FLASHBACK: July 1984
Australian Rugby League skipper, Wally Lewis was heckled by spectators at the Sydney Cricket Ground, as he made a speech following the Kangaroos’ 20-7 win over Great Britain, to clinch […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 29, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 29 2018 TUESDAY, JULY 17 Rugby League Hall of Fame’s new inductees are Mark Graham, Cliff Lyons, Ricky Stuart, Petero Civoniceva, Gorden […]
FLASHBACK: April 1994
APRIL 1994 Broncos’ Test prop, Glenn Lazarus entered into an agreement with coach, Wayne Bennett that he would forfeit $1,000 from his pay cheque the next time he was seen […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 49, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 49 2017 MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 BRIBIE Island is the destination today as we entertain our English guests, Terry and Joyce Holmes. Coffee […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 39, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 39 2017 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Our daughter, Melanie phones at 4 a.m. Her flight back to Hong Kong (from Brisbane) has been cancelled […]
THE FANS LOVE ALF
It may have been a more relaxed time in the early days of the Broncos, but superstars like halfback, Allan Langer still had plenty of pressure. There was the pressure […]
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLBOYS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH
COMMENT By Steve Ricketts, former chief rugby league writer, The Courier-Mail. Australia’s schoolboy rugby league players have lost some of their aura in the professional age. The academy system in […]
COMMENT
COMMENT By Steve Ricketts, former chief rugby league writer, The Courier-Mail. OLD SCHOOL DIGNITY Trevor Gillmeister is a class act. There were no histrionics from the former Queensland State of […]
FLASHBACK: January 1986
The damage being done to the Brisbane competition by Sydney raids was graphically illustrated by The Courier-Mail’s list of Gains and Losses for the nine clubs. With the help of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 22, 2015
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27. To Bundaberg for the funeral of Marie’s elderly Aunty Beryl Geraghty (nee Currie), who died last week. Her late husband, Laurie was in the Light Horse in World War […]
