1984 National Panasonic Cup

For background information about this competition, please refer to the Amco Cup main page.

Format

With the demise of Newtown, the competition was reduced to 17 teams in a straight knock-out. 2 teams played off in the preliminary round. There was a random draw for all other rounds.

Preliminary round

Date Winner Score Loser Score Venue
16/05/84 Qld Country 25 Auckland 18 Lang Park

Round 1

Date Winner Score Loser Score Venue
11/04/84 Balmain 12 Cronulla-Sutherland 2 Leichhardt Oval
18/04/84 Penrith 26 Illawarra 10 Leichhardt Oval
2/05/84 Combined Brisbane 25 South Sydney 18 Lang Park
9/05/84 NSW Country 17 Western Suburbs 4 Carrington Park (Bathurst)
23/05/84 Canterbury-Bankstown 30 Manly-Warringah 10 Leichhardt Oval
6/06/84 Eastern Suburbs 44 Qld Country 0 Leichhardt Oval
13/06/84 Parramatta 20 Canberra 2 Leichhardt Oval
20/06/84 St George 22 North Sydney 0 Leichhardt Oval

Quarter finals

Date Winner Score Loser Score Venue
27/06/84 Parramatta 16 Penrith 6 Leichhardt Oval
4/07/84 Eastern Suburbs 24 NSW Country 4 Leichhardt Oval
11/07/84 Combined Brisbane 14 Canterbury-Bankstown 11 Lang Park
18/07/84 St George 26 Balmain 6 Scully Park (Tamworth)

Semi finals

Date Winner Score Loser Score Venue
25/07/84 Combined Brisbane 14 Parramatta 12 Leichhardt Oval
1/08/84 Eastern Suburbs 22 St George 10 Leichhardt Oval

Final

Date Winner Score Loser Score Venue
15 August 1984 Combined Brisbane 12 Eastern Suburbs Roosters 11 Leichhardt Oval

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. Richard Poulsen, 12. Eddie Muller, 13. Greg Dowling, 14. Tony Currie, Coach Bob McCarthy.

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

Lewis opened the scoring when he was tackled a few metres from the try-line and in the absence of a marker played the ball forward and dove over for a try. He was also named man-of-the-match.

Player of the Series

Golden Try

Eastern Suburbs player Mike Eden won the A$5,000 award for creating the Golden Try of the 1984 Panasonic Cup.[2]

Sources

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