FLASHBACK: January 1978
Contract dramas at Brisbane Brothers saw three of the club’s highest profile players – David Wright, Ian Dauth and Bob Cock – quit the club to play for Nerang Roosters in […]
Contract dramas at Brisbane Brothers saw three of the club’s highest profile players – David Wright, Ian Dauth and Bob Cock – quit the club to play for Nerang Roosters in […]
Brisbane Brothers’ legend, Peter Gallagher captained Australia to a memorable 17-11 win over Great Britain at London’s White City Stadium, to keep alive the Ashes series, after the home side won […]
Snow blasted the Australians as they confronted the old enemy, Great Britain in the Ashes deciding Third Rugby League Test, but the lads from down under handled the conditions better than the […]
Australia’s touring Kangaroos played an extraodinary three matches in four days on their tour of Britain, and not surprisingly finished on the wrong end of the scoreline in two encounters. […]
ENGLAND retained the rugby league Ashes Trophy with a 13-3 win over a gallant Australian side at Swinton in Lancashire. The home side dominated possession and backs, Emlyn Jenkins (Salford) and Sam Brogden […]
The rugby league landscape in France would have a vastly different appearance if the code had openly turned professional after the successful 1951 tour of Australia and New Zealand. The […]
Valleys’ rugby league coach, Ross Strudwick predicted Murgon product, Bryan Niebling would play for Australia that season, either against the touring Kiwis or on the Kangaroos’ European tour. Strudwick, who […]
Test lock, Ron Coote rejected a $70,000 contract offer from the Queensland Rugby League, believed to be the biggest deal in the code’s history in Australia. The three year contract also […]
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 ‘Old Farts’ journos lunch at Plough Inn, South Bank. Former Lord Mayor, Sallyanne Atkinson, an ‘old’ journo, is there. We chat about State of Origin II in […]
Australia belted France 52-0 at Carcassonne in a Test match that also was played for World Cup points. Australian winger, Dale Shearer scored four tries and fullback, Garry Jack three, in […]
There were amazing scenes in the dying minutes of the First Test between Australia and France at Parc des Princes, Paris, with the Kangaroos hanging on for a tense 15-8 […]
WIGAN coach, Graham Lowe predicted Australia would not go through their tour of England undefeated, after his club side made the Kangaroos battle every step of the way in the opening […]
Ipswich club, Tivoli, coached by former international, Dan Dempsey, boasted they were as good as any team in Australia after beating champion Brisbane side, Valleys 7-2 at the Brisbane Exhibition […]
Goal kicking horrors cost Brothers any chance of advancing to the 1976 Brisbane Rugby League grand final. Brothers’ ace goal kicker, Ian Dauth was in the Frank Burke Stand at […]
Referee, Roy Massey sent four players from the field in four minutes, late in Ipswich’s dramatic 7-2 win over Brisbane in the final of the inter-city, Bulimba Cup competition at […]
Thousands of people made it into the ground without paying, and 8,000 were locked out when Australia and Great Britain played the Second Test of the 1946 Ashes series at […]
North Queensland scored an historic 17-13 win over Great Britain in Townsville, a huge boost for rugby league in the tropics after some embarrassing losses to previous Lions’ touring sides. […]
Five eighth, Vic Hey and second rower, Les Heidke were the only Queenslanders chosen in the Australian side for the First Test against the touring England side, skippered by Cumbrian fullback, Jim […]
The blinding pace and elusiveness of indigenous winger, John ‘Chicka’ Ferguson proved the difference as Newtown Jets defeated Combined Brisbane 23-19 at Lang Park in the Tooth Cup mid-week combination. Ferguson […]
Australian and New Zealand Air Force men on the HMS Indomitable gave plenty of stick to members of the Great Britain Rugby League side, which was travelling ‘down under’ for the […]