1978 NSWRFL season

1978 NSWRFL season
1978 NSWRFL season
Teams 12
Premiers Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah (4th title)
Minor premiers Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs (5th title)
Matches played 140
Points scored 4375 (total)
31.25 (per match)
Attendance 1,582,914 (total)
11,307 (per match)
Top point scorer(s) Parramatta colours.svg Mick Cronin (282)
Top try scorer(s) Balmain colours.svg Larry Corowa (24)

The 1978 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the seventy-first season of Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, Australia's first. Twelve clubs, including six of 1908's foundation teams and another six from around Sydney competed for the J J Giltinan Shield and WD & HO Wills Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between the Manly-Warringah and Cronulla-Sutherland clubs that was drawn and had to be re-played. NSWRFL teams also competed for the 1978 Amco Cup.

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Season summary

This season video citing was introduced for incidents of foul play that are not detected on the field.[1] Twenty-two regular season rounds were played from March till August, resulting in a top five of Western Suburbs, Cronulla-Sutherland, Manly-Warringah, Parramatta and Canterbury-Bankstown who battled it out in the finals.

Mick Cronin set a new record for most points scored by an individual in Australian club rugby league history with his tally of 282 points from 25 games in 1978. This record would stand for another twenty years. He also broke Arthur Oxford's 1920 record for consecutive goals with 26 in a row.

The 1978 season's Rothmans Medallist was Parramatta centre Mick Cronin. Rugby League Week gave their player of the year award to Parramatta forward Geoff Gerard.

The 1978 season was also the last in the playing career of future Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductee, Ron Coote.

Teams

Balmain Tigers
Balmain home jersey 1963.svg
71st season
Ground: Leichhardt Oval
Coach: Ron Willey
Captain: Trevor Ryan
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Canterbury home jersey 1966.svg
44th season
Ground: Belmore Sports Ground
Coach: Ted Glossop
Captain: George Peponis
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Cronulla home jersey 1970.svg
12th season
Ground: Endeavour Field
Coach: Norm Provan
Captain: Greg Pierce
Eastern Suburbs Roosters
Eastern Suburbs home jersey 1953.svg
71st season
Ground: Sydney Sports Ground
Captain-Coach: Arthur Beetson
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Manly Sea Eagles home jersey 1965.svg
32nd season
Ground: Brookvale Oval
Coach: Frank Stanton
Captain: Terry Randall
Newtown Jets
Newtown Jets home jersey 1972.svg
71st season
Ground: Henson Park
Coach: John Raper
Captain: Barry Wood
North Sydney Bears
North Sydney Bears home jersey 1951.svg
71st season
Ground: North Sydney Oval
Captain-Coach: Bill Hamilton
Parramatta Eels
Parramatta Eels home jersey 1975.svg
32nd season
Ground: Cumberland Oval
Coach: Terry Fearnley
Captain: Ray Price
Penrith Panthers
Penrith Panthers home jersey 1978.svg
12th season
Ground: Penrith Park
Coach: Don Parish
Captain: Ken Wilson
South Sydney Rabbitohs
South Sydney home jersey 1908.svg
71st season
Ground: Redfern Oval
Coach: Jack Gibson
Captain: Paul Sait→Darrell Bampton
St. George Dragons
St. George home jersey 1945.svg
58th season
Ground: Kogarah Oval
Coach: Harry Bath
Captain: Steve Edge
Western Suburbs Magpies
Western Suburbs home jersey 1977.svg
71st season
Ground: Lidcombe Oval
Coach: Roy Masters
Captain: Tom Raudonikis

Ladder

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 22 16 1 5 426 288 +138 33
2 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland 22 15 0 7 418 261 +157 30
3 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 22 15 0 7 427 287 +140 30
4 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 22 14 0 8 525 306 +219 28
5 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown 22 13 2 7 307 273 +34 28
6 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 22 13 0 9 377 280 +57 26
7 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 22 12 1 9 298 300 -2 25
8 St. George colours.svg St. George 22 10 1 11 367 354 +13 21
9 Balmain colours.svg Balmain 22 9 1 12 337 344 -7 19
10 Panthers colours.svg Penrith 22 4 2 16 206 463 -257 10
11 North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney 22 4 1 17 325 439 -114 9
12 Newtown colours.svg Newtown Jets 22 2 1 19 199 577 -378 5

Finals

Manly had finished the regular season in the relatively strong position of equal second with Cronulla, three points behind minor premiers Wests. However after Cronulla beat Manly 17-12 in the preliminary final, every game from that point was a sudden-death fixture for the Sea-Eagles.

The second week of finals saw Manly come from 13-3 behind Parramatta to draw 13-all in the semi-final requiring a mid-week replay. Again in that match Parramatta led (11-2 this time), before Manly stormed home with three late tries in ten minutes to win 17-11.

Manly then had to back up a few days later to play a fresh Wests side in the Preliminary Final. Thus far the Magpies had only played one final to Manly's three. Wests had two tries disallowed by referee Greg Hartley. Manly coach Frank Stanton somehow coaxed a courageous effort out of his exhausted players and on field, five-eighth Alan Thompson was inspirational as they triumphed 14-7 and reached the Grand Final.

Home Score Away Match Information
Date and Time Venue Referee Crowd
Qualifying Finals
Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland 17-12 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 26 August 1978 Sydney Cricket Ground Jack Danzey 17,718
Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 22-15 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown 27 August 1978 Sydney Cricket Ground Greg Hartley 24,967
Semi Finals
Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 10-14 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland 2 September 1978 Sydney Cricket Ground Jack Danzey 22,789
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 13-13 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 3 September 1978 Sydney Cricket Ground Greg Hartley 30,850
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 17-11 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 6 September 1978 Sydney Cricket Ground Greg Hartley 42,678
Preliminary Final
Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 7-14 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 9 September 1978 Sydney Cricket Ground Greg Hartley 27,345
Grand Final
Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland 11-11 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 16 September 1978 Sydney Cricket Ground Greg Hartley 51,510
Grand Final re-play
Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland 0-16 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 19 September 1978 Sydney Cricket Ground Greg Hartley 33,552

Grand Final

Manly-Warringah Position Cronulla-Sutherland
Graham Eadie FB Mick Mullane
Tom Mooney WG Rick Bourke
Russell Gartner CE Steve Rogers (c)
Stephen Knight CE Dave Chamberlin
Simon Booth WG Steve Edmonds
Alan Thompson FE Barry Andrews
Steve Martin HB Steve Hansard
Ian Thomson PR Paul Khan
Max Krilich (c) HK John McMartin
John Harvey PR Gary Stares
Bruce Walker SR Steve Kneen
Terry Randall SR Eric Archer
Ian Martin LK John Glossop
Reserve Rowland Beckett
Frank Stanton Coach Norm Provan

In the Grand Final, Cronulla went to a 9-4 lead in the second half before Manly came back to hit the front 11-9. A Steve Rogers penalty squared it at 11-all but he then missed a desperate late field-goal attempt and at full time the scores remained locked. For the second consecutive season the weary Grand Finalists were required to play a mid-week rematch three days later.

Manly 11 (Tries: Mooney. Goals: Eadie.)

Cronulla 11 (Tries: Edmonds. Goals: Rogers 4.)

Grand Final Replay

Manly-Warringah Position Cronulla-Sutherland
Graham Eadie FB Rick Bourke
Tom Mooney WG Chris Gardner
Stephen Knight CE Steve Rogers (c)
Russell Gartner CE Dave Chamberlin
Simon Booth WG Steve Edmonds
Alan Thompson FE Martin Raftery
Steve Martin HB Steve Hansard
Ian Thomson PR Paul Khan
Max Krilich (c) HK Rowland Beckett
John Harvey PR Peter Ryan
Bruce Walker SR Steve Kneen
Terry Randall SR Eric Archer
Ian Martin LK John Glossop
Ray Branighan Reserve
Wayne Springall Reserve
Frank Stanton Coach Norm Provan

The Tuesday rematch in front of 33,500 was Manly's sixth game in twenty-four days. It was the second Grand Final in a row to end up going into a mid-week replay with the 1977 Grand Final also needing a re-match to decide the Premiers.

In the first half Cronulla had no answer to Graham Eadie's blind-side bursts. His display completely routed the hapless Sharks and Manly went to the break holding a 15-0 lead.

The only points in the second half came from a field goal by Eadie.

In the replay, as throughout their extraordinary finals campaign, Manly were inspired by the leadership of captain Max Krilich and coach Frank Stanton, their iron-man Terry Randall, their cool five eighth Alan Thompson and classy fullback Graham Eadie.

As of the 2007 NRL season no player since Eadie has scored the combination of a try, a goal and a field-goal in a Grand Final.

The refereeing of Greg "Hollywood" Hartley in the replay attracted criticism from coaches Roy Masters, Jack Gibson and Terry Fearnley, all of whom appealed to the NSWRFL to prohibit Hartley from refereeing their clubs' matches the following season.[2]

Manly-Warringah 16 (Tries: Gartner 2, Eadie. Goals: Eadie 3. Field Goal: Eadie.)

Cronulla-Sutherland 0

Man-of-the-match: Graham Eadie

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