season summary
dees again lead with 14 wins with the lions level dons and pies rounded out the 4 edging the hawks for 4th. richmond got last with two wins and 2 draws. dogs got off last after their first wooden spoon the year before.
hawthorn summary
started 0-5 and last but nearly made the finals only lions and dons beat them after that they also finally won at victoria park over the pies but couldn’t close the percenage gap.
finals summary
the dees 5th flag in 6 years came against the 4th place pies who knocked the dons and lions out of the finals the dees won easily though their 11th.
interesting fitzroy
very close to a minor premership in their last finals appearence till 79 after a poor loss to the pies to start cats in round 3, saints in round7 ,and dees in round 9 9 striaght wins before going out in straight loses.
preimres melbourne
again the best side losing 4 games to pies in round 4, and then the last 3 home and away games to hawks, tigers (wooden spooners) and dons. but beat lions and pies to win the flag.