DIARY UPDATE: Week 13, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 13 2019 Devon (England) couple, John and Glenda Tapp’s travels have brought them to Australia again, and we catch up for breakfast […]
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I HAVE A CUNNING PLAN
TRAVEL What could possibly go wrong? It was November, 1982, and I had chosen a pub called ‘The Old Bore’ at Cunning Corner, for lunch, on the way to the Australian Rugby League Kangaroos’ match against Bradford Northern at Odsal Stadium. Although I was not the driver, I had been tasked with planning many of […]
SPA TOWN TO A SPANKING
TRAVEL CELEBRATED spa town, Harrogate one night; former coal mining borough, Leigh in Greater Manchester the next. Such is the lot of rugby league writer based in northern England. It […]
FLASHBACK: SEPTEMBER, 1969
SEPTEMBER 1969 Murwillumbah Brothers broke a seven year drought when they won the Group 18-Gold Coast A grade premiership by defeating Cudgen 11-0 at the new Murwillumbah Oval. Brothers’ winger, […]
FLASHBACK: September 1979
SEPTEMBER 1979 A Valleys’ official and an Easts’ reserve grade player were cited to appear before the Brisbane Rugby League, following an incident in the Lang Park grandstand during the […]
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 […]
FLASHBACK: May 1979
MAY 1979 Combined Brisbane made an explosive debut in the mid-week Amco Cup competition with a 13-10 win over StGeorge at Lang Park, with veteran forward, Des Morris the star. Since […]
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 […]
RED AND WHITE PHOENIX
The name Pannowitz is revered in the Hunter Valley district of New South Wales. So it did not come as any surprise when former Hull Kingston Rovers and Keighley (England) […]
FLASHBACK: March 1984
MARCH 1984 Brothers began the 1984 season in sensational fashion, thrashing Brisbane rugby league premiers, Easts 34-0 at Corbett Park, with winger, ‘Smokin’ Joel Kilroy in magnificent form. Kilroy and […]
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 […]
FLASHBACK: February 1972
Young Brisbane Easts’ forwards, Johnny Lang and Paul Khan spent four days training with Sydney premiers, Souths, thanks to the generosity – and contacts – of Stones Corner publican, Jack Loth. […]
FLASHBACK: May 1981
The blinding pace and elusiveness of indigenous winger, John ‘Chicka’ Ferguson proved the difference as Newtown Jets defeated Combined Brisbane 23-19 at Lang Park in the Tooth Cup mid-week combination. Ferguson […]
FLASHBACK: April 1976
Brothers created history when they became the first Brisbane club side to defeat a Sydney club in a ‘competition’ match. The competition was the knock-out Amco Cup and Penrith was […]
Diary entry – Week 3, 2015
MONDAY, JANUARY 12 Wally Lewis emails ‘Foreword’ to the book ‘For the Love of the Game’, written by former school teacher, Murray Barnett about some of the legends of RUGBY LEAGUE from the 1950s […]
FLASHBACK: MAY 1960
More than 1,000 booing, jeering spectators swarmed on to Oxenham Park at Nundah in Brisbane’s north after a fiery rugby league clash controlled by referee, Don Lancashire. The Courier-Mail’s Lawrie […]
FLASHBACK: March 1980
A record 16 players were sent off or reported in the five senior grades played in week one of the 1980 Brisbane season. There was speculation the referees had become […]
FLASHBACKS: September 1974
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 […]
FLASHBACK: May 1984
Toowoomba’s Peter Gill scored two tries as Queensland Country scored an excellent 25 -18 win over Auckland in a National Panasonic Cup match at Lang Park. The Courier-Mail’s Lawrie Kavanagh […]
FLASHBACK: March 1964
Wynnum-Manly’s international five eighth, Johnny Gleeson and Redcliffe hooker, Bob Lawson were sent off following a wild brawl in the final minute of a BRL round 1 fixture at Redcliffe […]
