DIARY UPDATE: Week 7, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 7 2019 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 The World Club Challenge match between Wigan and the Roosters flows, largely because there is just one […]
Category Archives: Diary of a retired Rugby League Journalist
DIARY UPDATE: Week 6, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK SIX 2019 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11 OzTag competitors leave lots of litter behind, at our Emerald Beach Caravan Park. Excellent coffee from Emerald […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 5, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK FIVE 2019 MONDAY, JANUARY 28 Australian rocker, Billy Thorpe’s version of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ is played on Ray Hadley’s radio program. […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 4, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 4 2019 TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 MY grandmother, Polly Kelly, would not grant the wishes of her daughter (my mum) to board at […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 3, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 3 2019 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 Lunch at Montague Pub, West End with fellow members of the Beer and Beef club, to discuss […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 2, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 2 2019 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9 Radio TAB’s John McCoy played rugby union for Gregory Terrace against The Southport School, in a curtain […]
DIARY UPDATE: TRANSITION FROM 2018-19
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 31 2018 Our eldest boy, Damien, wife, Emma and daughter, Parker climb Mt Coolum, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, for the first time. […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 52, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 52 2018 MONDAY, DECEMBER 24 Family gathering at Main Beach on the Gold Coast, with my brother, Jeffrey and his wife, Ann […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 51, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 51 2018 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 Nate Searle, the son of former Gold Coast Titans’ rugby league chief executive, Michael Searle, almost drowns […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 50, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 50 2018 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 Spend the night at my brother, Jeffrey’s place at South Tweed Heads. Jeff reminds me that, when he […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 49, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 49 2018 MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 Drive to our youngest lad, Lliam’s place at Auchenflower, via Red Hill, where a huge media scrum […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 48, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 48 2018 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Prominent Gold Coast real estate agent and staunch Broncos’ supporter, Bruce Wilson tells me he believes the […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 47, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 47 2018 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 ‘Schoolies’ is in full swing on the Gold Coast as my wife, Marie and I drive back […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 46, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 46 2018 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 It is our third, full day at Lennox Head on the Far North Coast of New South […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 45, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 45 2018 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Brothers Tom and Liam Duggan are my interview subjects, in Toowoomba, for Men of League magazine. Liam […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 44, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 44 2018 MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 State Parliamentarians play a City v Country touch football match at Suncorp Stadium, and take things very […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 42, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 42 2018 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 Murwillumbah rugby league stalwart, Bill Carroll tells me of the passing of former Murwillumbah Brothers’ player, Brian […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 43, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 43 2018 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 The Courier-Mail reports that Anthony Siebold will coach the Broncos next year. Wayne Bennett has been named […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 41, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 41 2018 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 A neighbor tells me about wild brawls at Julia Creek, in western Queensland, some years back, involving […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 40, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 40 2018 MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 The Tweed Daily News is 130 years old. I started my journalistic career at the paper on […]
