FLASHBACK: May 1957
MAY 1957 Australian rugby league stars, Brian Davies and Brian Carlson stole the headlines in the lead-up to 1957’s big representative games, while the famous old Valleys club in Brisbane […]
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TOM TERRIFIC COULD NOT BE CAGED
by Steve Ricketts. Tom Raudonikis took the wheel of his car, after a long lunch at the Breakfast Creek Hotel, and invited the passengers to help themselves to a beer, […]
FLASHBACK: November, 1995
FLASHBACK NOVEMBER 1995 Former Wallaby, Garrick Morgan’s return to rugby union was confirmed, after he struggled in rugby league, playing for new club, the South Queensland Crushers, under novice coach, […]
FLASHBACK: September, 1955
FLASHBACK SEPTEMBER 1955 Valleys were Brisbane’s best team in 1955 and Brothers the cleanest. So reported the ‘Sunday Truth’ newspaper after Valleys beat Brothers 17-7 in the grand final at […]
FROM TEXAS TO ALICE SPRINGS, VIA WYNNUM AND BLACKPOOL
When rugby league fans talk about ‘what might have been’, the name Terry Saunders quickly springs to mind. Chosen for the Queensland State of Origin side in 1981, the Wynnum-Manly star’s […]
FLASHBACK: SEPTEMBER 1959
SEPTEMBER 1959 Norths moved for Redcliffe to be admitted to the Brisbane Rugby League first grade competition in 1960, even though it would mean ceding some of their territory to […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 36, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 36 2017 Noted sports journalist, Robert ‘Crash’ Craddock, on radio TAB, says Ubet have a market on who will be last to […]
FLASHBACK: April 1958
APRIL 1958 Young winger, Des Hendry scored two fine tries for Brisbane in their 25-14 win over 1957 Bulimba Cup winners, Ipswich at the Exhibition Grounds, his electric speed often bringing […]
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: December 1996
The appointment of former Test lock, Bob Lindner as coach did not appear to be enough to save financially embattled Brisbane Past Brothers club from being axed from the 1997 Channel […]
FLASHBACK: MAY 1960
More than 1,000 booing, jeering spectators swarmed on to Oxenham Park at Nundah in Brisbane’s north after a fiery rugby league clash controlled by referee, Don Lancashire. The Courier-Mail’s Lawrie […]
FLASHBACK: February 1965
TEST forward, Peter Gallagher ended negotiations with Sydney clubs and announced he would remain with the Past Brothers club in Brisbane. While on tour with the Kangaroos in Britain and […]
FLASHBACK: April 1984
Former Wallaby rugby union prop, Tony D’Arcy signed with Brisbane Wests after an unsuccessful stint with Sydney club, Penrith. D’Arcy, who played 10 union Tests for Australia, said league was […]
FLASHBACK: September 1956
BROTHERS lock, Barry O’Connor was named man of the match after ‘The Fighting Irish’ won the 1956 grand final with a 17-10 result over Wests at the Brisbane Cricket Ground. […]
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