FLASHBACK: SEPTEMBER 1981
SEPTEMBER 1981 Redcliffe captain-coach, Arthur Beetson blasted his side for conceding cheap tries, despite the Dolphins’ convincing 21-10 win over Souths in the 1981 Brisbane Rugby League major semi-final at […]
Tag Archives: billy johnstone
DIARY UPDATE: Week 9, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 9 2021 MONDAY, MARCH 1 Tweed Heads Seagulls, a rugby league club which lays claim to being the oldest outside Sydney and […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 39, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 39 2020. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 It is 50 years since the great Harry Wells played his last game of rugby league – […]
FLASHBACK: September, 1980
FLASHBACK SEPTEMBER 1980 Souths’ hooker, Billy Johnstone was sent off by referee, Eddie Ward for a high, late shot on Valleys’ captain-coach, Ross Strudwick three minutes from the end of […]
TRI-NATIONS TOUR WITH WAYNE BENNETT
TRAVEL Recently, a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and/or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not in […]
HISTORY OF RUGBY LEAGUE ON THE GOLD COAST: A STORY OF RESILIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT
Just as there was life ‘Before the Broncos’ in Brisbane, there was a proud history of rugby league on the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers before the Titans and its […]
KANGAROOS ON TOUR UNDER BENNETT
TRAVEL Phil ‘Gus’ Gould had a heart scare and Tonie Carroll was called a traitor. What a start it was to my 2004 Tri-Nations Test rugby league campaign, as a […]
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Dual rugby international, Brad Thorn has promised tough love for the Queensland Reds in this year’s Super Rugby campaign, and with former Broncos hit-man, Peter Ryan in charge of defence, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 19, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 19 2017 MONDAY, MAY 8 Hermitage Gardens manager, Harry Moore says the company that erected new fences here, wont be back. The […]
FLASHBACK: August 1988
AUGUST 1988 Broncos’ skipper, Wally Lewis scored two tries against Newcastle at Lang Park, taking his season tally to 15, with one round remaining of a 22 round season. He would […]
FLASHBACK: June 1978
FLASHBACK JUNE 1978 Former Test halfback, Dennis Ward made a remarkable comeback to rugby league when he led Wynnum-Manly to a 23-14 win over Brisbane premiers, Easts at Kougari Oval. […]
FLASHBACK: May 1988
MAY 1988 Gold Coast Giants caused one of the upsets of the 1988 New South Wales Rugby League season when they defeated the Brisbane Broncos in an absorbing ‘derby’ at […]
FLASHBACK: April 1988
APRIL 1988 GOLD Coast Giants halfback, Geoff Bagnall was sent off by Test referee, Eddie Ward just two minutes into his club’s home encounter with South Sydney at Seagulls Stadium, West Tweed Heads. […]
Diary update: Week 28, 2015
MONDAY, JULY 6 Lovely time at Carbine Club Lunch at Tatts Club in the City, with the notorious Billy J Smith as MC, at a function where members of the […]
Steve Ricketts 