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Queensland under 16 rugby league team

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Nickname
  
Maroons

Home stadium
  
Lang Park (52,500)

Location
  
Queensland, Australia

Head coach
  
Kurt Richards

Captain
  
David Fifita

Ground
  
Suncorp Stadium (52,500)

Governing body
  
Queensland Rugby League

The Queensland Under-16 rugby league team, also known as Queensland Under-16s or Queensland U16, represents Queensland in the sport of rugby league at an under-16 age level. Since 2008, the team has played an annual fixture against the New South Wales Under-16s team as a curtain raiser to a State of Origin game. The team features players selected from Queensland's premier under-16 rugby league competition, the Cyril Connell Cup. They are administered by the Queensland Rugby League.

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History

Prior to 2008, junior interstate matches were contested at under-17 and under-19 levels. In 2008, with the advent of the National Youth Competition, the age levels switched to an under-16 and under-18 format to keep in line with the NSWRL's existing SG Ball Cup and Harold Matthews Cup competitions and the QRL's Mal Meninga Cup and Cyril Connell Cup competitions, which would begin in 2009.

Queensland suffered defeat in the first under-16 Origin fixture in 2008, with a side that featured future NRL players Kyle Feldt, Ben Hampton, Lachlan Maranta and Korbin Sims. They recorded their first win a year later, defeating New South Wales 30-10 in 2009. That team featured future New Zealand international Jason Taumalolo. From 2010 to 2013, Queensland suffered four straight defeats before winning both fixtures against New South Wales in 2014 and 2015.

Players

Players selected for the Queensland under-16 team are usually contracted with an National Rugby League (NRL) side but play in either the Cyril Connell Cup. Occasionally players who are contracted to Sydney-based NRL sides, who play in the Harold Matthews Cup, are selected. In 2008, before the Cyril Connell Cup began, players were selected from the under-16 representative carnival in Proserpine. Each pre-season the Queensland Rugby League will select an under-16 squad featuring players in contention for the mid-season fixture. The squad participates in a weekend camp at the Queensland Academy of Sport.

2008

Played as a curtain raiser to Game I of the 2008 State of Origin series.

2009

Played as a curtain raiser to Game I of the 2009 State of Origin series.

2010

Played as a curtain raiser to Game III of the 2010 State of Origin series.

2011

Played as a curtain raiser to Game I of the 2011 State of Origin series.

2012

Played as a curtain raiser to Game I of the 2012 State of Origin series.

2013

Played as a curtain raiser to Game I of the 2013 State of Origin series.

2014

Played as a curtain raiser to Game I of the 2014 State of Origin series.

2015

Played as a curtain raiser to Game I of the 2015 State of Origin series.

2016

Played as a curtain raiser to Game I of the 2016 State of Origin series.

References

Queensland under-16 rugby league team Wikipedia


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