Their opponents were Manly-Warringah who had also joined the premiership in 1947, but were playing in their 8th Grand Final, having previously won in 1972 and 1973 with captain Bob Fulton, fullback Graham Eadie, prop forward Terry Randall and lock Ian Martin having played in those two premiership teams. It resulted in a top five of Eastern Suburbs, Western Suburbs, Past Brothers, Redcliffe and Wynnum-Manly. The most blatant was a high tackle by John Payne on Wests' prop, Max Williamson. The wedge was stopped by the Manly defence less than a foot short of the try line. The club competed in the New South Wales Rugby Football League's 1976 Premiership season and played its home games at the 27,000 capacity Brookvale Oval.[1]. The 1976 Sea Eagles were coached by 1963–64 Kangaroo tourist Frank Stanton. The 1976 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 30th in the club's history since their entry into the then New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1947. Match info page for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles vs. Parramatta Eels game in the Grand Final of the 1976 NSWRFL season. NSWRFL teams also competed for the 1976 Amco Cup. Goals: 5), Eastern Suburbs 1 (Field goal: John Payne)[2][3], Former Top-Flight Competition: Brisbane Rugby League premiership, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt7mrH-wsrg, https://web.archive.org/web/20041225094700/http://queensland.rleague.com/flashback/1976gf.php, Brisbane A-Grade Rugby League (2001-present), Queensland Rugby League South East Queensland Division, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1976_Brisbane_Rugby_League_season&oldid=982138833, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Articles needing additional references from October 2018, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 11:28. Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles versus Parramatta Eels match centre includes live scores and updates. Geoff Gerard scored a try in the Members corner, though Mark Levy missed the difficult conversion giving the Eels a 10-7 lead early in the second half. Teams played each other three times, with 21 rounds of competition played. Western Suburbs 16 (Tries: Gary Prickett, John Ribot. Includes official live player and team ... Full Match Replay: Sea Eagles v Eels - Grand Final, 1976. Captaining the side was brilliant centre Bob Fulton. In the frantic dying minutes Parramatta threw everything they had at the Manly defence including the infamous "flying wedge" of dubious legality which had Ron Hilditch at the apex of a phalanx of players driving him towards the line. [1] Brohman would later sign for Sydney club Penrith and feature for Canterbury in its 1984 NSWRL grand final win. The 1976 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 69th season of Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, Australia's first. Arthurson had brought to the club players of a calibre to enable five Grand Final appearances in the 1970s for four victories. Eels winger Jim Porter scored first after his opposite Tom Mooney spilled a John Peard bomb in his own in goal to give Parramatta to a 5-0 lead. Hilditch would later say that his head came down on the try line with the ball trapped underneath him. Williamson had to be helped from the field, with Payne greceiving a long lecture from referee Bernie Pramberg. Easts' solitary point was a field goal by second-rower John Payne, who temporarily gave Tigers the lead in the first-half. The match was virtually without incident. Another penalty gave Manly a 13-10 lead. Scores were locked 7-7 at half time. A penalty goal to Graham Eadie closed the score to 5-2 before Alan Thompson sidestepped through the Parramatta defence to send Phil Lowe in for Manly's first and only try in the Paddington Hill corner. 1 (1) is 2 games played. Wests lead 12-1 at half-time and effectively repelled all Easts' efforts in the second-half. [31] He was full of emotion as he accepted the J J Giltinan Shield and was able to end his playing career at Manly on the highest note. The 1976 season's Rothmans Medallist was Northern Suburbs forward Darryl Brohman. Manly's win was a triumph for the powerful triumvirate of Fulton, coach Frank Stanton and Secretary Ken Arthurson who would all go on to higher honours in the game. Parramatta missed a critical opportunity to win the game and their first ever premiership with ten minutes of the match remaining: 15 metres out from a wide-open try line,[27] Eels winger Neville Glover dropped the pass from John Moran which would have given the Eels the match-winning try in the Paddington Hill corner.[28][29][30]. Man of the match Gary Prickett scored the opening try for Wests, with lock John Ribot scoring the second just before half-time. He would go on to become the Chairman of the New South Wales Rugby League and later the Australian Rugby League. For Stanton, it was his first success in a coaching career which was to bring two premierships and two Ashes-winning Kangaroo tours. Twelve teams, including six of 1908's foundation clubs 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 Manly-Warringah and Parramatta clubs. Note: Games and (sub) show total games played, e.g. Two penalty goals for Eadie then gave Manly back the lead 11-10. The Manly defence held and the Sea Eagles secured their third premiership in five seasons, while the Eels would have to wait five more years for their first. It was Bob Fulton's 213th and final match for Manly after a brilliant ten-year career with the club and the grand final victory was largely credited to his experience and brilliance. The 1976 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 30th in the club's history since their entry into the then New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1947. Eight teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Western Suburbs and Eastern Suburbs clubs. The 1976 season's Rothmans Medallist was Northern Suburbs forward Darryl Brohman. The 1976 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 69th season of Brisbane's semi-professional rugby league football competition. 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Sea Eagles won 13 to 10 at Sydney Cricket Ground. Western Suburbs made it two premierships in succession, after defeating favourites Eastern Suburbs in an anti-climatic decider. In 1976, after 30 years of competition, Parramatta reached their first grand final since their admission into the NSWRFL premiership in 1947. Brohman would later sign for Sydney club Penrith and feature for Canterbury in its 1984 NSWRL grand final win. However, Wynnum-Manly and Southern Suburbs finished the season equal on points, with Magpies defeating Seagulls in a mid-week play-off. However, Wynnum-Manly and Southern Suburbs finished the season equal on points, with Magpies defeating Seagulls in a mid-week play-off. He would later return to the club as a successful coach in the 1980s but first he would finish his playing years and then commence coaching at the Eastern Suburbs Roosters (Fulton would join Easts in 1977, unable to resist a big money offer from the club that was backed by one of Australia's richest men and a big supporter of the future rugby league Immortal, Kerry Packer).