Season Summary
This year a bronze replica of "the Gladiators" - the 1963 photo taken by John O'Gready of Norm Provan and Arthur Summons' post-game, mud-caked embrace - was first adopted to adorn the Winfield Cup, the new trophy to be awarded to the grand final winners. Because of the introduction of two new teams, twenty-six (rather than twenty-two) regular season rounds were played from February till August, resulting in a top five of Easts, Newtown, Parramatta, Cronulla and Manly. The new teams, the Illawarra Steelers and the Canberra Raiders, would finish their debut seasons in second last and last place respectively.
The 1982 season saw the only nil-all scoreline in competition history. The Newtown Jets and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs drew their match at Henson Park on 28 March, with neither team scoring a point. The long-standing record for the longest suspension for a player in the League's history was broken during the season. Western Suburbs' Bob Cooper was suspended for 15 months for punching Illawarra's Lee Pomfret.
The 1982 season's Rothmans Medallist was Canterbury-Bankstown's Greg Brentnall and the Dally M Award went to Parramatta's lock forward, Ray Price. Rugby League Week gave their player of the year award to Eastern Suburbs' halfback Kevin Hastings for the third consecutive season.
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