DIARY UPDATE: Week 17, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 17 2021 MONDAY, APRIL 26 TIGER TV’s Gavin Payne, the former Easts’ fullback and later coach, conducts an interview with yours truly, […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 17 2021 MONDAY, APRIL 26 TIGER TV’s Gavin Payne, the former Easts’ fullback and later coach, conducts an interview with yours truly, […]
To say Des Lee played above his weight is an understatement. The feisty rugby league halfback never tipped the scales at anything over 10 stone (63.5kg), but never let his […]
Former Test rugby league halfback, Tom Raudonikis had the nickname ‘Tomato Tom’ during his time in Brisbane, but the tag just have easily could have been applied to former Queensland […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 42 2019 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 There are four ‘Stop/Go’ people on duty at one tiny roundabout on a back street – Uxbridge […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 34 2019 MONDAY, AUGUST 26 A massive storm hits Singapore, and is most welcome, given there has been a prolonged dry spell, […]
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, […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 10 2018 MONDAY, MARCH 5 The Bay of Fires is our Tasmanian base for another two nights. Our boat trip on the […]
The name Pannowitz is revered in the Hunter Valley district of New South Wales. So it did not come as any surprise when former Hull Kingston Rovers and Keighley (England) […]
MONDAY, APRIL 25 Moving ANZAC Day dawn service at Surfers Paradise. Former Test rugby league prop, Glenn Lazarus lays a wreath. One bloke near me wears a Roosters’ rugby league […]