Queensland under-18 rugby league team
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| Nickname | Maroons | |||||
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| Governing body | Queensland Rugby League | |||||
| Head coach | Josh Hannay | |||||
| Captain | Brent Woolf | |||||
| Home stadium | Suncorp Stadium (52,500) | |||||
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| First game | ||||||
 New South Wales 34–12 Queensland  (Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane; 11 June 2008) | ||||||
The Queensland Under-18 rugby league team, also known as Queensland Under-18s or Queensland U18, represents Queensland in the sport of rugby league at an under-18 age level. Since 2008, the team has played an annual fixture against the New South Wales Under-18s team as a curtain raiser to a State of Origin game. The team features players selected from Queensland's premier under-18 rugby league competition, the Mal Meninga Cup. They are administered by the Queensland Rugby League.
History
Prior to 2008, junior interstate matches were contested at under-17 and under-19 levels. In 2008, with the advent of the National Youth Competition, the age levels switched to an under-16 and under-18 format to keep in line with the NSWRL's existing SG Ball Cup and Harold Matthews Cup competitions and the QRL's Mal Meninga Cup and Cyril Connell Cup competitions, which would begin in 2009.
Queensland suffered defeat in the first four under-18 Origin fixtures, not winning a game until 2012. The 2012 team, which featured future NRL players Anthony Milford, Kodi Nikorima and Lloyd Perrett, held onto to defeat New South Wales 24-18 at ANZ Stadium in Sydney. Queensland would suffer two more defeats in 2013 and 2014 before picking up their second win in 2015, defeating New South Wales 22-18 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Players
Players selected for the Queensland under-18 team are usually contracted with an National Rugby League (NRL) side but play in either the Mal Meninga Cup, Holden Cup or Intrust Super Cup competitions. In 2008, before the Mal Meninga Cup began, players were selected from the under-18 representative carnival in Proserpine.[1] Each pre-season the Queensland Rugby League will select an under-18 squad featuring players in contention for the mid-season fixture. The squad participates in a weekend camp at the Queensland Academy of Sport.[2]
Notable players
Since 2008, five former Queensland under-18 players (Dane Gagai, Josh McGuire, Michael Morgan, Justin O'Neill and Josh Papalii) have gone onto represent Queensland at State of Origin level.
Results
2008
Played as a curtain raiser to Game II of the 2008 State of Origin series.
11 June 2008 |
| Queensland U18 |
12 – 34 | New South Wales U18 |
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| Tries Gerard Beale 1 Pat O'Hanlon 1 Goals Jordan Rankin 2 |
Report | Tries Matthew Wright 3 Lachlan Coote 1 Albert Kelly 1 Mitchel Johnson 1 Goals Lachlan Coote 5 |
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Updated: 16 January 2016 | |||||||
2009
Played as a curtain raiser to Game II of the 2009 State of Origin series.
24 June 2009 |
| New South Wales U18 |
24 – 6 | Queensland U18 |
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| Tries Josh Portlock 2 Nathan Massey 1 Joseph Roqoko 1 Goals Chad Townsend 4 |
Report | Tries Michael Morgan 1 Goals Jordan Rankin 1 |
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Updated: 16 January 2016 | |||||||
2010
Played as a curtain raiser to Game II of the 2010 State of Origin series.
16 June 2010 |
| Queensland U18 |
18 – 22 | New South Wales U18 |
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| Tries Kirisome Auva'a 2 Lachlan Maranta 1 Aaron Whitchurch 1 Goals Kyle Feldt 1 |
Tries Lachlan Burr 1 Nathan Green 1 Alex McKinnon 1 Goals Jacob Miller 1 |
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Updated: 16 January 2016 | |||||||
2011
Played as a curtain raiser to Game II of the 2011 State of Origin series.
15 June 2011 |
| New South Wales U18 |
16 – 6 | Queensland U18 |
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| Tries Sam Coster 1 Michael Lichaa 1 Kyle Lovett 1 Goals Curtis Sironen 2 |
Tries Tautau Moga 1 Goals Anthony Gadd 1 |
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2012
Played as a curtain raiser to Game III of the 2012 State of Origin series.
4 July 2012 |
| New South Wales U18 |
18 – 24 | Queensland U18 |
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| Tries Mitchell Moses 1 Tyrone Phillips 1 Jake Trbojevic 1 Goals Clinton Gutherson 3 |
Report | Tries Caleb Timu 2 Luke Bateman 1 Patrick Kaufusi 1 Goals Anthony Milford 4 |
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2013
Played as a curtain raiser to Game II of the 2013 State of Origin series.
26 June 2013 |
| Queensland U18 |
6 – 56 | New South Wales U18 |
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| Tries Ellery Tusa 1 Goals Jayden Nikorima 1 |
Report | Tries Dallin Watene-Zelezniak 3 Jackson Hastings 2 Alex Johnston 2 Sione Mata'utia 2 Zach Dockar-Clay 1 Michael Morgan 1 Goals Jackson Hastings 6 |
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Updated: 16 January 2016 | ||||||||
2014
Played as a curtain raiser to Game II of the 2014 State of Origin series.
18 June 2014 |
| New South Wales U18 |
24 – 10 | Queensland U18 |
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| Tries Matthew Dufty 2 Lachlan Croker 1 Latrell Mitchell 1 Tom Trbojevic 1 Goals Jackson Hastings 2 |
Report | Tries Lindsay Collins 1 Kieran Duffin 1 Goals Cooper Bambling 1 |
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Updated: 16 January 2016 | |||||||||
2015
Played as a curtain raiser to Game II of the 2015 State of Origin series.
17 June 2015 |
| New South Wales U18 |
18 – 22 | Queensland U18 |
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| Tries Ryan Papenhuyzen 1 Curtis Scott 1 Reimis Smith 1 Goals Brock Lamb 3 |
Report | Tries Joshua Fauid 1 Tristan Hope 1 Thomas Mikaele 1 Jaydn Su'A 1 Goals Joshua Fauid 3 |
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Updated: 16 January 2016 | |||||||||
2016
Played as a curtain raiser to Game II of the 2016 State of Origin series.
22 June 2015 |
| New South Wales U18 |
26 – 0 | Queensland U18 |
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| Tries Zac Lomax 2 Tui Afualo 1 Isaac Lumelume 1 Ryan Papenhuyzen 1 Samuel Radovu 1 Goals Zac Lomax 1 |
Report |
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| 2016 team | Coaching staff | ||||||||
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Head coach
Updated: 27 June 2016 | |||||||||
See also
- Queensland state rugby league team
- Queensland Residents rugby league team
- Queensland under-20 rugby league team
- Queensland under-16 rugby league team
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