It's hard to believe Wests came last that year, watching that game, even against an understrength Parramatta. I was at that game, living in Campbelltown, and it was fun watching the Parra fans squirming, some of them my friends. If you told someone that day that reigning premiers Parramatta wouldn’t win another comp until at least a quarter of the way through the 21st Century, you’d have been advised to seek psychiatric assessment. But that’s exactly what’s happened. It’s a similar thing with St George/the Dragons after 1979 - one premiership in 44 years, with a joint venture with a team that weren’t even in the comp in ’79. Who’d have believed either scenario?
It's hard to believe Wests came last that year, watching that game, even against an understrength Parramatta. I was at that game, living in Campbelltown, and it was fun watching the Parra fans squirming, some of them my friends. If you told someone that day that reigning premiers Parramatta wouldn’t win another comp until at least a quarter of the way through the 21st Century, you’d have been advised to seek psychiatric assessment. But that’s exactly what’s happened. It’s a similar thing with St George/the Dragons after 1979 - one premiership in 44 years, with a joint venture with a team that weren’t even in the comp in ’79. Who’d have believed either scenario?