Quote ="Mark Laurie"Before my time but I have heard others say the major of parramatta was a top class player.
RIP'"
Ken Thornett was the Mayor of Parramatta rather than the major.
Before my time also but clearly a great player in both codes and in both hemispheres.
When he joined Parramatta he helped lift them into the Play Offs after years of successive wooden spoons.
Also a visionary as IIRC in his book from the mid sixties he proposed an interstate contest between New South Wales and Queensland.