Townsville Blackhawks
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| Club information | |
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| Full name | Townsville & Districts Blackhawks Rugby League Football Club |
| Website | blackhawkstsv.com.au |
| Colours |
Green Black White |
| Founded | 10 September 2014 |
| Current details | |
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| CEO | Justin Wilkins |
| Coach | Kristian Woolf |
| Captain | Daniel Beasley |
| Competition | Intrust Super Cup |
| 2015 | 1st |
 Current season
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| Records | |
| Runners-up | 1 (2015) |
| Minor premiership | 1 (2015) |
| Most capped | 48 - Anthony Mitchell |
| Highest points scorer | 190 - Kyle Feldt |
The Townsville & Districts Blackhawks are an Australian semi-professional rugby league football club based in Townsville, Queensland. They compete in Queensland's top rugby league competition, the Queensland Cup. The club was admitted to the Queensland Cup in September 2014 and will compete in the 2015 season. The side plays their home games at Jack Manski Oval.
The beginnings of a Townsville team's bid to return to the Queensland Cup date back to 2007, when the Townsville-based North Queensland Young Guns folded at the end of the season. Before the Young Guns entered the competition in 2002, Townsville was represented in the Queensland Cup by the Townsville Stingers, who only lasted one season in 1998. In 2008, the Queensland Cup expanded to Cairns with the Northern Pride and Mackay with the Mackay Cutters. Both clubs became feeder sides for the Townsville-based NRL club, the North Queensland Cowboys.
In 2012, the Townsville Brothers League club sent a letter to Townsville & Districts Rugby League (TDRL) chairman Ross Anderson outlining their interest in joining the Queensland Cup.
On 10 September 2014, Queensland Rugby League chairman Peter Betros announced that the Brothers-led Townsville Blackhawks bid had been successful and the side would compete in the 2015 competition. The club will be backed by the North Queensland Cowboys, who will use the Blackhawks as one of their feeder sides, along with the Pride and the Cutters.
On 29 September 2014, former North Queensland Cowboys Under 20's head coach and Brisbane Broncos assistant coach Kristian Woolf was announced as the inaugural head coach of the Blackhawks.
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