1977 Brisbane Rugby League season

Rugby league season

1977 Brisbane Rugby League

Duration| March 25 – September 18, 1977
Teams| 8
Premiers|  Eastern Suburbs
Minor premiers|  Redcliffe Dolphins
Matches played| 89
Points scored| 2898
Player of the year|  Alan Currie (Rothmans Medal)

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The 1977 Brisbane Rugby League season was the 70th season of the Brisbane Rugby League premiership. Eight rugby league teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Eastern Suburbs and Redcliffe clubs.

## Season summary

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Teams played each other three times, with 21 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top four of Eastern Suburbs, Western Suburbs, Northern Suburbs and Redcliffe.

### Teams

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Club | Home ground | Coach | Captain

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Eastern Suburbs | Langlands Park | Des Morris | Des Morris
Fortitude Valley | Neumann Oval | Johnny Rhodes | Ross Strudwick
Northern Suburbs | Bishop Park | Bob Bax | Bruce Warwick
Past Brothers | Corbett Park | John Lohman | David Wright
Redcliffe | Redcliffe Showgrounds | Ian Pearce | Ian Pearce
Southern Suburbs | Davies Park | Wayne Bennett | Wayne Bennett
Western Suburbs | Purtell Park | Ron Raper | Bob Green
Wynnum-Manly | Kougari Oval | Dennis Ward | Dennis Ward

### Ladder

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| Team  | Pld  | W  | D  | L  | PF  | PA  | PD  | Pts

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1  |  Redcliffe | 21  | 14  | 0  | 7  | 339  | 237  | +102  | 28
2  |  Western Suburbs | 21  | 12  | 0  | 9  | 383  | 331  | +52  | 24
3  |  Eastern Suburbs (P) | 21  | 11  | 0  | 10  | 378  | 323  | +55  | 22
4  |  Northern Suburbs | 21  | 11  | 0  | 10  | 414  | 401  | +11  | 22
5  |  Past Brothers | 21  | 11  | 0  | 10  | 301  | 341  | -40  | 22
6  |  Fortitude Valley | 21  | 9  | 0  | 12  | 380  | 363  | +17  | 18
7  |  Wynnum-Manly | 21  | 9  | 0  | 12  | 259  | 376  | -117  | 18
8  |  Southern Suburbs | 21  | 7  | 0  | 14  | 328  | 410  | -82  | 14

## Finals

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Home  | Score  | Away  | Match information

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Date and time  | Venue  | Referee  | Crowd
Playoff
Northern Suburbs | 21-10  |  Past Brothers | 23 August 1977  | Lang Park | Stan Scamp  |
Semi-finals
Eastern Suburbs | 21-11  |  Northern Suburbs | 28 August 1977  | Lang Park | Ian Smith  |
Redcliffe | 5-4  |  Western Suburbs | 4 September 1977  | Lang Park | Eddie Ward  |
Preliminary Final
Eastern Suburbs | 9-5  |  Western Suburbs | 11 September 1977  | Lang Park | R. Thomas  |
Grand Final
Eastern Suburbs | 17-13  |  Redcliffe | 18 September 1977  | Lang Park | Eddie Ward  | 37,000

## Grand Final

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Eastern Suburbs 17 (Tries: John Callus, Steve Farquhar, Wayne Lindenburg. Goals: Greg Holben 4)

Redcliffe 13 (Tries: Forrester Grayson. Goals: Ian Pierce 5)[1][2]

## References

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1. ^ 1977 BRL Grand Final - Easts v Redcliffe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny2jUXSrf3U&t=99s
2. ^ 1977 Brisbane Rugby League Grand Final https://web.archive.org/web/20041225094700/http://queensland.rleague.com/flashback/1977gf.php

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Eastern Suburbs Tigers squad - 1977 BRL premiers

* 1\. Rodger Kuhn
* 2\. John Callus
* 3\. Steve Farquhar
* 4\. Greg Holben
* 5\. Steve Stacey
* 6\. Wayne Woods
* 7\. Wayne Lindenberg

* 8\. Geoff Naylor
* 9\. John Lang
* 10\. Rod Morris
* 11\. Des Morris (Ca./Co.)
* 12\. John Abbott
* 13\. Alan Currie

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