DIARY UPDATE: Week 9, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 9 2021 MONDAY, MARCH 1 Tweed Heads Seagulls, a rugby league club which lays claim to being the oldest outside Sydney and […]
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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 44, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 44 2020 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 EXCLUSIVE. Wallaby Star, Andrew Slack to Switch to Rugby League. Well, it would have been a nice […]
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 37, 2020 no
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 37 2020 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Queensland State of Origin rugby league forward, Gavin Cooper announces his retirement. Murgon product, Cooper was one […]
VALE KEN MCCAFFERY
By Greg Shannon, QRL History Committee The QRL would like to pass on sincere condolences to the family of a truly remarkable rugby league identity, former Queensland and Australian player Ken McCaffery who passed away on February 6 at 91 years of age. Ken had a long and […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 36, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 36 2020 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Instead of flying back into Brisbane today, following a six-week European adventure, my wife, Marie and I […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 7, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 7 2020 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 The Queensland Rugby League is searching for a ‘brand’ name for their Residents’ side. The Origin team […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 2, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 2 2020 MONDAY, JANUARY 13 Fellow rugby league historian, Greg Mallory tells me former Builders Laborers’ Federation boss, Jack Mundey was a […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 46, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 46 2019. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Bush-fire smoke has cleared enough to be able to see Broken Head for the first time, from […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 41, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 41 2019 MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 Japan beat Scotland in rugby union’s World Cup overnight, and as a result, The Courier-Mail’s rugby writer, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 29, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 29 2019. MONDAY, JULY 22 Rugby league cult hero, giant former Brisbane Norths’ prop, Campbell ‘Zulu’ Dews has agreed to be a […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 16, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 16 2019 MONDAY, APRIL 22 A photograph of Wally Lewis, making his Test debut for Australia against France at the Sydney Cricket […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 10, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 10 2019 MONDAY, MARCH 11 The proposed Queensland Sports Museum will not get off the ground, chairman, Denis Brennan informs me. The […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 14, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER. WEEK 14 2018 MONDAY, APRIL 2 In India, our daughter, Melanie’s tour bus has been targeted by an angry mob, as part of […]
2019 ROSS LIVERMORE MEMORIAL LECTURE: AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND
AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND Former Queensland State of Origin coach and player, Michael Hagan will deliver the 2019 Ross Livermore Memorial Lecture, at Queensland Rugby League Central, Castlemaine Street, Milton, on Saturday, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 3, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 3 2018 TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 Former Australian rugby union skipper, Tony Shaw walks by, with his two dogs, as I walk along […]
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 4, 2016
MONDAY, JANUARY 25 Attend Australia Day long weekend festivities at South Bank – more specifically ‘Great Australian Bite’ food tents, where we tuck into calamari, beef cheeks and pork rolls. Live […]
