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Title: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: tracker on September 28, 2015, 01:54:23 PM
    G'Day All,
                 This question is directed at Queenslander's i suppose......If you now follow Brisbane Broncos who played there first year in 1988 or The Nth Queensland Cowboys who played there first year in 1998.....Which club did you follow before these  inaugural years of the Broncos and Cowboys.....????...Interesting !!!!

                                                                          Cheers Tracker.
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: wilson79 on September 28, 2015, 02:20:12 PM
Cowboys actually started in 1995 Tracker..

before the Cowboys came along I was a Nth Sydney Bears supporter..
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: crappsy on September 28, 2015, 02:31:23 PM
Go the Mighty Bears
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: Moggy on September 28, 2015, 02:39:22 PM
When i was a kid used to follow the mighty Newtown Jets, then the raiders (Steve Jackson is a Mackay boy & scored that great 20m barge over try to win the '89 GF (i think it was 89).
Then followed the broncos & finally the COWBOYS.
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: tracker on September 28, 2015, 02:44:31 PM
Cowboys actually started in 1995 Tracker..

before the Cowboys came along I was a Nth Sydney Bears supporter..

    I will check my source mate......You may well be right

                                Cheers Tracker.
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: tracker on September 28, 2015, 02:48:32 PM
n 1998 the Super League and Australian Rugby League competitions merged to form the National Rugby League (NRL). The Cowboys began their first season in this competition strongly, and after six rounds they were in equal first place. Although they fell


      This is after Super League....
                                                  Cheers Tracker.
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: tracker on September 28, 2015, 02:53:10 PM


    The history of the North Queensland Cowboys goes back to 1995 when they were admitted to the Australian Rugby League Premiership.

Contents  [hide]
1 History
1.1 Foley Shield Days
1.2 State League to the formation of a national team
1.3 1995, 1996: Origins
1.4 1997: Super League
1.5 1998, 1999: National Rugby League
1.6 2000–2003: Improved Results
1.7 2004: First time finalists
1.8 2005: Grand finalists
1.9 2006/2007
1.10 2008–2010: Struggling Seasons
1.11 2011–Present: Return to the Finals
2 References
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: tracker on September 28, 2015, 03:01:02 PM
History of the North Queensland Cowboys
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The history of the North Queensland Cowboys goes back to 1995 when they were admitted to the Australian Rugby League Premiership.
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: oldmate on September 28, 2015, 03:02:21 PM
Always followed the bulldogs. When the titans started here in the coast i follow them also. But if both are playing each other i support the dogs.

Who am i going for in this GF, Brisbane for me. I actually dont mind the current brisbane side  :cheers:
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: wakychapmans on September 28, 2015, 03:08:31 PM
I had the same dilema... but slightly further south.

As a Newcastle boy, I went for Manly because I lived at the beach and they were on the beach. (I was 5yo... cut me some slack)

When the Knights entered the comp'... I turned red and blue. Been that way ever since.

(despite the recent years)

Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: listo on September 28, 2015, 03:20:48 PM
Been tough times mate, I'm a red & blue man too. I'll be backing the cows this weekend... I don't really want to see Wayne Bennett walk straight into a premiership winning team after his effort at Newy.
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: crappsy on September 28, 2015, 03:25:53 PM
what effort
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: gronk on September 28, 2015, 03:48:17 PM
I don't really want to see Wayne Bennett walk straight into a premiership winning team after his effort at Newy.

Especially what he did with Darius Boyd.....walked away from the club, his "mate" played the depression card and walked as well, got rid of the fullback, Darius got better real quick, and then slotted straight in and has played great since..

Darius played like a busted ar*e at Newie !!
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: muzza01 on September 28, 2015, 03:58:23 PM
I was a Balmain Tigers supporter until 1995 when the Cowboys came on the scene. I was so happy when we finally got a team from our region in the comp.

Even though the Broncos were a QLD based club, I never bonded with them and stuck with the Tigers until the Cowboys came on the scene.

Now, as you can guess  :D. I am a mad Cowboys fanatic.
To clear up when the Cowboys first started, this is a signed jersey from the first year in the Comp, 1995. This was when it was called the ARL not NRL.

(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac155/muzza01/image.jpg1_zpsc5mlpovh.jpg)
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: tracker on September 28, 2015, 04:02:53 PM
I was a Balmain Tigers supporter until 1995 when the Cowboys came on the scene. I was so happy when we finally got a team from our region in the comp.

Even though the Broncos were a QLD based club, I never bonded with them and stuck with the Tigers until the Cowboys came on the scene.

Now, as you can guess  :D. I am a mad Cowboys fanatic.
To clear up when the Cowboys first started, this is a signed jersey from the first year in the Comp, 1995. This was when it was called the ARL not NRL.

   

(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac155/muzza01/image.jpg1_zpsc5mlpovh.jpg)


  Thanks Muzza......My info concurs with yours.......I stand corrected....

                                           Cheers Tracker.
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: Moggy on September 28, 2015, 04:05:37 PM

(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac155/muzza01/image.jpg1_zpsc5mlpovh.jpg)


Mate should have that in a display cabinet....

Send it down to me, i'll knock one up for ya  >:D >:D >:D
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: sol on September 28, 2015, 04:53:36 PM
I was a St George supporter before the Cowboys  ;D

      :cheers:
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: muzza01 on September 28, 2015, 05:02:27 PM
Mate should have that in a display cabinet....

Send it down to me, i'll knock one up for ya  >:D >:D >:D
I know Mate. I will when I get some spare coin. I have quite a bit of signed Cowboys memorabilia in my entertainment room including framed 2008 signed jersey, signed footy from 2005 (I think) framed and signed Dally M tribute to JT from 2005, signed framed stuff from Matt Sing, Josh Hannay, Paul Bowman, Ty Williams, Matt Bowen, Graham Murray etc.

I will take another pic and post up shortly.
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: muzza01 on September 28, 2015, 05:13:58 PM
More from 1995
(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac155/muzza01/image.jpg1_zpsqag5kwuw.jpg)

2008
(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac155/muzza01/image.jpg2_zpsj0h73gzv.jpg)
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: Rumpig on September 28, 2015, 06:28:03 PM
Followed Souths Magpies here in Qld and played for Souths as a junior also, only made sense that i support the Magpies in NSW, so Wests is the team i have followed since a kid. Even these days i still barrack for Wests over the Broncos and Cowboys. My old man was heavily involved with Souths here in Brisbane, so i went to every footy game and got to watch guys like Mal Meninga, Gary Belcher, Peter Jackson, Bob Lindner play for the club before they headed South for the money.
In saying all that.... i was at the first Broncos game at Lang Park, and went to many games over the years supporting them...happy for them to beat any NSW team other then Wests...same goes for the Cowboys  ;D ;D In a way the 2 Qld teams playing each other in the final sucks, i don't know who to barrack for now  ??? ???

(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/qld-bundy-drinker/tn_photo.JPGmagpies_zpsiyqdng3d.jpg) (http://s281.photobucket.com/user/qld-bundy-drinker/media/tn_photo.JPGmagpies_zpsiyqdng3d.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: Clouty on September 28, 2015, 06:41:58 PM
Didnt really follow anyone while I was playing for North Sydney Bears but when I left the club I started following Broncos in the mid 90's and have been cheering them on ever since..

Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: achjimmy on September 28, 2015, 07:29:24 PM
Bears were a great club, north sydney oval was great ground. Never a fan but still pi553d how a vibrant bears could merge with a broke Manly and two years later the merger disbands and the Bears are gone !!!!!!  7ucken artherson and his cronies.
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: Annieandandy on September 28, 2015, 08:25:19 PM
I go for Parra but when I do come out of the 80's I go for the Cowboys. :-)
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: wilson79 on September 29, 2015, 04:36:09 PM
Here are my cowboy's jumpers..

I have a couple more pics to send through later..
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: wilson79 on September 29, 2015, 04:46:20 PM
Another little shrine...
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: wilson79 on September 29, 2015, 04:50:22 PM
And these I am really excited to have ...

these are the original drawings I believe done in 1993 / 1994 of the concept logos for the Cowboys..

these were the actual ones used in the boardroom when the major sponsors and board members met to come up with a logo..

Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: oldmate on September 29, 2015, 04:51:30 PM
That's pretty cool mate
Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: Garfish on September 29, 2015, 07:41:46 PM
Being a Souths supporter ( the mighty magpies from Brisbane  not those dodgy bunnies)  started supporting Canberra as that's where all the Souths boys went ( Meninga, Belcher, Bennett), then supported broncs when they came in and still do.  In the end anyone other than manly ( either the seagulls or sea eagles) but am a broncos fan.   

Title: Re: Rugby League Clubs
Post by: muzza01 on September 29, 2015, 08:30:02 PM
And these I am really excited to have ...

these are the original drawings I believe done in 1993 / 1994 of the concept logos for the Cowboys..

these were the actual ones used in the boardroom when the major sponsors and board members met to come up with a logo..

That's Gold, pure gold  :cup: