cumberlandsashes81
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Just wanting to tap into the collective historical knowledge of QRL people on this forum...
This is based on a discussion on another thread about how long RL has been played in the Gold Coast-Tweed Heads area. I instantly thought it was 1909 (due to the date given by the Seagulls club for its foundation) but apparently this has never been verified.
The Tweed Head club claims to have been founded in 1909 but other evidence suggests that the game wasn't played in the area until 1914 (when Souths played an exhibition match there) with nothing else (found yet) that verifies anything before this (perhaps Tweed Heads was originally founded in 1909 as an RU club from which the confusion arises?)
I first thought it would be relatively easy to see when the Tweed Heads club started to play - though this is difficult because the CRL Group competition (18) they played in wasn't established until 1966 (and the CRL wasn't founded itself until 1934).
I then tried to find when they first began to play in the Brisbane/Queensland competition as some kind of guide. I know that the Valleys-Seagulls joint-venture played in 1988 State League and won the competition but were a version of the Seagulls in the competition prior to this?
Any random information appreciated.
This is based on a discussion on another thread about how long RL has been played in the Gold Coast-Tweed Heads area. I instantly thought it was 1909 (due to the date given by the Seagulls club for its foundation) but apparently this has never been verified.
The Tweed Head club claims to have been founded in 1909 but other evidence suggests that the game wasn't played in the area until 1914 (when Souths played an exhibition match there) with nothing else (found yet) that verifies anything before this (perhaps Tweed Heads was originally founded in 1909 as an RU club from which the confusion arises?)
I first thought it would be relatively easy to see when the Tweed Heads club started to play - though this is difficult because the CRL Group competition (18) they played in wasn't established until 1966 (and the CRL wasn't founded itself until 1934).
I then tried to find when they first began to play in the Brisbane/Queensland competition as some kind of guide. I know that the Valleys-Seagulls joint-venture played in 1988 State League and won the competition but were a version of the Seagulls in the competition prior to this?
Any random information appreciated.
