Earnie the Eagle
Bencher
Aside from Grand Finals, what was your most memorable game Manly played?
Mine was when Manly played Parramatta at Cumberland Oval in 1981. It was Parras last ever game at Cumberland and they wanted to go out a winner but Manly wasn't going to have that. It finished up a 20 all draw. The atmosphere was electric, Manly great Wombat Eadie, John " Joe Coöl" Dorathy lit the place alight, John Gibbs with his trade mark socks down and head back cutting the Parra defence to pieces. The vision of Alan Thompson sitting in the dressing room after the game having a cigarette sticks in my mind. Great players like Randall, Boyd, Krilich and ex Parra man Geoff Gerard.
Oh and there was Parra as well. They went on to win the premiership, that year, after they won Parra fans went back to Cumberland Oval and torched the grandstand in celebration and it burnt to the ground.
This was a time of the greatest rivalry between Manly and Parra to the point where Tooheys made TV advertisement about it, in saying that the rivalry around the same time with the Fibros was just as good but that needs a thread of its own.
Mine was when Manly played Parramatta at Cumberland Oval in 1981. It was Parras last ever game at Cumberland and they wanted to go out a winner but Manly wasn't going to have that. It finished up a 20 all draw. The atmosphere was electric, Manly great Wombat Eadie, John " Joe Coöl" Dorathy lit the place alight, John Gibbs with his trade mark socks down and head back cutting the Parra defence to pieces. The vision of Alan Thompson sitting in the dressing room after the game having a cigarette sticks in my mind. Great players like Randall, Boyd, Krilich and ex Parra man Geoff Gerard.
Oh and there was Parra as well. They went on to win the premiership, that year, after they won Parra fans went back to Cumberland Oval and torched the grandstand in celebration and it burnt to the ground.
This was a time of the greatest rivalry between Manly and Parra to the point where Tooheys made TV advertisement about it, in saying that the rivalry around the same time with the Fibros was just as good but that needs a thread of its own.