since its inception. Ron Gibbs also announced he would return to Sydney when he signed to play for Western Suburbs at the end of the season. The top point scorer for The Seagulls was Peter Benson with 44 points (1 Try, 19 goals). The leading try scorers for the team scoring 6 tries each were; Brett French, Clinton Mohr and three-quarter Mark Ross. The Seagulls showed steady improvement with their crowd figures. From an average home crowd of 5,495 in 1988 support grew to 6624 in 1990. Overall crowds had grown from 6,199 to 7,175. 1991 Season The 1991 season was the worst season to that point for Gold Coast in their club's history. However, the club produced its first international player when Wally Lewis was selected for the first test of the 1991 Trans-Tasman Test series against New Zealand, while the reserve grade team made the finals series for the first time. The club's on field results were the worst in its short history, with just two wins and a draw. The team's only wins for the season were a 16–8 home win over Parramatta at Seagulls Stadium in Round 5, while their last win for the year came in Round 9 with a 16–12 win over fellow 1988 team Newcastle at Marathon Stadium. The Seagulls then lost their final 13 games of the season, with their closest loss coming in Round 21 (the penultimate round) when they gallantly went down 18–20 to the Brisbane Broncos in front of 12,620 fans at home. While the arrival of Wally Lewis failed to bring the on field results, crowds rose 29 percent at Seagulls Stadium and 36 percent overall, a factor that could only be attributed to the arrival of Lewis. In all Lewis played only 14 of 22 matches for Gold Coast in 1991, also missing games while captaining Queensland to a 2–1 Origin series win over New South Wales in what would be his final Origin series as a player. Two of the better performances of the season came against the defending premiers, the Canberra Raiders. In the round four at Bruce Stadium, the Seagulls went down 20–18 to the Raiders who were missing Gary Belcher, Laurie Daley and Bradley Clyde. And in Round 19 played at Seagulls Stadium the Seagulls led 10–8 with only ten minutes to play, before the Raiders managed a late victory with a try