New South Wales Rugby League season 1993
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| New South Wales Rugby League season 1993 | |
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| Teams | 16 |
| Premiers |  Brisbane (2nd title) |
| Minor premiers |  Canterbury (5th title) |
| Matches played | 182 |
| Points scored | 6173 (average 33.918 per match) |
| Attendance | 2,625,467 (average 14,426 per match) |
| Top points scorer(s) |  Daryl Halligan (180 points) |
| Top try scorer(s) |  Noa Nadruku (22 tries) |
The 1993 New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the eighty-sixth season of professional rugby league football in Australia. The lineup of teams remained unchanged from the previous season, with sixteen clubs competing for the Winfield Cup, including five Sydney-based foundation teams, another six from Sydney, two from greater New South Wales, two from Queensland, and one from the Australian Capital Territory.
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[edit] Teams
 Balmain Tigers |
 Brisbane Broncos |
 Canberra Raiders |
 Canterbury Bulldogs |
 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks |
 Eastern Suburbs Roosters |
 Gold Coast Seagulls |
 Illawarra Steelers |
 Manly Sea Eagles |
 Newcastle Knights |
 North Sydney Bears |
 Parramatta Eels |
 Penrith Panthers |
 South Sydney Rabbitohs |
 St. George Dragons |
 Western Suburbs Magpies |
[edit] Season summary
On August 22, the Canberra Raiders beat the Parramatta Eels 68-nil, at the time the third biggest winning margin for a club match in Australian rugby league history.
[edit] Advertising
For the second year running the NSWRL and its advertising agency Hertz Walpole used the 1992 re-recording of "The Best" by Tina Turner and Jimmy Barnes which had been released as "Simply The Best", the title by which the song was more popularly known in Australia.
No new Tina footage was available until she came to Australia at the season's end, so further shots were taken from the 1992 Tina and Jimmy black & white film clip that accompanied the song's release and used in amongst the usual previous season action and pre-season training images.
The League and Winfield enjoyed additional advertising exposure late in the season when Tina aligned an Australian leg of her 1993 tour with the NSWRL's final series. She performed on-stage at the Grand Final, presented the victor's trophy and performed the next week in a number of full-scale rock'n'roll shows with her band at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
[edit] Ladder
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canterbury |
22 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 464 | 254 | +210 | 34 |
| 2 |  St. George |
22 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 418 | 258 | +160 | 34 |
| 3 | Canberra |
22 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 587 | 272 | +315 | 33 |
| 4 |  Manly-Warringah |
22 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 442 | 232 | +210 | 32 |
| 5 | Brisbane |
22 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 517 | 330 | +187 | 32 |
| 6 | North Sydney |
22 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 448 | 325 | +123 | 29 |
| 7 |  Illawarra |
22 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 373 | 253 | +120 | 24 |
| 8 |  Eastern Suburbs |
22 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 343 | 356 | -13 | 23 |
| 9 |  Newcastle |
22 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 337 | 381 | -44 | 20 |
| 10 |  Cronulla-Sutherland |
22 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 272 | 399 | -127 | 18 |
| 11 |  Parramatta |
22 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 237 | 439 | -202 | 18 |
| 12 |  Penrith |
22 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 314 | 428 | -114 | 18 |
| 13 |  Western Suburbs |
22 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 319 | 475 | -156 | 14 |
| 14 |  South Sydney |
22 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 319 | 560 | -241 | 12 |
| 15 |  Balmain |
22 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 327 | 412 | -85 | 11 |
| 16 |  Gold Coast |
22 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 229 | 572 | -343 | 2 |
- Balmain were stripped of 2 competition points due to an illegal replacement in one game.
[edit] Finals
| Home | Score | Away | Match Information | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date and Time | Venue | Referee | Crowd | |||||
| Qualifying Finals | ||||||||
 St. George Dragons |
31–10 |  Canberra Raiders |
4 September 1993 | Sydney Football Stadium | Bill Harrigan | 31,429 | ||
 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles |
10–36 |  Brisbane Broncos |
5 September 1993 | Sydney Football Stadium | Greg McCallum | 38,432 | ||
| Semi Finals | ||||||||
| Canberra Raiders |
12–30 | Brisbane Broncos |
11 September 1993 | Sydney Football Stadium | Bill Harrigan | 33,893 | ||
 Canterbury Bulldogs |
12–27 | St. George Dragons |
12 September 1993 | Sydney Football Stadium | Greg McCallum | 41,384 | ||
| Preliminary Final | ||||||||
| Canterbury Bulldogs |
16–23 | Brisbane Broncos |
19 September 1993 | Sydney Football Stadium | Greg McCallum | 34,821 | ||
| Grand Final | ||||||||
| St. George Dragons |
6–14 | Brisbane Broncos |
26 September 1993 | Sydney Football Stadium | Greg McCallum | 42,329 | ||
[edit] Grand Final
| Brisbane Broncos | Position | St. George Dragons |
|---|---|---|
| Julian O'Neill | FB | Mick Potter (c) |
| Michael Hancock | WG | Ricky Walford |
| Steve Renouf | CE | Mark Coyne |
| Chris Johns | CE | Graeme Bradley |
| Willie Carne | WG | Ian Herron |
| Kevin Walters | FE | Tony Smith |
| Allan Langer (c) | HB | Noel Goldthorpe |
| Glenn Lazarus | PR | Tony Priddle |
| Kerrod Walters | HK | Wayne Collins |
| Mark Hohn | PR | Jason Stevens |
| Trevor Gillmeister | SR | David Barnhill |
| Alan Cann | SR | Scott Gourley |
| Terry Matterson | LK | Brad Mackay |
| Gavin Allen | Bench | Jeff Hardy |
| Andrew Gee | Bench | Phil Blake |
| John Plath | Bench | Gorden Tallis |
| Peter Ryan | Bench | Nathan Brown |
| Wayne Bennett | Coach | Brian Smith |
In the pre-match performance, Tina Turner performed "The Best" on stage at the Sydney Football Stadium alongside her saxophonist, US session musician Timmy Cappello.
For the second year running Brisbane and the St George played out the decider. The sides were largely unchanged between the two years. Only one Bronco (Peter Ryan) had not played in the 1992 grand final and four of the Dragons (Stevens, Brown, Tallis and Blake). It was also Glenn Lazarus' fifth consecutive Grand Final appearance, having appeared the previous year for Brisbane and for three years before that with Canberra.
After withstanding an early Dragons barrage which brought much hope but no points, Chris Johns opened the scoring following a Tony Priddle error. Terry Matterson then also crossed to give Brisbane a 10–2 half-time lead. Ian Herron kept St. George in touch with three penalty goals to make it 10-6, but the title stayed north of the border when Willie Carne scored two minutes from full-time. Thus Brisbane became the first team in history to win a premiership from fifth spot with a 14-6 win. After the match Tina Turner presented the trophy to Allan Langer and joined in Brisbane's post-game victory song.
Brisbane 14 (Tries: Johns, Matterson, Carne. Goals: Matterson 1/3)
St George 6 (Goals: Herron 3/3 )
Clive Churchill Medal: Brad Mackay (St. George)
[edit] References
- Rugby League Tables - Season 1993 The World of Rugby League
