10 Redcliffe Dolphins 2041152390599-20913

Grand Final Results

YearWinnerScoreLoser
1998Norths Devils44 - 20Past Brothers
1999Redcliffe Dolphins26 - 22Norths Devils
2000Norths Devils32 - 14Wests Panthers
2001Redcliffe Dolphins24 - 22Norths Devils
2002Wests Panthers30 - 20Redcliffe Dolphins
2003Redcliffe Dolphins24 - 20Norths Devils
2004Norths Devils48 - 6Easts Tigers
2005Norths Devils28 - 18Wests Panthers
2006Norths Devils28 - 22Wynnum-Manly Seagulls
2007Tweed Heads Seagulls18 - 14Norths Devils
2008Western Districts Panthers30 - 16Aspley Devils
2009Easts Tigers30 - 28Souths Logan Magpies
2010Easts Tigers20 - 18Wynnum-Manly Seagulls
2015Wynnum-Manly Seagulls????Burleigh Bears??
2016Easts Tigers21 - 20Redcliffe Dolphins
2017Redcliffe Dolphins56 - 18Norths Devils

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References

  1. "NRL replaces Holden Cup under 20s with new NSW, Qld competitions in 2018 - Fox Sports". www.foxsports.com.au.
  2. "QRL gets jump on new under-20s comp". 3 March 2017.
  3. "FOGS U20s Cup state final teams". 2 May 2017.