1979 VFA season

1979 VFA Premiership Season
Teams 20
Division 1
Teams 10
Premiers Coburg
(4th premiership)
Minor premiers Geelong West
(2nd minor premiership)
Division 2
Teams 10
Premiers Camberwell
(1st D2 premiership)
Minor premiers Camberwell
(1st D2 minor premiership)
1978
1980

The 1979 Victorian Football Association season was the 98th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 19th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Coburg Football Club, after it defeated Geelong West in the Grand Final on 23 September by eight points; it was Coburg's fourth Division 1 premiership, and its first since 1928, ending a 51-year Division 1 premiership drought. The Division 2 premiership was won by Camberwell; it was the first premiership in either division ever won by the club since its admission to the Association in 1926, 53 years earlier.

Division 1

The Division 1 home-and-away season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. The finals were played at the Junction Oval.

Ladder

1979 VFA Division 1 Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA Pct PTS
1 Geelong West 18 15 3 0 2397 1908 126.6 60
2 Coburg (P) 18 12 6 0 2157 1915 112.6 48
3 Prahran 18 10 8 0 2225 2130 104.4 40
4 Port Melbourne 18 10 8 0 2063 2119 97.3 40
5 Caulfield 18 9 9 0 2007 2266 88.5 36
6 Dandenong 18 8 10 0 2187 1983 110.2 32
7 Preston 18 8 10 0 2343 2238 104.6 32
8 Sandringham 18 8 10 0 2104 2167 97.0 32
9 Frankston 18 6 12 0 2202 2625 83.8 24
10 Brunswick 18 4 14 0 1919 2253 85.1 16
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points Source[1]

Finals

Semi Finals
Sunday, 2 September Prahran 13.11 (89) def. by Port Melbourne 14.17 (101) Junction Oval (crowd: 8,734) [2]
Sunday, 9 September Geelong West 14.12 (96) def. by Coburg 16.21 (117) Junction Oval (crowd: 5,786) [3]
Preliminary Final
Sunday, 16 September Geelong West 16.11 (107) def. Port Melbourne 11.11 (77) Junction Oval (crowd: 10,566) [4]
1979 VFA Division 1 Grand Final
Sunday, 23 September Coburg def. Geelong West Junction Oval (Crowd: 17,947) [5]
1.6 (12)
5.8 (38)
13.13 (91)
16.15 (111)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
5.8 (38)
8.9 (57)
11.11 (77)
14.19 (103)
Umpires: Maurie Stabb
Halbert 3, Smith 3, Cleary 2, Dohnt 2, Halsall 2, Beattie, Fisher, Hartigan, Milroy Goals Radojevic 4, Gilmore 3, Lunn 2, S. Wells 2, Arklay, Scarlet, G. Wells

Awards

Division 2

The Division 2 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.

Ladder

1979 VFA Division 2 Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA Pct PTS
1 Camberwell (P) 18 14 4 0 2487 1698 146.4 56
2 Oakleigh 18 14 4 0 2486 1837 135.3 56
3 Mordialloc 18 12 6 0 2399 1796 133.5 48
4 Williamstown 18 12 6 0 2278 1888 120.6 48
5 Northcote 18 12 6 0 2208 2020 109.3 48
6 Yarraville 18 11 7 0 2219 1848 120.0 44
7 Waverley 18 6 12 0 2147 2356 91.1 24
8 Sunshine 18 4 14 0 1718 2415 71.1 16
9 Box Hill 18 3 15 0 1673 2710 61.7 12
10 Werribee 18 2 16 0 1683 2730 61.6 8
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points Source[7]

Finals

Semi Finals
Sunday, 19 August Mordialloc 14.12 (96) def. Williamstown 3.10 (28) Toorak Park (crowd: 3,000) [8]
Sunday, 26 August Camberwell 16.13 (109) def. by Oakleigh 17.15 (117) Toorak Park (crowd: 6,500) [1]
Preliminary Final
Sunday, 2 September Camberwell 19.14 (128) def. Mordialloc 14.11 (95) Toorak Park (crowd: 3,750) [2]
1979 VFA Division 2 Grand Final
Sunday, 9 September Oakleigh def. by Camberwell Toorak Park (Crowd: 12,023) [9]
2.2 (14)
4.5 (29)
6.7 (43)
12.11 (83)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
6.5 (41)
12.7 (79)
15.10 (100)
18.13 (121)
Umpires: P. Snooks
Lennie 4, Wood 4, Thomas 2, Fryer, Leishman Goals Cowley 6, Hammond 3, Simpson 3, Moore 2, Alexeeff, Chamberlain, Cook, Hirst

Awards

Notable events

NFL Night Series

The top two Association clubs from 1977 – Prahran and Preston – were invited to participate in the NFL Night Series, known this year as the Escort Cup. Neither club progressed to the night portion of the series, both eliminated in the first round by their SANFL opponents in a double-header played at Preston City Oval on Anzac Day:[10]

It was the final NFL Night series, as it was entirely superseded by the rival AFC Night Series in 1980, in which the Association clubs were not invited to compete.

Interleague matches

The Association played an interleague representative match against Queensland for the third consecutive season; it was the Association's first home representative match on an Association ground since 1965.[11] The team was coached by Mick Erwin (Prahran).[12]

After having lost away matches against Queensland in both 1977 and 1978, the Association won this year's match easily. Queensland did not register its first score until the second quarter, by which stage the Association had already scored 9.13 (67), and the final margin was 154 points.[12]

1979 Interleague Matches
Sunday, 17 June V.F.A. 28.26 (192) def. Queensland 5.8 (38) Toorak Park (crowd: 2,500) [12]

Other notable events

External links

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Marc Fiddian (27 August 1979). "Anything but Dandy". The Age (Melbourne). p. 27.
  2. 1 2 3 Marc Fiddian (3 September 1979). "Vic reigns with Port". The Age (Melbourne). p. 29.
  3. 1 2 Marc Fiddian (10 September 1979). "Coburg wins see-saw clash". The Age (Melbourne). p. 28.
  4. 1 2 Marc Fiddian (17 September 1979). "Roosters the wake-up boys". The Age (Melbourne). p. 26.
  5. 1 2 3 Marc Fiddian (24 September 1979). "At last the Lions roar". The Age (Melbourne). p. 26.
  6. 1 2 Marc Fiddian (30 August 1979). "Aanensen's Liston ends Port drought". The Age (Melbourne). pp. 32, 29.
  7. 1 2 3 Marc Fiddian (13 August 1979). "Bears claw into four". The Age (Melbourne). p. 27.
  8. 1 2 Marc Fiddian (20 August 1979). "Prahran faces threat to finals". The Age (Melbourne). p. 31.
  9. Marc Fiddian (10 September 1979). "Cobras strike for first time". The Age (Melbourne). p. 28.
  10. David Eastman. "NFL Night Series – 1977–79". Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  11. Marc Fiddian (16 June 1979). "VFA homes in on its image". The Age (Melbourne). p. 38.
  12. 1 2 3 Marc Fiddian (18 June 1979). "VFA puts freeze on Sunshine State". The Age (Melbourne). p. 22.
  13. Marc Fiddian (4 June 1979). "Two-Blues charge in". The Age (Melbourne). p. 29.
  14. Marc Fiddian (25 June 1979). "Bears in on last growl". The Age (Melbourne). p. 27.
  15. 1 2 Marc Fiddian (5 July 1979). "Preston loses points". The Age (Melbourne). p. 28.
  16. Marc Fiddian (20 July 1979). "Bendigo 'no' to VFA". The Age (Melbourne). p. 26.
  17. Marc Fiddian (15 August 1979). "Bottoms down – 10". The Age (Melbourne). p. 30.
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