FLASHBACK: November 1967
Brisbane Brothers’ legend, Peter Gallagher captained Australia to a memorable 17-11 win over Great Britain at London’s White City Stadium, to keep alive the Ashes series, after the home side won […]
Brisbane Brothers’ legend, Peter Gallagher captained Australia to a memorable 17-11 win over Great Britain at London’s White City Stadium, to keep alive the Ashes series, after the home side won […]
Snow blasted the Australians as they confronted the old enemy, Great Britain in the Ashes deciding Third Rugby League Test, but the lads from down under handled the conditions better than the […]
DES Henry, 18, distinguished himself in his representative debut, scoring four tries for Brisbane against Ipswich at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground. Henry had yet to play a first grade premiership […]
Australia’s rugby league team, branded by some critics as ‘the worst ever’ to tour the northern hemisphere, shocked Great Britain with a deserved 22-9 win in the Second Test, in […]
Former Welsh rugby union international, Paul Moriarty scored two tries in his Great Britain rugby league Test debut against Papua New Guinea at Central Park, Wigan. Moriarty, who was signed by Widnes […]
Great Britain undertook what proved a disastrous South Pacific tour, making a mockery of Super League’s claim to be creating a new world order in which a well funded rugby league would reach new […]
The wizardry of Brothers’ international centre, Jack Reardon in the Brisbane elimination final 17-8 win over Souths had critics wondering how he could have been left out of the Australian side for the failed […]
‘The Golden Greek’ Fonda Metassa’s Queensland debut proved a disaster, with the Brisbane Norths’ personality player’s opposing winger, Welshman, Berwyn Jones, scoring four tries in Great Britain’s 38-29 win over […]
Thousands of people made it into the ground without paying, and 8,000 were locked out when Australia and Great Britain played the Second Test of the 1946 Ashes series at […]
Great Britain suffered their first defeat of their 1946 Australasian tour when their colours were lowered 15-12 by a formidable South Coast Division side in Wollongong. To be fair to the […]
With a crowd of 51,634 on hand, Great Britain gave notice they would be formidable opponents in the first post-war Ashes series, as they accounted for New South Wales 14-10 at the Sydney […]
Brothers created history when they became the first Brisbane club side to defeat a Sydney club in a ‘competition’ match. The competition was the knock-out Amco Cup and Penrith was […]
New Zealand arrived in England for their 11th tour of the northern hemisphere. They opened with a 14-8 loss to Wigan at Central Park, a match played in torrential rain before […]
JANUARY 1956 France won a hard fought Test series against New Zealand 2-1, with legendary fullback, Puig Aubert back in action for the Tri-colours after missing the previous year’s tour […]
Brilliant British halfback, Andy Gregory announced his retirement from Test football after playing all three matches against the touring Kangaroos. It proved a short term break from the international scene, […]
Brilliant young centre, Garry Schofield scored a record four tries as Great Britain wrapped up the series against New Zealand with a 25-8 win at Central Park, Wigan. It was Britain’s […]
‘Get These Savages Off Our TV Screens’ That was the headline in one English newspaper after a vicious 1970 World Cup Rugby League final between Australia and Great Britain at […]
AUSTRALIAN Rugby League was in crisis after Great Britain regained the Ashes and crowds in Sydney fell by 200,000 two thirds of the way through the club season. The touring […]
FORMER Australian vice-captain, Jack Reardon predicted a long drought for the Kangaroos at international level after Great Britain regained the Ashes with a 21-17 win in the Third Test at the […]
Great Britain rugby league skipper, Ellery Hanley is awarded the MBE in the New Year’s honours list. Ellery was playing for Wigan at the time and a few days earlier […]