Torrid time on the Torrens
Rugby League took me to South Australia for the first time – to cover Rams v Broncos matches, one a trial in the suburbs, the other a Super League premiership […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 37, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 37 2017 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Former Test rugby league centre, Dale Shearer is keen for his biography to be written, and I […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 36, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 36 2017 Noted sports journalist, Robert ‘Crash’ Craddock, on radio TAB, says Ubet have a market on who will be last to […]
THEY LOVE BIG SIRRO IN VILLENEUVE
IN Villeneuve-sur-Lot they still talk about the time ‘big Sirro’ came to town. ‘Big Sirro’ is Paul Sironen, the former international rugby league forward who played 247 matches for his […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 34, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 34 2017 MONDAY, AUGUST 21 Our youngest son, Lliam takes me for a tour of his Supply Partners Solar Energy equipment supply […]
GLORY DAYS IN CHRISTCHURCH
Christchurch before the earthquake – Such a beautiful place, and I’m sure it still is, although I haven’t been there since the disaster in 2011. I look back fondly at the […]
EUROPEAN ODYSSEY TOUR
The 9/11 terror attacks on the United States in 2001 made air travel, particularly international flights, unappealing for many people. So it was an absolute miracle that my fourth, and final, ‘supporters’ […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 29, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER. WEEK 29, 2017 WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 Noted rugby league journalist, Steve Mascord is interviewed on Radio TAB. Steve has written his biography, ‘Touchstones’, […]
THERE’S NOTHING SO DREAR
There are few things sadder, from a community point of view, than the closure of a much loved ‘local’. Now, I don’t wish to glorify drinking. This item is all […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 26, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 26, 2017 MONDAY, JUNE 26 Day six of our cruise on Silversea’s newest ship, Silver Muse. We are moored off Taormina, Sicily, […]
