1984 National Panasonic Cup

The 1984 National Panasonic Cup was the name of the annual mid-week knockout rugby league competition. The naming rights sponsor changed to Panasonic's product brand National. The tournament was played from April to August 1984, culminating in the final between Combined Brisbane and Eastern Suburbs.

Format

The eleventh midweek cup competition operated on a straight knock-out format. The competition reduced to 17 teams with Newtown being ejected from the 1984 Sydney premiership. Auckland (NZ) won the inter-district championship in 1983 and therefore replaced Central Districts (NZ) in the competition.

The competing teams were the 13 Sydney premiership teams (Balmain, Canberra, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cronulla-Sutherland, Eastern Suburbs, Illawarra, Manly-Warringah, North Sydney, Parramatta, Penrith, St George, South Sydney and Western Suburbs), Auckland (NZ), Combined Brisbane, NSW Country and QLD Country.

2 teams played in a Preliminary (or qualifying) round. They were Auckland (NZ) and QLD Country.

Preliminary round

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
16/05/84	QLD Country (Gill 2, Gibson, Armstrong tries, Lindenberg 4 goals, Tew field goal)	25	Auckland (NZ) (Sinclair, Cooper, Friend tries, Lovett 3 goals)	18	Lang Park	Peter Gill - QLD Country

Round 1

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
11/04/84	Balmain (Roach, Hardwick tries, Brooks 2 goals)	12	Cronulla-Sutherland (Armstrong goal)	2	Leichhardt Oval	Steve Roach - Balmain
18/04/84	Penrith (Levy, B.Izzard, Connor, Burgmann tries, Levy 5 goals)	26	Illawarra (Browne, Hetherington tries, McPherson goal)	10	Leichhardt Oval	Mark Levy - Penrith
2/05/84	Combined Brisbane (Lewis, Kilroy, Belcher, Meninga tries, Meninga 4 goals, ???? field goal)	25	South Sydney (Hardy 2 Biles tries, Baker 3 goals)	18	Lang Park
9/05/84	NSW Country (Williams, Graham, Trudgett tries, Dennis 2 goals, ???? field goal)	17	Western Suburbs (Broughton try)	4	Carrington Park	Tony Trudgett - NSW Country
23/05/84	Canterbury-Bankstown (Lamb, Langmack, S.Mortimer, Tunks tries, Conlon 6 goals, S.Mortimer, Folkes field goals)	30	Manly-Warringah (Barkley, Boustead tries, Hegarty goal)	10	Leichhardt Oval	Peter Tunks - Canterbury-Bankstown
6/06/84	Eastern Suburbs (Eden, Beckett 2, Gale, Simpkins, Dunn, Greene tries Eden 5, Hastings goals)	44	QLD Country	0	Leichhardt Oval	Scott Gale - Eastern Suburbs
13/06/84	Parramatta (Hunt, Houghton, Sterling, Mara tries, Mara 2 goals)	20	Canberra (Corkery goal)	2	Leichhardt Oval	Peter Wynn - Parramatta
20/06/84	St George (Gearin, Morris, Fraser, Funnell tries, Gearin 3 goals)	22	North Sydney	0	Leichhardt Oval	Perry Haddock - St George

Quarter finals

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
27/06/84	Parramatta (Ella, Kenny tries, Cronin 4 goals)	16	Penrith (Alexander try, Levy goal)	6	Leichhardt Oval	Brett Kenny - Parramatta
4/07/84	Eastern Suburbs (Hardy 2, McKellar, Greene, Gale tries, Greene 2 goals)	24	NSW Country (Maguire try)	4	Leichhardt Oval	Steve Hardy - Eastern Suburbs
11/07/84	Combined Brisbane (Scott, Ribot tries, Meninga 3 goals)	14	Canterbury-Bankstown (Johnstone try, Conlon 3 goals, Lamb field goal)	11	Lang Park	Wally Lewis - Combined Brisbane
18/07/84	St George (O’Grady 2, Johnston, Duval tries, Rogers 5 goals)	26	Balmain (Lane try, Brooks goal)	6	Scully Park	Graeme O'Grady - St George

Semi finals

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
25/07/84	Combined Brisbane (French, Lindner tries, Meninga 3 goals)	14	Parramatta (Ella try, Cronin 4 goals)	12	Leichhardt Oval	Wally Lewis - Combined Brisbane
1/08/84	Eastern Suburbs (Leggett, Hastings, Worth tries, Eden 3 goals, Hastings 3, Gale field goals)	22	St George (Gearin try, 3 goals)	10	Leichhardt Oval	Kevin Hastings - Eastern Suburbs

Final

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Man of the Match
15 August 1984	Combined Brisbane (Miles, Lewis tries, Meninga 2 goals)	12	Eastern Suburbs (Hardy try, Eden 3 goals, Hastings field goal)	11	Leichhardt Oval	Wally Lewis - Combined Brisbane

A televised night game, the final's match commentary was provided by Ray Warren and Bill Anderson.

Brisbane: 1. Colin Scott, 2. Joe Kilroy, 3. Mal Meninga, 4. Gene Miles, 5. John Ribot, 6. Wally Lewis (c), 7. Henry Foster, 8. Bob Lindner, 9. Wally Fullerton Smith, 10. Bryan Neibling, 11. Richie Poulsen, 12. Eddie Muller, 13. Greg Dowling. Reserve: 14. Tony Currie. Coach Bob McCarthy.

Eastern Suburbs: 1. Graeme Atkins, 2. Shane McKellar (c), 3. Glenn Leggett, 4. David Greene, 5. John Ferguson, 6. Mike Eden, 7. Scott Gale, 8. Kevin Hastings, 9. Mark Wheeler, 10. Terry Regan, 11. Dane Sorensen, 12. Rowland Beckett, 13. Tom Arber. Reserves: 15. Darren Finlayson, 16. Gavin Miller, 17. Steve Hardy. Coach Laurie Freier.

Player of the Series

Wally Lewis (Combined Brisbane) ^[1]

Golden Try

Mike Eden (Eastern Suburbs)

References

↑ Gallaway, Jack (2003). Origin: Rugby league's greatest contest 1980 - 2002. University of Queensland Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-7022-3383-8.

Sources

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~maajjs/aus/nsw/sum/nsw1984.htm

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[1] Gallaway, Jack (2003). Origin: Rugby league's greatest contest 1980 - 2002. University of Queensland Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-7022-3383-8.