FLASHBACK: January, 1982
JANUARY 1982 Test rugby league fullback, Garry Dowling signed for the Burleigh Bears in what shaped as a major coup for the inaugural Winfield State League, in which the eight […]
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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 – […]
FLASHBACK: January, 1981
FLASHBACK JANUARY 1981 There is nothing new about the struggle to get kids to play that toughest of all team body contact sports, rugby league. When I was growing up […]
FLASHBACK: September, 1980
FLASHBACK SEPTEMBER 1980 Souths’ hooker, Billy Johnstone was sent off by referee, Eddie Ward for a high, late shot on Valleys’ captain-coach, Ross Strudwick three minutes from the end of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 6, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 6 2020 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 One of the commentators at Mount Maunganui – in the New Zealand v India cricket one day […]
MAROONS ‘LACKED THE BASICS’
As Queenslanders celebrate the 40th anniversary of the inaugural State of Origin match, it is interesting to reflect on one man’s reasoning behind the amazing slump, which saw New South […]
FLASHBACK: April, 1960
APRIL 1960 Kangaroo tour co-manager, Jack Argent was fined 50 pounds by the Australian Rugby League Board of Control, for allegedly inducing one of the players, Ron Boden, to sign […]
FLASHBACK: JANUARY 1960
JANUARY 1960 Australian halfback, Barry Muir was lucky not to be sent off, after he knocked out French rival, Bernard Fabre from Albi, in the Third Rugby League Test at […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 47, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER. WEEK 47 2017 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Barber, Eric Pappas tells me Nick Pappas (no relation) was guest speaker at recent function at Greek […]
FLASHBACK: April 1979
APRIL 1979 Wally Lewis, Ross Strudwick and Peter McWhirter were rated ‘the most deadly rugby league trio in town’ after Valleys began the 1979 Brisbane premiership campaign with a 30-8 […]
FLASHBACK: April 1967
Jim Murphy made an impressive senior representative debut for Ipswich against Brisbane in the inter-city Bulimba cup competition. Murphy, who would go on to tour New Zealand with the 1971 […]
FLASHBACK: MAy 1966
British Test centre, Eric Ashton named a controversial World Team as he launched his biography, ‘Glory in the Centre Spot’. Missing from Ashton’s side were Queensland greats, Duncan Hall and […]
FLASHBACK: April 1980
EASTS’ lock, John Tobin scored the decisive try three minutes from fulltime as the Roosters carved out a 14-4 win over Combined Brisbane at Lang Park in the opening Tooth […]
FLASHBACK: January 1980
The arrival of Test coach, Frank Stanton raised the hopes of Redcliffe supporters, with the club experiencing a premiership drought going back to their inaugural title in 1965, when Henry […]
FLASHBACKS: September 1974
The experience and guile of legendary Valleys’ halves, Marty Scanlan and Ross Strudwick proved decisive in the Diehards 9-2 win over a young Brothers’ outfit in a tryless grand final […]
FLASHBACK: August 1974
IN his recently released biography, John Sattler called Russell Hughes a ‘young punk’. Back in ’74, that ‘punk’ baited Sattler in a match at Purtell Park, and the result was […]
FLASHBACK: June 1959
MAORI prop, Joe Ratima scored two tries before being sent off in New Zealand’s crushing 36-8 win over Brisbane at the Exhibition Grounds in front of a crowd of 21,888. […]
FLASHBACK: September 1970
Master coach, Bob Bax described the 1970 Brisbane grand final as the best he had seen, and his team was on the wrong end of the scoreline. Bax’s Norths Devils […]
FLASHBACK: September 1965
REDCLIFFE, Brisbane’s youngest rugby league club, outplayed Valleys, the oldest, to win the BRL premiership grand final with a convincing 15-2 result at Lang Park. The win was a triumph […]
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