TRAVEL What could possibly go wrong? It was November, 1982, and I had chosen a pub called ‘The Old Bore’ at Cunning Corner, for lunch, on the way to the Australian Rugby League Kangaroos’ match against Bradford Northern at Odsal Stadium. Although I was not the driver, I had been tasked with planning many of […]
NOVEMBER 1989 English club, Barrow sacked Australian coach, Rod Reddy, just eight matches into the 1989-90 English season. Reddy, a veteran of 17 Tests for Australia and a member of […]
Australian Rugby League skipper, Wally Lewis was heckled by spectators at the Sydney Cricket Ground, as he made a speech following the Kangaroos’ 20-7 win over Great Britain, to clinch […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 7 2018. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Interview former Test rugby league winger, Kerry Boustead at Men of League lunch at Club Pine Rivers. […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 4 2018 MONDAY, JANUARY 22 Kerry McGreedy and his wife, Roseanne have donated South Queensland Crushers’ magazines to the QRL History Committee. […]
It’s not often you get to tell a young man he has just been selected for Australia. But I had that honor in 1983 when second rower, Wally Fullerton Smith […]
SEPTEMBER, 1978 Referee, Ian Smith was spat at by a spectator and widely abused after Brisbane Rugby League premiers, Easts, defeated Redcliffe 21-16 in a major semi-final at Lang Park. […]
Wynnum-Manly star, Wally Lewis was named captain of the Oceania team to play Europe in Paris in a match to mark the 50th anniversary of rugby league in France. Kiwi, […]
