DIARY UPDATE: Week 48 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 48 2020 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Former Rugby League Test prop, Gary Parcell has died, aged 87. Gary played eight Tests for Australia […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 37, 2020 no
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 37 2020 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Queensland State of Origin rugby league forward, Gavin Cooper announces his retirement. Murgon product, Cooper was one […]
FLASHBACK: August, 1960
AUGUST 1960 Englishman, Bert Holcroft arrived in Brisbane, destined for coaching success in the bush, but not in his one stint in the big time of Sydney football. Holcroft, a […]
FLASHBACK: June, 1950
JUNE 1950 Future ‘Immortal’, Clive Churchill was named captain of Australia for the first time, succeeding Keith Froome in the role, for the Test series against the touring Great Britain […]
FLASHBACK: April, 1960
APRIL 1960 Kangaroo tour co-manager, Jack Argent was fined 50 pounds by the Australian Rugby League Board of Control, for allegedly inducing one of the players, Ron Boden, to sign […]
FLASHBACK: March 1950
FLASHBACK MARCH 1950 Australian captain, Keith Froome was in a state of shock after the Great Britain selectors omitted Scotsman, Dave Valentine from the squad to tour Australia and New […]
FLASHBACK: February, 1960
FEBRUARY 1960 Cashed up Sydney rugby league club officials headed straight for Queenslanders, Gary Parcell and Elton Rasmussen when the Kangaroo touring party returned to Australia after five months touring […]
FLASHBACK: JANUARY 1960
JANUARY 1960 Australian halfback, Barry Muir was lucky not to be sent off, after he knocked out French rival, Bernard Fabre from Albi, in the Third Rugby League Test at […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 10, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 10 2019 MONDAY, MARCH 11 The proposed Queensland Sports Museum will not get off the ground, chairman, Denis Brennan informs me. The […]
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: July 1959
JULY 1959 A halftime oxygen boost may have played a roll in North Queensland’s come-from-behind, 41-33 win over South Queensland in a State rugby league ‘trial’ in Townsville, watched by […]
RUGBY LEAGUE’S ANZAC SPIRIT
WHEN I think of ANZAC Day and rugby league connections, gentleman footballer, Jack Rayner immediately springs to mind. My father, Jon Ricketts often mentioned Jack as one of the toughest […]
FLASHBACK: May 1958
MAY 1958 Lloyd Weir, one of 15 children from a dairy farming family from Tansey, in the Mary Valley, made his representative debut – for Queensland Country against South Queensland […]
FLASHBACK: June 1957
Former Test centre, Jack Reardon described it as the most humiliating defeat in Queensland Rugby League history as the Maroons trudged off the Sydney Cricket Ground, having been beaten 69-5 by […]
FLASHBACK: 1947
‘As a spectacle, it was where specs usually are – on the nose.” So said ‘The Truth’ newspaper account of the Queensland v The Rest State Rugby League trial at […]
FLASHBACK: MAY 1957
Debutant winger, Eddie Lumsden scored four tries in New South Wales’ 49-11Â thrashing of Queensland in the first match of the 1957 inter-state series at the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds. Lumsden, […]
FLASHBACK: February 1972
Young Brisbane Easts’ forwards, Johnny Lang and Paul Khan spent four days training with Sydney premiers, Souths, thanks to the generosity –Â and contacts – of Stones Corner publican, Jack Loth. […]
FLASHBACK: February 1956
Vandalism is not really something we associate with ‘sedate’ 1950s Australia, but it’s a sad fact that rugby league was on the receiving end of a blatant bit of public desecration […]
FLASHBACK: January 1966
AN extraordinary Queensland Rugby League ban on Toowoomba Souths’ participating in the local competition was finally lifted, ending the concerns of the club’s 116 registered players and 30 officials. The […]
FLASHBACK: January 1965
BRISBANE Easts pulled off a major coup for the game in Queensland when they signed ‘The Little Master’, Clive Churchill as non-playing coach. Churchill, who had coached Canterbury-Bankstown in 1964, […]
