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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]