1979 Brisbane Rugby League season

1979 Brisbane Rugby League
DurationMarch 24 – September 16, 1979
Teams8
Premiers Fortitude Valley
Minor premiers Eastern Suburbs
Matches played88
Points scored3120
Player of the year Neville Draper (Rothmans Medal)

The 1979 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 72nd season of Brisbane's professional rugby league football competition. Eight teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Fortitude Valley and Southern Suburbs clubs.

Season summary

Teams played each other three times, with 21 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top four of Fortitude Valley, Eastern Suburbs, Southern Suburbs and Western Suburbs.

1979 Great Britain Lions tour's Australian leg saw several matches against teams across Queensland, several involving BRL players, such as the 3 Test matches against Australia and single matches against Queensland and Brisbane.

Teams

Club Home ground Coach Captain
Eastern Suburbs Langlands Park Des Morris Des Morris
Fortitude Valley Neumann Oval Ross Strudwick Ross Strudwick
Northern Suburbs Bishop Park Graham Lowe Mark Murray
Past Brothers Corbett Park Reg Cannon David Sinclair
Redcliffe Dolphin Oval Ron Raper Ian Pearce
Southern Suburbs Davies Park Wayne Bennett Greg Veivers → Bruce Astill
Western Suburbs Purtell Park Don Oxenham Norm Carr
Wynnum-Manly Kougari Oval Henry Holloway

Ladder

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Fortitude Valley (P) 21 17 1 3 549 263 +286 35
2 Eastern Suburbs 21 14 0 7 435 315 +120 28
3 Southern Suburbs 21 13 0 8 374 312 +62 26
4 Western Suburbs 21 12 1 8 381 310 +71 25
5 Northern Suburbs 21 9 0 12 337 418 -81 18
6 Redcliffe 21 7 0 14 286 426 -140 14
7 Past Brothers 21 5 1 15 350 488 -138 11
8 Wynnum-Manly 21 5 1 15 284 464 -180 11

Finals

Home Score Away Match information
Date and time Venue Referee Crowd
Semi-finals
Southern Suburbs 22-13 Western Suburbs 26 August 1979 Lang Park Eddie Ward
Fortitude Valley 27-2 Eastern Suburbs 2 September 1979 Lang Park H. Dearness 23,000
Preliminary Final
Southern Suburbs 18-16 Eastern Suburbs 9 September 1979 Lang Park Eddie Ward 23,000
Grand Final
Fortitude Valley 26-0 Southern Suburbs 16 September 1979 Lang Park Eddie Ward 35,000

Grand Final

Fortitude Valley 26 (Tries: C. Close, V. Wieland, P. McWhirter, J. McLeod. Goals: M. Neill 6. Field Goals: W. Lewis, R. Strudwick.)

Southern Suburbs 0[1][2]

References

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