FLASHBACK: AUGUST 1986
AUGUST 1986 Wynnum-Manly’s Test rugby league skipper, Wally Lewis welcomed the prospect of a Brisbane side entering the New South Wales competition in 1987, describing it as the salvation of […]
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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 […]
FLASHBACK: September, 2005
FLASHBACK SEPTEMBER 2005 The Rugby League, Rugby Union and Journalistic communities were mourning the loss of Harry Jefferies, who died on September 6, 2005, aged 83. Jefferies was a long […]
THE GUNSYND BAR
Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium boasts many fine hospitality suites, but there is nothing to compare with the ‘Gunsynd Bar’ in the old Frank Burke Stand, at what was called Lang Park […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 29, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 29 2019. MONDAY, JULY 22 Rugby league cult hero, giant former Brisbane Norths’ prop, Campbell ‘Zulu’ Dews has agreed to be a […]
FLASHBACK: April 1990
APRIL 1990 The chaotic nature of rugby league on the border of New South Wales and Queensland was never more graphically illustrated than by the City v Country match played […]
TOUR DE FRANCE
TRAVEL 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 […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 19, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 19 2019. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 A boy weighing over 90kg plays for one of the teams in an under-11s rugby league match […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 13, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 13 2019 Devon (England) couple, John and Glenda Tapp’s travels have brought them to Australia again, and we catch up for breakfast […]
FLASHBACK: December 2009
DECEMBER 2009 Queensland Rugby League managing director, Ross Livermore said his organisation would not stand in the away of an independent commission taking over the game, but insisted grassroots development […]
‘OUR GAME’ – SPEECH BY STEVE RICKETTS
Chairman of the Queensland Rugby League History Committee, Steve Ricketts addressed the recent QRL administrative conference on the Gold Coast, about the establishment of the code in this state. A […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 20, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 20 2018 TUESDAY, MAY 15 Former Test hooker, John Lang accepts the Queensland Rugby League History Committee’s invitation to deliver the 2020 […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 38, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 38 2017 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Start of a new ‘era’. No more Brothers’ Leagues Club. It has closed its doors, because of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 21, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 21, 2017 MONDAY, MAY 22 Billy Slater misses out on a place in the Queensland State of Origin side, something I had […]
LEGENDARY MANAGER TO THE RESCUE
TOULOUSE Regional Sports Centre. What could possibly go wrong? Accommodation for the first week of Queensland Residents Tour of France in 1989 was this multi sports complex on the outskirts […]
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 […]
FLASHBACK: February 1981
Former ballboy, Ross Livermore was appointed general manager of the Queensland Rugby League, a new position created for the re-constituted governing body of the code in the Sunshine State. Livermore, […]
DIARY ENTRY: Week 7, 2015
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Meet with former Brisbane representative rugby league back, Neil Wharton, who is a new addition to the staff at QRL headquarters. Neil, wants me to write prose […]
Diary entry – Week 3, 2015
MONDAY, JANUARY 12 Wally Lewis emails ‘Foreword’ to the book ‘For the Love of the Game’, written by former school teacher, Murray Barnett about some of the legends of RUGBY LEAGUE from the 1950s […]
