Manly-Warringah 15–6 St. George — Preliminary Final, 1970 NRL Finals Series
12 Sep 1970 · Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, NSW · Attendance: 43,147
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Preliminary Final, 1970 NRL finals series: Manly-Warringah 15–6 St. George, at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, NSW on 12 Sep 1970.
Sourcing caveat: Manly's named scorers as extracted (1 try + 3 goals + a field-goal tally split 'Fulton 3 / Batty 2' totalling 5 field goals at 2pts each) sum to 19 against a recorded 15, a 4-point gap that does not reconcile. The source's split field-goal count between two kickers is treated as unreliable here (a total of 3 field goals rather than 5 would reconcile exactly, but that figure is not directly stated by the source, so it is not asserted as fact) -- reported as sourced rather than silently corrected. St George's 3 goals (6pts) match the recorded 6 exactly with no try.
Scorers
| Manly-Warringah | Tries: Bill Hamilton Goals: Bob Batty (3) Drop goals: Bob Fulton (3); Bob Batty (2) |
| St. George | Goals: Graeme Langlands (3) |
Team sheets
| Manly-Warringah | St. George | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bob Batty | Fullback | Graeme Langlands (c) | 1 |
| 2 | Derek Moritz | Wing | Johnny King | 2 |
| 3 | Alec Tennant | Centre | Ken Maddison | 3 |
| 4 | Bob Fulton (c) | Centre | Dennis Brandley | 4 |
| 5 | Howard Whitaker | Wing | Geoff Carr | 5 |
| 6 | Ian Martin | Five-Eighth | Phil Hawthorne | 6 |
| 7 | Ed Whiley | Halfback | Billy Smith | 7 |
| 8 | Rob Cameron | Lock | Peter Fitzgerald | 8 |
| 9 | John Morgan | Second Row | Barry Beath | 9 |
| 10 | Norm Pounder | Second Row | Apisai Toga | 10 |
| 11 | Bill Hamilton | Prop | John Wittenberg | 11 |
| 12 | Fred Jones (c) | Hooker | Col Rasmussen | 12 |
| 13 | John Bucknall | Prop | Keith Maddison | 13 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 14 | Lindsay Drake | Tony Branson | 14 | |
| Norm Henderson | 15 | |||
| Ron Willey | Coach | Jack Gibson | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Don Lancashire |
Match report
12 Sep 1970, SCG. Halftime: Manly 6-4 St George.