1980 Balmain v St George Craven Mild Cup Rd 2 

WOW! What a great video. The Tigers had some good players back in those days. I didn't get to see many games that year as I was away working. I think this pre season comp was previously called the Wills Cup. The only pre season cup game I remember going to was against Canterbury at Leichhardt but that would have been '77 or '78 I reckon.

That was a good Balmain side👍

We forget how good the Moose was as a commentator.

Thanks for putting up these old games from my childhood.

This is the pre-season competition, and not the mid-week competition. Well, yes, Balmain won over St. George here and went on to make the final of the pre-season. It was in the mid-week competition in which St. George beat Balmain 16 to 5 but Balmain still went through to the next stage of the midweek competition and St. George were still nevertheless eliminated because that stage of the competition was four team round-robin and Balmain went through on points scored for and against, even though St. George did beat them.

Eric do you have the 1980 craven cup final Balmain vs manly? It simply didn’t exist I did ask Wayne Pearce as I had all his tapes but he didn’t have it either

Cheers mate. Wayne Pearces rookie year, what a legend.

Thank you for posting this. I was at this game but don't remember much about it, I was only 10. We went to all the Balmain Craven Mild Cup games that year including the final. The one thing I do remember was a punch up on the hill after the Balmain Norths game between two opposing fans. Cheers