DIARY UPDATE: Week 20, 2016
MONDAY, MAY 16. A minute’s silence is observed for former international centre, Rod Saddler ahead of the Titans v Roosters’ NRL match at Robina. That was my doing, I am proud […]
Tag Archives: cronulla
FLASHBACK: March 1967
New Sydney rugby league club, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, budgeted to spend $73,000 in their first season, after being promoted from second division with the Penrith Panthers. “That is the amount we need to […]
FLASHBACK: February 1996
MARK Geyer took sacked Broncos fullback, Julian O’Neill under his wing in Perth as the talented utility star looked to revitalise his career with the Western Reds in the proposed […]
FLASHBACK: December 1985
English clubs went on a shopping spree for rugby union talent, with the key signings Terry Holmes (to Bradford Northern from Wales) and South Africians, Ray Mordt and Rob Louw (to Wigan). […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 19, 2015
TUESDAY, MAY 5 To French restaurant, Lutece tonight for an Alsace Wine dinner. Marie and I and our three children spent a lovely week in the Alsace in 1990, staying in […]
FLASHBACK: September 1970
Master coach, Bob Bax described the 1970 Brisbane grand final as the best he had seen, and his team was on the wrong end of the scoreline. Bax’s Norths Devils […]
Crowd Humour
RESPECTED English Rugby League journalist, Ray Fletcher was disappointed with what he called “a lack of atmosphere” the first time he attended a Brisbane club fixture back in 1979. Because […]
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