DIARY UPDATE: Week 8, 2016
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Up at 4.45 a.m. to watch live telecast of Leeds v North Queensland Cowboys World Club Challenge match. It was only 4-4 at halftime, but the Cowboys […]
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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 49, 2015
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Former All Black, Jonah Lomu’s memorial service from Eden Park, Auckland is live on Fox. The entire Warriors’ NRL squad is in attendance and Warriors’ Kiwi international […]
FLASHBACK: November 1986
Australian skipper, Wally Lewis was heavily targeted by St Helens’ players in the seventh match of the 1986 Kangaroo tour of Britain and France. Three times Lewis was hit in back […]
FLASHBACK: September 1946
Electrifying winger, Len Kenny scored five tries for Combined Brisbane in their 36-7 thrashing of Sydney premiers, Balmain Tigers at the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds Each of Kenny’s tries was a […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 37, 2015
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Day starts so well, with best coffee yet and a free Telegraph. Then I discover my passport is missing! Of woe is me. Where the hell did I […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 36, 2015
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Depart for the UK today. Fly business class (Singapore Airlines) for first time as a couple. So exciting. Soccer, bloody soccer is all that the bloke in front […]
FLASHBACK: June 1986
State of Origin stalwarts, Chris Close, Colin Scott and Dave Brown were axed from the Queensland side to play New South Wales in the second match of the 1986 series. […]
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