A TRUE QUEENSLAND GREAT – JOHNNY GLEESON.
By Steve Ricketts. Johnny Gleeson was a quiet, humble man, who largely retreated from the spotlight after a stellar rugby league playing career at International, State and Club level. Gleeson, […]
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FLASHBACK: SEPTEMBER 1961
SEPTEMBER 1961 Maryborough product, Jimmy Sutton scored four splendid tries in minor premiers, Norths’ 29-5 win over Redcliffe in the Brisbane Rugby League major semi-final at Lang Park. Sutton, 21, had […]
FLASHBACK: JUNE 1961
JUNE 1961 Australian rugby league skipper, Brian Carlson threatened to take the team from the field after a number of players fell victim to late tackles in a match against […]
SPECIAL K REVISITED
By Steve Ricketts, former Courier-Mail chief rugby league writer. ‘Touched’, a Broncos’ fan yelled sarcastically, as Karmichael Hunt barely got a hand to rampaging South Sydney centre, Campbell Graham, in […]
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 […]
HISTORY OF RUGBY LEAGUE ON THE GOLD COAST: A STORY OF RESILIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT
Just as there was life ‘Before the Broncos’ in Brisbane, there was a proud history of rugby league on the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers before the Titans and its […]
FLASHBACK: November 1963
FLASHBACK NOVEMBER 1963 Less than 18 months after winning the Ashes series in Australia, Great Britain fell to its greatest humiliation at the hands of the Kangaroos when the Arthur […]
DIARY ENTRY: WEEK 15, 2015
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 Learn of the death of cricket icon, Richie Benaud. I met him just the once – back in the early 1970s when he was a guest speaker […]
Flashback: JULY 1965
Just 24 hours after beating Queensland 30-9 at Lang Park, New South Wales headed to Townsville for a ‘friendly’ match against North Queensland. Can you imagine something like that happening now, […]
FLASHBACK: June 1965
AUSTRALIAN selectors handed out one of the biggest shocks in years with the naming of North Queensland centre, Gary Wellington in the Kangaroos’ squad to tour New Zealand. Wellington at first refused […]
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