Hi everyone this is it, an infomative 1978 rugby league guide; in this guide i will be giving a brief description of the set and a guide line to what this set is potentialy worth (depending on factors)....

This set is 31 years old, and next year, the centenary of Rugby League, this set will truly be a veteran and increasingly rare (30 YEARS OLD!).

What makes this set so special is the fact that on the rear there are THREE picture puzzles - all scenes from the glorious 1977 grand final(s) between St Geeorge and Parramatta - the first drawn grand final. And as a Dragons fan who ultimately won the premiership that year - most magical!

LEGENDS:

This set includes some of the legends of the modern game.

Starting with the Dragons - (Lord) Ted Goodwin, (Rocket) Rod Reddy, Craig Young, Steve Edge, John Jansen ....

And the Eels - legend Mick Cronin, Ray Price, John Peard and North Queensland and NSW Origin coach Graham Murray

Other legends include ...

The Mortimer and Hughes brothers at Canterbury, Graham Eadie, Max Krilich, Terry Randall and modern media personality John Gibbs from Manly

The late Steve Rogers from Cronulla, Arthur Beetson, 2GB Continuous Call Vice Captain Bobby Fulton and Russell Fairfax playing for Easts

Tim Sheens playing for Penrih, recent coach of Canberra and Tigers.

The dangerous Les Boyd and famous Magpie Tom Raudonikis

Plus Souths legends George Piggins and Bob McCarthy

VALUE:

Now depending on the condition and refrences from past ebay auctions; this set is valued anywhere between $380 (set is considerd Fair-Good with a 5-6/10 rating) - $650(Set is considerd Excelent - Mint with a 8-9/10 rating)...

Note: The set is worth more with the checklists included

How do you rate your set or a potential set that you want to buy; you ask?? well the way i go about rating my sets are as followed: firstly i look at each individual card and look for the following (Creases, Scuff marks, Corner wear, Corner rounding, Dis-colouration, pen marks) once you have examined each card you need to put them in seperate categories:

Poor:  Tears, signs of moths, multiple heavy creasing, or significant surface/rear damage due to staining, wear, moisture or tape

Fair: Worn, rounded corners, multiple small creases or single major crease.

Good: Single slight crease not extending across card, rounding of corners, slight wear.

Very Good: One or two slightly rounded corners, or small spot/area of wear. No creases allowed.

Ecellent: Features solid corners and edging. One minor imperfection allowed if does not detract from the card as a whole

Near Mint: Might have slight discolouration of the edges due to age or wear. Circulation is the only thing preventing mint grading

Mint: Generally uncirculated. Rare that anything pre 90's matches this because of the poor quality cardboard used from 1976 - 1989.

 

Now once you have catogrised your cards (E.g 50 cards = poor, 80 cards = Excellent, 26 cards = Near Mint) you need to grade them on a scale from 1-10

Here is the scale:

Poor: 0-2/10, Fair: 3-4.5/10, Good: 5-6/10, V.Good: 7/10, Excellent: 8/10, N.Mint: 9/10, Mint: 10/10... Once you have classified your cards on the scale all you need to do is a abit of simple maths:

Example: ill use the example above; i had 50 cards that were in poor condition so all i do is 50x3 = 150, 80 cards excellent 80x8 = 640, 26N.Mint 26x9 = 234, Add the sub totals 80+640+234 = 954 then divide the number by the amount of cards in the set 954/156 = 6.1, so this set is rated as Good:

Now people may or may not agree with my evaluations however this is why this is called a guide; Now if you found this helpfull then please click "yes" on the bottom of the page...

Thank you for reading...

 

THE SET GO'S LIKE THIS.............

1.KEVIN DANN           79.MICK LUIBINSKAS

2.BILL HAMITION    80.JOHN GIBBS    

3.BARRY ANDREWS     81.TREVOR RYAN                            

4.MARK SCULDAM       82.MARK WRIGHT

5.GLEN PORTER            83.NEVILLE GLOVER

6.BOB JAY                        84.KEVIN STEVENS

7.MARSHALL ROGERS           85.TERRY WICKEY

8.LINDASAY DRAKE                 86.DON MCKINNON 

9.LARRY CORAWA                     87.PAUL KHAN

10.COL CASEY                            88.ROD REDDY

11.GRAHAM OLLING              89.PAUL SAIT 

12.AUTHER BEETSON          90.PAT CUDMORE

13.ZAC OLEGARMIN           91.GEOFF FOSTER

14.TERRY ADAMS                   92.TOM MOONEY

15.ERIC ACHER                        93.GARY SPEARS

16.ROBERT STONE              94.BRAIN HARTHINGTON

17.GEORGE PIGGINS            95.KEN HEY

18.GARRY DOWNING         96.RUSSELL FAIRFAX 

19.GARY WALSH                 97.GRAHAM QUINN

20.JOHN GRAY                     98.PETER MORTIMER

21.NOEL MAYBURRY          99.MAX KRILLICH

22.RON PILON                       100.WARRAN BOLAND

23.RON HIDITCH                101.COL MURPHY   

24.MARK HARRIS               102.RAY HIGGS 

25.JOHN KING                     103.TIM SHEENS

26.CHRIS LUCKMAN         104.RUSSEL HUNTER 

27.STEVE ROGERS            105.MARTIN RAFTEY

28.JOHN CHAMPAN          106.JOHN JANSEN

29.BOB MCMILLAN           107.TERRY FAHENY                  

30.LES MARA                      108.STEVE HAGE 

31.DOUG LUCAS              109.STEVEN BLYTH

32.TERRY RANDELL      110.ALAN THOMPSON 

33.WAYNE WIGHAM     111.DENNIS BENDALL 

34.TONY BICKOFF       112.BRAIN ROBERTSON

35.RAY PRICE              113.JOHN PEARD

36.MICHEAL MOSEN       114.RON COOTE

37.ROSS CALE                  115.BRUCE FOYE

38.AUB LE'BROCQ          116.RICK BOURKE

39.DANE SORENSEN       117.ROD MCGREGOR

40.TONY GRAHAM            118.DAVID SINCLAIR

41.JOHN BERNE             119.STEVE GEARIN 

42.STEVE MORTIMER            120.JOHN DONNELLY

43.LES BOYD                            121.JOHN HARVEY

44.RUSSEL GARTNER       122.GEOFF TAYLOR 

45.ALLAN MCMAHON        123.JOHN DORAHY

46.LES COOLEY                  124.MICK CRONIN

47.PILLIP MANN                    125.GARY METCALFE 

48.BILL MULLINS                 126.STEVE KNIGHT

49.ROSS GIGG                         127.KEN WILSON

50.MAL MCLACHLEN         128.GREG PIERCE

51.STEVE HANDSARD     129.TONY QUIRK

52.ROBERT FINCH             130.DAVE SEELIN

53.BILL ANIBLE                   131.BILL NOONAN

54.GRAEME HUGHES         132.JOHN DORAHY

55.TOM RAUDONKIS         133.PAUL KEOGH

56.RAY BIRANIGHAN          134.JOHN FLOYD

57.KEITH COOK                   135.MARK LEVY 

58.PAUL HAYWARD            136.BOBBY FULTON

59.GRAHAM MURRAY       137.BOB MCCARTHEY

60.KEVIN HASTING            138.PHIL MOATE

61.PAUL MERLO                 139.GRAIG YOUNG

62.GORDEN WEST         140.GREG PURCELL

63.STEVE KNEEN               141.KEITH HARRIS

64.TED GOODWIN                142.WAYNE SMITH

65.STEVE LITTLE               143.IAN THOMPSON

66.GREG MULLANE             144.GENNARO PANZARINO

67.GRAHAM O'GRADY         145.JOHN ADAM

68.GRAHAM EADIE               146.GREG COX

69.DAVE EDWARDS              147.PETER SCHOFIELD

70.JEFF HUNT                        148.RAY KEAR

71.JOHN KOLC                        149.DES O'REILLY

72.ROYCE AYLIFFE                150.TONY TRUDENT

73.MIKE STEPHENSON         51.GREG BRENTALL

74.REX MURPHY                     152.GARRY HUGHES

75.JOHN MCMARTIN            153.PERCEY KNIGHT

76.STVE EDGE                         154.APT KELLY

77.IAN MACKAY                     155.MARK HUGHES

78.GEORGE PEPIONIS         156.PAUL JELFS