DIARY UPDATE: Week 16, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 16 2021 TUESDAY, APRIL 20 The cross country at Murwillumbah High School in the 1960s/early 1970s, was a real ‘country’ course, taking […]
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VALE HARRY CAMERON
Harry Cameron won club premierships in Sydney, Brisbane and Ipswich and represented his adopted State of Queensland five times in the 1970s. A crowd favourite in a star-studded Brisbane Wests’ […]
FROM TEXAS TO ALICE SPRINGS, VIA WYNNUM AND BLACKPOOL
When rugby league fans talk about ‘what might have been’, the name Terry Saunders quickly springs to mind. Chosen for the Queensland State of Origin side in 1981, the Wynnum-Manly star’s […]
FLASHBACK: July 1979
JULY 1979 A galloping 40 metre try by prop, Rohan Hancock was the big talking point from Queensland Country’s 18-9 win over Parramatta Eels in an Amco Cup round 3 […]
FLASHBACK: May 1979
Queensland Country, coached by Toowoomba’s John McDonald, scored a rousing 16-14 win over Sydney club, Newtown in a Amco Cup match at Lang Park. And the bush boys did it […]
FLASHBACK: August 1983
Despite playing only three A grade matches for Wynnum-Manly in 1983, fiery front rower, Greg Dowling was chosen in a 21 man Queensland squad named to prepare for an historic […]
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