HISTORY OF RUGBY LEAGUE ON THE GOLD COAST: A STORY OF RESILIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT
Just as there was life ‘Before the Broncos’ in Brisbane, there was a proud history of rugby league on the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers before the Titans and its […]
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COMING THE RAW PRAWN AT WEYMOUTH
“A pint of real ale, please”. “Would you like a pint of prawns with that?” the barman at the Kings Arms Pub on the quayside at Weymouth in County Dorset, […]
AGGRESSION OR THUGGERY?
It’s hard to decide what I found the more heart breaking? Ron Clarke’s failure to win an Olympic Gold Medal, or Australia’s abject failure on the 1969-70 cricket tour of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 29, 2016
TUESDAY, JULY 19 To Sydney for Men of League gala dinner. Fog delays our flight from Brisbane. Bump into former Australian wicket keeper, Ray Phillips at Brisbane Airport. He had […]
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 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 […]
FLASHBACK: January 1966
AN extraordinary Queensland Rugby League ban on Toowoomba Souths’ participating in the local competition was finally lifted, ending the concerns of the club’s 116 registered players and 30 officials. The […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 18, 2015
TUESDAY, APRIL 28 Bundaberg’s very own, Pat Welsh has been at Channel 7 for 40 years. Amazing. I appeared with him on Sportscene in 1982-83 with the likes of Mick Veivers, […]
FLASHBACK: September 1965
Future Immortal, Arthur Beetson (Redcliffe) and diminutive halfback, Ross Threlfo (Valleys) tied for first place in the Courier-Mail Best and Fairest competition for the Brisbane Rugby League. Beetson, had moved […]
FLASHBACK: June 1965
AUSTRALIAN selectors handed out one of the biggest shocks in years with the naming of North Queensland centre, Gary Wellington in the Kangaroos’ squad to tour New Zealand. Wellington at first refused […]
