1979 Amco Cup

The 1979 Amco Cup was a rugby league football tournament featuring teams from around the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland as well as New Zealand. The tournament was played from March to August 1979, culminating in the final between the Sydney club Cronulla-Sutherland and Combined Brisbane.

Format

The format of the sixth midweek cup competition changed to 4 groups of 4 playing each other once in a round-robin, with the winners of each group progressing to the Semi-Finals.

The 38 teams from 1978 were reduced substantially to 16 due to the number of games which were walkovers the previous year. 3 new teams were introduced. They were Combined Brisbane, NSW Country and QLD Country whilst 9 Brisbane Premiership teams (Brothers, Easts BRL, Fortitude Valley, Ipswich, Norths BRL, Redcliffe, Souths BRL, Wests BRL and Wynnum-Manly), 8 New South Wales divisional teams (Illawarra, Monaro, Newcastle, North Coast, Northern Division, Riverina, Southern Division and Western Division), Central Queensland, Gold Coast, North Queensland, Northern Territory, Toowoomba, Wellington NZ, Western Australia and Wide Bay were left out after playing in the 1978 competition.

The competition was composed of the 12 Sydney premiership teams (Balmain, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cronulla-Sutherland, Eastern Suburbs, Manly-Warringah, Newtown, North Sydney, Parramatta, Penrith, St George, South Sydney and Western Suburbs), Auckland, Combined Brisbane, NSW Country and QLD Country.

The four groups were:

Group A – Combined Brisbane, Eastern Suburbs, Manly-Warringah, St George

Group B – Auckland, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cronulla-Sutherland, Penrith

Group C – Newtown, North Sydney, Parramatta, QLD Country

Group D – Balmain, NSW Country, South Sydney, Western Suburbs

Group A

DateWinnerScoreLoserScoreVenue
28/03/79 Eastern Suburbs19 Manly-Warringah7Leichhardt Oval
2/05/79 Combined Brisbane13 St George10Lang Park
30/05/79 Eastern Suburbs12 St George6Leichhardt Oval
27/06/79 Combined Brisbane13 Manly-Warringah10Leichhardt Oval
18/07/79 St George7 Manly-Warringah4Griffith
25/07/79 Combined Brisbane17 Eastern Suburbs8Lang Park


ClubPlayedWonLostDrawnForAgainstDiff.Points
Combined Brisbane33004328156
Eastern Suburbs3201393094
St George31022329-62
Manly-Warringah30032139-180


Group B

DateWinnerScoreLoserScoreVenue
4/04/79 Cronulla-Sutherland22 Canterbury-Bankstown8Leichhardt Oval
11/04/79 Penrith12 Auckland5Leichhardt Oval
9/05/79 Penrith18 Cronulla-Sutherland10Penrith Park
30/05/79 Canterbury-Bankstown12 Auckland3Leichhardt Oval
4/07/79 Canterbury-Bankstown18 Penrith10Leichhardt Oval
11/07/79 Cronulla-Sutherland30 Auckland10Leichhardt Oval
ClubPlayedWonLostDrawnForAgainstDiff.Points
Cronulla-Sutherland32016236264
Penrith3201403374
Canterbury-Bankstown3201383534
Auckland30031854-360


Group C

DateWinnerScoreLoserScoreVenue
19/04/79 Parramatta44 North Sydney10Leichhardt Oval
15/05/79 QLD Country16 Newtown14Lang Park
13/06/79 Newtown15 Parramatta13Leichhardt Oval
21/06/79 QLD Country12 North Sydney5Lang Park
4/07/79 QLD Country18 Parramatta9Lang Park
12/07/79 North Sydney35 Newtown13Leichhardt Oval
ClubPlayedWonLostDrawnForAgainstDiff.Points
QLD Country33004628186
Parramatta31026643232
North Sydney31025069-192
Newtown31024264-222

Group D

DateWinnerScoreLoserScoreVenue
25/04/79 Western Suburbs22 Balmain11Leichhardt Oval
23/05/79 South Sydney25 NSW Country10Leichhardt Oval
6/06/79 NSW Country14 Western Suburbs11Leichhardt Oval
20/06/79 Balmain5 South Sydney3Leichhardt Oval
11/07/79 Balmain25 NSW Country11Leichhardt Oval
18/07/79 South Sydney9 Western Suburbs7Leichhardt Oval
ClubPlayedWonLostDrawnForAgainstDiff.Points
South Sydney32013722154
Balmain3201413654
Western Suburbs3102403462
NSW Country31023561-262

Semi finals

DateWinnerScoreLoserScoreVenue
1/08/79 Cronulla-Sutherland13 South Sydney9Leichhardt Oval
8/08/79 Combined Brisbane8 QLD Country5Lang Park

Final

15 August
Cronulla-Sutherland 22-5 Combined Brisbane
Tries: Gary Cameron (3), Rick Bourke
Goals: Steve Rogers (5)		 Try: Norm Carr
Goal: Mal Meninga
Leichhardt Oval
Attendance: 15,800[1]
Referee: Greg Hartley
Man of the Match: Gary Cameron

Player of the Series

Golden Try

Sources

  1. ↑ Curran, Brian (16 August 1979). "Cronulla all the way in Cup final". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
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