No, I think he was conceived behind the "Old" Grand Stand, while they were burning it down.
They were the days that the Eels had a relatively decent team . Big Bob O’Riley , Ronnie Lynch and the great Thornett brothers , Ken and Dick , plus their little half Ivor Lingard.
They had quite a good forward pack also , however their Achilles heel was the lack of quality back - ups , although Parramatta did have a good young forward in Campbell cannot recall his Christian name .
And the Cumberland Oval itself was a good ground to play on ( we use to have our league games there for Cumberland High School ) also gave a fine view for the spectators .
Damn shame they burnt it down , but then again I suppose that at least they left the pool next door in one piece , spent many a happy day there over the summers of my youth .
Still the community leaders had the wits about them to lobby the powers to be to build the massive stadium which is a world class venue . Shame we could not do similar , it would provide the Dragons with state of the art facilities and could possibly be a venue for representative matches - a big plus for the people of the South Coast .