1979 REP Interstate
Until fairly recently elite level Australian football meant interstate football. Moreover, it was primarily, indeed almost exclusively, in the interstate arena that football could in any serious way be argued to be a genuinely national sport. Since the transmutation of the VFL into the AFL, however, the overwhelming majority of Australia's elite footballers have participated in a single, national (or near-national) club competition, and the importance of senior interstate footy has diminished. Nevertheless, its overall significance in terms of the sport's development - and, indeed, arguably its very survival - cannot be over-stressed.
1979 Round by Round
Round
OOM
One-off Matches
Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Score | Date / Result | Ground | Crowd | ||
| South Australia | 0.5 | 0.8 | 5.11 | 6.13 | 49 | Mon 21-May-1979 2:10 pm | Football Park | 32,054 | |
| Victoria | 2.6 | 6.9 | 11.12 | 15.20 | 110 | Victoria won by 61 points | |||
| Queensland | — | — | — | 12.17 | 89 | Sun 3-Jun-1979 2:10 pm | Gabba | ||
| South Australia | — | — | — | 35.12 | 222 | South Australia won by 133 points | |||
| Tasmania (Rep) | — | — | — | 8.14 | 62 | Mon 18-Jun-1979 2:10 pm | North Hobart Oval | 12,197 | |
| Victoria | — | — | — | 26.21 | 177 | Victoria won by 115 points | |||
| Western Australia | 3.5 | 8.7 | 8.12 | 10.15 | 75 | Sat 7-Jul-1979 2:10 pm | Subiaco Oval | 26,060 | |
| South Australia | 2.4 | 7.7 | 9.13 | 15.15 | 105 | South Australia won by 30 points | |||