DIARY UPDATE: Week 18, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 18 2021 MONDAY, MAY 3 There are reports out of Sydney that many lads at GPS schools are choosing to play Aussie […]
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FLASHBACK: June, 1976
JUNE 1976 Brisbane Souths released exciting young winger, Mitch Brennan from a three-year contract to allow him to play in the Canadian Football League with the Toronto Argonauts. Under the […]
FLASHBACK: April, 1971
FLASHBACK APRIL 1971 Young Toowoomba winger, Wayne Bennett scored two tries as the Clydesdales emerged 21-19 winners over Ipswich, in a round one, Bulimba Cup (inter-city) fixture at the Athletic […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 40, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 40 MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 Newcastle was held in the same high regard as Brisbane, when I played rugby league on the Tweed. […]
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 41, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 41 2019 MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 Japan beat Scotland in rugby union’s World Cup overnight, and as a result, The Courier-Mail’s rugby writer, […]
FLASHBACK: July 1969
JULY 1969 REFEREE, Henry Albert showed ‘admirable restraint’ by not sending anyone off, in a wild Lang Park Brisbane Rugby League fixture between Wests and Brothers, with the crowd of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 1, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK ONE 2017 TUESDAY, JANUARY 3 Take up temporary residence at our son, Damien and his wife, Emma’s Main Beach apartment, while they […]
JEKYLL AND HYDE TYPES
For many years I contributed to, or edited, rugby league programs in Brisbane. So, it always gives me a thrill to look back through old programs, ones that I call […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 15, 2016
TUESDAY, APRIL 12 Marie’s younger brother, John Donnelly turns 60, and celebrates with wife, Jan at Tweed Heads Bowls Club. Learn that the man they call ‘Mr Murwillumbah’, Phil Taylor, […]
FLASHBACK: May 1967
New Zealander Reg Cooke was chosen in the Queensland Rugby League side to make a three match tour of his homeland. Cooke starred for Queensland in a selection trial against […]
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