DIARY UPDATE: Week 50, 2015
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 ‘Old Farts’ journos lunch at Plough Inn, South Bank. Former Lord Mayor, Sallyanne Atkinson, an ‘old’ journo, is there. We chat about State of Origin II in […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 49, 2015
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Former All Black, Jonah Lomu’s memorial service from Eden Park, Auckland is live on Fox. The entire Warriors’ NRL squad is in attendance and Warriors’ Kiwi international […]
FLASHBACK: December 1986
Australia belted France 52-0 at Carcassonne in a Test match that also was played for World Cup points. Australian winger, Dale Shearer scored four tries and fullback, Garry Jack three, in […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 48, 2015
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Watch movie, ‘The Dressmaker’ at Palace Centro Cinema in James Street. Quite mad, but enjoyable. Ian Botham turns 60! I met him only once – in 1987 […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 47, 2015
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Our first full day on Lord Howe Island, and we explore the west, forced back by nesting sooty terns. Meet a German couple. Also a group from Canberra […]
FLASHBACK: December 1996
The appointment of former Test lock, Bob Lindner as coach did not appear to be enough to save financially embattled Brisbane Past Brothers club from being axed from the 1997 Channel […]
FLASHBACK: December 1991
Hull prop, Andy Dannant was suspended for eight matches for a high shot which left Leeds’ superstar, Ellery Hanley with his jaw broken in three places. The incident was reviewed by ‘trial by […]
FLASHBACK: December 1956
Australia’s rugby league team, branded by some critics as ‘the worst ever’ to tour the northern hemisphere, shocked Great Britain with a deserved 22-9 win in the Second Test, in […]
FLASHBACK: November 1996
Gold Coast Chargers’ coach, Phil Economidis blasted the inflated egos of players signed by the rebel Super League competition, as he talked up his club’s chances in the establishment Australian […]
FLASHBACK: November 1991
Former Welsh rugby union international, Paul Moriarty scored two tries in his Great Britain rugby league Test debut against Papua New Guinea at Central Park, Wigan. Moriarty, who was signed by Widnes […]
