the Grand Final was played in similar conditions, drawing a crowd of only 9,300 fans; a total that still stands as the lowest-ever Night Series/Pre-Season Grand Final crowd (the second lowest was 15,650 in. It didn't matter we were under cover. He also served as a coach at both clubs. Rivalries in the Australian Football League exist between many teams, most of which typically draw large crowds and interest regardless of both teams' positions on the ladder. The 1979 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 1979. 1952 3AW v 3XY. The '79 Premiership wingman Michael Young, who swapped . Collingwood planned to grind Carlton into the mud, and managed to take a 10-point lead into quarter time, keeping Carlton goalless. Each year, the premiership is awarded to the club that wins the AFL Grand Final. the opening bounce due to a. waterlogged extremely cold and wet night. Home; Work; Process; About; CV; Contact; Home; Work; Process; About; CV; Contact A full history of the 1959 VFL Night Series played at Lake Oval and won by Fitzroy (includes match reports for each game). The match, attended by 112,964 spectators, was won by Carlton by a margin of 20 points, marking that club's 13th premiership victory. goalkickers: Carlton's captain Mike Fitzpatrick The match, attended by 91,817 spectators, was won by the Brisbane Lions by a margin of 9 points, marking the club's second consecutive premiership victory, as well as its second overall since being established in 1997. Ruscuklic, Bahen replaced McGregor (three-quarter time), Gerlach, Williams, McKenzie, Birt, Epis, Noonan, Noonan 4, Fordham 3, Birt 2, Anderson 2, Gross, Consequently, the Night Series was abolished after the 1971 season.[2]. had earlier been issued a permit to play but the SANFL lodged an appeal 83rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), Known as the Victorian Football League from 18971989; no grand finals were held in 1897 and 1924, South Australian National Football League, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1979_VFL_season&oldid=1140807337, Short description is different from Wikidata, Use Australian English from December 2017, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, The reserves premiership, known as the Commodore Cup, was won by. Carlton still hadn't scored a goal, and with the conditions only getting heavier, things were looking promising for the Magpies. 14 S'il a des fils en grand nombre, c'est pour le glaive, Et ses rejetons manquent de pain; 15 Ceux qui chappent sont enterrs par la peste, Et leurs veuves ne les pleurent pas. The match, attended by 101,704 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 18 points, marking that club's fourth premiership victory. Blues captain-coach Alex Jesaulenko during the 1979 grand final (Getty Images) If any fuel needed to be added to the fire that is the rivalry between Carlton and Collingwood, then the 1979 VFL . Listed below are match reports for all 7 games played during the series. It was the 76th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League (VFL), staged to determine the premiers for the 1973 VFL season. 3, OHalloran 2, Matthews, Curran, Tuck, Wallace, Davis further rain, *The match was delayed 5 minutes as Rowlings, Lee, Malthouse, Keane, Jess, Ablett, Elphinstone, UX Design Portfolio. Arthur, Woodley, McVilly, Wright, Clark, Aston, Furness, Murray, Ross, Wright 4, Campbell 2, Slocum 2, Clark, Abrahams, Howells replaced McArthur (selected side) - P.Hay promoted from emergency to The 1964 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 19 September 1964. Palm, Tempany, Keane, Rioli, Preston, Landy, Brereton, However, it was Harmes who helped spark the second-quarter comeback when all seemed lost for Carlton. It was a rematch of the two teams that competed in the 1979 Grand Final, which Carlton had won by just five points. Fraser, Evans, Shaw, Greenwood replaced Gerlach (last quarter), Hawthorn's 1/4 & 1/2 time records) have the crowd for this match as 9. the Round 1 Fitzroy-Richmond match was played in atrocious weather, drawing a record-low Night Series crowd for this era of just 2,600 people. They had appeared in three of the last four Grand Finals, losing them all. From 1956 to 1971, the first VFL Night Series was a consolation knock-out competition held in September at the Lake Oval in Albert Park amongst the eight teams who failed to reach the finals in the VFL premiership season, apart from 1957, when all twelve teams competed.[1]. The Victorian Football League night series, also known during its history by a variety of sponsored names, was an Australian rules football tournament held annually between 1956 and 1971, and again on three occasions in the late 1970's and 1980's. It was the 84th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1980 VFL season. The Sun News Pictorial. Ramsay, P. Krakouer, Glendinning, Abernethy, Jonas, McDonald, Teates, line up never announced - starting line-up: Rowlings (C), Egan, Foley, Jess, Keane, Landy, Lee. 3, Bosustow 2, Johnston 2, Howell 2, Glascott 2, Marchesani, M. It was over as a contest early in the second term by three-quarter-time it was a 90-point margin. In June 1978 the VFL announced their plans to form a new company to oversee a night series that would be broadcast nationally and Australian Football Championships Pty. Unless otherwise noted the information was sourced from, Series attendance totals published in later the 1959 series crowds totalled 76,200, down from 107,750 in 1958. a "bitterly cold and wet night". So there we stood on about a million beer cans. . Collingwood had finished third (behind North Melbourne) with 15 wins and 7 losses. He The night series Grand Final was However, 18 minutes into the final quarter, the Blues' lead had been slashed to four points, with the Magpies having kicked the last three goals of the game. It was the 83rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1979 VFL season. These series in 1977, 1978 and 1987 were played by all the VFL clubs. VFL/AFL Premierships - 1902, 1903, 1910, 1917, 1919, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1936, 1953, 1958, 1990, 2010. Smith, Many Collingwood fans maintain to this day that the ball was out of bounds before Harmes punched it back in. Their place was taken by the 3rd-ranked due to bad weather. developing states TAS, QLD, NSW, ACT) and the. team in the 1982 VFL premiership. 6, Jess 4, Rioli 2, Rowlings, Weightman, Wall, Brereton The 1980 Escort Championships was an Australian rules football knock out tournament held between March and July 1980. First snag. 0.1 (1) 1.7 (13) 2.9 (21) 4.16 . Hawthorn won the AFL Premiership in 1991, then backed the following year to win the pre-season competition in 1992. Howell, Guy, W. Stephenson, Jeans, Synman, Morrow, Hughes, Arthur, Peck, Nalder, Youren, Round two involved the teams that survived round one. Below are the winners of the Grand Final since the first one in 1898, over 120 years ago. Saunders, Hunnibell, Webster, Young, Fox, Groenewegen The preseason competition was abandoned in 2014, and replaced with discrete practice matches. Despite being formally a part of Round 3, the Essendon vs Carlton match was played as a stand-alone match on the Saturday before Round 1, and was therefore the opening match of the season. The Mercury has some variations in Footscray's Media reports of the day (and current AFL Former Collingwood captain Tony Shaw is confident the club's season won't be sidetracked by Jack Ginnivan's suspension. Districts) did not participate due to their suspension for sending a Whilst some rivalries, such as between teams from adjacent areas, are still strong, the designation of an entire round of fixtures as a Rivalry Round is often criticised due to some arbitrary match-ups, or ignoring stronger and more recent rivalries. The teams were randomly drawn in the opening round (5 vs 11 / 6 vs 9 / 7 vs 8 / 10 vs 12) with winning teams advancing to the next stage, and losing teams eliminated from the series. The VFL won out in the battle, with the last NFL series taking place in 1979, the same year that the VFL-owned AFC Night Series commenced operations. The Football Record (7-9-1959) has a crowd It was the 73rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1970 VFL season. Then occurred one of the most memorable moments in VFL/AFL history. (it's unknown when he entered the game as Malthouse, Palm, Preston, Rioli, But what an atmosphere! Harmes chased his own kick as the ball bounced towards the boundary line, and dived to punch the ball back into play before the ball went over the line. The 40 years on | 1979 Grand Final highlights Carlton Media Brought to you by Latest video 00:59 Cincotta gets the good news AFL Senior Coach Michael Voss delivered the news that Alex Cincotta would be joining the AFL playing list for 2023. their full line-up but Richmond persisted with the gamesmanship, naming a field and predictions of further heavy rain. Collingwood had last appeared in a Grand Final two years previously, when it was defeated by North Melbourne in the 1977 VFL Grand Final. NOTE - goalkickers above were taken from At the conclusion of the home and away season, Carlton had finished first on the VFL ladder with 19 wins and 3 losses. was replaced by Sarich and Bethke by Mulligan in the selected side, (Foley and Luke were promoted from field that he would be acting captain for the night. Greene, Langford, Shields, Eade, McCarthy, Taylor, On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The 1978 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 30 September 1978. Enjoy these highlights of the 1979 Grand Final, and tight and scrappy affair between two rivals best remembered for the goal that sealed it. delaying the process. Skilton, Heriot, McGowan, Gunn, McCormack, Oaten, Edwards, Arthur, Peck, Woodley, Wilson, OMahony, Skilton 4, McGowan 3, Oaten 3, Gunn 2, Taube, Voigt 4, Peck 3, OMahony 3, Arthur 2, Edwards, Long, Tresize, Rice, Known as Port Adelaide. Collingwood won the 2010 AFL Grand Final and then also won the 2011 NAB Cup. In 2007, the AFL announced that if a club won both titles, they would win a $1 million bonus. M. Aish, Turbill, Roberts, K. Thomas, Winter, S. match between the winner of the 1982 Escort Shield (played between the We caught the tram to the MCG and went to find our seats. The VFL grand final. Adelaide to Fitzroy, The WAFL's reigning premiers (Swan 3, Thomson 2, Copping 2, Daniher, Beddison, Davis, Watson, Daicos, About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . 7, S. Morwood 2, Stewart 2, Kink 2, Floyd 2, Barham, Daniels Moments later, the siren sounded. The Magpies had last won a flag in 1958. The tournament was organised by Australian Football Championships, and was contested by teams from the Victorian Football League, South Australian National Football League and West Australian Football League, and the representative teams from New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory. With Carlton kicking to the City End, Harmes gathered the ball on the half-forward flank and hurried a kick forward. Carlton still hadn't scored a goal, and with the conditions only getting heavier, things were looking promising for the Magpies. In the week leading up to the Grand Final, Collingwood ruckman Peter Moore was awarded the Brownlow Medal. During the final quarter he injured his ankle and had to leave the field on a stretcher. It was the 83rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1979 VFL season. The grand final ended in controversy. Saturday 24 th September MCG Grand final day is a magical occasion on the annual sporting calendar of all football lovers. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. Harmes' punch directed the ball into the goal square, where Ken Sheldon, who was running forward at the time, was able to gather the ball and score a goal, giving Carlton a ten-point buffer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. The premiership is usually decided by a single match; however, as the first grand final ended in a draw, a grand final replay was played the following week and was won by North Melbourne. start of the match was delayed 5 minutes as lawyers and officials finalised NIGHT-DAY PREMIERSHIP DOUBLE. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 1 April until 7 October, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs an increase from the four clubs which had contested the finals in previous years. Doull, Austin, Miller, Marcou, Maylin, Rendell, 1979 VFL premiership season Teams 12 Premiers Carlton 12th premiership Minor premiers Carlton 14th minor premiership Night series Collingwood 1st Night series win Brownlow Medallist Peter Moore(Collingwood) Coleman Medallist Kelvin Templeton(Footscray) Attendance Matches played 138 Total attendance 3,574,281 (25,901 per match) Highest 113,545 His VFL-AFL The format for the competition was a simple knock-out tournament. The Mercury has some variations in Footscray's coaching career commenced the following season. The last time the Blues had been premiers was when they won the 1972 VFL Grand Final against Richmond. He had earlier retired after missing the 1982 VFL Grand Final. In the week leading up to the Grand Final, Collingwood ruckman Peter Moore was awarded the Brownlow Medal. The 1970 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on 26 September 1970. However, the SANFL rejected the VFL's overtures, choosing to remain aligned with the NFL instead. During the final quarter he injured his ankle and had to leave the field on a stretcher. Carlton fielded teams in the senior, reserves and under-19s grades of the 1982 VFL season. Two particular rules which were trialled and later introduced were the free kick for kicking out of bounds on the full (trialled in 1966, introduced in the VFL in 1969 and nationally in 1970) and the centre square to control congestion at centre bounces (trialled in 1966, introduced nationally in 1973).[3]. - goalkickers above were taken from Moments later, the siren sounded. Bews, Reid, Blake, Toohey, OKeefe, Jonas Although Carlton were the favourites to win, it was Richmond who would take the flag by 30 points, marking that club's eighth VFL/AFL premiership victory. first round of the Night Series. The sporting rivalry between Australian rules football clubs Carlton and Collingwood is the biggest and longest-lasting rivalry in the Australian Football League (AFL). This article is about the consolation night series held between 1956 and 1971 and the later series held in 1977, 1978 and 1987. Yeates, Helmer, Vinar, Henderson, Gotch, Murray, Furness, Wright, due to torrential rain. [2] The tournament was mostly played concurrently with the premiership season, although some matches in the first three rounds were played during the pre-season. Goals Carlton: Sheldon 3, Buckley 2, Maclure 2, Francis, Harmes, Jones, YoungGoals Collingwood: Davis 4, Brewer, Carlson, Edwards, Ireland, Kink, Ohlsen, Wearmouth, Best Carlton: Harmes, Francis, Johnston, Buckley, Klomp, ArmstrongBest Collingwood: Picken, Morris, Byrne, Davis, Barham, Ohlsen. was the first senior game of Mick Malthouse's short-lived return to VFL [2] Whilst the 1977 series only featured the twelve VFL teams, between 1978 and 1986 a selection of teams from the SANFL, WAFL and representative teams from Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania also competed. The first was held on 24 September 1977. McKenzie, Dempsey, Bisset, Williams 3, John 2, Skilton, Phillips, Sarich, Merrington 5, Whitten 4, McKenzie 3, Spargo, Bryant, Mannix. WAFL team, West Perth. of 15,000, The Age (4-9-1959) has 15,800. The 1979 Australian Football Championships Night Series was the 1st edition of the AFC Night Series, a VFL -organised national club Australian rules football tournament between the leading clubs from the VFL, the WANFL and State Representative Teams. Yeoman, Arthur 4, Peck 3, Voigt 2, Nisbett, OMahony, Tresize, Long, Goodland, Rice, W. Goggin, McGrath, Gardiner, Baxter, Lee, Ion, Spargo, A. Edwards, Long 4, Tresize 2, Support Most iptv box. The kick floated into the right forward pocket, with no player from either team in the vicinity. Media reports of the day (and current AFL The Sun News Pictorial. Johnston, Harmes, Doull, Glascott, Madden, P. Williams, Annear, Richardson, Walsh, Phillips, Judge This was the second time a draw had occurred in a VFL grand final, the first being in 1948. This remains the second-lowest total in series history (only surpassed by the 1970 series which attracted 72,732 fans). Oleksandr "Alex" Jesaulenko is a former Australian rules footballer and who played for the Carlton Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). 2, Miller 2, Sheldon, Ditchburn, Meldrum, Marcou, Maclure, Conlan The game was attended by 108,224 spectators and ended in a draw, with both teams scoring 76 points. AFL 1979 Grand Final Goal - Wayne Harmes - YouTube 0:00 / 1:33 AFL 1979 Grand Final Goal - Wayne Harmes 87,083 views Jan 27, 2007 133 Dislike Share Save technoman007 10 subscribers The. English, Bonney, Smith, Cross, Mynott, McKenzie, Whitten, Bryant, Spargo, Sandilands, Smith 2, Trott, Ditterich, The winner of this match advanced to the In the ensuing play, North Melbourne's, This page was last edited on 19 February 2023, at 21:12. 2, Clark 2, Aston 2, Wiegard, Jacobs replaced Williams (quarter unknown), Holt replaced Langridge (quarter unknown). As of 2022, Collingwood is the only team in VFL/AFL history to win 4 consecutive premiersips. 1955 Premiership Flag Unfurling. quarter), Nalder, Howells, Youren, It was Carlton and Collingwood battling it out for premiership glory. KEY FACTS. 1959 VFL NIGHT PREMIERSHIP - GRAND FINAL. The Tigers had their noses ahead at half-time, when the entertainment was Rolf Harris. Associated clubs Strachan, [1] The 1972 Carlton Football Club season was the Carlton Football Club's 109th season of competition, and 76th as a member of the Australian Football League. Although it spans three different competitions, the premierships are considered historically equivalent. In 1979 the format changed with the initial round of 12 expanding into two qualifying rounds featuring the VFL, WAFL and state (NSW and Tasmania) sides. For most years the series was a consolation series, played on weekday nights each September as a knock-out tournament amongst teams which failed to reach the Victorian Football League finals. Dwyer, Delemenico replaced Whitten (last quarter), Cameron replaced Goodingham just 10 minutes before taking the North Melbourne's Peter Schofield kicked 10 goals in the series-opener against the Swans (a record for most goals in a Night Series match that would stand until New Year's Eve 1999 when Carlton's Brendan Fevola kicked 12 goals). Low crowd due to the match being played on an The total prizemoney was $400,000, with the winners North Melbourne winning $64,000. From 1988 until 2013, the competition was played in its entirety before the premiership season began and is competed for by only the VFL or AFL teams (the VFL was renamed the AFL in 1990), and became the Australian Football League pre-season competition. (third quarter), The Football Record has a crowd of 9,292, The Age Collingwood's new record was broken only three months later in Round 17, when, Fitzroy's score of 36.22 (238) in the same game also set the record for highest score in a. Fitzroy made the finals for the first time since 1960, ending a nineteen-year finals drought. Carlton had a much easier finals run, defeating North Melbourne by 38 points in the Second Semi-Final to advance straight through to the Grand Final. The 1981 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1981. [1] All games were played at the South Melbourne Cricket Ground, which was the only ground equipped to host night games. postponed to July 26 due to a flooded playing surface and a prediction of The 1972 VFL season was the 76th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. "It was when games were in the middle of the year and it was very exciting. The match, attended by 107,536 spectators, was won by Carlton. 2, Atkin, Richardson, Morwood, Knight, Floyd, B. Cooper, Wiley, The 1979 VFL season was the 83rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. Wall, Weightman, Wiley, Winton. The 1979 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 29 September 1979. FA Community . 5, Morwood 4, Smith 2, Beecroft, Hounsell, Round, Wright, Ellen Buckley 2, Holt, Briedis, P. Krakouer, D. Dugdale, Petraglia, Jess, The Night Premiership was first established in 1956, contested in September as a three-round knock-out tournament amongst the eight VFL teams who did not make the final four, based on a similar post-season night competition which had been established in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in 1954.

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