Hastings Deering Colts

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Hastings Deering Colts
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Rugby football current event.svg 2022 Hastings Deering Colts season
Hastings Deering Colts new logo 2021.png
Sport Rugby league
Instituted12 October 2017 [1]
Inaugural season2018
ChairmanBruce Hatcher
Number of teams 14
CountryFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia (14 teams)
Holders Townsville Blackhawks colours.png Townsville Blackhawks (2022)
Most titles Norths Devils colours.svg Norths Devils
Sunshine Coast Colours.svg Sunshine Coast Falcons
Wynnum-Manly Colours.svg Wynnum Manly Seagulls
Townsville Blackhawks colours.png Townsville Blackhawks (1 title)
Website qrl.com.au
Related competition Jersey Flegg Cup
Mal Meninga Cup

The Hastings Deering Colts is a junior rugby league competition based in Queensland, contested among teams made up of players aged 21 or under. The competition is administered by the Queensland Rugby League (QRL), and is contested by fourteen teams, thirteen of which are located in Queensland and one in New South Wales.

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From 2018 to 2020, the Hastings Deering Colts was an under-20 competition before moving to an under-21 format for the 2021 season.

History

Before the advent of the Hastings Deering Colts, there had been no statewide, full season under-20 competition in Queensland. 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 (NYC), 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). [2]

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. [3] [4]

On 12 October 2017, the QRL announced the Hastings Deering Colts as the state's under-20 competition, running alongside the senior Queensland Cup competition, with 13 Queensland Cup sides fielding a team in the inaugural season. [1] On 9 October 2018, the Victoria Thunderbolts left the competition after one season to return to the NSWRL setup, joining the Jersey Flegg Cup. [5]

On 17 March 2020, two days after the completion of Round One, the QRL announced a 10-week suspension of the competition until 5 June, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] On 27 March, ten days after the suspension, the QRL confirmed the cancellation of the competition for the 2020 season. [7] [8]

On 19 October 2020, the QRL announced that the competition would return in 2021 and would be played under an under-21 format. [9]

Naming Rights

In October 2019, QRL Chief Operating Officer Rohan Sawyer announced that Caterpillar equipment supplier, Hastings Deering, would continue as the naming rights sponsor of the competition from 2020 until 2022. [10]

Hastings Deering Colts teams

The Hastings Deering Colts consists of 14 teams, 13 from Queensland, and 1 from New South Wales., and operates on a single group system, with no divisions or conferences and no relegation and promotion from other leagues.
Much like the Queensland Cup, each club in the competition has an affiliation with a team in the NRL.

Current teams

Hastings Deering Colts
Rugby League ClubEst.Joined*City/TownStateHome VenueTitle/sRecent NRL Affiliate
Balmain colours.svg Brisbane Tigers 19172018 Brisbane Queensland Langlands Park 0- Melbourne colours.svg Storm
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Burleigh Bears 19342018 Gold Coast Queensland Pizzey Park 0- Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Titans
Central Comets colours.svg Central Queensland Capras 19962018 Rockhampton Queensland Browne Park 0- Brisbane colours.svg Broncos
Ipswich Colours.svg Ipswich Jets 19822018 Ipswich Queensland North Ipswich Reserve 0- Newcastle colours.svg Knights
Mackay Cutters colours.svg Mackay Cutters 20072018 Mackay Queensland BB Print Stadium Mackay 0- North Queensland colours.svg Cowboys
Northern Pride colours.png Northern Pride 20072018 Cairns Queensland Barlow Park 0- North Queensland colours.svg Cowboys
Norths Devils colours.svg Norths Devils 19332018 Brisbane Queensland Pathion Park 12018 Brisbane colours.svg Broncos
Redcliffe colours.svg Redcliffe Dolphins 19472018 Moreton Bay Queensland Dolphin Stadium 0- Auckland colours.svg Warriors
Souths-Logan Magpies Colours.svg Souths Logan Magpies 19182018 Brisbane Queensland Davies Park 0- Brisbane colours.svg Broncos
Sunshine Coast Colours.svg Sunshine Coast Falcons 19962018 Sunshine Coast Queensland Sunshine Coast Stadium 12019 Melbourne colours.svg Storm
Townsville Blackhawks colours.png Townsville Blackhawks 20152018 Townsville Queensland Jack Manski Oval 12022 North Queensland colours.svg Cowboys
Western Suburbs colours.svg Tweed Seagulls 19092018 Tweed Heads New South Wales Piggabeen Sports Complex 0- Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Titans
Toowoomba Clydesdales colours.svg Western Clydesdales 20172018 Toowoomba Queensland Gold Park 0- Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Titans
Wynnum-Manly Colours.svg Wynnum Manly Seagulls 19512018 Brisbane Queensland BMD Kougari Oval 12021 Brisbane colours.svg Broncos

Season structure

Regular season

The Hastings Deering Colts follows the same regular season format as the Queensland Cup, with games usually played as curtain-raisers to the senior fixtures. Beginning in early March, a round of regular season games is then played almost every weekend for twenty-three weeks, ending in early September. Unlike the Queensland Cup, the Hastings Deering Colts features three full rounds where every team receives a bye and a split round in Round 19. These rounds are scheduled in to accommodate university exam periods. [11] [12]

Teams receive two competition points for a win, and one point for a draw. The bye also receives two points; a loss, no points. Teams on the ladder are ranked by competition points, then match points differential (for and against) and points percentage are used to separate teams with equal competition points. At the end of the regular season, the club which is ranked highest on the ladder is declared minor premiers.

Finals series

After using a top six final series system in 2018, the competition followed the Queensland Cup in adopting a top eight final series for the 2019 season. [12] [13] The eight finalists are split into two groups for the opening week of the finals series. The top four teams have the best chance of winning the premiership and play the two Qualifying Finals. The winners get a bye through to Week Three of the finals to play home Preliminary Finals, while the losers play home Semi-Finals in Week Two. The bottom four teams play the two Elimination Finals, where the winners advance to Week Two away games and the losers' seasons are over.

The winners of two Preliminary Finals then contest the Grand Final, which is played in late September as a curtain-raiser to the Queensland Cup Grand Final.

Grand Final results

SeasonGrand Finals
PremiersScoreRunners-upVenue
2018 Norths Devils colours.svg Norths Devils 20 – 16 Townsville Blackhawks colours.png Townsville Blackhawks Suncorp Stadium
2019 Sunshine Coast Colours.svg Sunshine Coast Falcons 34 – 28 Wynnum-Manly Colours.svg Wynnum Manly Seagulls Dolphin Stadium
2020 Season cancelled
2021 Wynnum-Manly Colours.svg Wynnum Manly Seagulls 17 – 16 Townsville Blackhawks colours.png Townsville Blackhawks Moreton Daily Stadium
2022 Townsville Blackhawks colours.png Townsville Blackhawks 46 – 32 Redcliffe colours.svg Redcliffe Dolphins
2023 Kayo Stadium

Awards

Player of the Year

See also

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