The Mayor is my favourite Parra player of all time.
I started following in 1960 - my fifty years comes around this season. Never missed a game from 1962 - June 1966 - at which time I moved to Hay.
I loved watching all three grades..me and my mates made the Scoreboard Hill at Cumberland Oval our own special place...near the entrance to the Grandstand Area, on the opposite side to Scoreboard.
It was pre PCA days, and when you could take grog into the ground. We'd cart in a couple of eskies, and really fire up.....Aaaah the memories. When I look back now I just shudder..We were so one-eyed, but it was great fun.
We used to get over to Cumberland on Saturday morning to watch then go through the final sessions...and became good mates with the late Basil Cohen who was a hard worker for the Club.
In the "Its a small world department"..I ended up purchasing the freehold of a Hotel in town here, once owned by Bazil's father, Norman, who was also the owner of 1961 Melbourne Cup winner Lord Fury....