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Hey Spelly
was watching the warriors 84 vid the other day and noticed in most of the highlights that Blighty was dominant (no real surprises)
my records tell me though that he wasnt leading goalkicker that year (I think Bob Beecroft kicked 70)
i was intersted to know some stats about the warriors that year
eg some of there scores and bightys statistics and whether he played all year or not
I know he had clearance issues at the start of '83 and obviously dominated the league in '85
would love to know more about warriors in '84
Cheers

Here are the scores of Woodvilles matches in 1984:

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31   3   1984   1   Wd.   26   16   172   W.T   14   12   96   Thebarton   4435
7   4   1984   2   Wd.   12   11   83   S.A   19   21   135   Woodville   2647
15   4   1984   3   Wd.   14   13   97   P.A   23   17   155   Alberton   4509
21   4   1984   4   Wd.   18   19   127   C.D   24   10   154   Woodville   4094
28   4   1984   5   Wd.   13   7   85   Gl   25   23   173   Football Park   5853
5   5   1984   6   Wd.   10   11   71   N.A   27   12   174   Prospect   2967
12   5   1984   7   Wd.   18   16   124   St   24   19   163   Unley   3626
19   5   1984   8   Wd.   22   13   145   Nor   22   14   146   Woodville   4529
26   5   1984   9   Wd.   25   13   163   W.A   23   15   153   Richmond   2667
2   6   1984   10   Wd.   15   13   103   W.T   19   20   134   Thebarton   3317
11   6   1984   11   Wd.   16   10   106   P.A   27   12   174   Woodville   6419
16   6   1984   12   Wd.   19   8   122   C.D   17   15   117   Elizabeth   4750
23   6   1984   13   Wd.   13   17   95   Gl   18   18   126   Glenelg   4379
30   6   1984   14   Wd.   19   14   128   S.A   39   16   250   Football Park   2527
6   7   1984   15   Wd.   16   13   109   N.A   20   12   132   Football Park   1647
15   7   1984   16   Wd.   17   16   118   St   15   10   100   Woodville   1981
21   7   1984   17   Wd.   23   10   148   W.A   29   16   190   Richmond   2060
28   7   1984   18   Wd.   14   9   93   Nor   25   10   160   Norwood   5476
11   8   1984   19   Wd.   11   10   76   W.T   13   24   102   Woodville   2283
18   8   1984   20   Wd.   5   6   36   P.A   8   8   56   Woodville   3688
25   8   1984   21   Wd.   9   11   65   C.D   14   11   95   Football Park   2933
1   9   1984   22   Wd.   13   12   90   Gl   14   18   102   Woodville   3098

If you asked me about 1985, I could give you Malcolm Blights round by round tallies, but I don't have such info for 1984. There are some matches I do have goalkickers for however:

Round 9:
Wood: K. Harris 4.3, Beecroft 3.1, Hearne 3.0, Heaney, Koop 2.2, Haylock, Stanton 2.1, Scheer 2.0, Fuller, Wright 1.1, Parker, T.McDonald, Clift 1.0, Rushed 0.1.
W.A: Luders 6.4, Smith 5.4, Morris 4.1, Falting 2.1, Rechner 2.0, Fielke 1.2, Williams, Mickan, Grosser 1.0, Herbert, McKinnon, Bennett 0.1.

Round 14:
S.A: Harris 7.4, Schneebichler 5.1, Fairclough, Slattery 5.0, Darren Kappler 4.2, Naley, Would 4.0, D.Hewitt 3.3, Dewhirst 2.1, Rushed 0.5.
Wood: Wright 4.1, Koop 4.0, Beecroft 3.3, Jacquier 3.1, Heaney 2.1, Jolly, Wood 1.2, Sewer 1.0, Harris 0.3, Lynch 0.1.

Round 17:
W.A: Luders 7.2, Grosser 4.1, Conlen 3.0, Morris 2.3, Weidemann, Smith 2.1, Watson, McKinnon, Fielke 2.0, Herbert, Bennett 1.1, Miller 1.0, Lamb 0.1, Rushed 0.4.
Wood: Beecroft 8.0, Jacquier 3.2, McDonald, Harris, Hearne 2.0, Blight 1.2, Koop, Wright, McLeod 1.1, Fuller, Haylock 1.0, Rushed 0.3.

Woodville were on top of the ladder after Round 1; the 2nd and last time they would be there.
Woodville would not win again until Round 9, kicking 5 goals in time on of the last quarter to defeat West Adelaide.
Round 14 had the highest aggregate for one quarter for both teams 21.6 (132) in the last quarter. Woodville kicked 11.4 in that quarter - a club record.
In Round 15, this would be the first match for premiership points under lights for Woodville.
The following round saw Woodvilles first win at Woodville after 27 losses. Round 17 1980 was the previous win.
Round 20 1980 was the lowest scoring match Woodville would participate in.

Blight only kicked 37 goals in the 1984 minor round, and a further 7 in cup matches. I would think he missed a few matches mid-season.

Round by round tallies: 2, 3, 1, 6, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 4, 1, 1, 5, 2, 2, 6.

Kevin Harris kicked 41 goals and a further 5 in cup matches.
Round by round: 4, 2, 2, 3, 0, 2, 2, 5, 4, 2, 2, 1, 2, 0, 3, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0.

Beecroft kicked his 70 in the SANFL minor ound.
Round by round: 0, 0, 4, 5, 7, 5, 7, 0, 3, 8, 4, 7, 4, 3, 0, 5, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.

** A (0) does not necessarily means they played and kicked 0 goals, they may have missed all or some of those matches.

Spelly, are you sure it was the last time Woodville were top? I thought they may have been for a couple of weeks during 1987.
Interesting that they played West twice at Richmond.
Also that they knocked off both the previous years Grand Finalists. Is this the only time the previous years wooden spooner has done this? Know it has been discussed on another thread how far West and Sturt fell that next year.
Remember watching the Round 16 game on a Sunday on telly. Do you have the quarter scores for this game, because IIRC it was pretty wet and reasonably high scoring given the conditions.

Great Info guys
Thanks
Very interesting season all round with Norwood starting so badly and finishing so well and North also dropped out of the five from the previous year but from what i remember were more competitive than their win/loss record suggests

In 1987, Woodville were in 2nd spot for a total of 6 weeks, but never first. Only in Round 2 1972 and Round 1 1984.
Woodville defeated the previous years Grand Finalists in 1985 and 1986. Also Sturt defeated Port and Central in 1997. They are a couple I can find, so it may not be that rare. Generally if the wooden spooner has a much better year the following year.

Round 16 1984
W'ville 7.5 10.9 13.12 17.16 (118)
Sturt 2.2 7.7 11.8 15.10 (100)
Woodville, 1981