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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 […]
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 […]