last hurrah in top flight nswrl until they returned in Metro Cup. The most underrated since 1908.

Last Saturday

@@Animal_Mother WOW! Where did you get this footage ? So this is reserve grade?? I have good friend who loves Souths a lot. Where can i watch reserve games online ?

@@helpstopanimalabuse8153 Newtown Livestream their own games that are not covered by the NSWRL on their Livestream.

@@Animal_Mother Thanks mate!

He was an ace of a player. Always on the case and very capable. Just short of Test consideration, as so many good forwards always are. He himself said on the telly in 1976 or 1977, " There just happens to be a lot of good lock forwards running around at the moment ", regarding any Test selection.

Something about newtown. Wasn't much later Paul Hayward got done for drug trafficking. Read the book Damage Done by Warren Fellows. It'll make you think.

Amen brother - true legend of the game ❤️

And Gary Sullivan. Big time bank robber. I know, not the same thing, but nevertheless. I didn't know he was playing until I heard him being replaced in the 2nd half.

I had both as teachers in 1983

Keith Page as ref. Looked like Dracula with his collar up. Made greg hartley look good.

Dawson's now been convicted as well as for other sex offences with minors. He'll die in jail, where he belongs. There players were treated like gods back in the day, subsequently they became drunk on their own importance and felt they were untouchable. (some, not all, some went on to distinguish themselves after football). I met many drunken ex-football heroes in a career in Policing, and always got the 'do you know who I am' attitude. Edit: I had John Maguire (70's Cronulla Sharks prop) as my maths teacher in high school. A lovely guy and one of nature's gentleman. I was saddened to hear he passed away, earlier this year.

​@@RoyalpaininbumAt least Keith Page was fair, (look at the 73 gf) and was not on the take like Hartley.

Yep Steve had a high watermark year in 1981 , also as Dally M player of the year , and Captain of the year . He also Captained Australia against France that year too.

It was Newtown who buggered St. George's 1973 season [ the year before ]. Took the pre-season off St. George in the final with a Ken Wilson conversion goal from the side-line on the full-time whistle, and then they eliminated St. George in the semis of the premiership in extra-time.

@@jonglewongle3438 wouldn’t you love to get good footage of those days😁there’s a bit but heaps more in archives😩i watched that being a dragons man it’s extremely difficult to find anything but highlights from anywhere before’80👎🏻i rather watch that stuff than the modern game that’s for sure😵‍💫

@@poitor5915 Indeed. You are correct. I would not mind seeing some of that stuff again. Pre-80s. But there was a fire in the ABC's Gore Hill facilities at one time. Purportedly it annihilated much, if not all, of their rugby league television tapes. I'd love to see all that 1970s minor premiership stuff, much of which the ABC televised live and not just delayed telecast. Balmain versus Easts, 1971. And Newtown 12 beats Balmain 10 in 1976, even though I was an ardent Balmain supporter. Even if to just to relive the angst. And so on.

@@jonglewongle3438 i did not know about the fire😩i reckon just having those abc games with jim lyse was it and i remember reg gasnier as well there was a famous one at a packed redfern vs roosters☝🏻i watch any game i reckon belmore cumberland lidcome fuck yer🏉

Thinking back it was perhaps not this match, but a similar match WON on scrum penalties that same year.

You mean like the 77 and 78 79 spending?

@@absoluteb22 You mean Newtown down the toilet on the ladder ? Or what ?

@@jonglewongle3438 Well sometimes the results were the wooden spoon. But yes they eventually got it together.

@@absoluteb22 I don't know exactly when John Singleton got with Newtown, but wooden spooners 76 through 78 and 2nd last per 79. They started getting a little more traction in 1980.

@@jonglewongle3438 He was behind the exciting arrival of Manfred Moore from the Oakland Raiders. The 78 season he tried things bringing back Bruce Pickett and others which ultimately didn't make the squad competitive. In 79 came the big spend particularly buying Canterbury players. Singleton was there alongside Frank Farrington.

@M so what?