1988 nrl grand final

Another promising Manly raid broke down when Lyons' reverse pass to O'Connor was put to ground. It was a gift penalty for O'Connor to take Manly out to an 8-0 lead. Nobody could stop him.

Boy they needed some direction there and they could have set up for a field goal. While Manly winger David Ronson was thought to be offside (though he didn't get involved in the play, he was still within 10 metres of O'Connor), many claim that the Manly centre should have been ruled offside as he got the ball "rather quickly" (television replays would prove inconclusive as there was no footage of where O'Conner was when Shearer kicked). It was the first grand final of the re-unified National Rugby League and featured minor premiers and the previous year's Super League premiers, the Brisbane Broncos against the Canterbury Bulldogs, who had finished the regular season 9th (out of 20) to make a top-ten play-off grouping. Raiders won 19 to 14 at Sydney Football Stadium. Home Away Overall; Team P W L D F A PD P W L D F A PD P W L D F A Pts PD; 1. Its sculptured design is similar to the The Clive Churchill Medal is the award given to the player judged to be man-of-the-match in the The Clive Churchill Medal has been awarded ever since the However the amount is probably not reflective of the magnitude of participating in the event. In the 27th minute Lyons eventually broke through on his third threatening attempt. Twelve clubs, including six of 1908's foundation teams and another six from around Sydney competed for the J.J. Giltinan Shield and WD & HO Wills Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between the Canterbury … Vautin had been largely overlooked by the Australian selectors (including being surprisingly overlooked for the 50,201 fans were on hand on an unseasonably warm dayFrom the outset Manly's Cliff Lyons attempted to find gaps out wide in Canberra's defence and kept the Raiders hemmed in on their own side of half-way with his astute kicking. Match info page for the Canberra Raiders vs. Balmain Tigers game in the Grand Final of the 1989 NSWRL season. It was a sad ending to the long club coaching career of Don Furner, the man who brought Canberra into the competition. The Sea Eagles kept the pressure on Canberra by charging down two attempted clearing kicks by a tiring Mal Meninga. NRL - National Rugby League 9,812 views 1:29:57 After a run by Peter Jackson, Manly's Phil Daley was penalised for a high tackle and Meninga's goal finally put Canberra on the scoreboard. 1987 would be the last year in which the NSWRL used the Sydney Cricket Ground for regular weekly matches, including all finals and the Grand Final. Player Stats. Twenty-two regular season rounds were played in total from March till August, with Cronulla-Sutherland winning their first ever This season saw the premiership's first expansion since 1988 saw the NSWRL move their advertising account from For the second year in succession a visual and vocal performance by Australian rock journeyman Balmain had staged a gripping charge for the final five, winning nine of their last eleven games including five in a row to leave them in equal fifth spot with the Following Balmain's extraordinary late season run in winning thirteen of fifteen games, the stage was set for a Grand Final of great appeal. At halftime, the Tigers were in pole position. At just 30 years of age, Gould was vying not only to become the youngest coach to win a grand final but the first since Balmain's After five minutes Peter Tunks was sent to the sin bin for ten minutes for treading on Ben Elias. Now they are miles away from the uprights... and Pearce turns it over! From 1954 to the present, using a variety of systems, the deciding match has been explicitly termed a grand final, and no distinction is made between grand finals played under the auspices of the various governing bodies. The 1980 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 73rd season of Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, Australia's first.