1980 Brisbane Rugby League season

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1980 Brisbane Rugby League
DurationMarch 22 – September 21, 1980
Teams8
Premiers Norths Devils colours.svg Northern Suburbs
Minor premiers Valleys colours.svg Fortitude Valley
Matches played88
Points scored3116
Top points scorer(s) Western Suburbs colours.svg Mal Meninga (245)
Player of the year Brothers Colours.svg Peter Lehman (Rothmans Medal)
Top try-scorer(s) Western Suburbs colours.svg Bruce Astill (19)
  1979
1981  

The 1980 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 73rd 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 Northern Suburbs and Southern Suburbs 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 Southern Suburbs, Fortitude Valley, Northern Suburbs and Past Brothers.

Teams

ClubHome groundCoachCaptain
Balmain colours.svg Eastern Suburbs Langlands Park John Abbott John Abbott
Valleys colours.svg Fortitude Valley Neumann Oval Ross Strudwick Ross Strudwick
Norths Devils colours.svg Northern Suburbs Bishop Park Graham Lowe Mark Murray
Brothers Colours.svg Past Brothers Corbett Park Wayne Bennett Greg Holben
Redcliffe colours.svg Redcliffe Dolphin Oval Frank Stanton Ian Pearce
Western Suburbs colours.svg Southern Suburbs Davies Park Bob McCarthy Bruce Astill
Wests Panthers Colours.svg Western Suburbs Purtell Park Harry Cameron Norm Carr
Wynnum-Manly Colours.svg Wynnum-Manly Kougari Oval Henry Holloway Des Morris

Ladder

TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1 Valleys colours.svg Fortitude Valley 211605452261+19132
2 Western Suburbs colours.svg Southern Suburbs 211515434257+17731
3 Brothers Colours.svg Past Brothers 211407342326+1628
4 Norths Devils colours.svg Northern Suburbs (P)211308380314+6626
5 Redcliffe colours.svg Redcliffe 211119429368+6123
6 Balmain colours.svg Eastern Suburbs 216015404432-2812
7 Wynnum-Manly Colours.svg Wynnum-Manly 214116328523-1959
8 Wests Panthers Colours.svg Western Suburbs 213117209497-2887

Finals

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and TimeVenueRefereeCrowd
Semi-finals
Norths Devils colours.svg Northern Suburbs 24-17 Brothers Colours.svg Past Brothers 31 August 1980 Lang Park Eddie Ward
Western Suburbs colours.svg Southern Suburbs 22-14 Valleys colours.svg Fortitude Valley 7 September 1980 Lang Park Eddie Ward
Preliminary Final
Norths Devils colours.svg Northern Suburbs 15-14 Valleys colours.svg Fortitude Valley 14 September 1980 Lang Park Eddie Ward
Grand Final
Norths Devils colours.svg Northern Suburbs 17-15 Western Suburbs colours.svg Southern Suburbs 21 September 1980 Lang Park Eddie Ward32,000

Grand Final

The Grand Final, attended by over 32,000 people, was most notable for a fight which occurred in the first half of the match. Spectators cheered while a commentator was quoted as saying "that's as bad as I've seen in a Grand Final." When play resumed, a close game finished with Norths winning 17-15.

Northern Suburbs 17 (Tries: R. Henrick, B. Dunn, P. Dutton. Goals: G. Warnock 4.)

Southern Suburbs 15 (Tries: M. Meninga, G. Moroko, B. Johnstone. Goals: M. Meninga 3.) [1] [2]

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