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2000 Queensland Cup
DurationFebruary 19 – August 19, 2000
Teams12
Premiers Redcliffe Dolphins (2nd title)
Minor premiers Redcliffe Dolphins (2nd title)
Matches played138
Points scored6,596
Top points scorer(s) Jace Van Dijk (200)
Player of the year Jason Bulgarelli
Top try-scorer(s) Aaron Douglas
Brook Martin (21)
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2001 →

The 2000 Queensland Cup season was the 5th season of Queensland's top-level statewide rugby league competition run by the Queensland Rugby League. The competition, known as the Bundy Gold Cup due to sponsorship from Bundaberg Rum, featured 12 teams playing a 26-week long season (including finals) from February to August.

The

Suncorp Stadium to claim their second premiership. Wests Panthers centre Jason Bulgarelli was named the competition's Player of the Year.[1]

Teams

For the first time, the competition featured the same 12 teams that participated the year before. The

Central Capras re-branded as the Central Comets and changed their colour scheme to avoid confusion with the region's representative side.[2]

For the 2000 season, the

Auckland Warriors used Souths as their sole feeder. The North Queensland Cowboys did not use Cairns as their affiliate club, instead using their own team in the NSWRL's First Division
competition.

Colours Club Home ground(s)
Burleigh Bears Pizzey Park
Cairns Cyclones Barlow Park[note 1]
Central Comets
 		Browne Park
Easts Tigers
 		Langlands Park
Ipswich Jets First Provincial Oval
Logan Scorpions Meakin Park
Norths Devils Bishop Park
Redcliffe Dolphins
Dolphin Oval
 Souths Magpies Davies Park
Toowoomba Clydesdales
ANZ Stadium
 Wests Panthers Purtell Park
Wynnum Seagulls
 		Kougari Oval

Ladder

2000 Queensland Cup
Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Redcliffe Dolphins (P) 22 19 0 3 546 320 +226 38
2
Easts Tigers
 22 17 0 5 654 427 +227 34
3
Toowoomba Clydesdales
 22 16 0 6 747 409 +338 32
4 Burleigh Bears 22 14 1 7 600 398 +202 29
5 Norths Devils 22 13 1 8 589 484 +105 27
6 Ipswich Jets 22 12 0 10 556 516 +24 24
7 Logan Scorpions 22 10 1 11 494 488 +6 21
8
Central Comets
 22 10 1 11 529 550 -21 21
9
Souths Magpies
 22 8 2 12 472 624 -152 18
10 Wests Panthers 22 4 1 17 459 601 -142 9
11
Wynnum Seagulls
 22 3 1 18 386 649 -263 7
12 Cairns Cyclones 22 2 0 20 288 854 -566 4

Finals series

Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Minor semi-finals
Burleigh Bears 38 – 12 Norths Devils 29 July 2000 Pizzey Park
Easts Tigers
 20 – 36
Toowoomba Clydesdales
 30 July 2000 Langlands Park
Major semi-finals
Redcliffe Dolphins 12 – 46
Toowoomba Clydesdales
 5 August 2000
Dolphin Oval
Easts Tigers
 36 – 10 Burleigh Bears 6 August 2000 Langlands Park
Preliminary final
Redcliffe Dolphins 40 – 6
Easts Tigers
 12 August 2000
Dolphin Oval
Grand final
Toowoomba Clydesdales
 6 – 14 Redcliffe Dolphins 19 August 2000
Suncorp Stadium
Qualifying / Elimination finalsMajor / Minor semi-finalsPreliminary finalGrand final
1
Easts
36
Burleigh10
4 Burleigh38
5 Norths12

Grand final

Saturday, 19 August
Toowoomba Clydesdales
6 – 14 Redcliffe Dolphins
Tries:
Justin Hodges 1
Goals:
Paul Warwick 1 		1st: 6 - 10
2nd: 0 - 4
 Tries:
1 Trent Leis
1 Troy Lindsay
1 Craig O'Dwyer
Goals:
1 Damien Richters
Suncorp Stadium

Attendance: 7,280
Referee: Tony Maksoud
Toowoomba Clydesdales Position Redcliffe Dolphins
Justin Hodges FB Adam Mogg
Adam Warwick
WG
 George Wilson
Brent Tate CE John Olzard
Alex Wilson CE Damien Richters
Chris Walker
WG
 Trent Leis
Paul Warwick FE Tony Gould
Jack van Dijk HB Barry Denduck
Corey Parker PR Robert Campbell
Michael Ryan HK Craig O'Dwyer (c)
Damon Keating (c) PR Troy Lindsay
Darren Mapp SR Luke Scott
Neale Wyatt SR James Hinchey
Darren Ingram
LK
 Danny Burke
Kerrod Walters Bench Troy Mitchell
Nathan Friend Bench Grant Flugge
Carl Webb Bench Russell Lahiff
Dennis White Bench Adam Starr
Ivan Henjak Coach Neil Wharton

Easts by 34 points in the preliminary final to set up a 1996 grand final
rematch with the Clydesdales. In the regular season, the Dolphins defeated the Clydesdales in both of their meetings.

First half

Redcliffe winger Trent Leis opened the scoring in the 16th minute when he crossed out wide. In doing so, he became the first player to score in back-to-back grand finals. Four minutes later, the Dolphins pushed their lead to eight when prop Troy Lindsay barged over the try line. Toowoomba would finally get on the board with one minute left to play in the first when Justin Hodges stepped through a number of defenders to score under the posts.

Second half

The Dolphins regained an eight-point lead four minutes into the second half when their captain Craig O'Dwyer threw a dummy close to the line and darted over. The try would be the last points scored in the game as Redcliffe held on to become the first club to win two grand finals.

Redcliffe players Adam Mogg, George Wilson, Tony Gould, Troy Lindsay, James Hinchey and Russell Lahiff became the first players to win two grand finals with the same club, having all been involved in Redcliffe's 1997 triumph. Craig O'Dwyer became the second player (after Aaron Douglas a year earlier) to win two grand finals with two different clubs, winning his first with Norths in 1998.

Player statistics

End-of-season awards

See also

References

  1. ^ "Queensland Rugby League". queensland.rleague.com. Archived from the original on 19 January 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. ^ "The more you know: CQ Capras". 13 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Queensland Rugby League". queensland.rleague.com. Archived from the original on 19 January 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  1. ^ Cairns played two of their 11 home games at Barlow Park and the other nine at various venues around the Cairns region[3]
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