FLASHBACK: November, 2004
NOVEMBER, 2004 Big spending rugby union scouts were waiting outside Stade Ernest Wallon in Toulouse after the French rugby league side scored six tries in a gutsy 52-30 loss to […]
Category Archives: Flashbacks
A trip down memory lane…
FLASHBACK: November 1954
NOVEMBER 1954 A record crowd for rugby league in France – 37,474 – attended the World Cup match between the home side, captained by the legendary, Puig Aubert, and Great […]
FLASHBACK: October 1959
OCTOBER 1959 France’s Test rugby league players had to catch taxis to Parc des Princes in Paris, after the bus that was due to transport them to the stadium, was […]
FLASHBACK: October, 1984
OCTOBER 1984 Hull Kingston Rovers’ winger, Garry Clarke scored three tries for England in their 28-9 win over Wales at Ebbw Vale. Clarke, still a teenager, had snared a hat-trick for […]
FLASHBACK: October 1989
OCTOBER 1989 New Zealand were set a monumental task at the start of their tour of Britain and France, with two matches in three days, the first against St Helens […]
FLASHBACK: October 1959
OCTOBER 1959 Kangaroos’ rugby league coach, Clive Churchill was threatened with arrest after small boys pelted Australians sitting along the sideline at Oldham in England, with orange peel. Churchill threw […]
FLASHBACK: SEPTEMBER 1959
SEPTEMBER 1959 Norths moved for Redcliffe to be admitted to the Brisbane Rugby League first grade competition in 1960, even though it would mean ceding some of their territory to […]
FLASHBACK: SEPTEMBER, 1969
SEPTEMBER 1969 Murwillumbah Brothers broke a seven year drought when they won the Group 18-Gold Coast A grade premiership by defeating Cudgen 11-0 at the new Murwillumbah Oval. Brothers’ winger, […]
FLASHBACK: September 1989
SEPTEMBER 1989 Valleys five eighth, Peter Coyne, a controversial omission from the Queensland Residents team for the historic tour of France, turned in a classy performance for the Diehards in […]
FLASHBACK: September 1979
SEPTEMBER 1979 A Valleys’ official and an Easts’ reserve grade player were cited to appear before the Brisbane Rugby League, following an incident in the Lang Park grandstand during the […]
