The Fibros and The Silvertails Poster

The Fibros and The Silvertails 2007

56 min📅 2007-01-01

"The Fibros and the Silvertails is the story of the feud between two football teams that turned into a war about class and alleged corruption"

Overview

The teams are Wests and Manly. The year is 1978. Manly are the new face of rugby league and have won the premiership three times in the last decade. Wests have to look back to 1952. Then a new coach takes over at Wests. Roy Masters coins the phrase — the fibros and the silvertails — to describe the struggle of the western suburbs against the elite of the city’s north and east. The season will become a war of words off the field and a battle on the field. The game will be overshadowed by viole

Director: Paul Oliver

Cast

Paul Oliver
Narrator