CAN I HAVE ICE WITH THAT?
As my 1990 Kangaroo Supporters’ Tour, ‘Regis’ coach pulled up outside the Hindhead Hotel in Surrey, England, I reinforced to my 33 loyal ‘subjects’, that ‘When in Rome, do as […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 14, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 14, 2017 TUESDAY, APRIL 4 Morning tea with Ron and Annie McIntosh, former managers of our Hermitage Gardens town house estate, who have […]
BYRON BLUES AND REGRETS
Trips to Byron Bay always terrified me. I’m talking quite some time back, and it was nothing to do with the traffic, alternative life style people or anti-vaxxers. No, back […]
BAD DAY AT SERCOMBE FIELD
Rugby League Grand finals are always memorable, win or lose. After winning both my grand finals in the under-18 grade – in 1968 and ’70 – it was almost as […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 36, 2016
WEEK 36, 2016 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 ‘OLD Farts’ (journalists) get-together at Jubilee Hotel in Fortitude Valley. Great to catch up with former workmates, including Mike Holliday, Wayne Watson, Bruce Pickford (A Kiwi […]
FLASHBACK: May 1978
MAY 1978 Innisfail Souths’ winger, Kerry Boustead was the crowd favorite as Thiess Toyota Country beat City 19-10 at Lang Park, Brisbane. Boustead, 18, did a wonderful job keeping his City rival, […]
FLASHBACK: MAY 1957
Debutant winger, Eddie Lumsden scored four tries in New South Wales’ 49-11 thrashing of Queensland in the first match of the 1957 inter-state series at the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds. Lumsden, […]
