DIARY UPDATE: Week 18, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 18 2021 MONDAY, MAY 3 There are reports out of Sydney that many lads at GPS schools are choosing to play Aussie […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 15, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 15 2021 TUESDAY, APRIL 13 Former Canterbury-Bankstown and New Zealand Warriors rugby league skipper, Steve Price is my interview subject when I […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 4, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 4 2020 TUESDAY, JANUARY 28 Iconic Queensland broadcaster, John McCoy thanks a myriad people for their messages of good will, following his […]
VALE BIG LEAGUE?
Have we seen the last of ‘Big League’? I fear for the future of the official program of the NRL, after it closed shop for the rest of the 2020 […]
FLASHBACK: November 1994
NOVEMBER 1994 A pledge of loyalty from the Brisbane Broncos was accepted by a New South Wales Rugby League Board meeting in the League’s Phillip Street headquarters in Sydney. NSWRL […]
DID BIG MAL PLAY 500 GAMES?
Melbourne Storm skipper, Cameron Smith already holds the record for most appearances in first grade, and, if he plays another two seasons as planned, his tally will be hard to […]
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: July 1998
JULY 1998 London Broncos, under the coaching of former Australian Test centre, Tony Currie, enjoyed a stellar start to July, with wins over Hull and Bradford Northern. Former All Black centre, […]
FLASHBACK: August 1985
MAYHEM was the order of the day as bitter rivals Norths and Brothers slugged it out at Corbett Park in the last round of Brisbane Rugby League home and away fixtures in […]
FLASHBACK: May 1984
Toowoomba’s Peter Gill scored two tries as Queensland Country scored an excellent 25 -18 win over Auckland in a National Panasonic Cup match at Lang Park. The Courier-Mail’s Lawrie Kavanagh […]
Steve Ricketts 