“It’s not often a losing grand final side holds a party and invites players from the team they beat them,” one Sharks insider told The Repeat Set. Manly won the match 16-0, their sixth game in 24 days. Higgs played the last 20mins. MORE: Why Cronulla are the favourites to sign Martin Taupau. [5] As a result, his Manly-Warringah teammate Bruce Walker was called in as a replacement. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=lL5f5cZgq8MC&dat=19780711&printsec=frontpage&hl=en---------- ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- -------------- ----------- I was 14 years old - and I was 1 of 20,000 people on hand to watch this absorbing match. It was at the time the fourth-biggest loss in the Storm's history. The 1978 Sea Eagles were coached by 1963–64 Kangaroo tourist Frank Stanton. Cecchin will quit the NRL after this season, drained by the drama and pressure of officiating at the top level. Background. [1] The tourists then moved on to France where they were narrowly beaten in both Tests, the last series the Kangaroos would lose until 2005. Goals: Graham Eadie (3/8). It was then a foot race between him and Australian fullback Graham Eadie to reach the ball which was slowing within Australia's in-goal area. The Kangaroos played a non-test international against Wales at the St. Helen's Ground. Ladder Wests 23 Manly 20 Cronulla 20 Canterbury 19 Souths 19 ----- Parramatta 18 Ray Higgs (returns from injury to play AGAINST Parra) In 1977 Ray Higgs was the Parramatta captain in the 1977 Grand Final, he was also the Player Of The Year in 1976 winning both the Rothmans and RLW Player of the Year awards. Cronulla embarrassed Manly by inviting members of the 1978 grand final-winning side to a special 40th anniversary lunch on Friday. For the English the tour was conducted during the first half of the 1978–79 Northern Rugby Football League season. [44] 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 . Sea Eagles won 10 to 7 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Res - Bob Fulton, Bruce Walker. Jamie Lyon took over the goal kicking and converted Menzies' try to give Manly a 34 - 0 lead. Match info page for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles vs. Cronulla Sutherland Sharks game in the Grand Final of the 1978 NSWRFL season, which resulted in a draw at Sydney Cricket Ground. Great Britain were trailing 6-7 with fifteen minutes remaining when an Australian pass went to ground and Welsh winger John Bevan kicked the ball ahead. 72nd Minute: Manly 34–0 (Menzies try; Lyon goal) In the Sunday Lang Park match, Redcliffe outlasted Wynnum-Manly 27-21 in a match much more convincing than the score suggests, showing glimpses of champagne football more suited to a grand final. Ten minutes later the Sea Eagles got another try when, from within the Storm's ten-metre line, they moved the ball out to David Williams on the right wing to dive over in the corner. One shock omission was Manly centre Russel Gartner who had played two games for Australia in the 1977 World Cup including the Final in which he scored a spectacular 65 metre solo try. [6] Another Manly premiership winner Terry Randall, who had required pain killing injections just to take the field in Manly's tough finals campaign which saw them play 6 games in 24 games[clarification needed] (2 of them, including the Grand Final against Cronulla, were replays played only 3 days after drawn games), also declined to tour citing exhaustion, though he later admitted regret in not touring. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=lL5f5cZgq8MC&dat=19780705&printsec=frontpage&hl=enMeanwhile Parramatta cruised to an easy victory 28-13. scoring 6 try's at a muddied and heavy Cumberland oval. We doubt many words were exchanged when the pair crossed paths on Tuesday. Widnes: David Eckersley, Stuart Wright, Malcolm Aspey, Mick George, Mick Burke, Eric Hughes, Reg Bowden, Brian Hogan, Keith Elwell, Jim Mills, Mick Adams, David Hull, Doug Laughton (c). Melbourne lost this game 18-15 after a Warriors try from Michael Witt two minutes from full-time; becoming the first minor premier side since the introduction of the McIntyre finals structure in 1999 to lose to the eighth-placed team. Both players stumbled and dived, with Bevan getting a hand on the ball and claiming the try which was awarded, giving the home side a 9-7 lead. I generally post wins, but there are losses too such as grand finals and if there is a picture too good to not post. Matai's second sideline conversion attempt missed, so the Sea Eagles were leading 18 - 0. Goals: Graham Eadie (3/8). 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