1983–84 Rugby Football League season

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1983–84 Rugby Football League season
Championship
Number of teams 16
Champions HKRcolours.svg Hull Kingston Rovers
Premiership winners HKRcolours.svg Hull Kingston Rovers
Man of Steel Widnes colours.svg Joe Lydon
Top point-scorer(s) Leigh colours.svg John Woods (Leigh) 355
Top try-scorer(s) Hullcolours.svg Gary Schofield (Hull) 38
Promotion and relegation
Promoted from Second Division Barrowcolours.svg Barrow
Workingtoncolours.svg Workington Town
Hunsletcolours.svg Hunslet
Faxcolours.svg Halifax
Relegated to Second Division Fulham RLFC
Wcatscolours.svg Wakefield Trinity
Redscolours.svg Salford
Haven colours.svg Whitehaven
Second Division
Champions Barrowcolours.svg Barrow
Top try-scorer(s) Hunsletcolours.svg Graham King (Hunslet) 28
< 1982–83 Seasons 1984–85 >

The 1983–84 Rugby Football League season was the 89th ever season of professional rugby league football in Britain. Sixteen teams competed from August, 1983 until May, 1984 for the Slalom Lager Championship.

The Second Division was increased to 18 clubs with the introduction of Kent Invicta, who played their home fixtures at Maidstone, this season.

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[edit] Rule changes

End of possession:

  • A "handover" was introduced after the sixth tackle, replacing the scrum that had previously been formed at that point.[1] The team receiving possession would now play-the-ball to carry on play.
  • Scrum rules were changed which meant the non offending side had head and ball advantage, effectively making the scrum a non contest.

Value of a try:

  • The number of points a team scored from a try increased from three to four.[1] The aim of this change was to "incentivise scoring tries" over kicking penalty goals, which were worth two points, because the tries were more entertaining.[1]

Temporary suspension:

  • The 10 minute "sin bin" was introduced.

[edit] Season summary

Slalom Lager League Champions: Hull Kingston Rovers
Hull Kingston Rovers finished on top of the First Division table to claim their fifth championship, and also the Play-Off competition.

State Express Challenge Cup Winners: Widnes (19-6 v Wigan)

John Player Special Trophy Winners: Leeds (18-10 v Widnes). During the competition, Danny Wilson of Swinton scored a record 5 drop goals in the tie against Hunslet on 6 Nov 1983.[2]

Slalom Lager Premiership Trophy Winners: Hull Kingston Rovers (18-10 v Castleford)

Barrow (from Cumbria) beat Widnes 12–8 to win the Lancashire Cup, and Hull beat Castleford 13–2 to win the Yorkshire Cup.

[edit] League Tables

[edit] Division One

Final Standings

Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1 HKRcolours.svg Hull Kingston Rovers 30 22 2 6 795 421 +374 46
2 Hullcolours.svg Hull F.C. 30 22 1 7 831 401 +430 45
3 Wolvescolours.svg Warrington 30 19 2 9 622 528 +94 40
4 Cascolours.png Castleford 30 18 3 9 686 438 +248 39
5 Widnes colours.svg Widnes 30 19 1 10 656 457 +199 39
6 Saintscolours.svg St Helens 30 18 1 11 649 507 +142 37
7 Bullscolours.svg Bradford Northern 30 17 2 11 519 379 +140 36
8 Rhinoscolours.svg Leeds 30 15 3 12 553 514 +39 33
9 Wigancolours.svg Wigan 30 16 0 14 533 465 +68 32
10 Oldhamcolours.svg Oldham 30 15 2 13 544 480 +64 32
11 Leigh colours.svg Leigh 30 14 0 16 623 599 +24 28
12 Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers 30 11 2 17 464 562 -98 24
13 Fulham RLFC 30 9 1 20 401 694 -293 19
14 Wcatscolours.svg Wakefield Trinity 30 7 0 23 415 780 -365 14
15 Redscolours.svg Salford 30 5 0 25 352 787 -435 10
16 Haven colours.svg Whitehaven 30 3 0 27 325 956 -631 6

[edit] Division Two

Club P W D L PF PA Pts
1 Barrow 34 32 0 2 1126 332 64
2 Workington Town 34 24 2 8 714 504 50
3 Hunslet 34 24 0 10 900 597 48
4 Halifax 34 23 2 9 722 539 48
5 Blackpool Borough 34 20 3 11 615 466 43
6 Swinton 34 21 0 13 764 437 42
7 York 34 19 2 13 743 570 40
8 Bramley 34 16 2 16 584 545 34
9 Kent Invicta 34 17 0 17 595 700 34
10 Huddersfield 34 15 3 16 600 545 33
11 Cardiff City Blue Dragons 34 15 1 18 710 717 31
12 Rochdale Hornets 34 13 3 18 551 667 29
13 Batley 34 13 0 21 477 738 26
14 Dewsbury 34 12 0 22 526 698 24
15 Carlisle 34 12 0 22 539 780 24
16 Huyton 34 9 2 23 431 760 20
17 Keighley 34 7 3 24 425 728 17
18 Doncaster 34 2 1 31 384 1083 5
  Champions   Play-offs   Promoted   Relegated

[edit] Challenge Cup

The 1983-84 Silk Cut Challenge Cup was won by Widnes after defeating Wigan 19-6 in the final.

The Final was played at Wembley before a crowd of 80,116.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c de la Riviere, Richard, ed. (2009), "Top ten: Rugby league rules", Rugby League World (Brighouse, UK: League Publications) (340): 61 (published 2009-08), ISSN 1466-0105 
  2. ^ "RFL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2009-09-25. http://www.therfl.co.uk/about/page.php?id=394&areaid=46. Retrieved 2009-08-07. 

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