The Logan Scorpions were an Australian

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football club from the suburb of Slacks Creek in Logan City, Queensland. Due to financial difficulties, the club ceased operation at the end of the 2002

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season, and merged with the

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to form a new team, the

Souths Logan Magpies The Souths Logan Magpies, more commonly referred to by their former names Southern Suburbs Magpies, or South Brisbane Magpies, or often simply referred to as Souths, are a rugby league football club based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Au ...

History

The Scorpions made their debut in the third grade of the

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(BRL) in 1987. After they made the grand final, which they lost to the

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4–18, it was decided to fully admit the club into first grade in 1988. However, the Scorpions were never able to become competitive in the higher class of competition owing to financial difficulties not permitting them to recruit the best players available, a problem enhanced by the fact that all of the BRL's top talent had defected to the Brisbane Broncos or other Sydney-based NSWRL clubs. The Scorpions never made the semi-finals once in either the BRL First Grade or

; their most successful seasons being 1999 and 2000 when the club finished seventh out of twelve teams. They made the Brisbane A Grade grand final in 2000 but lost 10–28 to the

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. Logan's fortunes declined further in 2001 and 2002. In their final year they failed to win a single game in either the Queensland Cup or Brisbane A Grade, and suffered many huge losses, including losing 0–88 to the Redcliffe Dolphins at

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. At the completion of that season the football and leagues clubs were wound up, and a merger with the Souths Magpies to form the

followed.

Notable players

Representative players for Queensland Residents

*Paul Fisher *Shaun Ireland *Brendon Lindsay *Brad Pike *Shane Perry *Carl Turner *Alan Lowe

Other notable players

* Gary O‘Brien * Brian Hegarty * Brian Armstrong * Michael Devlin * Bernie Finch * Aaron Stewart * Billy Dart * Alan Hughes * Mal Hughes * Dougie Hughes * Paul Bartier * Glen Haggath * Sean Roberts * Stephen Royston * Matt Burgess (1996–98) * Clinton Davis (1996–99) * Martin Moloney (1996–99) * Andrew Thompson * David Pitt * Phil Shilvock * Royce Simms * Ben Lowrie * Damien Durnford * Gareth Turton * Brett Simmons * Troy Clarkson * Terry O’Regan

International representatives

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Greg Chappell 1995 2002

References

External links

Logan Scorpions Statistics
(archived). Originally retrieved 7 December 2005 {{Queensland Cup Logan City Rugby clubs established in 1987 Rugby clubs disestablished in 2002 Defunct rugby league teams in Australia 1987 establishments in Australia Rugby league teams in Brisbane Queensland Cup clubs