FLASHBACK: October 1997
Any faint hopes that Britain’s top clubs would redeem themselves in the quarter finals of Super League’s Visa World Club Challenge were dashed when all four English clubs were knocked out […]
Category Archives: Flashbacks
A trip down memory lane…
FLASHBACK: October 1987
Chris Johns, the first of the Brisbane Broncos New South Wales’ signings, took up residency in Brisbane after a four year first grade career with St George. Johns and his father, Bill […]
FLASHBACK: October 1947
St George’s superior speed proved the difference as the Sydney club defeated Combined Brisbane 22-17 in an end-of-season floodlit match at the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds. The crowd was 14,000, but they […]
FLASHBACK: October 1937
The Kangaroos suffered the second defeat of their tour of Britain and France, when Yorkshire side, Halifax produced brilliant attacking football in front of an ecstatic home crowd of 14,500. […]
FLASHBACK: September 1957
MUCH was made of the fact Great Britain could have two colored wingers in their touring party to Australia and New Zealand in 1958. Eddie Waring reported in the British and […]
FLASHBACK: September 1967
Brothers won their first premiership in nine years when they beat Norths 6-2 in a gripping, tryless match at Lang Park, played in front of a record crowd of 37,000. Fans […]
FLASHBACK: September 1947
Winger, Len Kenny scored four tries in Brisbane’s 45-7 win over Bundaberg in a floodlit match at the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds, despite having left his favorite football boots at home. […]
FLASHBACK: September 1937
‘THOUGH just off the boat’, to quote the AAP report of the day, Australia’s Kangaroos defeated Lancashire side, Leigh 11-9 at Hilton Park, before a crowd of just over 5,000. […]
FLASHBACK: August 1997
North Queensland Cowboys’ hooker, Jason Death (nicknamed ‘sudden’) was stood down from the side to meet his old club, Canberra Raiders, pending further investigations into an incident in a bar during […]
FLASHBACK: August 1987
Norths’ Test prop, Greg Dowling hit back at criticism of his club form with a barnstorming display, as the Devils beat his old cub, Wynnum-Manly 22-12 in the Brisbane Woolworths Trophy final at […]
