1998 North Queensland Cowboys season

The 1998 North Queensland Cowboys season was the fourth in the club's history. Coached by Tim Sheens and captained by Ian Roberts, they competed in the National Rugby League's 1998 Telstra Premiership, finishing 16th (out of 20).

The North Queensland Cowboys home stadium sponsor Stockland finished up their sponsorship contract seeing out their three year deal.

A new sponsorship deal was drawn up by the Cowboys, with local milking organisation Dairy Farmers who owned the local North Queensland milking dairy in the Tablelands. It was rebadged into the newly named 'Dairy Farmers Stadium' for year 1998.

Ladder

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Brisbane	24	18	1	5	688	310	+378	37
2	Newcastle	24	18	1	5	562	381	+181	37
3	Melbourne	24	17	1	6	546	372	+174	35
4	Parramatta	24	17	1	6	468	349	+119	35
5	North Sydney	24	17	0	7	663	367	+296	34
6	Sydney City	24	16	0	8	680	383	+297	32
7	Canberra	24	15	0	9	564	429	+135	30
8	St George	24	13	1	10	486	490	-4	27
9	Canterbury	24	13	0	11	489	411	+78	26
10	Manly	24	13	0	11	503	473	+30	26
11	Cronulla	24	12	1	11	438	387	+51	25
12	Illawarra	24	11	1	12	476	539	-63	23
13	Balmain	24	9	1	14	381	463	-82	19
14	Penrith	24	8	2	14	525	580	-55	18
15	Auckland	24	9	0	15	417	518	-101	18
16	North Queensland	24	9	0	15	361	556	-195	18
17	Adelaide	24	7	0	17	393	615	-222	14
18	South Sydney	24	5	0	19	339	560	-221	10
19	Gold Coast	24	4	0	20	289	654	-365	8
20	Western Suburbs	24	4	0	20	371	802	-431	8

Squad (Partial)

• Jim Ahmet
• Scott Donald
• Paul Bowman
• John Buttigieg
• Jason Death
• Andrew Dunemann
• Steve Edmed
• John Doyle
• Jason Ferris
• Dale Fritz
• Josh Hannay
• Liam Johnson
• Peter Jones
• Brett Hetherington
• Aaron Ketchell
• Martin Locke
• Denny Lambert
• John Lomax*
• John Malu
• Noa Nadruku
• Scott Mahon
• Ray Mercy
• Glen Murphy
• Paul Pensini
• Scott Prince
• Dale Shearer
• Ian Roberts*
• Luke Scott
• Mark Shipway
• Bert Tabuai
• Kris Tassell
• Scott Whiting
• Steve Walters
• Scott Wilson
• Adam Warwick

(*) Both these players captained the team at some point during the season.

Captains

• Ian Roberts
• John Lomax

Coach

• Tim Sheens

Statistics

• Won 9; Lost 15
• PF: 361; PA: 556

Club honours

• Player of the year: John Lomax^[1]
• Top point scorer: Josh Hannay 118 (15 tries and 29 goals)

References

1. ^ Honours at cowboys.com.au