Queensland Origin 20 def. New South Wales Origin 10
| State Of Origin 1980 | ||||||||
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| Match URL | www.rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/2295 | |||||||
| Status | Completed | |||||||
| Date | Tuesday, 8th July, 1980 | |||||||
| Kick Off | 8:00pm (local time) | |||||||
| Referee | Billy Thompson (Huddersfield) | |||||||
| Venue | Lang Park (Brisbane) | |||||||
| Crowd | 33,210 | |||||||
| Official Player of the Match | Chris Close | |||||||
| Match Stats | ||||||||
| Halftime Score | 9 | – | 5 | |||||
| Scrums | 8 | – | 5 | |||||
| Penalties | 12 | – | 14 | |||||
| QLD | Scoresheet | NSW | ||||||
| Kerry BOUSTEAD | T | Greg BRENTNALL | ||||||
| Chris CLOSE | Tom RAUDONIKIS | |||||||
| Mal MENINGA | 7/7 | G | 2/3 | Michael CRONIN | ||||
| QLD | Teams | NSW | ||||||
| Colin SCOTT | 1 | FB | 1 | Graham EADIE [Manly] |
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| Kerry BOUSTEAD [Eastern Suburbs] |
2 | W | 2 | Chris ANDERSON [Canterbury] |
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| Mal MENINGA | 3 | C | 3 | Michael CRONIN [Parramatta] |
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| Chris CLOSE | 4 | C | 4 | Steve ROGERS [Cronulla] |
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| Brad BACKER | 5 | W | 5 | Greg BRENTNALL [Canterbury] |
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| Alan SMITH [North Sydney] |
6 | FE | 6 | Alan THOMPSON [Manly] |
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| Greg OLIPHANT [Balmain] |
7 | HB | 7 | Tom RAUDONIKIS (c) [Newtown] |
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| Wally LEWIS | 8 | L | 8 | Jim LEIS [Western Suburbs] |
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| Rod REDDY [St George] |
9 | 2R | 9 | Graeme WYNN [St George] |
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| Rohan HANCOCK | 10 | 2R | 10 | Bob COOPER [Western Suburbs] |
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| Arthur BEETSON (c) [Parramatta] |
11 | FR | 11 | Craig YOUNG [St George] |
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| John LANG [Eastern Suburbs] |
12 | HK | 12 | Steve EDGE [Parramatta] |
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| Rod MORRIS [Balmain] |
13 | FR | 13 | Gary HAMBLY [South Sydney] |
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| B | 15 | Robert STONE [St George] |
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| John McDONALD | HC | Ted GLOSSOP | ||||||
Team Info
Queensland Origin
- Previous Game:
- n/a
- Next Game:
- State Of Origin 1981 - Game 1 vs. NSW
New South Wales Origin
- Previous Game:
- n/a
- Next Game:
- State Of Origin 1981 - Game 1 vs. QLD
Match Notes
For NSW Ray Price, Les Boyd & George Peponis dropped out of the team and were replaced by Jim Leis, Bob Cooper & Steve Edge.
Norm Carr, Bruce Astill were non-playing reserves for Qld.
Steve Martin was a non-playing reserve for NSW.
Note: Forward packs are listed in reverse order.
This match is a part of the following:
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Andrew Ferguson, Shawn Dollin

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