The 1979 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 72nd season of Brisbane's professional rugby league football competition. Eight teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Fortitude Valley and Southern Suburbs clubs.
Season summary Teams played each other three times, with 21 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top four of Fortitude Valley, Eastern Suburbs, Southern Suburbs and Western Suburbs.
1979 Great Britain Lions tour's Australian leg saw several matches against teams across Queensland, several involving BRL players, such as the 3 Test matches against Australia and single matches against Queensland and Brisbane.
Teams
Club Home ground Coach Captain Eastern Suburbs Langlands Park Des Morris Des Morris Fortitude Valley Neumann Oval Ross Strudwick Ross Strudwick Northern Suburbs Bishop Park Graham Lowe Mark Murray Past Brothers Corbett Park Reg Cannon David Sinclair Redcliffe Dolphin Oval Ron Raper Ian Pearce Southern Suburbs Davies Park Wayne Bennett → Bruce Astill Western Suburbs Purtell Park Don Oxenham Norm Carr Wynnum-Manly Kougari Oval Henry Holloway
Ladder TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts1 Fortitude Valley (P)211713549263 +286352 Eastern Suburbs211407435315 +120283 Southern Suburbs211308374312 +62264 Western Suburbs211218381310 +71255 Northern Suburbs219012337418 -81186 Redcliffe217014286426 -140147 Past Brothers215115350488 -138118 Wynnum-Manly215115284464 -18011
Finals HomeScoreAwayMatch informationDate and timeVenueRefereeCrowd Semi-finals Southern Suburbs22-13 Western Suburbs26 August 1979Lang ParkEddie Ward Fortitude Valley27-2 Eastern Suburbs2 September 1979Lang ParkH. Dearness23,000 Preliminary Final Southern Suburbs18-16 Eastern Suburbs9 September 1979Lang ParkEddie Ward23,000 Grand Final Fortitude Valley26-0 Southern Suburbs16 September 1979Lang ParkEddie Ward35,000
Grand Final
Fortitude Valley 26 (Tries: C. Close, V. Wieland, P. McWhirter, J. McLeod. Goals: M. Neill 6. Field Goals: W. Lewis, R. Strudwick.)
Southern Suburbs 01979 BRL Grand Final - Valleys v Souths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-izOjzajplg1979 Brisbane Rugby League Grand Final https://web.archive.org/web/20041225094700/http://queensland.rleague.com/flashback/1979gf.php
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