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How the Game has changed - 1976 Parramatta Eels

Posted by slip on June 22, 2011 at 7:24pm

Most players back than were from the area (junior club)

Neville Glover - Toongabbie

Geoff Gerard - Cabramatta

Graeme Atkins - Toongabbie

Denis Fitzgerald - Parramatta Marist

Ed Sulkowicz - Liverpool

John Kolc - The Hills

Graham Olling - Wentworthville

Phil Mann - Cabramatta

Ray Price - Parramatta Rugby

Ron Hilditch - The Hills

John Peard - Bondi United

Ray Higgs - Roma, QLD

Jim Porter - Smithtown

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slip June 26, 2011 at 1:31pm

Sydney's population would of been half of today back in '76, but even Manly in '76 had local talent - Ian Martin - Narraweena, John Gibbs - Narrabeen, Alan Thompson - Narrabeen, Lindsay Drake - Dee Why, John Harvey - Dee Why, Terry Randall - Curl Curl, Max Krilich - Narraweena and Gary Thoroughgood - Narraweena.

Back than it well and truly was Parramatta v Manly, although Manly had a few more imports, English players and Bob Fulton from Illawarra and Graham Eadie Woy Woy.
Parranoid June 29, 2011 at 7:45pm

Who can forget poor old Neville bombing that try. I still remember it as a 7 year old. I loved that team. And funnily enough I sort of loved the Manly team as well. Terry Randall is my favourite player next to Ray Price. He was a colossus - would be a champion in the modern era. Him and Krilich were garbos.
Gerringong Lad June 29, 2011 at 8:07pm

Hey Parranoid I hear you, same age and was all decked out in the blue and gold GF day.........very dissapointed

Played Cricket many years later against Neville in the South Coast comp..........he could hit a ball and sure was fast between wickets...........but he sure had a temper...........got run out one day and spat it big time.
Historycat December 18, 2015 at 12:46am

Hi folks, I'm chasing some career info on former Parramatta winger Jim Porter, if anyone can help me out? I have traced his senior playing days back to 1968 with Smithtown, then with Lakes UTD (Newcastle) in 1969, Easts 70-74, and Parra 75-77 (then retired?) - Does anyone know what year he was graded with Smithtown (if indeed he was even graded there?) and if he retired after the 1977 season? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- slip > Historycat December 18, 2015 at 11:52am
  
  Jim Porter (born in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s. He played club football in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership with the Eastern Suburbs Roosters (with whom he won the 1974 premiership) and the Parramatta Eels, as well as representative football for the Australian national team (with whom he won the 1975 World Cup) as well as an appearance for NSW City in 1974. Porter's position of choice was on the wing, primarily on the left wing
  
  Porter started playing first grade in the NSWRFL for Easts in 1970. He played with them in the loss to Manly-Warringah in the 1972 Grand Final. Porter played in the successful Roosters side in the 1974 Grand Final however, before moving to Parramatta the following season. In 1975 he played for the Australian side which won the World Cup on points standing at the end of the tournament. The following year he scored a try in Parramatta's loss to Manly in the 1976 Grand Final. Then in 1977 Porter played in the drawn grand final against St. George as well as the re-match, which was also his last first grade game in the NSWRFL.
  
  http://players.2305388.n4.nabble.com/Jim-Porter-td3950092.html
  
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  Jim Porter. Jim Porter Born - 1949 Parramatta 1975 - 1977 Games - 67