Hahaha thanks Ross and Paul, all tongue in cheek, no chance of me giving up, I've followed them since the early 60s, probably guilty of jumping on the bandwagon, but they had a lot of followers in the Newco, hunter region back then and I lived in Dungog.
Not aware of your age Paul, but in the late '70s I loved watching Dragons / Eels games, with Rod Reddy & Ray Price going head to head, both tough uncompromising backrowers with heaps of mongrel. Dunno whether there're that many personal matchups like that any more.