City Council engineer Kevin Tibbetts took to the construction of the playing fields and mounds with the utmost enthusiasm and co-operated with club 100% in relation the their desire to make the complex a show piece for Rugby League. Redcliffe is also a club that treasures its history and traditions. Beetson also returned to Redcliffe as player-coach in 1981, and for years ran the local Moreton Bay Hotel. The decision to accept the Club came with conditions. The Dolphins are the first team to join the NRL competition since the Gold Coast Titans joined in 2007. for the club. Under head coach John Boxsell the first grade side again made the semi finals, finishing fourth in the minor premiership. Chris Close #231 But once again the players showed that famous Dolphin spirit and lifted to beat a fast finishing Souths side. The Redcliffe Dolphins have had connections with 26 Queensland Origin players. Pressure to build a licensed club at Dolphin Oval was mounting, but to leave the old club which was a financially viable operation and to go into large debt had to be met with a great deal of caution. They have won a record six Queensland Cup titles in the. The club entered 3 teams in the first season an u-17, reserve grade and first grade teams in the Sandgate Suburban Rugby League competition which was played on Sundays, in those days the Brisbane Rugby League competition was played on a Saturday. As the hooter sounded the majority of the 18,000 crowd dressed in red and white got to their feet as one. . 4 min read. Keep up to date with the latest news and signings coming out of Redcliffe and our analysis on it all at The Dolphins Hub. 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. Ross O?Reilly and his squad of 17 players broke the hoodoo that has haunted Redcliffe sides since the sole premiership win of 1965. As a revenue raiser and from a social point of view, it met the criteria of its charter: To foster Rugby League and for its members to enjoy a convivial meeting place where a common bond may be enjoyed.. Beetson, whoserved as the captain in Queensland's first Origin side in 1980, became the game's seventh immortal in 2003. The club continues to increase support for the local community, with the Dolphins Health Precinct opening to the public in January 2011. "Three mighty rocks of rugby league on the peninsula just sowed the seeds and laid the platform for something that was destined for bigger things," he said. "I grew up with that folklore, that fairytale, that romance of the Dolphins that had gone before," he said. I was the auditor there for 30-odd years, and Redcliffe has never ever not paid a bill. My dad passed away in June that year, and he was like my old man in a lot of ways.". The Dolphins are putting together their squad for the 2023 NRL season and Jason Oliver is breaking down all of the moves along the way. The clubhouse had a nice bar area already established, but to meet the requirements of the liquor laws in relation to licensed premises, alterations had to be carried out firstly to meet those pressures and later in the decade to accommodate the growth in membership of the club. Ian Thinee: 164 games for Redcliffe. Third Grade: 1968. Tue 17 Jan 2023, 05:18 PM. The Dolphins will tomorrow release for sale single-game membership options that contain seats at what will be the biggest . The Redcliffe Dolphins say the partnership will create the ideal pathway for central Queensland players into the NRL Dolphins CEO Terry Reader says creating the team was as much about opportunities for regional Queensland as it was for Brisbane The new club is also hoping to create a fanbase in central Queensland through the new affiliation 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? He approached two local men Tom Maule and Hughie Harvey to their interest in helping form and play with a new Rugby League based in Redcliffe. See the bios for the 2022 Redcliffe Dolphins Hostplus Cup squad below. Once again the Dolphins rose to the challenge making the grand final. After securing the club championship for the fourth year in succession, voted the best Football club at the annual club awards for the second year in succession and winning the colts? 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. said Dick ?Tosser? Through this NRL licence, the Dolphins organisation has become the only former BRL club to regain top-flight status after that competition became a second-tier league with the advent of the Brisbane Broncos in 1988, similar to the SANFL team Port Adelaide's AFL franchise, the Power. ? Most Improved Forward: Col Raaen The Dolphins have been accepted by the Australian Rugby League to compete in the 2023 NRL premiership competition. The Club, while now enjoying the financial benefits of the Leagues Club, can provide all the equipment and coaching aids for the betterment of all players. Jesse Bromwich 9. "I would've been disappointed if I wasn't involved in that piece of Redcliffe's history," he said. What these kids done today takes care of 30 years of unfinished business for some of us old blokes. Redcliffe Dolphins has revealed plans for a $12 million stadium at Dolphin Oval. "That was my upbringing, and Dolphin Oval was central to my childhood.". Download Team App now and search for Redcliffe Dolphins Juniors to enjoy our team app on the go. His dad told him about Kevin Yow Yeh,who played for the team in the '60s before going to the Balmain Tigers. "He just came and gave me a bear hug. The first club unofficial club emblem or at least nickname was the Shellgrit, no doubt spawned by the abundance of shell grit on the peninsulas beaches. We name Redcliffe's 75 best players in the club's 75th anniversary season. Within 12 months of the sod turning ceremony, the building was ready to be officially opened by the Mayor of Redcliffe and Past President of the Redcliffe Football Club, Alderman Alf Charlish. The Redcliffe Dolphins are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia.Founded in 1947, they were accepted into the Brisbane Rugby League (BRL) premiership competition in 1960, and since 1996 have played in the Queensland Cup.The Redcliffe Dolphins thrived in the BRL. The clubs application to enter third and Second Grade teams into the Brisbane Rugby League was only successful after persistent lobbying from Secretary Don McLennan and Club officials. He came to the Dolphins from Rockhampton BRL Player of the Year 1971, Courier-Mail Player of the Year 1973. According to cluboral history, one punter had already popped the champagne when hopes were dashed. To be based at Redcliffe . It's hard to believe its humble beginnings when you visit the site today. Here is how the Dolphins are shaping up for 2023. Rugby league players in Queensland by club 24L; Redcliffe Dolphins 2L, 3T; Please login to see options; The list Redcliffe Dolphins players includes Petero Civoniceva, Brent Tate, Arthur Beetson, David Hala and Jharal Yow Yeh. Founded in 1947 the Dolphins have played in the . And it represented yet another change of direction for the club. In response, their coaching director Frank Johnson and panel member Ken Gittoes came to Redcliffe for a two-day seminar. Sources with . At the end of the season Barry qualified at the New South Wales Narrabeen base as a grade 2 coach. Oliver Gildart 4. 1968 The club takes on the name that has made it famous across Queensland, Australia and now the globe The Dolphins. The great thing about the club is that they put so much back into the community. Between 1986 and 1996 Stanley played 113 first-grade games for the Dolphins and captained the club to the premiership in 1994. 1960 Redcliffe is officially accepted into the Brisbane Rugby League premiership, with the club known as The Seagulls. The Redcliffe Dolphins are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia. 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. Redcliffe beat Valleys 15 points to two that day with Kevin Yow Yeh, an explosive Indigenous winger from Gladstone, scoring two tries. 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. 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. Reader is a former commercial director at the Broncos, and exudes confidence that the Dolphins could stand on . The 1960s were described as a coming of age decade for the Redcliffe District Rugby League Football Club and as they looked towards the 1970s the priority was to set up a licensed club trading 10am to 10pm seven days a week. Currently the chief executive of the Redcliffe Dolphins' Qld Cup entity, Cleal has experience as a former player, coach and football manager for the club. A win this season, then, would be a fitting way to celebrate 70 years. The clubhouse had a nice bar area already established, but to meet the requirements of the liquor laws in relation to licensed premises, alterations had to be firstly carried out to meet the those pressures and later in the decade to accommodate the growth in membership of the club. "It had a great junior base and it still does. Steve Beakley (Director) Director since 2007. Now 92, he believes that he is the sole surviving member from that inaugural club meeting. Redcliffe still has a bit of a country feel about it, says Jones. The Geraghty Cup was won by the club in 1954-55-56 and is still on display in the clubhouse at Dolphin Oval today. Shaken by Nepal's Yeti Airlines crash, how can Australians ensure they fly safely overseas? Before the official opening match in May 1979 against fittingly our proposer into the big league Northern Suburbs, finances were stretched to the limit. The transfer fee for Beetson and Yow Yeh were put into a fixed deposit account that was used as the basis of financing the building of the first clubhouse. Redcliffe Dolphins players more_vert. In the 2000s, a new National Rugby League team based on the Gold Coast proposed calling itself the Gold Coast Dolphins. Redcliffe's halfback Greg Oliphant was selected to go on the 1978 Kangaroo tour but did not play in any Test matches. Seventy years ago, on the evening of 27 February, 1947, a group of men gathered at the Redcliffe Council chambers, 40km north of Brisbane. Former test halfback Mark Murray was appointed first grade coach after winning two successive colts premierships. 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. The cash-rich Queenslanders want to stake an NRL claim, not as a feeder club, or as a partner in a new Brisbane franchise, but as a team in their own right. 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. Redcliffe Dolphins Representative Players Australian Representatives Arthur Beetson Bob Gehrke Brad Tessmann Brent Tate Bryan Niebling Chris Close Dane Carlaw Dane Gagai Dave Brown Dave Trewhella David Shillington Greg Conescu Greg Oliphant Henry Holloway John Ribot Ken McCrohon Mark Murray Michael Crocker Petero Civoniceva Ray Higgs Stephen Crear Many of Queenslands most iconic players and coaches passed through the club, including Barry Muir, Dick Tosser Turner, Bryan Niebling, Peter Leis, Adam Mogg, Daly Cherry-Evans, Wally Fullerton-Smith, Brent Tate, Petero Civoniceva and, of course, the late, great Arthur Beetson a man once described as the tribal elder of the Queensland State of Origin side. A system was then set up whereby for the first time in Queensland, Queenslanders could qualify at Redcliffe. Dick Turner became President in 1971 after Alf Charlish relinquished the chair, an office he had held with distinction since 1965. Under-17 and reserve grade teams win the grand finals in their debut year. 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. Bulletin Latest Headlines direct to your inbox, LeagueUnlimited | Privacy Policy | Disclaimer. The BRL, as it turned out were right in their opposition to accepting the Club. The repayment of this loan was not necessary as in 1983 the Old Boys turned it into a grant. Dolphins set to win Bennett with Redcliffe to be unveiled as NRL's 17th team BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 02: Coach Wayne Bennett gives a smile as he watches on during a South Sydney Rabbitohs . There is talk about a fifth COVID-19 vaccine dose, but how many should I already have and who is eligible? In this regard we were again equal to the occasion to have Presidents to carry the Club through. 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. They knew they were in for a really torrid time. 1994 The Dolphins begin a golden age by winning the Brisbane Rugby League Premiership. And also soon to strike the thriving bar trade was the heavily publicised ?Don?t dink and drive? The first fixture game for the club was played against Souths at Davies Park on April 2 1960. Addition of a 17th team will mean the season will expand from 24 to 26 rounds. The lights at the showgrounds were superior to those on the new fields and the club administration and licensed club was still located at the showgrounds. Willie Atkins #230. There was no suggestion of misappropriation, but people as unfortunately in many cases of clubs, were not prepared to adhere to the law and naturally had their neighbours offside. The introduction of poker machines certainly created ?A new ball game? In the middle 50's, the club once again saw the need to further expand. The Redcliffe club won further premierships in 1994, 1996 and 1997 and has also appeared in 12 Queensland Cup grand finals, making it the most successful team in that competition. The Dolphins junior club alone has 50 teams and 800 registered players in an area that is predicted to further expand. We'll kick it off with the rumour (basically confirmed at this point) that Wayne Bennett will be the inaugural coach of the Dolphins on a three year deal. It is to be replaced by a statewide competition. Senior Dolphins Players from all eras are invited to the 2019 RedPhins Past Players Reunion on Saturday 1st June 2019. The 17-team competition sees the NRL become a 26-round competition with every team . This soon became a problem and it was then resolved that the Murrumba League fixture would be drawn up so that Redcliffe could promote themselves into the stronger Geraghty Cup competition. They argued the Club had insufficient number of players to fulfill a complete season in a demanding competition. 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. Founded on 27 February 1947, Redcliffe District Rugby League Football Club Inc. (known as Shellgrit) entered Under 17, Reserve Grade and First Grade teams in that year's Sandgate Suburban Rugby League competition. A team which made its home on the site of a redeveloped dump. The Redcliffe Dolphins have a proud history of player development. All Rights Reserved. In his book A mans gotta have a hobby: Long summers with my dad, Redcliffe supporter and actor William McInnes remembered the BRL as the expression of a different Brisbane; a little rougher maybe, certainly more of a small town, but a town that was richer in the way its people interacted. The team will be known solely as the Dolphins and not the Brisbane or Redcliffe Dolphins, with home games to played primarily at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium - the Broncos' home ground - but also as . Best Clubman: Des Webb The result three wins to the mighty Dolphins. 1997 The Dolphins magic double they win both the Brisbane Rugby League competition and secure the Queensland Cup title for the first time. This was a strong competition for the boys to be introduced into often playing without the full compliment of players. In that first season our club won the under 17 and reserve grade competitions and the first grade team got knocked out in the semi finals. Rugby league fans can now ensure they are part of history with one-game memberships available from tomorrow that include guaranteed seats at two of the biggest matches of the 2023 NRL season. "I thought life couldn't get much better than that," he said. In 1965, Redcliffe won its first Brisbane Rugby League Premiership. While his old teammates in Canberra won the NSWRL comp in the same year, Graham said he never regretted leaving the side and coming home. At this stage there was no Leagues club, all the club had was the winter use of a double story building which consisted of an unlined corrugated iron. However, the 1988 admission of the Brisbane Broncos team in the National Rugby League (NRL . Despite all the mergers and expansion over the past three decades, the competition is still heavily stacked in favour of NSW, and more than half of the current NRL clubs are from Sydney. 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. Wally Fullerton-Smith #229. Graham captained the 1994 BRL grand final win for the club, the team's first since 1965. The club, now known as Redcliffe Dolphins, has grown into the most successful side in all of Queensland and one of the largest enterprises in the Moreton Bay region, with a shopping centre on the premises and more than 200 employees. The Dolphins respect and honour the Traditional Custodians of the land and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future. 2000 The Dolphins win the Queensland Cup Grand Final. In 1961 Norths became the first team since Valleys in 1919 to win a premiership hat trick. 1981 Beetson returns to captain-coach the Dolphins, with the team falling short in the BRL Grand Final. The Dolphins have a rich history beginning in 1947 that has led to an NRL berth in 2023. Founded in 1947, they were accepted into the Brisbane Rugby League (BRL) premiership competition in 1960, and since 1996 have played in the Queensland Cup. "At the end of 80 minutes of rugby league, we would flood the field with our autographbooks, just trying to get the names of our heroes inscribed on those pages," he said. Under his leadership in 2022 the Dolphins made the grand final in both QRL grades contested - the Hostplus Cup and under-21s Hastings-Deerings Colts competitions. ? "I'm still the only born and bred local junior-premiership-winning captain.". In 1965, Redcliffe won its first Brisbane Rugby League Premiership. 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. Key points: Games were played against Ipswich, Southport and Toowoomba, but it soon become apparent that, although they relished the idea of being able to prove and enjoy themselves as representative players, the country players found it extremely difficult comply with the additional but, more particularly the added burden of travelling the long distances required. The Dolphins still have multiple spots empty in their top 30 NRL roster and there is an opportunity for Kelly to push for one of those positions in the coming months, however he is currently not training with the NRL squad. The club had suffered three grand final losses: in 1981 to Souths, in 1983 to Easts and in 1987 to Brothers. 2003 Another Grand Final triumph makes it three Queensland Cup trophy wins in four seasons. Then I went to the grand final in 1988 and there were 13,000. [9], Media related to Redcliffe Dolphins at Wikimedia Commons, This article is about a rugby league club in the. 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. Redcliffe Dolphins currently play in the InTrust Super Cup, a competition that meanders up Queenslands east coast from the southern-most point in Tweed Heads, through Mackay, Townsville, Cairns and across the Arafura Sea to Papua New Guinea. Former DolphinIan Grahamsaid he remembered once seeing an old car bonnet surface from below the pitch, while others recall tripping on the odd piece of tyre which had also worked its way up. 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. Photograph: Redcliffe Dolphins 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. 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. So thats dramatic it was a whole change of culture.. Despite some initial problems the competition was a successful innovation by the Queensland Rugby League with most of the games proving to be of a high standard. Apart from those who played for Brisbane, Bob Gehrke was the first Redcliffe player to be chosen for Queensland. 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. in 2009 he broke the record for most international matches for Australia of any forward in history. Civoniceva played his club football for the Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 1998, 2000 and 2006 NRL Premierships . Normal services had to be brought in. Weve had quite a few meetings with the NRL, just to let them know that we were keen and ready to go. In the late 1980s, the Dolphins, like many BRL clubs, went through tough times financially. Once we heard that, Barry Muir said, lets not disappoint them.. Mark Nicholls 11. 2022 Players | QRL Players / Hostplus Cup All Teams Trending Tyrone Roberts Five-Eighth Devils Alan White Halfback Capras Jaleel Seve-Derbas 2nd Row Seagulls Wyatt Reynolds Prop Falcons Ryan Jeffery Lock Falcons Tom Farr Centre WM Seagulls Josh Chudleigh Hooker Blackhawks Callum Eggerling Hooker Magpies Whyatt Barnes Lock Pride Ezra Mam Halfback 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. "There is something about the peninsula and the lay of the land around Moreton Daily Stadium that just harnessed the passion of a city a tribe I supposed that loved it's footy," McCall said. Most Improved Back: Wal Henricks At the time this moved appeared the one to get us away from the Showgrounds where there were always difficulties in a multi-tenanted situation. Indeed the Redcliffe Dolphins are one of the great survivors of Australian rugby league. The club done such a successful job they have been given the right to host it again in 2002. The team that represented the Club on this historic day was; Ken McCrohon, Kevin Benson, Peter Haggett, Buddy Hunter, Bernie Robinson, Keith Howard, Noel Gardner, Col Weier, Tommy Green, Jim Graham, Neville Edwards, Bob Kilmer, Dick Boxsell. Klingner & Ashmole Roads, Redcliffe QLD Australia 4020 | 07 3203 7333, Copyright Redcliffe Leagues Club - All Rights Reserved. "It was self-contained back then and it was tribal. However, the 1988 admission of the Brisbane Broncos team in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition caused the decline of the BRL.[1]. A meeting of interested parties on February 27 in that year made the formation of the club a reality and the first office bearers were elected. 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. 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". 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. ? Redcliffe Dolphin players Des Webb, Keith Howard and Cliff Robinson after the 1959 reserve grade grand final. 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. The people of Redcliffe are a slightly different breed, removed from the rest of Brisbane by the bridge that spans Bramble Bay. Peninsula Power Football Club is a football (soccer) club in Redcliffe. Many remember the bar running out of beer and the club having no money to buy more. They had a proud history to begin with! Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow 2. Redcliffe Dolphins. Guided for decades now by a board of substance, it is a solid, reputable, profitable and highly respected club with a wonderful history and a proven success formula for the development of talented players.
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