Neville Glover
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| Full name | Neville Kenneth Glover | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 July 1955 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 2 April 2026 (aged 70) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Neville Kenneth Glover OAM[2] (22 July 1955 – 2 April 2026) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. A New South Wales interstate and Australia international representative wing, he played his club football in the NSWRL Premiership with the Parramatta Eels and Penrith Panthers.
A Seven Hills junior, Glover made his debut for Parramatta in 1975.[3] The following year Parramatta reached the grand final which was played against Manly-Warringah. With ten minutes of the match remaining and 15 metres out from a wide-open try line Glover dropped ball over the line after Parramatta started a sweeping move from one side of the field to the other. Speaking in 2008 about the game, Glover said "Mate I'm at a prosecutors' conference today and the dropped ball thing has already been mentioned twice, I wouldn't say it gets brought up daily but certainly once a week it gets a mention".[4] Glover dropped the pass which could have given the Eels the match-winning try.[5][6]
In 1978, Glover made his Australian test debut in Brisbane against a touring New Zealand side in the second of a three-test series.[7] He scored the first of his two tries of the match after being on the field for only two minutes.[8] He is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No. 511.[9] During the 1979 Great Britain Lions tour Glover represented New South Wales in the match they hosted against Great Britain.[10]
Following a grand final loss in reserve grade, Glover left Parramatta. He played one more season with Penrith in 1983.[11]