Final Queensland Cup Season
Their 2007 coach was Matt Parish, replacing Mick Crawley for the season. They narrowly won the Minor Premiers Trophy by beating the Dolphins by 2 points in a match in last round of the regular season at Dairy Farmers Stadium on 18 August. The regular season had a tight finish as usual: the teams below the Dolphins, the Tweed Heads Seagulls and the Ipswich Jets all finished 3 points below the Young Guns.
After such a great season, the Young Guns went into the finals as favourites. In the finals, the Young Guns were given a bye in the first round. In the 2nd round they faced the 2nd placed Dolphins but lost 28-18. They still had a 2nd chance, however, and they just needed to beat the Tweed Heads Seagulls who were in red hot form to make their 2nd Queensland Cup Grand Final appearance. They didn't, they choked at the last hurdle before the Grand Final and lost by a whopping margin of 24 points to the Seagulls, the final score was an embarrassing 34-10.
This would be the Young Guns final Queensland Cup Match as they were now officially out of the Cup due to the fact they had been merged/replaced with/by Northern Pride, based in Cairns and owned by the Cairns Taipans Australian NBL Team.
The last Young Guns squad (2007) was :
- James Andersen
- Brett Anderson
- Daniel Backo
- Ryan Bartlett
- Steven Beaumont
- Scott Bolton
- Brandon Boor
- Samuel James Bowie
- Greg Byrnes
- Sam Faust
- John Frith
- Jamie Frizzo
- Obadiah Geia
- Luke Hume
- Toshio Laiseni
- Keiron Lander
- Ben Lowe
- Shane Muspratt
- Jackson Nicolau
- Brady Payne
- Dean Payne
- Scott Smith
- Ben Vaeau
- Colin Wilkie
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