1969 MANLY Rugby League World

[eagle66]

At times a bi-monthly magazine.

 

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[Chip and Chase]

LOL - artist's impressions of Brookvale Oval upgrades have been going on as far back as 1969

 

[Shoe1]

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The brookie oval article is gold! Add it to the thread on the centre of excellence etc

 

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Great shot of zorba

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Thanks eagle66 those clippings take me right back to when I first discovered Manly and became a fan. I had watched on tv as we fell a whisker short in the 1968 decider and was excited to learn that we were signing McDonald and Thomson.
McDonald at the time was the heir apparent to immortal Reg Gasnier as Australia's premier centre. Possibly didn't quite play his best for us but kept getting picked to play Test matches and captained us in a grand final. I recall one televised club game (a rarity) in which he scored 4 tries . Usually forgotten in discussions of our best ever, but he was genuine quality, and tremendously fast.
Allan Thomson (spelled Thompson in the article) was a tough, low tackler who stuck around and helped win our first grand final.
Dennis Ward was a dazzling side-stepper and pretty good at the chip and regather, formed a brilliant halves pairing with Fulton.
A lot of my knowledge of those players was actually from reading and re-reading newspaper reports, and listening to Frank Hyde's radio commentary. Very few games were on tv and it wasn't till a year or 2 later I was able to actually get myself along to watch some matches!

 

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season ending issue

 

[Desert Eagle]

At times a bi-monthly magazine.
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Is it just me or does Les Hanigan look a bit like Jamie Lyon?

 

[John Nicholson]

Les Hanigan used to board with my Grandmother (father's side).

Met him several times; he only drank tea. Looked very young, small, not your typical footballer and allegedly someone commented once that he was a Kangaroo, as he did a tour with them.

The reply was "so was Skippy".

 

[globaleagle]

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Sheesh, all those times I bumped into Mick (Veivers) it never clicked he played for Manly!

#tooyoung

 

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Men were men

 

[globaleagle]

Some of those payments seems so small. I wonder if in the future they'll say that about the highly paid players of today? - Probably.

Thanks again @eagle66 So much history. I hope the MWRLFC have all the copies you have!

 

[Captain Moondog]

Interesting article on Allan Thomson.

 

[40 nil]

At times a bi-monthly magazine.

Thank you @eagle66 for posting all this history! I remember seeing many of these photos & articles at the time.

Great shot of zorba

Till I looked it up just now, I didn't know that Zorba's birth name was Panoutas Peterides 🙂

In 1969, during Zorba's first game against his former club, Parra, Dick Thornett was rucking the ball out on the 20 metre line, scoreboard end. When Zorba called for the ball, Thornett passed it to him & he gleefully ran in, untouched, for a try (I'm fairly sure we won the game).

 

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