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Source: 2019 Northern Pride RLFC season

2019 was the twelfth competitive season for the Cairns based Northern Pride Rugby League Football Club. They were one of 14 clubs that played in the twenty-third season of Queensland's top rugby league competition, QRL's Intrust Super Cup, with each team playing 12 home games and 11 away games over 24 weeks between March and August.
Channel 9 continued to be the television broadcast provider, but televised games returned to Sunday afternoons, after the Saturday afternoon slot proved unpopular, with viewing figures having slumped by as much as 50,000 a game in 2018. Games were shown at noon for the first four weeks, then, when Daylight Saving Time ended in New South Wales, games were shown at 1:00pm.
This was Ty Williams' third season as coach. The Pride lost more than 500 games of QCup experience during the off-season, with the retirement of captain Ryan Ghietti (169 games), along with Brett Anderson (125+ games), Colin Wilkie, Sheldon Powe-Hobbs and Justin Castellaro. In addition, Ethan Lowe*, a Cowboys' regular, signed with the Rabbitohs, leaving another gap in the roster. The Pride signed experienced second-rower Maurice 'Bobby' Blair, and promoted several young players into the first grade squad - Steven Tatipata, Evan Child, Terrence Casey-Douglas,
Tom Hancock and Dave Murphy were named as joint co-captains. Jared Allen and Jack Campagnolo were co-captains in the second pre-season trial game.
The Pride started the season well, beating last year's premiers, Redcliffe and the PNG Hunters in the first two rounds, but then they lost the nest ten games, a club record, with a 50-10 thrashing from the SC Falcons and a 43-0 defeat by Burleigh. They managed to finish the season in a competitive fashion, pulling off a thrilling comeback to defeat Easts Tigers 18-16 in their last home game, before narrowly falling to Tweed Seagulls 12-10 in the final round. The Pride won just five games and ended up in twelfth place.