DIARY UPDATE: Week 44, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 44 2020 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 EXCLUSIVE. Wallaby Star, Andrew Slack to Switch to Rugby League. Well, it would have been a nice […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 44 2020 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 EXCLUSIVE. Wallaby Star, Andrew Slack to Switch to Rugby League. Well, it would have been a nice […]
by Steve Ricketts, Chairman, Queensland Rugby League History Committee. Bob Duncan was tipped as a future State star when he first burst onto the representative scene with Toowoomba in 1960. […]
by Steve Ricketts. Tom Raudonikis took the wheel of his car, after a long lunch at the Breakfast Creek Hotel, and invited the passengers to help themselves to a beer, […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER. WEEK 43 2020 MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 Melbourne Storm return to their Sunshine Coast base to celebrate their NRL Grand final win, and there […]
FLASHBACK APRIL 1971 Young Toowoomba winger, Wayne Bennett scored two tries as the Clydesdales emerged 21-19 winners over Ipswich, in a round one, Bulimba Cup (inter-city) fixture at the Athletic […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 42 2020 MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 Men of League patron, Ron Atkins celebrates his 85th birthday at Broncos Leagues Club, and I feel […]
FLASHBACK MARCH 1966 Huddersfield vice-president, Eric Sellers proposed a new competition, featuring the top 16 English clubs, while, at the same time, Blackpool Borough secretary-director, George Lunn pushed for a […]
FLASHBACK MARCH 1981 Wynnum-Manly five eighth, Brian Walsh created something of a record when he was sent for two spells in the sin bin in one quarter of football at […]
April 1, 2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of Lang Park’s new Frank Burke Stand, by the Governor of Queensland, Sir Henry Abel-Smith. The completion of the stand, […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 41 2020 Gilgandra’s rugby league players are enjoying ‘Mad Monday’, as my good mates, Greg Grainger and Mark Conway, and their wives, […]
FLASHBACK MARCH 1976 Darryl Brohman was compared with some of the great English forwards, after a skilful display for Norths against Brothers in a Woolies pre-season match at Lang Park. […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 40 MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 Newcastle was held in the same high regard as Brisbane, when I played rugby league on the Tweed. […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 39 2020. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 It is 50 years since the great Harry Wells played his last game of rugby league – […]
FLASHBACK MARCH 1961 Former Tweed Heads schoolboy teammates, Lionel Morgan and Billy McDermott starred for Brisbane in an upset 21-7 win over Ipswich in an inter-city, Bulimba Cup match, under […]
FLASHBACK MARCH 1951 Clubs and district Leagues in New South Wales and Queensland were primed to offer goal kicking forward, Harry Bath big money deals on his expected return to […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 38 2020 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Former Australian rugby league hooker, John Lang tells me of his love of biographies. John will deliver […]
FLASHBACK FEBRUARY 1951 THREE players from Easts in Sydney arrived in Queensland, and there were high expectations about the impact they might make on the game in the State. Most […]
FLASHBACK FEBRUARY 1986 Norths’ centre, Trevor Cook cut his former team to shreds, as the Devils swamped Easts 34-12 in a Woolies’ pre-season rugby league clash at Bishop Park, Nundah. […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 37 2020 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Queensland State of Origin rugby league forward, Gavin Cooper announces his retirement. Murgon product, Cooper was one […]
FLASHBACK FEBRUARY 1996 The Brisbane Broncos’ camp cried foul after rookie prop, Shane Webcke was sickened by a front-on tackle by Penrith hooker, Danny Farrar in a Super League trial, […]