DIARY UPDATE: Week 23, 2016
MONDAY, JUNE 6 Get my haircut at Stafford today, and an almost bald guy storms off, swearing as he goes, when the barber tells him there is a half hour wait. […]
Tag Archives: Men of League
DIARY UPDATE: Week 7, 2016
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Finish work on my ‘first chapter’ (1960) in Steve Haddan’s book about Brisbane Rugby League, ‘Our Game’. It was a hard slog, but enjoyable. In 1960, champion coach, Bob Bax […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 5, 2016
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 To BUPA Retirement home, Tugun, to interview former Brisbane Souths prop, Jim Murdoch for Men of League magazine. Jim was instrumental in the formation of the Souths […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 51, 2015
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 Our youngest son, Lliam shouts me to the movie, ‘Creed’ at Indooroopilly, after a meal in Vietnamese restaurant. A couple of young blokes leave the movie early, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 50, 2015
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 ‘Old Farts’ journos lunch at Plough Inn, South Bank. Former Lord Mayor, Sallyanne Atkinson, an ‘old’ journo, is there. We chat about State of Origin II in […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 48, 2015
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Watch movie, ‘The Dressmaker’ at Palace Centro Cinema in James Street. Quite mad, but enjoyable. Ian Botham turns 60! I met him only once – in 1987 […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 45, 2015
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Melbourne Cup day, and Marie goes next door to Bandits/Brothers Club and places several bets. My money was on Bondi Beach (on the nose). We both dip out, with […]
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 43, 2015
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20 David Smith quits as National Rugby League chief executive and the rumour mill goes into overdrive, re. his replacement, with radio commentator, Ray Hadley mentioning former Queensland […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 37, 2015
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Day starts so well, with best coffee yet and a free Telegraph. Then I discover my passport is missing! Of woe is me. Where the hell did I […]
DIARY: Week 35, 2015
MONDAY, AUGUST 24 Enjoy a lovely two hour chat with former Test rugby league referee and Sheffield Shield cricket umpire, Don Lancashire and his wife, Carol at their Mount Warren […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 31, 2015
MONDAY, JULY 27. Meet a new neighbour – Vince Ahern, a police officer and cousin of former Queensland premier, Mike Ahern. Vince was a boarder at Nudgee College in Brisbane. […]
Diary update: Week 28, 2015
MONDAY, JULY 6 Lovely time at Carbine Club Lunch at Tatts Club in the City, with the notorious Billy J Smith as MC, at a function where members of the […]
Diary entry: Week 12, 2015
THURSDAY, MARCH 19 ‘Freddy’ Fittler on Channel 9 says he loves XXXX Gold. “You can drink 20 of them”. Hear today of a dispute between Brothers Seniors and Juniors (rugby league) […]
Diary entry: WEEK 11, 2015
TUESDAY, MARCH 10 Stuart Wagstaff dead at 90. When I think of him, the Benson and Hedges television advertisements are the first things that spring to mind. NRL 360 tonight features […]
DIARY ENTRY: Week 8, 2015
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16 There is an In Memoriam in The Northern Star today for Ken Boyd, a fine fullback in NSW Country in the 1950s and 60s, particularly at Murwillumbah […]
FLASHBACK: June 1995
TEENAGER, Ben Ikin’s match clinching try three minutes from full-time in Origin III was a fitting climax to Queensland’s 1995 series win over New South Wales. Ikin’s try, from an […]
2013: NRL Season preview
THE 2013 rugby league season marks a new stage in my association with the code after 32 years as a fulltime sports journalist with Queensland Newspapers in Brisbane. Suffice to […]
