FLASHBACK: July 1969
JULY 1969 REFEREE, Henry Albert showed ‘admirable restraint’ by not sending anyone off, in a wild Lang Park Brisbane Rugby League fixture between Wests and Brothers, with the crowd of […]
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FLASHBACK: May 1969
MAY 1969 The omission of Valleys’ centre, Mick Retchless was the big talking point following the naming of the Queensland side after the ‘Queensland’ v ‘The Rest’ state trial at […]
FLASHBACK: April 1969
APRIL 1969 Aussie rules convert, Barry Spring kicked four field goals for Norths in a 13-9 win over Valleys in the Easter Monday clash at Lang Park, one of them […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 43, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 43 2017 MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 Former Australian forward, Bruce ‘Goldy’ Walker starts as manager of New South Wales Men of League. He […]
FLASHBACK: March 1974
MARCH 1974 Former Great Britain rugby league halfback, Tommy Bishop vowed to make Australia his home, after signing as captain-coach of Norths Devils for the 1974 Bisbane premiership season. Tommy; […]
FLASHBACK: August 1948
AUGUST 1948 Rugby league officials in Queensland were concerned about the threat from Australian rules, with their rules counterparts openly declaring war on the 13 man code. Aussie rules officials made […]
FLASHBACK: July 1948
JULY 1948 The Courier-Mail’s Jack Reardon wrote a hard hitting column, calling for the axing of under performing players from Brisbane first grade teams. Reardon, a former Australian Test centre, […]
FLASHBACK: May 1958
MAY 1958 Lloyd Weir, one of 15 children from a dairy farming family from Tansey, in the Mary Valley, made his representative debut – for Queensland Country against South Queensland […]
FLASHBACK: January 1968
A letter of complaint about the off-field behavior of the Kangaroos’ touring side was sent by the English Rugby League to their Australian counterparts. The Kangaroos were well into the French […]
FLASHBACK: January 1938
France ‘tackled furiously’, but it was not enough to stop the touring Kangaroos wraping up the two Test series with a 16-11 result at Marseilles in front of a crowd […]
