DIARY UPDATE: Week 40, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 40 MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 Newcastle was held in the same high regard as Brisbane, when I played rugby league on the Tweed. […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 47, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 47 2019 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Former Valleys’ premiership winning halfback, Ross Threlfo has died, aged 77, in a nursing home at Ballina […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 49, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 49 2018 MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 Drive to our youngest lad, Lliam’s place at Auchenflower, via Red Hill, where a huge media scrum […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 30, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 30 2018 MONDAY, JULY 23 Things are crook in the Northern Rivers Rugby League, with Lower Clarence forfeiting, after being down 62-0 […]
JEKYLL AND HYDE TYPES
For many years I contributed to, or edited, rugby league programs in Brisbane. So, it always gives me a thrill to look back through old programs, ones that I call […]
FLASHBACK: September 1968
SEPTEMBER 1968 In what was rated the best match of the season, Valleys defeated Norths 18-15 in the Brisbane knock-out semi-final at Lang Park, with the goal kicking of Des […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 25, 2016
WEEK 25 2016 MONDAY, JUNE 20 Walk Bunya Mountains National Park – Festoon Falls, Barker Creek, Paradise Falls. Surprising number of walkers, given the crook weather. Only one tree down. Thought […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 44, 2015
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27. Drive to Toowoomba for the funeral of former Brisbane Valleys and Toowoomba Souths forward, Jeff Gill who played one match for Queensland in 1973. The legendary Marty Scanlan speaks on […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 33, 2015
MONDAY, AUGUST 10 Brisbane Broncos’ Test centre, Justin Hodges announces he will retire at season’s end. I remember saying, the first time I saw Justin at Broncos’ training, that he […]
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 […]
