Former rugby league star Neville Glover OAM has died at the age of 70.<\/p>\n
Glover, who represented both New South Wales and Australia as a winger, suffered a short illness and unfortunately lost his health battle on Thursday.<\/p>\n
His name dominated the game in the 1970s and 80s, playing 121 times for the Parramatta Eels and 13 games for the Penrith Panthers across a nine-year career.<\/p>\n
Glover represented Australia twice and NSW once in 1979 against Great Britain.<\/p>\n
After making his debut in 1975, he went on to score 58 tries across his career.<\/p>\n
The Eels released a statement on Friday morning, extending their condolences to Glover’s family and friends.<\/p>\n
“The Parramatta Eels are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former player, Life Member and Parramatta Eels Hall of Fame inductee, Neville Glover OAM,” the club said.<\/p>\n
“We extend our condolences to Neville’s family and friends in this difficult time.<\/p>\n
“Forever Eel #340.”<\/p>\n
Parramatta premiership winner Peter Wynn told Wide World of Sports that it was a sad day for the Eels.<\/p>\n
“He was a lovely bloke and he was Parra through and through – very popular among the group. It’s a sad day for the club,” he said.<\/p>\n
In what were tough circumstances for Parramatta fans, the winger dropped a crucial ball against Manly in the 1976 grand final.<\/p>\n
If he had caught the pass they could have scored and gone on to win the game – at the time they were trailing 11-10.<\/p>\n
Manly held on to a 13-10 victory, denying the Eels\u2019 their first club premiership.<\/p>\n
In 2002, Glover was selected in the team of the greatest Eels players, known as “Parramatta Legends”.<\/p>\n
Glover played amongst some of the game\u2019s greatest ever players including Wynn, Brett Kenny, Peter Sterling, Ray Price, and Bob O\u2019Reilly.<\/p>\n
Following his rugby league career, he went into coaching before becoming a police officer.<\/p>\n
Glover was a senior sergeant in charge of all Hunter Region police prosecutors in NSW.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Glover was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to rugby league and the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former rugby league star Neville Glover OAM has died at the age of 70. Glover, who represented both…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,9116,761,762,285094,158,9112,4598,159,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-581948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-footy","11":"tag-national-rugby-league","12":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","13":"tag-neville-glover","14":"tag-nrl","15":"tag-parramatta-eels","16":"tag-penrith-panthers","17":"tag-rugby-league","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}