DIARY UPDATE: Week 6, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 6 2021 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Wally Lewis’s daughter, Jamie Lee is to play for her dad’s old club, Valley Diehards, who are […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 41, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 41 2020 Gilgandra’s rugby league players are enjoying ‘Mad Monday’, as my good mates, Greg Grainger and Mark Conway, and their wives, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 39, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 39 2020. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 It is 50 years since the great Harry Wells played his last game of rugby league – […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 14, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 14 2020 MONDAY, APRIL 6 Former Socceroo, Mark Viduka has some damning things to say about our national team, going back a […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 9, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 9 2020 MONDAY, MARCH 2 Kenya belt Wales in Rugby Union Sevens. How can that be? The French Government limits crowds to […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 4, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 4 2020 TUESDAY, JANUARY 28 Iconic Queensland broadcaster, John McCoy thanks a myriad people for their messages of good will, following his […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 43, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 43 2019 MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 Murwillumbah Brothers’ rugby league stalwart, Bill Carroll receives positive feedback from those who attended yesterday’s reunion for […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 9, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 9 2019 MONDAY, MARCH 4 The Courier-Mail’s Peter Badel asks new Brisbane Broncos’ coach, Anthony Siebold if he will continue with plans […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 47, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 47 2018 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 ‘Schoolies’ is in full swing on the Gold Coast as my wife, Marie and I drive back […]
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, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 15, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 15 2017 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 Former Broncos, South Sydney, Roosters and Titans’ forward, Ashley Harrison is guest speaker at our Men of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 7, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER. WEEK 7 2017. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Dinner with English friends, John and Glenda Tapp at their holiday unit, ‘Mariner’s Point’, Point Cartwright, on […]
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, […]
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