ANNOUNCEMENT: Toowoomba Clydesdales chairman Paul Reedy and sponsor, City Golf Club president Ed Britnell at the announcement of an Intrust Super Cup game in Toowoomba on Thursday. Bev Lacey INTRUST Super Cup title contenders Wynnum-Manly and Ipswich will face off in Toowoomba next month in the first state-level game to be held in the Garden City since 2006.
The QRL, TRL and Toowoomba Clydesdales announced on Thursday at City Golf Club that the Seagulls and Jets will play at Clive Berghofer Stadium on August 4 as part of the QRL's Country Week round of the Intrust Super Cup.
That game will add to a big day of rugby league action as Highfields will also take on Valleys in the final round of the TRL regular season on top of the Toowoomba Clydesdales also taking on Redcliffe in the FOGS Cup Colts Challenge.
"We've been very fortunate to secure an Intrust Super Cup game between Wynnum-Manly and Ipswich Jets," Clydesdales chairman Paul Reedy said.
"Two of the top three sides will be coming to Toowoomba in August and it will be a live televised game, so we've been very fortunate to attract that game here to Toowoomba to Clive Berghofer Stadium."
TRL chairman Allen Pyne added: "I think it will showcase rugby league in Toowoomba and will give our league patrons in Toowoomba an opportunity to see a day of football that we haven't had in Toowoomba for many, many years," he said.
QRL chairman Peter Betros was unable to make the announcement due to travel problems on his way back from watching Queensland clinch an eighth-straight State of Origin series in Sydney on Wednesday night, but was happy to bring the game to Toowoomba.
"The whole idea of the Country Week round is to take top-level rugby league to areas that don't normally see it," he said. "We're very thankful to the Toowoomba City Golf Club for helping us bring up the game."
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