DIARY UPDATE: Week 25, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 25 2021 MONDAY, JUNE 21 Former Wallabies’ hooker, Mark McBain rates French halfback, Antoine Dupont the best player in the world. McBain, […]
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VALE JIM FENWICK
Jim Fenwick was one of Queensland’s finest news photographers, with a special feel for events on the rugby league field. He won several awards for his photographs of matches at […]
BRISBANE BEER AND BEEF CLUB
When I retired from Queensland Newspapers in October, 2012, aged 60, I wondered how I would keep myself busy in the coming years. I needn’t have worried because, like many […]
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 […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 37, 2020 no
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 37 2020 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Queensland State of Origin rugby league forward, Gavin Cooper announces his retirement. Murgon product, Cooper was one […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 32, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 32 2020 MONDAY AUGUST 10 Leeds’ rugby league coach, Richard Agar is worried the new rules will lead to a touch-and-pass type […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 24, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 24 2020 MONDAY, JUNE 15 It is disappointing to see the small amount of space which ‘The Courier-Mail’ devotes to the passing […]
QUEENSLAND’S GERMAN CONNECTIONS
TRAVEL The Cafe/Bar on Wittenbergplatz seemed a logical place for a drink and a spot of people watching in Berlin, in the autumn of 2002. First of all, it was […]
2002 MY LAST SUPPORTERS’ TOUR
Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and/or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not in the […]
DANISH LADS ON SONG
What could go wrong? The singing from the cellar bar in down town Copenhagen, Denmark, sounded like a bunch of footy fans enjoying a few beers before a match. So […]
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’ […]
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