Under the senior leadership of Jack Hutchinson, Bruce Greenland, Gary Merritt, Randall Martin & Paul Pettigrew – the Kings Cup Association started its comeback in 2018!
Why?
Think Sheffield Shield – Australia’s Interstate-Cricket Championship, where Queensland suffered from a 63 year drought between 1927 – 1995. That was broken – not just by Matthew Hayden, Allan Border, Martin Love, Stuart Law and Jimmy Maher amassing 664 in the first innings of the final against South Australia – they were enabled from the ground-up by a broad community commitment to break the drought, and they did so through a combination of off-field and on-field resolve.
We want to achieve the same victory for Queensland Men’s Sweep Rowing in the Kings Cup.
The longest sporting drought in Australian history was 77 years – North Sydney breaking their NRL Premiership drought in
We know that there is widespread support and resolve across our rowing community to see this happen.
It is time for a new headline and a new story to be written, to replace the last one from 1939:
