DIARY UPDATE: Week 5, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK FIVE 2021 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Noted rugby league administrator, Shane Richardson is one of the driving forces behind the Brisbane Easts’ (Firehawks) […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK FIVE 2021 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Noted rugby league administrator, Shane Richardson is one of the driving forces behind the Brisbane Easts’ (Firehawks) […]
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 OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 35 2020 MONDAY, AUGUST 31 Former NRL referee, Tim Mander is electioneering at Airlie Beach Yacht Club, as Marie and I stop […]
TRAVEL “What a great spectacle,” commented a young Irish chap, as my wife, Marie and I made our way back to our Coogee Bay hotel, after the 2013 NRL grand […]
FLASHBACK NOVEMBER 2010 Australian fullback, Billy Slater described the 2010 Four Nations final at Suncorp Stadium as a ‘dogfight’, with the Kiwis walking away with bragging rights again, just two […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 3 2020. TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 In 2019, 28,593 females played rugby league in Australia, compared with 11,633 in 2015. Male participation rates […]
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 in […]
Chris Johns’ appointment as manager of the Australian team for the 2004 Trans-Tasman rugby league Test in Newcastle was viewed as a controversial one in some quarters. Johns was an […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 14 2019 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 My physio, Paula Nutting’s brother, Bill is interviewed in The Courier-Mail about the family business, Brett’s Hardware. […]
TRAVEL Phil ‘Gus’ Gould had a heart scare and Tonie Carroll was called a traitor. What a start it was to my 2004 Tri-Nations Test rugby league campaign, as a […]
It’s anyone’s guess how the second and third tiers of rugby league in Australia will pan out in the next five or 10 years. But make no mistake. There […]