Ipswich Jets
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| Club information | |
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| Full name | Ipswich Jets Rugby League Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | The Jets, |
| Website | ipswichjets.com.au |
| Colours |
 Green, Gold, White |
| Founded | 1982 |
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| CEO | Wayne Wendt |
| Coach | Ben Walker & Shane Walker |
| Captain | Keiron Lander |
| Competition | Queensland Cup |
| 2014 | 5th |
 Current season
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| Records | |
| Premierships | 2015 |
| Runners-up | 4 (1988, 1989, 2002, 2008) |
| Minor premiership | 1 (2008) |
| Most capped | 258 - Danny Coburn |
The Ipswich Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Ipswich, Queensland. Their name comes from nearby RAAF Base Amberley, one of the largest airbases in Australia. The Jets compete in the Queensland 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 the Queensland 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 the Brisbane Rugby League premiership. They were coached in the 1980s by legendary Australian halfback Tommy Raudonikis. The team's most famous product was Allan Langer, who in 1987 was selected to play halfback for the Queensland State of Origin team while playing for the Jets in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership, even though he was not as yet playing in the New South Wales Rugby League's Winfield Cup which was, at that time, fast becoming the premier rugby league competition in the world.
Kerrod and Kevin Walters also played for the club with Langer in their early years. When all three played together for the Brisbane 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 Super League. Their brother, Steve Walters, played originally for Booval Swifts in the Ipswich Rugby League.
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