By Matt Findlay

A fair bit happened in 1969.

Woodstock transformed live music forever, the Boeing 747 took flight for the first time and Dennis ‘Muncher’ Garlick played his first game for the Parramatta Two Blues.

Now in his 70s, Muncher has been through it all with his beloved Parramatta (now Western Sydney) Two Blues.

The dazzling highs of the glory years and the debilitating lows which, in more recent times, genuinely had many questioning the club’s future.

And it all began with his first game in colts 50 years ago, on a dreary day just down the road from his home in Granville Park.

“That game was at [Parramatta] Marist, I remember it vividly because it was Golden Slipper day and it was the first trifecta I’d ever won at the races,” Muncher laughed, even recalling the stunning run super colt Vain had in that famous win.

“It’d be one of the only trifectas I’ve ever won too, although I’ve tried bloody hard since.”

Trying hard is something Muncher is no stranger to, it’s something he’s done for his beloved Two Blues ever since -  as a premiership-winning, 300-game player and then as a manager, trainer and the most dedicated of supporters.