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.
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.
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.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Preston (P) | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 2658 | 1626 | 163.5 | 64 |
2 | Geelong West | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2156 | 1651 | 130.6 | 60 |
3 | Frankston | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2312 | 1999 | 115.7 | 48 |
4 | Camberwell | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2385 | 1898 | 125.7 | 44 |
5 | Sandringham | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2777 | 2378 | 116.8 | 44 |
6 | Port Melbourne | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2532 | 2032 | 124.6 | 40 |
7 | Williamstown | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2335 | 2254 | 103.6 | 40 |
8 | Coburg | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 2186 | 1991 | 109.8 | 36 |
9 | Springvale | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1949 | 2419 | 80.6 | 20 |
10 | Prahran | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1796 | 2425 | 74.1 | 20 |
11 | Werribee | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 1707 | 2627 | 65.0 | 12 |
12 | Dandenong | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1476 | 2969 | 49.7 | 4 |
Semi-finals | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | ||||
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.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | WB | D | L | PF | PA | % | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Box Hill (P) | 18 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2899 | 1581 | 183.4 | 64 |
2 | Brunswick | 18 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2753 | 1535 | 179.3 | 62 |
3 | Oakleigh | 18 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2893 | 1537 | 188.2 | 56 |
4 | Caulfield | 18 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2269 | 1670 | 135.9 | 54 |
5 | Waverley | 18 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2259 | 1738 | 130.0 | 54 |
6 | Moorabbin | 18 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2060 | 2079 | 99.1 | 38 |
7 | Berwick | 18 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2302 | 2001 | 115.0 | 36 |
8 | Mordialloc | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1989 | 2163 | 92.0 | 24 |
9 | Northcote | 18 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1884 | 2165 | 87.0 | 24 |
10 | Kilsyth | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1282 | 2889 | 44.4 | 12 |
11 | Sunshine | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 1397 | 3202 | 43.6 | 8 |
Semi-finals | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||
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] |
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.
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.
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.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Preston (P) | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 2658 | 1626 | 163.5 | 64 |
2 | Geelong West | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2156 | 1651 | 130.6 | 60 |
3 | Frankston | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2312 | 1999 | 115.7 | 48 |
4 | Camberwell | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2385 | 1898 | 125.7 | 44 |
5 | Sandringham | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2777 | 2378 | 116.8 | 44 |
6 | Port Melbourne | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2532 | 2032 | 124.6 | 40 |
7 | Williamstown | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2335 | 2254 | 103.6 | 40 |
8 | Coburg | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 2186 | 1991 | 109.8 | 36 |
9 | Springvale | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1949 | 2419 | 80.6 | 20 |
10 | Prahran | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1796 | 2425 | 74.1 | 20 |
11 | Werribee | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 1707 | 2627 | 65.0 | 12 |
12 | Dandenong | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1476 | 2969 | 49.7 | 4 |
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 | ||||
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.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | WB | D | L | PF | PA | % | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Box Hill (P) | 18 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2899 | 1581 | 183.4 | 64 |
2 | Brunswick | 18 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2753 | 1535 | 179.3 | 62 |
3 | Oakleigh | 18 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2893 | 1537 | 188.2 | 56 |
4 | Caulfield | 18 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2269 | 1670 | 135.9 | 54 |
5 | Waverley | 18 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2259 | 1738 | 130.0 | 54 |
6 | Moorabbin | 18 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2060 | 2079 | 99.1 | 38 |
7 | Berwick | 18 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2302 | 2001 | 115.0 | 36 |
8 | Mordialloc | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1989 | 2163 | 92.0 | 24 |
9 | Northcote | 18 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1884 | 2165 | 87.0 | 24 |
10 | Kilsyth | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1282 | 2889 | 44.4 | 12 |
11 | Sunshine | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 1397 | 3202 | 43.6 | 8 |
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 | |||
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] |