1981 VFL Season: Footscray

Season Team Details

Season: 1981 VFL Season
Team: Footscray
Home Ground: Western Oval (Whitten Oval)

Team Results

Ladder Position: 11th (W-D-L: 2-0-20, P%: 65.8%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 39
Brownlow Leader(s): Doug Hawkins (9)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Jim Edmond, Shane Loveless (25)
Charles Sutton Medal Recipient(s): Ian Dunstan

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Geoff Jennings

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Abbey, Ross #30 1 R01 0
Berry, Bill #4 10 R02-R03, R05-R10, R15, R17 6
Berry, Jeff #38 14 R01-R08, R14, R16-R20 3
Bradmore, Phil #19 4 R02, R08-R10 8
Burton, Chris #16 17 R01-R08, R13-R15, R17-R22 10
Cordy, Brian #49 17 R02-R18 6
Cordy, Neil #29 17 R01-R02, R04-R17, R21 5
Davidson, Stan #9 20 R01-R19, R22 7
Davis, Greg #46 1 R01 0
De Koning, Terry #11 15 R03-R04, R06, R09-R16, R18, R20-R22 0
Dunstan, Ian #32 19 R04-R22 16
Edmond, Jim #20 19 R01-R05, R07-R13, R16-R22 25
Edwards, Bryan #50 1 R16 0
Egan, Mick #10 20 R03-R22 3
Ford, Alister #6 5 R02-R06 6
Gallagher, Ross #41 7 R02, R16-R21 4
Hampshire, Ian #1 21 R01-R02, R04-R22 8
Hawkins, Doug #7 21 R01, R03-R22 12
Jennings, Geoff #25 7 R01-R05, R07, R09 10
Johnson, Matt #8 1 R03 1
Kennedy, Rick #54 14 R03-R15, R18 2
Knight, Steven #12 9 R01-R02, R11-R15, R21-R22 14
Komp, Mark #13 9 R02-R03, R05, R07, R16, R19-R22 6
Loveless, Shane #2 10 R01, R03-R04, R11-R16, R22 25
McAllester, Jim #36 12 R11-R22 4
McConnell, Alan #28 17 R01, R03-R05, R08-R16, R19-R22 2
McKenna, Michael #34 12 R01, R03-R07, R10-R13, R15-R16 10
Perrin, Brian #40 11 R05-R10, R12-R15, R22 3
Polson, Gordon #19 1 R02 0
Reid, Bruce #5 22 R01-R22 0
Reid, John #33 12 R01, R06-R11, R18-R22 0
Sait, Kevin #52 13 R06-R12, R17-R22 18
Seery, Colin #47 8 R12-R14, R17-R21 2
Stanlake, Warren #26 1 R02 0
Templeton, Kelvin #31 6 R17-R22 8
Towns, Greg #17 3 R01, R19-R20 3
Wheeler, Terry #35 20 R01-R11, R14-R22 6
Whitten, Ted #22 20 R01-R04, R06, R08-R22 20
Wight, Terry #24 3 R01-R02, R17 0

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)
Hart, Royce 21 2 -0- 19 R01-R02, R04-R22
Goode, Frank 1 0 -0- 1 R03

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
28/03/1981 Round 1 St Kilda HOME LOSS STK by 49 Royce Hart Geoff Jennings
04/04/1981 Round 2 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 94 Royce Hart Geoff Jennings
11/04/1981 Round 3 Melbourne HOME LOSS MEL by 1 Frank Goode Geoff Jennings
20/04/1981 Round 4 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 28 Royce Hart Geoff Jennings
25/04/1981 Round 5 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 62 Royce Hart Geoff Jennings
02/05/1981 Round 6 Essendon HOME WIN FOO by 8 Royce Hart unknown
09/05/1981 Round 7 North Melbourne AWAY LOSS NOR by 64 Royce Hart Geoff Jennings
16/05/1981 Round 8 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 50 Royce Hart unknown
23/05/1981 Round 9 Hawthorn HOME LOSS HAW by 10 Royce Hart Geoff Jennings
30/05/1981 Round 10 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FIT by 77 Royce Hart unknown
08/06/1981 Round 11 Geelong HOME LOSS GEE by 35 Royce Hart unknown
13/06/1981 Round 12 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 5 Royce Hart unknown
20/06/1981 Round 13 Melbourne AWAY WIN FOO by 31 Royce Hart unknown
27/06/1981 Round 14 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 81 Royce Hart unknown
11/07/1981 Round 15 South Melbourne HOME LOSS SOU by 63 Royce Hart unknown
18/07/1981 Round 16 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 93 Royce Hart unknown
25/07/1981 Round 17 North Melbourne HOME LOSS NOR by 9 Royce Hart unknown
01/08/1981 Round 18 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 34 Royce Hart unknown
08/08/1981 Round 19 Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 21 Royce Hart unknown
15/08/1981 Round 20 Fitzroy HOME LOSS FIT by 61 Royce Hart unknown
22/08/1981 Round 21 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 69 Royce Hart unknown
29/08/1981 Round 22 St Kilda AWAY LOSS STK by 49 Royce Hart unknown