1987 Brisbane Rugby League season

Teams played each other three times, with 24 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top four of Past Brothers, Northern Suburbs, Redcliffe and Wynnum-Manly. The 1987 season is significant as most Rugby League historians view it as the final season of the BRL as a top tier competition, as the entry of the Brisbane Broncos and Gold Coast Giants into the NSWRL Premiership in 1988 devastated the BRL by stripping it of mainstream media coverage and players. This led to lower attendences and television viewership, with the competition essentially becoming a second tier league, before it eventually merged with its companion statewide competition, the Winfield State League, to form the Queensland Cup in 1996 (A Brisbane finals series was still run, but the season was merged into the new competition).[1] However, there is debate that the competition, although vastly inferior to the NSWRL from 1988-1994, maintained first-grade status until 1995, when the Australian Rugby League Premiership ws introduced.

Teams

Club	Home ground	Coach	Captain
Eastern Suburbs	Langlands Park
Fortitude Valley	Neumann Oval	Ross Strudwick
Northern Suburbs	Bishop Park
Past Brothers	Corbett Park
Redcliffe	Dolphin Oval
Southern Suburbs	Davies Park
Western Suburbs	Purtell Park
Wynnum-Manly	Kougari Oval	Wally Lewis	Wally Lewis
Ipswich	North Ipswich Reserve

Brothers 26 (Try: T. Bailey, J. Kilroy, M. Coyne, T. Rea, C. Mohr. Goal: T.Rea. )

Redcliffe 8 (Tries: T. Sandy. Goals: R. Keogh 2.)

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