1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season

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1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season
NSWRFL champions
NSWRFL Rank1st
1972 recordWins: 20; draws: 1; losses: 3
Points scoredFor: 511; against: 277
Team information
Secretary Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ken Arthurson
Coach Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ron Willey
Assistant coach Flag of Australia (converted).svg Frank Stanton ( Reserve Grade )
Captain
Stadium Brookvale Oval
Top scorers
Tries Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bob Fulton (19)
Goals Flag of Australia (converted).svg Max Brown (29)
Points Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bob Fulton (73)
←  1971 1973  →

The 1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 26th in the club's history since their entry into the then New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1947. After 5 previous Grand Final losses, the Sea Eagles broke through for their first premiership win. [1]

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The 1972 Sea Eagles were coached by former Australian international and Manly fullback Ron Willey. Captaining the side was long serving hooker Fred Jones. The club competed in the New South Wales Rugby Football League's 1972 Premiership season and played its home games at the 20,000 capacity Brookvale Oval.

Ladder

TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah 221813460255+20537
2 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 221714514297+21735
3 St. George colours.svg St. George 221624398221+17734
4 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney 221408456331+12528
5 Newtown colours.svg Newtown 221129402371+3124
6 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown 2212010382373+924
7 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs 228113367398-3117
8 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland 228014332378-4616
9 North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney 227114320405-8515
10 Balmain colours.svg Balmain 226115333455-12213
11 Penrith colours.svg Penrith 225116278490-21211
12 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta 224216317585-26810

Regular season

Sunday 26 March Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 34 – 6 Penrith colours.svg Penrith Panthers Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Ken Irvine (2), Derek Moritz (2), Bob Fulton, Ian Martin
Goals:
Ray Branighan (6)
Derek Moritz (2)		 [2] Tries:

Goals:
Len Killeen (3)
Attendance: 13,437
Referee: Keith Page
Monday 3 April St. George Dragons St. George colours.svg 18 – 0 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Kogarah Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Tony Branson, Bob Clapham
Goals:
Graeme Langlands (6)		 [3] Tries:

Goals:
Attendance: 6,182
Referee: Keith Holman
Sunday 9 April Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 14 – 13 Newtown colours.svg Newtown Bluebags Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Bob Fulton (2)
Goals:
Derek Moritz (3)
Ray Branighan (1)		 [4] Tries:
Paul Dawson, Gary Sullivan, Lionel Williamson
Goals:
John Bonham (2)
Attendance: 13,732
Referee: Barry Barnes
Saturday 15 April Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 23 – 16 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Ray Branighan (2), Ken Irvine (2), Bob Fulton
Goals:
Ray Branighan (2)
Derek Moritz (2)		 [5] Tries:
Bob Honan, Bob McCarthy, Denis Pittard, Elwyn Walters
Goals:
Eric Simms (2)
Attendance: 25,536
Referee: Keith Holman
Saturday 22 April Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 18 – 14 Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs Magpies Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Les Hanigan (3), Ken Irvine
Goals:
Derek Moritz (3)		 [6] Tries:
Stephen Knight, Olaf Prattl
Goals:
Tony Ford (3)
Stephen Satterley (1)
Attendance: 14,840
Referee: Keith Holman
Tuesday 25 April Parramatta Eels Parramatta colours.svg 7 – 9 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Cumberland Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Russ Devonshire
Goals:
Graham Ernst (2)		 [7] Tries:
Terry Randall
Goals:
Ken Irvine (3)
Attendance: 8,129
Referee: Barry Barnes
Saturday 29 April Eastern Suburbs Roosters Eastern Suburbs colours.svg 24 – 17 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
John Armstrong, John Brass, Mark Harris, Peter Moscatt, Allan McKean
Goals:
Allan McKean (4)
Field Goals:
John Brass (1)		 [8] Tries:
Bill Clare, Ken Irvine, Norm Pounder
Goals:
Ken Irvine (4)
Attendance: 22,202
Referee: Keith Holman
Sunday 7 May Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 41 – 12 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Bob Fulton (3), Derek Moritz (2), Alan Maddalena, Allan Thomson, Gary Thoroughgood, Dennis Ward
Goals:
Derek Moritz (3)
Bob Fulton (2)
Ken Irvine (2)		 [9] Tries:
Ron Costello, Mick Trypas
Goals:
Greg Purcell (2)
Henry Tatana (1)
Attendance: 18,574
Referee: Keith Holman
Sunday 14 May Balmain Tigers Balmain colours.svg 25 – 15 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Sports Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Terry Cross, Glen Capelin, Trevor Ryan, Geoff Starling
Goals:
Dennis Preston (5)		 [10] Tries:
Dennis Ward (2), Bob Fulton
Goals:
Bob Fulton (3)
Attendance: 7,885
Referee: Barry Barnes
Sunday 21 May Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 19 – 5 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Max Brown, Ian Martin, Norm Pounder
Goals:
Max Brown (3)
Ken Irvine (2)		 [11] Tries:
Bob Wear
Goals:
Dave Cotter (1)
Attendance: 6,382
Referee: Richie Humphreys
Sunday 28 May North Sydney Bears North Sydney colours.svg 6 – 18 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles North Sydney Oval, Sydney
Tries:
George Ambrum (2)
Goals:		 [12] Tries:
Bill Clare (3), Bob Fulton
Goals:
Max Brown (3)
Attendance: 8,800
Referee: Barry Barnes
Sunday 4 June Penrith Panthers Penrith colours.svg 2 – 22 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Penrith Park, Sydney
Tries:

Goals:
Norm Gilligan (1)		 [13] Tries:
Bill Clare (3), Fred Jones, Gary Thoroughgood, Dennis Ward
Goals:
Max Brown (1)
Mark Willoughby (1)
Attendance: 5,078
Referee: Keith Holman
Monday 12 June Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 15 – 15 St. George colours.svg St. George Dragons Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Bill Hamilton, Ian Martin, Derek Moritz
Goals:
Derek Moritz (2)
Max Brown (1)		 [14] Tries:
Barry Beath, Tony Branson, Graeme Langlands
Goals:
Graeme Langlands (3)
Attendance: 37,343
Referee: Keith Holman
Sunday 25 June Newtown Bluebags Newtown colours.svg 9 – 10 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Henson Park, Sydney
Tries:
Gary Sullivan
Goals:
Ken Wilson (3)		 [15] Tries:

Goals:
Max Brown (3)
Derek Moritz (1)
Field Goals:
Bob Fulton (1)
Dennis Ward (1)
Attendance: Keith Holman
Referee: 8,838
Saturday 24 June South Sydney Rabbitohs South Sydney colours.svg 4 – 12 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:

Goals:
Eric Simms (2)		 [16] Tries:
Max Brown, Allan Thomson
Goals:
Max Brown (3)
Attendance: 18,397
Referee: Laurie Bruyeres
Saturday 1 July Western Suburbs Magpies Western Suburbs colours.svg 7 – 32 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Jon Clark
Goals:
Tony Ford (2)		 [17] Tries:
Mal Reilly (2), Max Brown, Fred Jones, Alan Maddalena, Terry Randall
Goals:
Max Brown (7)
Attendance: 10,241
Referee: Keith Holman
Sunday 9 July Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 32 – 10 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Graham Eadie, Bill Hamilton, Terry Randall, Mal Reilly, Gary Thoroughgood, Dennis Ward
Goals:
Graham Eadie (3)
Max Brown (2)
Derek Moritz (2)		 [18] Tries:
Dennis Mount, Gary Pethybridge
Goals:
Bland Liles (1)
Dennis Mount (1)
Attendance: 11,451
Referee: Barry Barnes
Saturday 22 July Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 17 – 14 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs Roosters Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Dennis Ward (2), Graham Eadie, Ken Irvine
Goals:
Bob Fulton (1)
Field Goals:
Bob Fulton (2)
Dennis Ward (1)		 [19] Tries:
Mark Harris (2)
Goals:
Peter Flanders (4)
Attendance: 30,968
Referee: Keith Holman
Sunday 30 July Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Canterbury colours.svg 16 – 30 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Belmore Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Johnny Greaves, Norm Thomas
Goals:
Henry Tatana (5)		 [20] Tries:
Ken Irvine (2), Dennis Ward (2), Graham Eadie, Fred Jones
Goals:
Max Brown (3)
Graham Eadie (1)
Attendance: 11,579
Referee: Keith Page
Sunday 6 August Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 37 – 15 Balmain colours.svg Balmain Tigers Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Bob Fulton (4), Ken Irvine (3), Ray Branighan, Mal Reilly
Goals:
Graham Eadie (4)
Max Brown (1)		 [21] Tries:
Greg Fryer, Michael Ross, Bruce Warwick
Goals:
Bruce Warwick (3)
Attendance: 15,297
Referee: Keith Holman
Sunday 13 August Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Cronulla colours.svg 10 – 15 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Endeavour Field, Sydney
Tries:
Greg Allen, Ken Maddison
Goals:
Barry Andrews (2)		 [22] Tries:
Bob Fulton (2), Bob Moses
Goals:
Ray Branighan (3)
Attendance: 8,145
Referee: Don MacDonald
Sunday 20 August Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 30 – 7 North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney Bears Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Bob Fulton (2), Alan Maddalena (2), Max Brown, Ken Irvine
Goals:
Graham Eadie (6)		 [23] Tries:
Bruce Walker
Goals:
Barry Glasgow (2)
Attendance: 15,128
Referee: Keith Holman

Finals

Major Semi-Final

Saturday 2 September Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 32 – 8 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs Roosters Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Bob Fulton (2), Graham Eadie, Ian Martin, Allan Thomson, Dennis Ward
Goals:
Ray Branighan (6)
Graham Eadie (1)		 [24] Tries:
Jim Morgan, John Quayle
Goals:
Allan McKean (1)
Attendance: 43,695
Referee: Keith Holman

Grand Final

Saturday 16 September
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 19 – 14 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Eastern Suburbs Roosters
Tries:
Fred Jones
Ray Branighan
Goals:
Ray Branighan (6/8)
Field Goals:
Bob Fulton (1)		 [25]
Tries:
John Ballesty
Bill Mullins
Goals:
Allan McKean (4/6)
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Attendance: 54,357
Referee: Keith Page
Player of the Match: Dennis Ward Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg
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Eastern Suburbs
FB1 Graham Eadie
LW2 Ken Irvine
CE3 Ray Branighan
CE4 Bob Fulton
RW5 Max Brown
FE6 Ian Martin
HB7 Dennis Ward
LK8 Mal Reilly
SR9 Terry Randall
SR10 Allan Thomson
PR11 John O'Neill
HK12 Fred Jones (c)
PR13 Bill Hamilton
Substitutions:
IC14
IC15
Coach:
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ron Willey
FB1 Allan McKean
LW2 Jim Porter
CE3 Harry Cameron
CE4 Mark Harris
RW5 Bill Mullins
FE6 John Ballesty
HB7 Kevin Junee
LK8 Ron Coote (c)
SR9 John Quayle
SR10 Greg Bandiera
PR11 Arthur Beetson
HK12 Peter Moscatt
PR13 John Armstrong
Substitutions:
IC14 Laurie Freier
IC15
Coach:
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Don Furner

After twenty-five years in the competition and five Grand Final losses, Manly finally broke through to win the club's first NSWRFL premiership. [26]

In a controversial match, the Sea-Eagles downed the Eastern Suburbs Roosters 19 to 14, thus shedding their 'bridesmaids' tag. The Roosters were highly critical of referee Keith Page after the match, claiming both of Manly's tries shouldn't have been awarded. To add to their rage, Easts crossed for 2 tries that were disallowed.

A dour first half saw the teams go to the break at 4-all, before a try by hooker Fred Jones put Manly ahead. Jones appeared to drop the ball as he attempted to ground it, but was awarded the try nonetheless. For his part Jones contends that he did place the ball with downward pressure. Midway through the second half, controversy flared again when Manly centre Ray Branighan appeared to stop over the Eastern Suburbs try line after accepting what looked like a forward pass from prop Bill Hamilton. However, referee Page allowed it and the Manly fans began celebrating, knowing that at 19-4 their first premiership victory was assured. Although Easts fought back with two late tries to John Ballesty and Bill Mullins and brought the score to 19-14, time ran out for the Roosters and Manly had won their first ever premiership in first grade.

In the end, it was Manly's part-time goal kicker Ray Branighan who proved the difference, kicking 6 goals from 8 attempts.

Player statistics

Note: Games and (sub) show total games played, e.g. 1 (1) is 2 games played.

PlayerGames (sub)TriesGoalsFGPoints
Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Barber
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Keith Blackett
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ray Branighan 42460
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Max Brown 42970
Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Bucknall
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bob Cameron
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bill Clare 721
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Graham Eadie 41542
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bob Fulton 196473
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bill Hamilton 26
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Les Hanigan 39
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ken Irvine 131161
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Fred Jones (c)412
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Maddalena 412
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ian Martin 412
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Derek Moritz 51851
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bob Moses 13
Flag of Australia (converted).svg John O'Neill
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Peter Peters
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Norm Pounder 26
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Terry Randall 39
Flag of England.svg Mal Reilly 412
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Allan Thomson 39
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Gary Thoroughgood 39
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Gary Train
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dennis Ward 10232
Flag of England.svg Graham Williams
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Willoughby 12
TOTAL991046511

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References

  1. ↑ NSWRFL 1972 - Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
  2. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.1 - Manly vs Penrith
  3. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.2 - St George vs Manly
  4. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.3 - Manly vs Newtown
  5. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.4 - Manly vs South Sydney
  6. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.5 - Manly vs Western Suburbs
  7. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.6 - Parramatta vs Manly
  8. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.7 - Easts vs Manly
  9. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.8 - Manly vs Canterbury-Bankstown
  10. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.9 - Balmain vs Manly
  11. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.10 - Manly vs Cronulla-Sutherland
  12. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.11 - North Sydney vs Manly
  13. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.12 - Penrith vs Manly
  14. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.13 - Manly vs St. George
  15. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.14 - Newtown vs Manly
  16. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.15 - South Sydney vs Manly
  17. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.16 - Western Suburbs vs Manly
  18. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.17 - Manly vs Parramatta
  19. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.18 - Manly vs Easts
  20. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.19 - Canterbury-Bankstown vs Manly
  21. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.20 - Manly vs Balmain
  22. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.21 - Cronulla-Sutherland vs Manly
  23. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Rd.22 - Manly vs North Sydney
  24. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL major semi-final – Manly vs Easts
  25. ↑ 1972 NSWRFL Grand Final – Manly-Warringah vs Eastern Suburbs
  26. ↑ Clarkson, Alan (17 September 1972). "Manly - deserved winners". The Sun-Herald . Australia. p. 72. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
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