DIARY UPDATE: Week 3, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 3 2018 TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 Former Australian rugby union skipper, Tony Shaw walks by, with his two dogs, as I walk along […]
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FLASHBACK: May 1949
MAY 1949 Reports of disharmony among the players emerged in the aftermath of the 1948-49 Kangaroo tour of Britain and France. A Rugby League Board of Control meeting in Brisbane […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 2, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 2 2018 MONDAY, JANUARY 8 Rousing scenes from the Australian dressing room as our boys celebrate their win in the Fifth Test […]
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS AN OFF-SEASON
The last thing Australian rugby league captain, Cameron Smith wanted on Melbourne Cup day, 2012, was to be bothered by a league journo. But he tolerated my request for a […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 1, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 1 2018 MONDAY, JANUARY 1 A Cardiff v Scarletts rugby union match is my first live sport for 2018, and it is […]
FLASHBACK: April, 1959
APRIL 1959 On a hot spring day, in the French city of Grenoble, France extracted revenge against Great Britain, in one of the great turnarounds of international rugby league history. […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 52, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 52 2017 MONDAY, DECEMBER 25 Small congregation at Christmas Day Mass at St Columba’s Wilston. Marie and I have lunch at Sprout […]
ROYAL PARKS ARE A GRAND VENUE
WHEN my wife, Marie and I lived in London in 1978, there was nothing better than to walk in Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens, the lungs of the English capital. […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 51, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 51 2017 MONDAY, DECEMBER 18 New South Wales State of Origin rugby league coach, Brad ‘Freddy’ Fittler joins my wife, Marie and […]
FLASHBACK: April 1994
APRIL 1994 Broncos’ Test prop, Glenn Lazarus entered into an agreement with coach, Wayne Bennett that he would forfeit $1,000 from his pay cheque the next time he was seen […]
