1984 VFA season

1984 VFA Premiership Season
Teams 23
Division 1
Teams 12
Premiers Preston
(4th premiership)
Minor premiers Preston
(6th minor premiership)
Division 2
Teams 11
Premiers Box Hill
(1st D2 premiership)
Minor premiers Box Hill
(1st D2 minor premiership)
1983
1985

The 1984 Victorian Football Association season was the 103rd season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 24th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Preston Football Club, after it defeated Frankston in the Grand Final on 23 September by 54 points; it was Preston's fourth Division 1 premiership, and its second in a row. The Division 2 premiership was won by Box Hill; it was the club's first premiership in either division since joining the Association in 1951.

Association membership

On 25 January, the Association's board of directors declined to renew Yarraville's membership; this decision was made unilaterally by the board of directors, and did not require a vote of club delegates. The decision followed a review of Yarraville's on-field and off-field position which concluded that the club had no prospects of long-term viability. The club had been in decline since its relegation from Division 1 in 1970, and had almost folded in 1976; it could not attract sufficient fans or sponsors from the Yarraville area, which had a declining population and an increasing ethnic demographic, and consequently struggled to finance a competitive team – in 1983, the club had won one senior game and been winless in both minor grades.[1]

The decision ended Yarraville's 57-year affiliation with the Association, which had yielded two top division premierships (1935 and 1961). The club initially sought to compete in another competition, but ultimately disbanded.[1] Yarraville's departure resulted in Division 2 being reduced to eleven clubs, and the Association as a whole to twenty-three clubs. Yarraville was the first of fifteen clubs to leave the Association during its period of decline between 1984 and 1996.

Division 1

The Division 1 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. The finals were played at the Junction Oval.

Ladder

1984 VFA Division 1 Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA Pct PTS
1 Preston (P) 18 16 2 0 2658 1626 163.4 64
2 Geelong West 18 15 3 0 2156 1651 130.5 60
3 Frankston 18 12 6 0 2312 1999 115.6 48
4 Camberwell 18 11 7 0 2385 1898 125.6 44
5 Sandringham 18 11 7 0 2777 2378 116.7 44
6 Port Melbourne 18 10 8 0 2532 2032 124.6 40
7 Williamstown 18 10 8 0 2335 2254 103.5 40
8 Coburg 18 9 9 0 2186 1991 109.7 36
9 Springvale 18 5 13 0 1949 2419 80.5 20
10 Prahran 18 5 13 0 1796 2425 74.0 20
11 Werribee 18 3 15 0 1707 2627 64.9 12
12 Dandenong 18 1 17 0 1476 2969 49.7 4
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points Source[2]

Finals

Semi Finals
Sunday, 2 September Frankston 18.16 (124) def. Camberwell 9.16 (70) Junction Oval (crowd: 3,751) [3]
Sunday, 9 September Preston 17.19 (131) def. Geelong West 10.26 (86) Junction Oval (crowd: 4,090) [4]
Preliminary Final
Sunday, 16 September Geelong West 9.18 (72) def. by Frankston 16.11 (107) Junction Oval (crowd: 2,645) [5]
1984 VFA Division 1 Grand Final
Sunday, 23 September Preston def. Frankston Junction Oval (Crowd: 8,664) [6]
6.7 (43)
9.15 (69)
14.15 (99)
19.21 (135)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
5.0 (30)
5.2 (32)
9.7 (61)
12.9 (81)
Umpires: Graeme Marcy, Phillips
Norm Goss Memorial Medal: Neil Jordan (Preston)
Bourke 5, Salvador 3, Atkin 2, Brine 2, Hackney 2, Halas 2, Jordan 2, Fyffe Goals Boyd 5, Baldwin 2, Thomas 2, Walsh 2, Membrey
Plowman, for striking Bardoel Reports

Awards

Division 2

The Division 2 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. The finals were played at Toorak Park.

The home-and-away fixture had already been released when Yarraville's membership was revoked. Rather than redraft the fixture, the club drawn to play Yarraville each week instead had a bye; because the fixture was unbalanced, this meant that seven clubs had two byes and four clubs had one bye. In the ladder, a bye was treated as though it were a Yarraville forfeiture: the club was awarded a win and four premiership points, was credited with the round's average winning score as 'points for', and debited the round's average losing score as 'points against'.[8] The ladder as it is shown here distinguishes byes from wins in completed matches, but not all sources make this distinction.

Ladder

1984 VFA Division 2 Ladder
TEAM P W L D B PF PA Pct PTS
1 Box Hill (P) 16 14 2 0 2 2899 1581 183.3 64
2 Brunswick 16 13 2 1 2 2753 1535 179.3 62
3 Oakleigh 16 12 4 0 2 2893 1537 175.2 56
4 Caulfield 17 12 4 1 1 2269 1670 135.8 54
5 Waverley 16 11 4 1 2 2259 1738 130.0 54
6 Moorabbin 16 7 8 1 2 2060 2079 99.0 38
7 Berwick 16 7 9 0 2 2302 2001 115.0 36
8 Mordialloc 17 5 12 0 1 1989 2163 91.9 24
9 Northcote 16 4 12 0 2 1884 2165 87.0 24
10 Kilsyth 17 2 15 0 1 1282 2889 44.3 12
11 Sunshine 17 1 16 0 1 1397 3202 43.6 8
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, B = Byes caused by Yarraville's absence (four points and average scores), PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points Source[9]

Finals

Semi Finals
Sunday, 26 August Oakleigh 15.14 (104) def. Caulfield 15.12 (102) Toorak Park [2]
Sunday, 2 September Box Hill 19.19 (133) def. Brunswick 13.6 (84) Toorak Park (crowd: 6,200) [3]
Preliminary Final
Sunday, 9 September Brunswick 16.18 (114) def. by Oakleigh 26.15 (171) Toorak Park (crowd: 3,520) [4]
1984 VFA Division 2 Grand Final
Sunday, 16 September Box Hill def. Oakleigh Toorak Park (Crowd: 10,735) [5]
6.9 (45)
12.11 (83)
21.18 (144)
32.23 (215)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
3.2 (20)
3.7 (25)
10.11 (71)
11.14 (80)
Umpires: Vergona, Casey
Carroll 10, Nicholson 5, Bolton 3, A. Dickinson 3, Brown 2, Stark 2, Withers 2, R. Witnish 2, Gleeson, O'Shea, Teakel Goals Pretto 3, M. Roach 2, S. Roach 2, Dyrden, Harper, McDonald, Sutherland

Awards

Notable events

Interleague matches

The Association's Division 1 and Division 2 teams each played one interleague match during the season. Gary Brice was coach of the Division 1 team for the fourth consecutive season, despite the fact that he was no longer an Association coach: he had left Port Melbourne and was now serving as a specialist coach at League club Essendon;[12] Ray Shaw (Preston) was captain.[13] Geoff Rosenow (Mordialloc) was coach of the Division 2 team,[12] and Peter Allen (Berwick) was captain.[14]

1984 Interleague Matches
Sunday, 13 May S.A.F.A. 15.14 (104) def. by V.F.A. Second Division 17.14 (116) Thebarton Oval [15]
Sunday, 17 June V.A.F.A. 14.11 (95) def. by V.F.A. First Division 22.14 (146) Elsternwick Park (crowd: 5,000) [16]

Other notable events

External links

References

  1. 1 2 Marc Fiddian (26 January 1984). "Yarraville axed". The Age (Melbourne). p. 30.
  2. 1 2 3 Dennis Jose (27 August 1984). "Frankston pushes out Sandringham". The Age (Melbourne). p. 25.
  3. 1 2 Dennis Jose (3 September 1984). "Windfall helps Dolphins crush Cobras". The Age (Melbourne). p. 23.
  4. 1 2 Dennis Jose (10 September 1984). "Russell's 10 goals seal Preston win". The Age (Melbourne). p. 23.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Dennis Jose (17 September 1984). "Box Hill the best – by 135 points". The Age (Melbourne). p. 25.
  6. 1 2 Michael Reid (24 September 1984). "Bullants win flag double". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne). p. 75.
  7. 1 2 Dennis Jose (30 August 1984). "Geddes walks away with Liston". The Age (Melbourne). p. 24.
  8. Marc Fiddian (16 April 1984). "Zebras' twin spearhead rocks Vales". The Age (Melbourne). p. 25.
  9. Dennis Jose (20 August 1984). "Sandy proves pathetic on every count". The Age (Melbourne). p. 25.
  10. "Box Hill Hawks 2011 Business Directory" (PDF). Box Hill Hawks Football Club. 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  11. Amanda Buivids (21 September 1989). "Champs rewarded at last". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne). p. 83.
  12. 1 2 Marc Fiddian (28 April 1984). "Time for an appeals board". The Age (Melbourne). p. 35.
  13. Dennis Jose (15 June 1984). "Shaw leads revenge bid". The Age (Melbourne). p. 26.
  14. "VFA teams". The Age (Melbourne). 11 May 1984. p. 24.
  15. Dennis Jose (14 May 1984). "VFA beats SA by two goals". The Age (Melbourne). p. 31.
  16. Dennis Jose (18 June 1984). "VFA makes amends in first Vic Cup win". The Age (Melbourne). p. 28.
  17. Peter Martin (27 July 1983). "VFA plan to even up comp". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne). p. 71.
  18. Fiddian, Marc (2004), The VFA: a history of the Victorian Football Association, 1877–1995, p. 302
  19. Santo Caruso; Marc Fiddian; Jim Main (2002), Football Grounds of Melbourne, Essendon North, VIC: Pennon Publishing
  20. Marc Fiddian (20 May 1983). "Shaw in charge of VFA team". The Age (Melbourne). p. 30.
  21. 1 2 Dennis Jose (18 August 1984). "VFA back in the ratings game". The Age (Melbourne). p. 39.
  22. VFA hits Sunday finals (13 December 1984). "John Hine". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne). p. 83.
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