DIARY UPDATE: Week 39, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 39 2020. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 It is 50 years since the great Harry Wells played his last game of rugby league – […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 22, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 22 2020 MONDAY, JUNE 1 How long has this been here? That is the reaction of my wife, Marie and I as […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 20, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 20 2020 MONDAY, MAY 18 The brewery and a butcher shop on Mt Tamborine have closed. Victims of Covid? Or perhaps their […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 10, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 10 2020 MONDAY, MARCH 9 Wake to Juventus v Inter Milan in front an empty stadium. A sign of things to come […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 43, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 43 2019 MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 Murwillumbah Brothers’ rugby league stalwart, Bill Carroll receives positive feedback from those who attended yesterday’s reunion for […]
LET’S GO TO PUB, LUV
Travel “What could be more romantic?”, I said to my wife, Marie, as she contemplated a wedding anniversary lunch with me; a fellow rugby league writer; a rugby league fan/war […]
THEY LOVE BIG SIRRO IN VILLENEUVE
IN Villeneuve-sur-Lot they still talk about the time ‘big Sirro’ came to town. ‘Big Sirro’ is Paul Sironen, the former international rugby league forward who played 247 matches for his […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 20, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 20 2017 MONDAY, MAY 15 Learn of the passing of a former Brisbane Brothers’ teammate, Mick McGarrity, a rough and ready forward, […]
THORNETT BOYS WERE PRODUCTS OF A GOLDEN AGE.
The Burgess Brothers. As much as I love them, they are not in the same class as the Thornett brothers. Let me explain. The reason I love the Burgess boys […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 39, 2015
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Catch the tiny train from Roscoff to Morlaix. One drink in Bar le Commerce, watching the races from Chantilly. Pick up our hire car and drive […]
FLASHBACK: January 1995
The South Queensland Crushers won a lot of friends, but not the honour of a first up win when they clashed with Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in a trial at Emerald […]
Grand Finals
THE 2014 NRL Grand Final is proof, if it was ever needed, that rugby league at the top level will always be the most brutal of the football codes. The […]
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