1978 VFL Season: St Kilda

Season Team Details

Season: 1978 VFL Season
Team: St Kilda
Home Ground: Moorabbin Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 6th (W-D-L: 11-1-10, P%: 93.1%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 35
Brownlow Leader(s): Val Perovic (13)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): George Young (70)
Trevor Barker Award Recipient(s): Graeme Gellie

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Gary Colling

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Baker, Ian #20 3 R11-R13 0
Barker, Trevor #1 22 R01-R22 23
Bond, Graeme #34 22 R01-R22 12
Booth, Doug #38 14 R01-R11, R14-R16 1
Breen, Barry #4 21 R01-R17, R19-R22 0
Bromberg, Mordy #17 12 R01-R12 0
Burns, Greg #30 1 R17 0
Callery, Paul #35 8 R09, R16-R22 3
Colling, Gary #12 19 R01-R10, R14-R22 3
Cunningham, Geoff #25 17 R03-R08, R10, R12, R14-R22 0
Discher, Don #21 1 R01 0
Ditterich, Carl #10 21 R01-R10, R12-R22 16
Dunne, Jeff #48 13 R10-R22 2
Duperouzel, Bruce #3 9 R05-R10, R20-R22 9
Elliott, Robert #8 20 R01-R09, R11, R13-R22 5
Evans, Dale #22 2 R12-R13 0
Gellie, Graeme #24 20 R01-R11, R14-R22 12
Greene, Russell #29 15 R01-R15 14
Hunt, Rex #5 17 R01-R09, R11-R13, R18-R22 38
Lofts, Gary #16 15 R08-R22 40
McDonald, Gary #11 1 R13 0
Mildenhall, Bill #39 3 R01-R03 2
Muir, Robert #32 4 R02-R04, R22 1
O'Dea, Jim #14 15 R01-R02, R04-R09, R16-R22 1
O'Keefe, Maurice #15 21 R01-R04, R06-R22 29
Perovic, Val #9 22 R01-R22 0
Roberts, Michael #43 2 R14-R15 0
Sarau, Jeff #31 20 R01-R04, R06-R21 29
Sartori, Ian #49 8 R12-R19 1
Sidebottom, Garry #2 19 R01-R07, R11-R22 13
Stevens, Phil #13 14 R05, R10-R22 1
Stone, Chris #40 2 R10-R11 2
Thomas, Grant #45 1 R05 0
Tweeddale, Russell #23 17 R01-R13, R18-R20, R22 10
Young, George #27 19 R01-R18, R21 70

Team Line-Up

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This is an approximation for the typical team line-up based on available position records from this season.

Coach Results

Coach Match(es) (W-D-L) Round(s)
Patterson, Mike 22 11 -1- 10 R01-R22

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
01/04/1978 Round 1 Fitzroy AWAY WIN STK by 8 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
08/04/1978 Round 2 Footscray HOME WIN STK by 7 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
15/04/1978 Round 3 Richmond AWAY DRAW drawn Mike Patterson Gary Colling
22/04/1978 Round 4 North Melbourne HOME LOSS NOR by 19 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
25/04/1978 Round 5 Geelong HOME WIN STK by 33 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
06/05/1978 Round 6 Melbourne AWAY WIN STK by 63 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
13/05/1978 Round 7 Essendon HOME WIN STK by 6 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
20/05/1978 Round 8 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 99 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
27/05/1978 Round 9 Hawthorn HOME LOSS HAW by 40 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
05/06/1978 Round 10 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 34 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
17/06/1978 Round 11 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 100 Mike Patterson unknown
24/06/1978 Round 12 Fitzroy HOME LOSS FIT by 23 Mike Patterson unknown
01/07/1978 Round 13 Footscray AWAY LOSS FOO by 107 Mike Patterson unknown
08/07/1978 Round 14 North Melbourne AWAY WIN STK by 3 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
15/07/1978 Round 15 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 54 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
22/07/1978 Round 16 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 12 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
29/07/1978 Round 17 Melbourne HOME WIN STK by 52 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
05/08/1978 Round 18 Essendon AWAY WIN STK by 39 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
12/08/1978 Round 19 South Melbourne HOME WIN STK by 48 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
19/08/1978 Round 20 Hawthorn AWAY WIN STK by 56 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
26/08/1978 Round 21 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 40 Mike Patterson Gary Colling
02/09/1978 Round 22 Carlton HOME WIN STK by 40 Mike Patterson Gary Colling