2018 Hastings Deering Colts season

The 2018 Hastings Deering Colts season was the 1st season of the under-20 competition, sponsored by Hastings Deering and run by the Queensland Rugby League. Replacing the National Rugby League's National Youth Competition, the draw and structure of the competition mirrored that of its senior counterpart, the Queensland Cup.^[1][2]

2018 Hastings Deering Colts
Teams	15
Premiers	Norths Devils (1st title)
Minor premiers	Townsville Blackhawks (1st title)
Matches played	143
Points scored	7,251
Top points scorer(s)	Shannon Gardiner (191)
Player of the year	Shannon Gardiner
Top try-scorer(s)	Riley Moore (16)
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Norths Devils were the inaugural premiers, defeating the Townsville Blackhawks in the Grand Final.^[3]

Teams

The inaugural season of the Hastings Deering Colts featured 15 teams, thirteen based in Queensland, one in northern New South Wales and one in Victoria. 13 Queensland Cup teams fielded a side in the competition, with the two unaffiliated clubs being the Victoria Thunderbolts and Western Mustangs. Like their senior counterparts, each team was also affiliated with an NRL club.

Colours	Club	Home ground(s)	Head coach(s)	Captain(s)	NRL affiliate
	Burleigh Bears	Pizzey Park	Jamie Mahon	Apiata Noema	Gold Coast Titans
	Central Queensland Capras	Browne Park	Neil Beckett & Damien Seibold	Ryan Flintham & Zaine Hammond	None
	Easts Tigers	Suzuki Stadium	Ian Gough	Nathan Brown	Melbourne Storm
	Ipswich Jets	North Ipswich Reserve	Brendon Marshall	Shar Walden	Brisbane Broncos
	Mackay Cutters	BB Print Stadium	Jim Wilson → Michael Comerford	Brendan White	North Queensland Cowboys
	Northern Pride	Barlow Park	Dave Scott	Patrick Gallen	North Queensland Cowboys
	Norths Devils	Bishop Park	Kevin Neighbour	Kobe Hetherington & Joe McGuire	Brisbane Broncos
	Redcliffe Dolphins	Dolphin Stadium	Chris Little	Oscar Carter	Brisbane Broncos
	Souths Logan Magpies	Davies Park	Shayne Boyd	Rory Ferguson	Brisbane Broncos
	Sunshine Coast Falcons	Sunshine Coast Stadium	Michael Buckley	Stephen Buckley	Melbourne Storm
	Townsville Blackhawks	Jack Manski Oval	David Tangata-Toa	Duarne Dempsey & Sam Martin-Savage	North Queensland Cowboys
	Tweed Heads Seagulls	Piggabeen Sports Complex	Steve Dowd	Bostyn Hakaraia	Gold Coast Titans
	Victoria Thunderbolts	Casey Fields & Haines Drive Reserve	Ben Jack	Matt Stimson	Melbourne Storm
	Western Mustangs	Gold Park	Eugene Seddon	James Robinson	Gold Coast Titans
	Wynnum Manly Seagulls	BMD Kougari Oval	Joe O'Callaghan	Shannon Gardiner & Mitipere Tuatai	Brisbane Broncos

Regular season

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Burleigh Bears	SUN 4	RED 8	TWE 4	SOU 14	X	WES 46	VIC 18	CQL 22	TVL 14	X	EAS 38	MKY 8	IPS 6	NPR 1	X	TWE 26	NOR 38	RED 14	X	VIC 16	WYN 26	X	TVL 16	EAS 50
Central Queensland Capras	EAS 8	NOR 2	MKY 2	X	IPS 48	SOU 6	NPR 50	BUR 22	SUN 2	X	VIC 14	X	TVL 14	TWE 26	X	MKY 14	SOU 13	NOR 8	X	WYN 14	NPR 32	IPS 10	SUN 24	WES 58
Easts Tigers	CQL 8	MKY 17	VIC 44	SUN 16	RED 20	NPR 34	TWE 4	NOR 42	SOU 12	X	BUR 38	WYN 28	WES 12	TVL 30	X	IPS 24	X	MKY 2	X	NOR 4	TWE 10	SUN 46	SOU 14	BUR 50
Ipswich Jets	X	TVL 44	WES 6	WYN 24	CQL 48	MKY 14	SUN 36	RED 24	X	TWE 30	NOR 26	X	BUR 6	WES 18	X	EAS 24	MKY 6	TVL 14	X	RED 48	SUN 8	CQL 10	VIC 40	SOU 24
Mackay Cutters	TVL 24	EAS 17	CQL 2	NPR 8	X	IPS 14	RED 0	SUN 4	NOR 16	WES 18	X	BUR 8	WYN 0	VIC 6	X	CQL 14	IPS 6	EAS 2	X	TWE 12	RED 1	NPR 1	NOR 18	X
Northern Pride	X	SOU 2	TVL 0	MKY 8	X	EAS 34	CQL 50	X	WYN 4	RED 1	TWE 2	NOR 10	SOU 20	BUR 1	X	TVL 8	VIC 12	WES 28	X	SUN 60	CQL 32	MKY 1	RED 8	TWE 4
Norths Devils	TWE 10	CQL 2	SOU 8	WES 24	VIC 16	X	TVL 40	EAS 42	MKY 16	X	IPS 32	NPR 10	VIC 12	RED 6	X	WES 56	BUR 38	CQL 8	X	EAS 4	X	WYN 16	MKY 18	SUN 1
Redcliffe Dolphins	SOU 0	BUR 8	WYN 8	X	EAS 20	VIC 2	MKY 0	IPS 24	X	NPR 1	SUN 32	X	TWE 42	NOR 6	X	WYN 16	WES 52	BUR 14	X	IPS 48	MKY 1	TVL 20	NPR 8	VIC 4
Souths Logan Magpies	RED 0	NPR 2	NOR 8	BUR 14	WYN 16	CQL 6	WES 24	WYN 15	EAS 12	X	WES 8	VIC 16	NPR 20	SUN 16	X	X	CQL 13	TWE 2	X	TVL 2	X	WES 46	EAS 14	IPS 24
Sunshine Coast Falcons	BUR 4	WYN 20	X	EAS 16	WES 18	TVL 12	IPS 36	MKY 4	CQL 2	X	RED 32	TWE 8	X	SOU 16	X	VIC 1	TVL 4	WYN 36	X	NPR 60	IPS 8	EAS 46	CQL 24	NOR 1
Townsville Blackhawks	MKY 24	IPS 44	NPR 0	X	TWE 2	SUN 12	NOR 40	VIC 22	BUR 14	X	WYN 15	WES 52	CQL 14	EAS 30	X	NPR 8	SUN 4	IPS 14	X	SOU 2	X	RED 20	BUR 16	WYN 4
Tweed Heads Seagulls	NOR 10	VIC 20	BUR 4	X	TVL 2	WYN 8	EAS 4	WES 13	X	IPS 30	NPR 2	SUN 8	RED 42	CQL 26	X	BUR 26	WYN 26	SOU 2	X	MKY 12	EAS 10	VIC 38	X	NPR 4
Victoria Thunderbolts	WES 42	TWE 20	EAS 44	X	NOR 16	RED 2	BUR 18	TVL 22	X	WYN 3	CQL 14	SOU 16	NOR 12	MKY 6	X	SUN 1	NPR 12	X	X	BUR 16	WES 58	TWE 38	IPS 40	RED 4
Western Mustangs	VIC 42	X	IPS 6	NOR 24	SUN 18	BUR 46	SOU 24	TWE 4	X	MKY 18	SOU 8	TVL 52	EAS 12	IPS 18	X	NOR 56	RED 52	NPR 28	X	X	VIC 58	SOU 46	WYN 50	CQL 58
Wynnum Manly Seagulls	X	SUN 20	RED 8	IPS 24	SOU 16	TWE 8	X	SOU 15	NPR 4	VIC 3	TVL 15	EAS 28	MKY 0	X	X	RED 16	TWE 26	SUN 36	X	CQL 14	BUR 26	NOR 16	WES 50	TVL 4
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24

Bold – Opposition's Home game
X – Bye
Opponent for round listed above margin

Ladder

2018 Hastings Deering Colts
Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	B	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Townsville Blackhawks	19	15	1	3	5	547	250	+297	41
2	Norths Devils (P)	19	15	0	4	5	583	378	+205	40
3	Northern Pride	19	13	1	5	5	566	331	+235	37
4	Victoria Thunderbolts	19	13	0	6	5	632	364	+268	36
5	Wynnum Manly Seagulls	19	12	1	6	5	547	402	+145	35
6	Souths Logan Magpies	19	12	1	6	5	500	370	+130	35
7	Redcliffe Dolphins	19	10	2	7	5	523	355	+168	32
8	Burleigh Bears	19	11	0	8	5	504	393	+111	32
9	Tweed Heads Seagulls	19	10	0	9	5	478	516	-38	30
10	Sunshine Coast Falcons	19	8	0	11	5	477	535	-58	26
11	Mackay Cutters	19	5	2	12	5	345	442	-97	22
12	Central Queensland Capras	19	6	0	13	5	404	515	-111	22
13	Easts Tigers	20	6	0	14	4	351	620	-269	20
14	Western Mustangs	19	2	0	17	5	278	850	-572	14
15	Ipswich Jets	19	1	0	18	5	272	686	-414	12

Final series

Home	Score	Away	Match Information
			Date and Time	Venue
Elimination finals
Victoria Thunderbolts	28 – 6	Wynnum Manly Seagulls	31 August 2018, 5:00pm	AAMI Park
Northern Pride	24 – 16	Souths Logan Magpies	1 September 2018, 1:00pm	Stan Williams Park
Major/Minor semi-final
Townsville Blackhawks	14 – 18	Norths Devils	8 September 2018, 1:00pm	Jack Manski Oval
Northern Pride	32 – 22	Victoria Thunderbolts	9 September 2018, 4:00pm	Barlow Park
Preliminary final
Townsville Blackhawks	26 – 22	Northern Pride	15 September 2018, 4:00pm	Jack Manski Oval
Grand Final
Norths Devils	20 – 16	Townsville Blackhawks	22 September 2018, 1:00pm	Suncorp Stadium

	Elimination Finals					Major / Minor Semi-finals					Preliminary final					Grand Final
						1	Townsville	14								2	Norths	20
						2	Norths	18								1	Townsville	16
	4	Victoria	28								1	Townsville	26
	5	Wynnum Manly	6								3	Northern Pride	22
						3	Northern Pride	32
						4	Victoria	22
	3	Northern Pride	24
	6	Souths Logan	16

Grand Final

Sunday, September 23 1:00pm (local time)

Norths Devils	20 – 16	Townsville Blackhawks
Tries: Joe McGuire (8') 1 Nesta Watene (15') 1 Liam Horne (23') 1 David Fauid (63') 1 Goals: Gerome Burns 2 (9', 17')	1st: 16 – 12 2nd: 4 – 4 Report	Tries: 1 (28') Duarne Dempsey 1 (33') Tom McCagh 1 (69') Ben Condon Goals: 2 Adam Cook (29', 35')

Suncorp Stadium Referee: Daniel Schwass Player of the Match: Nesta Watene (Norths)

Team lists:

FB 1 David Fauid WG 2 Fruean Easthope CE 3 Brock Diment CE 4 Liam Horne WG 5 Jack Paterson FE 6 Gerome Burns HB 7 Cory Paix PR 8 Ethan Bullemor HK 9 Kobe Hetherington (c) PR 10 Joe McGuire (c) SR 11 Nesta Watene SR 12 Jordan Riki LK 13 Sosefo Filipine Substitutes: IC 14 Zak McGuire IC 15 Jake Strasser IC 16 Lorenzo Leapai IC 17 Reed Young Coach: Kevin Neighbour

FB 1 Marshall Hudson WG 2 Tom McCagh CE 3 Michael Carroll CE 4 Lachlan La Rosa WG 5 James Conroy FE 6 Sam Martin-Savage (c) HB 7 Adam Cook PR 8 Jayden Stephesns HK 9 Sean Mullany PR 10 Logan Bayliss-Brow SR 11 Campbell Duffy SR 12 Ben Condon LK 13 Solomon Vasuvulagi Substitutes: IC 14 Enemarki Shibasaki IC 15 Jack Althaus IC 16 Duarne Dempsey IC 17 Nathan Barrett Coach: David Tangata-Toa

Player statistics

The following statistics are correct as of the conclusion of Round 24.

Leading try scorers Pos Player Team Tries 1 Riley Moore Sunshine Coast Falcons 16 2 Eli Noovao CQ Capras 15 Jayden O'Shannessy Mackay Cutters 15 4 Gerome Burns Norths Devils 14 Shannon Gardiner Wynnum Manly Seagulls 14 Rueben Olive Sunshine Coast Falcons 14 Solomon Vasuvulagi Townsville Blackhawks 14

Leading point scorers Pos Player Team T G FG Pts 1 Shannon Gardiner Wynnum Manly Seagulls 14 67 1 191 2 Oscar Carter Redcliffe Dolphins 10 70 - 182 3 Gerome Burns Norths Devils 14 40 1 137 4 Adam Cook Townsville Blackhawks 2 62 1 133 Kye Oates Souths Logan Magpies 7 52 1 133