New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1982
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| New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1982 | |
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| Teams | 14 |
| Premiers |  Parramatta (2nd title) |
| Minor premiers | Parramatta (2nd title) |
| Matches played | 188 |
| Points scored | 5927 (average 31.527 per match) |
| Attendance | 2,282,194 (average 12,139 per match) |
| Top points scorer(s) | Mick Cronin (279) |
| Top try scorer(s) | Steve Ella (23) |
The 1982 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the seventy-fifth season of professional rugby league football in Australia. Fourteen clubs contested during the season for the Winfield Cup, including six Sydney-based foundation teams, another six from Sydney, one from greater New South Wales and one from the Australian Capital Territory. This season, NSWRFL teams also competed for the 1982 KB Cup.
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[edit] Season summary
This year saw the inclusion of the first two teams based outside of the Sydney area, the Illawarra Steelers and the Canberra Raiders, who would finished their first season second last and last respectively. This was the first of several expansions that would take place over the next decade and a half which would see the competition grow further into a national league.
The season saw the only nil-all scoreline in competition history. The Newtown Jets and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs drew their match on 28 May, with neither team scoring a point. Parramatta managed 23 wins from 28 matches in 1982 - the most wins in a season by a club in NSWRL/NRL premiership history alongside Manly-Warringah's 23 in 1983.
In 1982 the "sin-bin" was introduced, enabling referees to send players from the field for five or ten minute periods for minor or deliberate technical offences.
In 1982 a bronze replica of "the Gladiators" - the 1963 photo taken by by John O'Gready of Norm Provan and Arthur Summons' post-game, mud-caked embrace - was first adopted to adorn the Winfield Cup.
[edit] Teams
 Balmain Tigers |
 Canberra Raiders |
 Canterbury Bulldogs |
 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks |
 Eastern Suburbs Roosters |
 Illawarra Steelers |
 Manly Sea Eagles |
 Newtown Jets |
 North Sydney Bears |
 Parramatta Eels |
 Penrith Panthers |
 South Sydney Rabbitohs |
 St. George Dragons |
 Western Suburbs Magpies |
[edit] Ladder
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parramatta |
26 | 21 | 0 | 5 | 619 | 242 | +377 | 42 |
| 2 |  Manly-Warringah |
26 | 17 | 0 | 9 | 530 | 411 | +119 | 34 |
| 3 |  North Sydney |
26 | 16 | 1 | 9 | 399 | 360 | +39 | 33 |
| 4 |  Eastern Suburbs |
26 | 15 | 2 | 9 | 437 | 304 | +133 | 32 |
| 5 |  Western Suburbs |
26 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 412 | 349 | +63 | 32 |
| 6 |  South Sydney |
26 | 14 | 1 | 11 | 395 | 400 | -5 | 29 |
| 7 |  Newtown |
26 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 406 | 309 | +97 | 28 |
| 8 |  Cronulla-Sutherland |
26 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 400 | 336 | +64 | 27 |
| 9 |  Canterbury-Bankstown |
26 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 399 | 361 | +38 | 27 |
| 10 |  St. George |
26 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 408 | 402 | +6 | 24 |
| 11 |  Balmain |
26 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 383 | 427 | -44 | 21 |
| 12 |  Penrith |
26 | 7 | 1 | 18 | 375 | 441 | -66 | 15 |
| 13 |  Illawarra |
26 | 6 | 0 | 20 | 344 | 572 | -228 | 12 |
| 14 |  Canberra |
26 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 269 | 862 | -593 | 8 |
[edit] Finals
| Home | Score | Away | Match Information | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date and Time | Venue | Referee | Crowd | |||||
| Qualifying Finals | ||||||||
 Eastern Suburbs |
11-7 |  Western Suburbs |
4 September 1982 | Sydney Cricket Ground | Jack Danzey | 21,167 | ||
 Manly-Warringah |
26-3 |  North Sydney |
5 September 1982 | Sydney Cricket Ground | John Gocher | 24,690 | ||
| Semi Finals | ||||||||
| North Sydney |
10-12 | Eastern Suburbs |
11 September 1982 | Sydney Cricket Ground | Jack Danzey | 19,566 | ||
 Parramatta |
0-20 | Manly-Warringah |
12 September 1982 | Sydney Cricket Ground | John Gocher | 31,604 | ||
| Preliminary Final | ||||||||
| Parramatta |
33-0 | Eastern Suburbs |
19 September 1982 | Sydney Cricket Ground | John Gocher | 24,637 | ||
| Grand Final | ||||||||
| Manly-Warringah |
8-21 | Parramatta |
26 September 1982 | Sydney Cricket Ground | John Gocher | 52,186 | ||
[edit] Grand Final
| Manly-Warringah | Position | Parramatta |
|---|---|---|
| Graham Eadie | FB | Paul Taylor |
| John Ribot | WG | Neil Hunt |
| Chris Close | CE | Mick Cronin |
| Michael Blake | CE | Steve Ella |
| Phil Carey | WG | Eric Grothe |
| Alan Thompson (c) | FE | Brett Kenny |
| Phil Blake | HB | Peter Sterling |
| Geoff Gerard | PR | Geoff Bugden |
| Ray Brown | HK | Steve Edge (c) |
| Terry Randall | PR | Chris Phelan |
| Paul Vautin | SR | John Muggleton |
| Les Boyd | SR | Steve Sharp |
| Paul McCabe | LK | Ray Price |
| Bruce Walker | Reserve | Peter Wynn |
| Ian Thompson | Reserve | Mark Laurie |
| Max Krilich | Reserve | |
| Bob Fulton | Coach | Jack Gibson |
The Eels won the minor premiership with ease - eight points ahead of Manly - and breezed through the decider with the same confidence. Manly opened the scoring through Phil Blake in the opening minutes, but Parramatta replied quickly when Brett Kenny put Steve Ella over. After a quiet period, Manly collapsed in the ten minutes before half-time with Parramatta scoring three tries. The first to Eric Grothe came when Brett Kenny had shown brilliant evasive skills on the second tackle after Manly dropped the ball, the second came when a Peter Sterling bomb deflected off a Parramatta player into Kenny's arms, and the third after quick hands saw Kenny send Neil Hunt over in the corner.
The Eels led 16-3 at half-time and, despite Les Boyd scoring after playing the ball forward in the 48th minute, Brett Kenny's second try in the 62nd minute sealed victory.
Parramatta 21 (Tries: Kenny 2, Grothe, Ella, Hunt. Goals: Cronin 3.)
Manly 8 (Tries: P Blake, Boyd. Goal: Eadie.)
[edit] References
- Rugby League Tables - Season 1982 The World of Rugby League
