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1978 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season

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1978 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season
NSWRFL champions
NSWRFL Rank3rd
1976 recordWins: 18; draws: 2; losses: 8
Points scoredFor: 510; against: 346
Team information
SecretaryAustralia Ken Arthurson
CoachAustralia Frank Stanton
Captains
StadiumBrookvale Oval
Top scorers
TriesAustralia Tom Mooney (11)
GoalsAustralia John Gray (61)
PointsAustralia John Gray (134)
← 1977 1979 →

The 1978 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 32nd in the club's history since their entry into the then New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1947.

The 1978 Sea Eagles were coached by 1963–64 Kangaroo tourist Frank Stanton. Captaining the side was long serving hooker Max Krilich. The club competed in the New South Wales Rugby Football League's 1978 Premiership season and played its home games at the 27,000 capacity Brookvale Oval.[1]

Ladder

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Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 Western Suburbs 22 16 1 5 426 288 +138 33
2 Cronulla-Sutherland 22 15 0 7 418 261 +157 30
3 Manly-Warringah 22 15 0 7 427 287 +140 30
4 Parramatta 22 14 0 8 525 306 +219 28
5 Canterbury-Bankstown 22 13 2 7 307 273 +34 28
6 Eastern Suburbs 22 13 0 9 377 280 +57 26
7 South Sydney 22 12 1 9 298 300 -2 25
8 St. George 22 10 1 11 367 354 +13 21
9 Balmain 22 9 1 12 337 344 -7 19
10 Penrith 22 4 2 16 206 463 -257 10
11 North Sydney 22 4 1 17 325 439 -114 9
12 Newtown Jets 22 2 1 19 199 577 -378 5

Regular season

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Sunday 26 March Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 19 – 5 St. George Dragons Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Johnny Gibbs, Max Krilich, Tom Mooney
Goals:
Graham Eadie (5/9)
[2]
Tries:
Steve Butler
Goals:
Ted Goodwin (1)

Attendance: 23,168
Referee: Gary Cook

Saturday 1 April Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 17 – 10 Penrith Panthers Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Russel Gartner, Johnny Gibbs, Stephen Knight
Goals:
Graham Eadie (4/5)
[3]
Tries:
Paul Merlo
Goals:
Ken Wilson (2/3)

Attendance: 4,084
Referee: Jack Danzey

Sunday 9 April Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 44 – 17 Newtown Bluebags Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Russel Gartner (2), Alan Thompson (2), Ray Branighan, Johnny Gibbs, John Gray, Ray Higgs, Terry Randall, Bruce Walker
Goals:
Graham Eadie (7)
[4]
Tries:
John Ribot, Steve Bowden
Goals:
Phil Sigsworth (3)
John Ribot (1)

Attendance: 8,085
Referee: Don Macdonald

Sunday 16 April Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 16 – 13 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Belmore Sports Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Pat English, Steve Gearin
Goals:
Steve Gearin (5/5)
[5]
Tries:
Johnny Gibbs, John Gray, Stephen Knight
Goals:
Graham Eadie (2)

Attendance: 13,373
Referee: Jack Danzey

Sunday 23 April Parramatta Eels 15 – 27 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Neville Glover, Phil Mann, Graham Murray
Goals:
Michael Cronin (3/5)
[6]
Tries:
Simon Booth, Graham Eadie, Tom Mooney, Ian Thomson, Bruce Walker
Goals:
Graham Eadie (5/7)
John Gray (1)

Attendance: 44,507
Referee: Denis Braybrook

Sunday 30 April Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 29 – 13 Balmain Tigers Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Johnny Gibbs, Stephen Knight, Tom Mooney, Alan Thompson, Bruce Walker
Goals:
John Gray (7)
[7]
Tries:
, Rex Murphy
Goals:
(1/3)
Mark Tonks (1/1)

Attendance: 17,225
Referee: Gary Cook

Sunday 7 May Western Suburbs Magpies 13 – 7 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Lidcombe Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Bruce Gibbs
Goals:
John Dorahy (5)
[8]
Tries:
Stephen Knight, Ian Thomson
Goals:
Graham Eadie (2)

Attendance: 10,931
Referee: Denis Braybrook

Sunday 14 May Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 5 – 30 South Sydney Rabbitohs Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Ray Branighan
Goals:
Graham Eadie (1/4)
[9]
Tries:
Trevor Barnes, John Berne, Terry Fahey, Eric Ferguson, Bob McMillan, John Peek
Goals:
Eric Ferguson (6)

Attendance: 11,103
Referee: Don Macdonald

Sunday 21 May North Sydney Bears 10 – 11 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles North Sydney Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Don McKinnon, Tony Quirk
Goals:
Peter Schofield (2/5)
[10]
Tries:
Tony Ashworth
Goals:
John Gray (4)

Attendance: 6,823
Referee: Kevin Roberts

Sunday 28 May Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 8 – 27 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Endeavour Field, Sydney
Tries:
Dave Chamberlin, Gary Stares
Goals:
Barry Andrews (1)
[11]
Tries:
Simon Booth, Terry Randall, Ian Thomson
Goals:
John Gray (6)

Attendance: 14,665
Referee: Gary Cook

Sunday 4 June Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 15 – 12 Eastern Suburbs Roosters Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Russel Gartner, Ian Thomson
Goals:
John Gray (4)
Field Goals:
Steve Martin (1)
[12]
Tries:
Royce Ayliffe, Bob Fulton
Goals:
Ken Stevens (3)

Attendance: 19,657
Referee: Gary Cook

Sunday 11 June St. George Dragons 22 – 13 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Kogarah Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Mitch Brennan, Steve Butler, Ted Goodwin, John Jansen
Goals:
Ted Goodwin (5)
[13]
Tries:
Graham Eadie, Johnny Gibbs, John Gray
Goals:
Graham Eadie (1)
John Gray (1)

Attendance: 16,800
Referee: Jack Danzey

Saturday 17 June Penrith Panthers 9 – 32 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Penrith Park, Sydney
Tries:
Greg Moore
Goals:
Phil Gould (3)
[14]
Tries:
Tom Mooney (2), Graham Eadie, Stephen Knight, Max Krilich, Steve Martin
Goals:
John Gray (6)
Graham Eadie (1)

Attendance: 6,916
Referee: Kevin Roberts

Sunday 25 June Newtown Bluebags 17 – 10 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Henson Park, Sydney
Tries:
Mick Kermode, Phil Sigsworth
Goals:
Mick Kermode (2)
[15]
Tries:
Ray Branighan, Lindsay Drake, Tom Mooney
Goals:
John Gray (4)

Attendance: John Gocher
Referee: 3,167

Sunday 2 July Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 9 – 12 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Tom Mooney
Goals:
John Gray (3)
[16]
Tries:
Mark Hughes, Bill Noonan
Goals:
Steve Gearin (3)

Attendance: 7,818
Referee: Don Macdonald

Sunday 9 July Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 19 – 20 Parramatta Eels Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Russel Gartner, Johnny Gibbs, Ian Thomson
Goals:
Graham Eadie (5)
[17]
Tries:
Ray Price (2), Michael Cronin, Neville Glover
Goals:
Michael Cronin (4)

Attendance: 20,030
Referee: Gary Cook

Sunday 11 July Balmain Tigers 19 – 7 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Leichhardt Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Larry Corowa, Noel Maybury
Goals:
Allan McMahon (6)
Field Goals:
Les Mara (1)
[18]
Tries:
Chris Montgomery
Goals:
John Gray (2)

Attendance: 7,869
Referee: Kevin Roberts

Sunday 23 July Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 16 – 10 Western Suburbs Magpies Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Steve Martin, Wayne Springall
Goals:
Graham Eadie (3)
John Gray (2)
[19]
Tries:
Eric Cain, Ron Giteau
Goals:
Peter Rowles (2)

Attendance: 14,171
Referee: Greg Hartley

Saturday 30 July South Sydney Rabbitohs 10 – 14 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Redfern Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Kenneth Stewart, Peter Tunks
Goals:
Eric Ferguson (2)
[20]
Tries:
Ian Martin, Steve Martin
Goals:
John Gray (4)

Attendance: 17,148
Referee: Greg Hartley

Sunday 6 August Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 40 – 12 North Sydney Bears Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Steve Martin (3), Tom Mooney (2), Bruce Walker (2), Simon Booth, Johnny Gibbs, Max Krilich
Goals:
John Gray (5)
[21]
Tries:
John Adam, Glen Boatswain
Goals:
Peter Schofield (3)

Attendance: 11,058
Referee: Kevin Roberts

Sunday 13 August Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 26 – 4 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Brookvale Oval, Sydney
Tries:
Graham Eadie, Johnny Gibbs, Tom Mooney, Ian Thomson
Goals:
John Gray (7)
[22]
Tries:

Goals:
Barry Andrews (2)

Attendance: 12,135
Referee: Jack Danzey

Sunday 20 August Eastern Suburbs Roosters 11 – 30 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Sports Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Bill Mullins, Bob O'Reilly
Goals:
Kevin Stevens (2/4)
[23]
Tries:
Simon Booth, Graham Eadie, John Gray, Stephen Knight
Goals:
John Gray (3)
Field Goals:
Graham Eadie (1)
Johnny Gibbs (1)

Attendance: 22,049
Referee: Greg Hartley

Finals

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Major Prelim Semi-Final

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Saturday 26 August Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 17 – 12 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Eric Archer, Mick Mullane, Steve Rogers
Goals:
Steve Rogers (4)
[24]
Tries:
Simon Booth, Russel Gartner, Ian Martin
Goals:
Graham Eadie (1)
Field Goals:
Johnny Gibbs (1)

Attendance: 17,718
Referee: Jack Danzey

Minor Semi-Final

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Sunday 3 September Parramatta Eels 13 – 13 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Michael Cronin, Geoff Gerard, Graham Murray
Goals:
Michael Cronin (2/5)
[25]
Tries:
Simon Booth, Russel Gartner, Bruce Walker
Goals:
John Gray (2/2)

Attendance: 30,850
Referee: Greg Hartley

Minor Semi-Final Replay

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Wednesday 6 September Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 17 – 11 Parramatta Eels Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Russel Gartner, John Harvey, Steve Martin
Goals:
Graham Eadie (4)
[26]
Tries:
Geoff Gerard, Glenn West, Neville Glover
Goals:
Michael Cronin (1/3)

Attendance: 42,678
Referee: Greg Hartley

Preliminary Final

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Saturday 9 September Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 14 – 7 Western Suburbs Magpies Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Tries:
Alan Thompson (2)
Goals:
Graham Eadie (4)
[27]
Tries:
Ron Giteau
Goals:
Peter Rowles (2)

Attendance: 27,345
Referee: Greg Hartley

Grand Final

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Saturday 16 September
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 11 – 11 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Tries:
Tom Mooney
Goals:
Graham Eadie (4/6)
[28]
Tries:
Steve Edmonds
Goals:
Steve Rogers (4/4)
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Attendance: 51,510
Referee: Greg Hartley
Manly-Warringah
Cronulla-Sutherland
FB 1 Graham Eadie
LW 2 Tom Mooney
CE 3 Russel Gartner
CE 4 Stephen Knight
RW 5 Simon Booth
FE 6 Alan Thompson
HB 7 Steve Martin
LK 8 Ian Martin
SR 9 Terry Randall
SR 10 Bruce Walker
PR 11 John Harvey
HK 12 Max Krilich (c)
PR 13 Ian Thomson
Substitutions:
IC 14
IC 15
Coach:
Australia Frank Stanton
FB 1 Mick Mullane
LW 2 Rick Bourke
CE 3 Steve Rogers (c)
CE 4 Dave Chamberlin
RW 5 Steve Edmonds
FE 6 Barry Andrews
HB 7 Steve Hansard
LK 8 John Glossop
SR 9 Eric Archer
SR 10 Steve Kneen
PR 11 Gary Stares
HK 12 John McMartin
PR 13 Paul Khan
Substitutions:
IC 14 Rowland Beckett
IC 15
Coach:
Australia Norm Provan

In the Grand Final, Cronulla went to a 9-4 lead in the second half before Manly came back to hit the front 11-9. A Steve Rogers penalty squared it at 11-all but he then missed a desperate late field-goal attempt and at full-time the scores remained locked. For the second consecutive season the weary Grand Finalists were required to play a mid-week rematch three days later (the NSWRFL were forced to play the replay on the Tuesday and not the following weekend due to the upcoming 1978 Kangaroo tour, with the Australian team due to leave that weekend for their tour. The drawn GF also forced the Australian Rugby League to hold off on naming the touring squad until after the GF replay with as many as 12 players from Manly and Cronulla in contention to be selected).


Grand Final Replay

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Tuesday 19 September
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 16 – 0 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Tries:
Russel Gartner (2)
Graham Eadie
Goals:
Graham Eadie (3/8)
Field Goals:
Graham Eadie (1)
[29]
Tries:


Goals:
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Attendance: 33,552
Referee: Greg Hartley
Player of the Match: Graham Eadie
Manly-Warringah
Cronulla-Sutherland
FB 1 Graham Eadie
LW 2 Tom Mooney
CE 3 Russel Gartner
CE 4 Stephen Knight
RW 5 Simon Booth
FE 6 Alan Thompson
HB 7 Steve Martin
LK 8 Ian Martin
SR 9 Terry Randall
SR 10 Bruce Walker
PR 11 John Harvey
HK 12 Max Krilich (c)
PR 13 Ian Thomson
Substitutions:
IC 14 Ray Branighan
IC 15 Wayne Springall
Coach:
Australia Frank Stanton
FB 1 Rick Bourke
LW 2 Chris Gardner
CE 3 Steve Rogers (c)
CE 4 Dave Chamberlin
RW 5 Steve Edmonds
FE 6 Martin Raftery
HB 7 Steve Hansard
LK 8 John Glossop
SR 9 Eric Archer
SR 10 Steve Kneen
PR 11 Peter Ryan
HK 12 Rowland Beckett
PR 13 Paul Khan
Substitutions:
IC 14
IC 15
Coach:
Australia Norm Provan

The Tuesday rematch in front of 33,552 was Manly's sixth game in twenty-four days. It was the second Grand Final in a row to end up going into a mid-week replay with the 1977 Grand Final between St George and Parramatta also needing a re-match to decide the Premiers after the original game had been a 9-all draw.

In the first half Cronulla had no answer to Graham Eadie's blind-side bursts. His display completely routed the hapless Sharks and Manly went to the break holding a 15-0 lead thanks to a try by Eadie in the scoreboard corner, one he set up for centre Russel Gartner in the same corner, and another 65 metre effort by Gartner after a sweeping backline movement saw him run into open space and easily outpace the Sharks defence to score in front of the Sheridan Stand.

The only points in the second half came from a field goal by Eadie.

In the replay, as throughout their extraordinary finals campaign, Manly were inspired by the leadership of captain Max Krilich and coach Frank Stanton, their iron-man Terry Randall who had required numerous pain killing injections before every game of the finals just to be able take the field in what Frank Stanton called sheer mind over matter, their cool five eighth Alan Thompson and classy fullback and Man of the Match Graham Eadie.

As of the 2016 NRL Grand Final, no player since Eadie has scored the combination of a try, a goal and a field-goal in a Grand Final.

The refereeing of Greg "Hollywood" Hartley in the replay and throughout the 1978 Finals series attracted criticism from coaches Roy Masters (Western Suburbs), Jack Gibson (South Sydney) and Terry Fearnley (Parramatta), all of whom appealed to the NSWRFL to prohibit Hartley from refereeing their clubs' matches the following season.[30]

Player statistics

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Note: Games and (sub) show total games played, e.g. 1 (1) is 2 games played.

Player Games (sub) Tries Goals FG Points
Australia David Adams
Australia Tony Ashworth
Australia Simon Booth 8 24
Australia Ray Branighan 3 9
Australia Greg Gross
Australia Lindsay Drake 1 3
Australia Graham Eadie 6 52 2 124
Australia Russel Gartner 10 30
Australia Johnny Gibbs 9 2 29
England John Gray 4 61 134
Australia John Harvey 1 3
Australia Mick Healey
Australia Ray Higgs 1 3
Australia Stephen Knight 5 15
Australia Max Krilich (c) 3 9
Australia Ian Martin 2 6
Australia Steve Martin 7 1 22
Australia Chris Montgomery 1 3
Australia Tom Mooney 11 33
Australia Ed Planten
Australia Terry Randall (vc) 2 6
Australia Wayne Springall 1 3
Australia Alan Thompson 5 15
Australia Ian Thomson 6 18
Australia Gary Thoroughgood
Australia Bruce Walker 6 18
TOTAL 93 113 5 510

Representative Players

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International

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State

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City vs Country

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References

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  1. ^ NSWRFL 1978 - Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
  2. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.1 - Manly vs St George
  3. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.2 - Manly vs Penrith
  4. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.3 - Manly vs Newtown
  5. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.4 - Canterbury-Bankstown vs Manly
  6. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.5 - Parramatta vs Manly
  7. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.6 - Manly vs Balmain
  8. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.7 - Western Suburbs vs Manly
  9. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.8 - Manly vs South Sydney
  10. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.9 - North Sydney vs Manly
  11. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.10 - Cronulla-Sutherland vs Manly
  12. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.11 - Manly vs Eastern Suburbs
  13. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.12 - St George vs Manly
  14. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.13 - Penrith vs Manly
  15. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.14 - Newtown vs Manly
  16. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.15 - Manly vs Canterbury-Bankstown
  17. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.16 - Manly vs Parramatta
  18. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.17 - Balmain vs Manly
  19. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.18 - Manly vs Western Suburbs
  20. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.19 - South Sydney vs Manly
  21. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.20 - Manly vs North Sydney
  22. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.21 - South Sydney Rabbitohs vs Manly
  23. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Rd.22 - Eastern Suburbs vs Manly
  24. ^ 1976 NSWRFL Major Prelim Semi-final - Cronulla-Sutherland vs Manly
  25. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Minor Semi-final - Parramatta vs Manly
  26. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Minor Semi-final replay - Manly vs Parramatta
  27. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Preliminary final - Manly vs Western Suburbs
  28. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Grand Final - Manly-Warringah vs Cronulla-Sutherland
  29. ^ 1978 NSWRFL Grand Final replay - Manly-Warringah vs Cronulla-Sutherland
  30. ^ Coady, Ben (2009-09-28). "Grand final dramas". WA Today. Australia: Fairfax Digital. Archived from the original on 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
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