Once again the Pratten Park Magpies Committee presented a brilliant day
Close to 190 ex -Wests players and officials enjoyed a wonderful day at Wests Ashfield
Some of the players meeting before the function begins
Tony Purchiaroni , Con Spanos chatting to Ken Bray
Ken playing full back in the 1962 Grand Final
(Wests lost 19-0)
Doug Gannon and Victor Tagg
Les Burke, Ted McCabe and Wayne Kirby
Nathan Cole and David Kennedy
Barry Bryant, Pat Thomas and Denis Culpan
A very happy Colin Ferrier
Barry Glasgow, John Greaves and Noel Kelly
Steve Blyth and Phil Sigsworth
Phil Sigsworth playing for Newtown in 1981
Don Parish, Harry Wells, Alan Davidson with Noel Trevena standing
Ben Fisher and Alex Brown
Steve West, Mark Bevan, Jim Leis and Warren Boland
Alan Davidson
Ben Ross and Pat Regan
Alex Brown, Wests oldest (98) living player Stan Mildwater and Grandson Paul Mildwater
Bill Martin and Ken Gentle
Bob Cooper and Mark Hughes
Don Hall, Norm Dhu and Noel Trevena
Greg Rose, Steve Winter and Wayne Merry
Believe it or not its 50 years since this great win
Playing in the second row that day was Ron Costello
Two South Coast boys Harry Wells and Ron Costello
Mick Liubinskas addressing the large crowd about the presenting of two awards to
Carl Ross and John Chow Hayes
Harry Wells presenting Carl Ross with his award
Noel Kelly presenting John Hayes with his award
Carl Ross talking about his surprise with receiving his award
Chow Hayes and Carl Ross
John Wiles and Chris Stephandellis
Chris played for Wests between 1985 and 87
Norm Dhu
Norms first First grade game way back in 1962
Gary Lester and John Elford
Jeff Nielsen and Dave Cornall
Its time for Heads or Tails
The winner is….Steve Winbank
Garry Walsh and Don Moseley
Brett Clark and Terry Donnellan
Special Guests Garry and Mark Hughes chatting to Rick Wayde
All three Hughes brothers followed Wests when they were kids
Garry Hughes
Mark Hughes
Carl Ross wins the bet with Rick Wayde
The bet was that Garry and Mark would not mention the Mortimer Brothers
Wayne Wigham, Col Ensor and Steve West
Peter Ford and Neil Bennett
The Boys having a ball
Steve Broughton, Michael Evans, John Cattell
Bruce Clark and Mick Pinkerton
Bruce getting ready for Battle
Ted Allard
Paul Dillon
Story from 2015 program about Jeff Aplitt receiving his Clubman of the Year award
Leo Epifania and Captain of Wests Ron Massey team Shannon Gallant
Obituaries.
Our heartfelt sympathies are extended to their families and friends.
Ken Stonestreet
Two of Nebos team mates Tim Murphy and John Fisher
Tim Pickup and Geoff Squires
Jim Cody and Barry Bryant
Wayne Jenkins, Laszlo Parcsi and Barry Pierce
Tom Morrison and Shannon Gallant
Bruce Clark selling raffle tickets
Paul Dixon (seated) being swamped by two ticket sellers Pat Regan and Denis Culpan
Jim Myers collects the first prize from Mick Liubinskas
(Maybe next year Paul)
Allan Fallah taking Happy Snaps with old team mates
Unfortunately the day was over and it was time to say good bye to old mates
Thanks again to the Pratten Park Magpies committee for holding a brilliant day
Ned bringing in extra kegs for the Mini reunion after the official reunion
The official part of the day was over BUT in true Magpie fashion the Boys from Western Suburbs adjourned to the Wests Ashfield Sports bar to continue there talk on days gone bye
Catching up with mates…that’s what its all about
Speaking of mates all but 3 of these PPM members are Wests Juniors
Can you name the ring ins??
Left-R Standing, David Kennedy, Bob Cooper, Mark Beaven, Mick Evans, Don Mosley, Mark Manston, John Cattell, Tom Arber, Brian Cook, Trevor Reardon, Peter Walsh, Gary Clarke ,Steve West, John Purcell.
L-R Seated, Lindsay”Tonto”Sinclair, Mick Liubinskas, Pat Hundy, Jim Myers and Steve Blyth.
We can do a lot of things at PPM.info BUT we need you to join up and get along next year
The Army was called in to send the Boys home