1980 VFL Season: North Melbourne

Season Team Details

Season: 1980 VFL Season
Team: North Melbourne
Home Ground: Arden Street Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 4th (W-D-L: 14-1-7, P%: 123.8%)
Finals Performance: Knocked out by Collingwood (Elimination Final)
Players: 35
Brownlow Leader(s): Gary Dempsey, Keith Greig (15)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Arnold Briedis (50)
Syd Barker Medal Recipient(s): Keith Greig

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Wayne Schimmelbusch

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Blight, Malcolm #15 20 R02-R05, R07-R19, R21-R22, EF 44
Bond, Shane #14 7 R06-R10, R13, R16 6
Boyse, Maurice #10 12 R01, R03-R08, R10-R11, R13, R21-R22 17
Briedis, Arnold #6 22 R01-R21, EF 53
Bryant, Kevin #9 1 R01 0
Byrne, John #21 15 R01-R06, R11-R13, R15, R17-R21 16
Cassin, John #3 17 R01-R03, R07-R14, R17-R18, R20-R22, EF 8
Dempsey, Gary #24 23 R01-R22, EF 15
Dench, David #23 9 R01-R04, R06, R20-R22, EF 0
Easton, Stephen #1 2 R12, R20 1
Glendinning, Ross #4 20 R03-R18, R20-R22, EF 10
Good, Kerry #7 19 R01-R04, R06-R07, R10-R17, R19-R22, EF 38
Greig, Keith #27 22 R01-R20, R22, EF 4
Henshaw, Ross #34 11 R01-R02, R04, R14-R15, R17-R18, R20-R22, EF 0
Huppatz, Ray #2 7 R14-R20 5
Icke, Stephen #36 22 R01-R02, R04-R22, EF 3
Jarrott, Alan #47 22 R01-R03, R05-R22, EF 7
Law, John #13 13 R03-R05, R08-R14, R19-R20, EF 0
McCann, Stephen #16 21 R01-R10, R13-R22, EF 20
Montgomery, Ken #12 12 R03-R14 0
Murphy, Danny #40 1 R11 0
Murphy, John #26 3 R05-R06, R12 3
Nolan, Mick #22 3 R11, R18-R19 0
Payne, Glenn #33 3 R02, R15-R16 0
Podolczak, Roger #37 6 R01, R03-R04, R08-R10 6
Ramsay, Roy #8 9 R15-R22, EF 0
Reeves, Michael #30 10 R01-R02, R05-R07, R09, R16-R19 16
Schimmelbusch, Daryl #11 21 R01-R14, R16-R19, R21-R22, EF 7
Schimmelbusch, Wayne #20 23 R01-R22, EF 7
Smith, Doug #19 14 R01-R05, R08-R09, R15-R18, R21-R22, EF 3
Sutton, Darryl #5 20 R01, R03-R16, R19-R22, EF 21
Tanner, Xavier #25 18 R02, R05-R10, R12-R22 22
Turco, Mario #18 2 R01-R02 1
Wilson, Brian #28 21 R02-R12, R14-R22, EF 12
Wright, Rodney #32 9 R07, R11-R15, R19, R22, EF 9

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)
Barassi, Ron 23 14 -1- 8 R01-R22, EF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
29/03/1980 Round 1 Essendon AWAY WIN NOR by 13 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
05/04/1980 Round 2 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 5 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
12/04/1980 Round 3 Fitzroy AWAY WIN NOR by 46 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
19/04/1980 Round 4 Geelong HOME LOSS GEE by 37 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
27/04/1980 Round 5 Footscray AWAY WIN NOR by 122 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
03/05/1980 Round 6 Carlton HOME WIN NOR by 32 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
10/05/1980 Round 7 Melbourne AWAY WIN NOR by 87 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
17/05/1980 Round 8 South Melbourne HOME WIN NOR by 3 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
24/05/1980 Round 9 Hawthorn HOME WIN NOR by 5 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
31/05/1980 Round 10 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 7 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
07/06/1980 Round 11 St Kilda AWAY WIN NOR by 83 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
14/06/1980 Round 12 Essendon HOME WIN NOR by 29 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
21/06/1980 Round 13 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 46 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
28/06/1980 Round 14 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 57 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
12/07/1980 Round 15 Footscray HOME WIN NOR by 59 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
19/07/1980 Round 16 Fitzroy HOME WIN NOR by 29 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
26/07/1980 Round 17 Carlton AWAY WIN NOR by 32 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
02/08/1980 Round 18 Melbourne HOME WIN NOR by 30 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
09/08/1980 Round 19 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 12 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
16/08/1980 Round 20 Hawthorn AWAY WIN NOR by 56 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
23/08/1980 Round 21 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 11 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
30/08/1980 Round 22 St Kilda HOME DRAW drawn Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch
06/09/1980 Elimination Final Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 8 Ron Barassi Wayne Schimmelbusch