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| Full name | Ipswich Jets Rugby League Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | Jets |
| Colours | Green Gold White |
| Founded | 1982; 43 years ago (1982) |
| Website | ipswichjets.com.au |
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| CEO | Richard Hughes |
| Coach | Ben Cross |
| Captain | Nathaniel Neale |
| Competition | Queensland Cup |
| 2024 | 14th |
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| Premierships | 0 |
| Runners-up | 2 (1988, 1989) |
| Wooden spoons | 1 (1992) |
| Premierships (2nd grade) | 1 (2015) |
| Runners-up (2nd grade) | 2 (2002, 2008) |
| Minor premierships (2nd grade) | 1 (2008) |
| Wooden spoons (2nd grade) | 3 (2006, 2010, 2023) |
| Premierships (3rd grade) | 0 |
| Runners-up (3rd grade) | 2 (2007, 2016) |
| Most capped | 258 – Danny Coburn |
| Highest points scorer | 594 – Marmin Barba, Steven West |
TheIpswich Jets are an Australianrugby league football club based inIpswich, Queensland. Their name comes from nearbyRAAF Base Amberley, one of the largest airbases in Australia. The Jets compete in theQueensland Cup competition. Originally in the 1980s their colours were green and white, but in recent years gold has been added to the combination.
Ipswich were one of the earliest teams to join theQueensland Rugby League after it was founded as the Queensland Amateur Rugby Football League in 1909. Ipswich even contested two of the QARFL's first three grand finals, winning the title in its first year in the competition in 1910. But a long absence from the competition started shortly thereafter, and Ipswich was not represented in Queensland's top league again until the mid-1980s.
From 1982 to 1985, an Ipswich representative team competed in the statewide comps. The following year, an Ipswich team was introduced to theBrisbane Rugby League premiership. They were coached in the 1980s by legendary Australian halfbackTommy Raudonikis. The team's most famous product wasAllan Langer, who in 1987 was selected to play halfback for theQueensland State of Origin team while playing for the Jets in theBrisbane Rugby League premiership, even though he was not as yet playing in theNew South Wales Rugby League'sWinfield Cup which was, at that time, fast becoming the premier rugby league competition in the world.
Kerrod andKevin Walters also played for the club with Langer in their early years. When all three played together for theBrisbane Broncos later, they were dubbed "the Ipswich connection". Kevin later returned to coach the Queensland Cup side in the mid-2000s before moving to Europe to coach in theSuper League. Their brother,Steve Walters, played originally forBooval Swifts in the Ipswich Rugby League.
The Jets reached the Grand Finals of the 1988 and 1989Brisbane Rugby League premiership.
Ipswich continued playing in theQueensland Cup when it was founded in 1997. In the2007 Queensland Cup, the Jets caused a surprise by upsetting many of their more fancied rivals and pressing for a semi-finals spot, when they had been predicted by most tipsters to finish last.
At the end of the 2008Queensland Cup preliminary rounds, Ipswich finished four points clear at the top of the ladder, winning their first-ever Queensland Cup minor premiership. AsKevin Walters moved to Europe to pursue a career coaching in theSuper League, his assistant and former teammate at both theCanberra Raiders and the Broncos,Glenn Lazarus, was promoted to head coach.
BrothersBen andShane Walker who assisted Lazarus in 2009 and 2010 have been appointed co-head coaches in 2011, 2012 and again in 2013. Shane played 149 games for the Broncos andSouth Sydney from 1996 to 2006, while Ben 135 NRL games for Brisbane,Northern Eagles,Manly Sea Eagles and South Sydney between 1995 and 2006, as well as 44 games for theLondon Broncos (1995–96) and theLeeds Rhinos (2002). Ben was the NRL's leading point scorer in2001 when he scored 279 points (18 tries, 103 goals and 1 field goal) in his only season with the Northern Eagles.
In 2020, after nine seasons in charge, the Walker brothers left the club. They were replaced by former Jets' captain Keiron Lander.[1]
In 2010 theJets announced they will be part of a bid for a licence in an expandedNational Rugby League.
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