DIARY UPDATE: Week 26, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 26 2021 MONDAY, JUNE 28 THE FIGS (Former International Greats), via secretary, Peter Hogan, seek permission to post my Flashbacks on their […]
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FLASHBACK: FEBRUARY 1977
FEBRUARY 1977 In what surely were unprecedented scenes in Brisbane Rugby League, players from the Valleys and Easts’ clubs did an emu bob of Langlands Park, looking for part of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 20, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 20 2021 MONDAY, MAY 17 Mitch Brennan was selected for Australia in 1979, but St George told the national selectors he was […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 17, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 17 2021 MONDAY, APRIL 26 TIGER TV’s Gavin Payne, the former Easts’ fullback and later coach, conducts an interview with yours truly, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 11, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 11 2021 MONDAY, MARCH 15 Brisbane Rugby League cult hero, Greg ‘Slippery’ McCarthy found his way to Brisbane from Coffs Harbour […]
DIARY UPDATE: WEEK 10, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 10 2021 MONDAY, MARCH 8 Former rugby league television commentator, George Doniger and I swap yarns about Kangaroo Supporters’ tours of the […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 5, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK FIVE 2021 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Noted rugby league administrator, Shane Richardson is one of the driving forces behind the Brisbane Easts’ (Firehawks) […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 3, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITERWEEK 3 2021 MONDAY, JANUARY 18 Former Broncos’ rugby league hooker, John Driscoll is keen to be part of our Brisbane Men of League […]
DAIRY UPDATE: Week 2, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 2 2021 MONDAY, JANUARY 11 ‘The Big O’ by Patrick Skene is a captivating read, and has made me look at former […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week, 50, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 50 2020 MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 John Leahy says it is a misconception that Tweed product, Lionel Morgan was the first indigenous man […]
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 […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 41, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 41 2020 Gilgandra’s rugby league players are enjoying ‘Mad Monday’, as my good mates, Greg Grainger and Mark Conway, and their wives, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 40, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 40 MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 Newcastle was held in the same high regard as Brisbane, when I played rugby league on the Tweed. […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 39, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 39 2020. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 It is 50 years since the great Harry Wells played his last game of rugby league – […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 38, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 38 2020 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Former Australian rugby league hooker, John Lang tells me of his love of biographies. John will deliver […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 35, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 35 2020 MONDAY, AUGUST 31 Former NRL referee, Tim Mander is electioneering at Airlie Beach Yacht Club, as Marie and I stop […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 33, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 33 2020 MONDAY, AUGUST 17 My former ‘Telegraph’ and ‘Courier-Mail’ newspaper colleague Mark Oberhardt retires from mainstream journalism after an eternity in […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 29, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 29 2020 MONDAY, JULY 20 North Queensland Cowboys’ coach, Paul Green, stands down from his post, effective immediately, with Josh Hannay to […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 23, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 23 2020 MONDAY, JUNE 8 The Japanese flag flies from a house at up-market Ascot, here in Brisbane, as my wife, Marie […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 22, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 22 2020 MONDAY, JUNE 1 How long has this been here? That is the reaction of my wife, Marie and I as […]
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