DIARY UPDATE: Week 20, 2016
MONDAY, MAY 16. A minute’s silence is observed for former international centre, Rod Saddler ahead of the Titans v Roosters’ NRL match at Robina. That was my doing, I am proud […]
Tag Archives: Roosters
DIARY UPDATE: Week 17, 2016
MONDAY, APRIL 25 Moving ANZAC Day dawn service at Surfers Paradise. Former Test rugby league prop, Glenn Lazarus lays a wreath. One bloke near me wears a Roosters’ rugby league […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 4, 2016
MONDAY, JANUARY 25 Attend Australia Day long weekend festivities at South Bank – more specifically ‘Great Australian Bite’ food tents, where we tuck into calamari, beef cheeks and pork rolls. Live […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 1, 2016
WEEK ONE 2016 MONDAY, JANUARY 4 Watch part of San Francisco 49ers v St Louis NFL match from the US. Jarryd Hayne gets only one minute of field time. The 49ers […]
FLASHBACK: September 1976
Goal kicking horrors cost Brothers any chance of advancing to the 1976 Brisbane Rugby League grand final. Brothers’ ace goal kicker, Ian Dauth was in the Frank Burke Stand at […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 31, 2015
MONDAY, JULY 27. Meet a new neighbour – Vince Ahern, a police officer and cousin of former Queensland premier, Mike Ahern. Vince was a boarder at Nudgee College in Brisbane. […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 24, 2015
TUESDAY, JUNE 9 Chairman of Queensland Rugby League History Committee, Kevin Brasch scores a AM in Queen’s Honours, for his services to the code and education. He is interviewed on […]
FLASHBACK: April 1980
EASTS’ lock, John Tobin scored the decisive try three minutes from fulltime as the Roosters carved out a 14-4 win over Combined Brisbane at Lang Park in the opening Tooth […]
FLASHBACK: February 1989
Redcliffe’s formidable pack was the talk of the pre-season in Queensland with Bryan Niebling (Valleys) and Brad Tessman (Souths) having been lured to the peninsula to play under the coaching […]
FLASHBACK: May 1973
QUEENSLANDER, Mark Harris stunned ‘grid iron’ coaches with his outstanding all round athletic ability at a training camp with the New England Patriots in Boston. In the speed tests the […]
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