1978 Brisbane Rugby League season

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1978 Brisbane Rugby League
DurationMarch 27 – September 17, 1978
Teams8
Premiers Balmain colours.svg Eastern Suburbs
Minor premiers Redcliffe colours.svg Redcliffe Dolphins
Matches played88
Points scored2941
Top points scorer(s) Redcliffe colours.svg Ian Pearce (266)
Player of the year Redcliffe colours.svg Ian Pearce (Rothmans Medal)
  1977
1979  

The 1978 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 71st 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 Eastern Suburbs and Fortitude Valley clubs.

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Season summary

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

Teams

ClubHome groundCoachCaptain
Balmain colours.svg Eastern Suburbs Langlands Park Des Morris Des Morris
Valleys colours.svg Fortitude Valley Neumann Oval Johnny Rhodes Ross Strudwick
Norths Devils colours.svg Northern Suburbs Bishop Park Bob Bax Bruce Warwick
Brothers Colours.svg Past Brothers Corbett ParkReg CannonPaul Beauchamp
Redcliffe colours.svg Redcliffe Redcliffe Showgrounds Ian PearceIan Pearce
Western Suburbs colours.svg Southern Suburbs Davies Park Wayne Bennett Greg Veivers
Wests Panthers Colours.svg Western Suburbs Purtell Park Don OxenhamMark Hogan
Wynnum-Manly Colours.svg Wynnum-Manly Kougari Oval Dennis Ward Robert Orchard

Ladder

TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1 Redcliffe colours.svg Redcliffe 211605502306+19632
2 Balmain colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 211407451249+20228
3 Valleys colours.svg Fortitude Valley 211308317328-1126
4 Wests Panthers Colours.svg Western Suburbs 2111010339306+3322
5 Western Suburbs colours.svg Southern Suburbs 219012322369-4718
6 Wynnum-Manly Colours.svg Wynnum-Manly 218013305378-7316
7 Brothers Colours.svg Past Brothers 217014274474-20014
8 Norths Devils colours.svg Northern Suburbs 216015313413-10012

Finals

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and TimeVenueRefereeCrowd
Semi-finals
Valleys colours.svg Fortitude Valley 17–10 Wests Panthers Colours.svg Western Suburbs 27 August 1978 Lang Park Eddie Ward15,000
Balmain colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 21–16 Redcliffe colours.svg Redcliffe 3 September 1978 Lang Park Ian Smith
Preliminary Final
Valleys colours.svg Fortitude Valley 17–13 Redcliffe colours.svg Redcliffe 10 September 1978 Lang Park Eddie Ward18,000
Grand Final
Balmain colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 14–10 Valleys colours.svg Fortitude Valley 17 September 1978 Lang Park Eddie Ward30,000

Grand Final


Eastern Suburbs 14 (Tries: R. Morris, G. Holben. Goals: G. McDonald 3, W. Lindenburg.)

Fortitude Valley 10 (Tries: V. Wieland, M. Neill. Goals: M. Neill, A. Mills.) [1] [2]

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