The Neville Glover Award is named after Parramatta's own Neville Glover who played 121 first grade games for the club between 1975-1981 scoring 54 tries.
There will be people on here saying "He was a good player!!" and all this stuff. I am not saying he was a bad player, it is just that unfortunately he is remembered for what happened in the 1976 grand final.
Who will win the 2021 Neville Glover Award?:https://youtu.be/lCcfeBXZj2o
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When I saw the Neville Glover Award I thought it was going to be for the players who scored a try the first time they touched the ball playing for Australia? Out of interest, if Moran went himself instead of passing to Neville, he scores easily. If Higgs looks inside after making a break with 2 minutes to go, he would have seen Ray Price in support unmarked.
Go forward to 1984 and Eric Grothe senior drops the ball stone cold after a similar backline movement but that is never mentioned? Grothe cost us the 1984 Grand Final. There is a reason they are both in our all time greatest team. Neither deserve any criticism whatsoever
For some reason Glover cops it more than any of the others.
By the time Eric Grothe dropped that ball in 1984 we'd won three consecutive titles.
But my dad and Pa have both always mentioned Moran should have held the ball and taken it himself. They were on the hill at the SCG that day.
I was itting in the Sheridan Stand with my Dad and a few mates. This game is still very raw for anyone who was following Parra at the time. We would have all come from very humble beginnings and following Parramatta was a lifestyle rather than an interest. I lined up with a couple of mates and sleeping bags outside Rugby league Headquarters in Phillip Street to get Grand Final tickets. The Thursday night before the GF there was a team street parade through the main street of Parra ending up on stage at Westfield. The streets were lined like it was Billy Hughes funeral.
Literally hundreds of thousands of people. Ray Higgs was on a flat top ute and as the crowd chanted Parra, Higgs would hit a huge drum "boom boom boom" Parra, boom boom boom. I spent all day Saturday decorating my fathers car with blue and gold crepe paper and streamers for the drive to the SCG. Jim Porter scored the first try and I have never heard a crowd cheer as loud to this day. It was more than supporting a footy team it was an extension of who you were. Three scrum penalties to Manly in the era when you could kick for goal was the reason we lost NOT the incident with Neville. We were by far the better team on the day scoring 2 tries to 1.
I just cannot cop anyone making light of Neville. That team was a part of everyones family. To hear some pommy making light of Neville makes me sick. How about an award for the tries that he scored to get us to the GF? How about an award for those that broke out of a Ron Coote covering tackle? Just like Grothe snr, Glover was able to break through tackles that no one else could.
I hope one day I get to buy a beer for Neville to thank him for so many wonderful memories. I would just as soon piss on the pommy who put up this pathetic award
....and I will piss on him with 'ya, PT. I liked reading that post.
Strong words there hiding behind a keyboard saying you would piss on me. I was born in Australia for your information, in the Parramatta district, everyone in my family is a Parramatta supporter, my parents attended the 1976 Grand Final.
Parramatta is a way of life for me as well. For those who are hard of thinking like you, you would not have read the video description, I never said he was a bad player, it's just that unfortunately by most people (not all) he is remembered for that moment, like what happened to Ben Hunt, Ben Hunt is a good player but everyone will remember the 2015 GF.
Steely, I can understand you going on the record like you have, it is up to the people that were there and have seen nearly all the games to just correct you when you are way off.
Seth, PT, Sluggy, Sir Col, Bobby will forever tell you the real people that were there and old enough to remember will never blame Neville Glover.
AS for the dope that said "Pricey" cost us a game because he laid down, go commit yourself to the first asylum you find and tell them you have had your brain stolen by the fairies!
PS When Pricey finally goes, they will have to put a stake through his heart, because he would never lie down if he could get up.
Poppa, that bit about Pricey losing the 84 gf by laying down fucking irked me to. I suggest that bloke go and say it to Ray's face and see how he gets on.
Ray would no doubt shake his fist so hard and ferociously.
Wiz, go and take the piss with my mate Sharon.
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