DIARY UPDATE: Week 2, 2016
WEEK 2 2016 MONDAY, JANUARY 11 Our sister-in-law, Beth Donnelly has dinner with us at our Grange residence. Marie’s brother, Kevin, is a house painter, and has been painting National […]
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FLASHBACK: December 1986
Australia belted France 52-0 at Carcassonne in a Test match that also was played for World Cup points. Australian winger, Dale Shearer scored four tries and fullback, Garry Jack three, in […]
FLASHBACK: February 1956
Vandalism is not really something we associate with ‘sedate’ 1950s Australia, but it’s a sad fact that rugby league was on the receiving end of a blatant bit of public desecration […]
FLASHBACK: January 1996
LONDON Broncos released disgruntled former Australian Test fullback, Paul Hauff from his contract, two months before the start of the inaugural (summer) Super League season. New London coach, former Australian Test […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 23, 2015
TUESDAY, JUNE 2 Racing guru, Bart Sinclair turns 65 today. Still not a hair out of place. It is wonderful to see that my my former Brisbane ‘Telegraph’ colleague, Rod […]
FLASHBACK: January 1984
Easts’ 1983 grand final hero, Wayne Lindenberg, 28, confirmed he would not play for the Tigers in the new season, after announcing his ‘retirement’ from the code during Queensland’s tour […]
Parochial Maroons
THE parochialism of Queenslanders is to be admired in many circumstances, but card carrying members of the local league fraternity have gone too far in describing the Intrust Super Cup […]
FLASHBACK: March 1991
English club, Bradford Northern parted company with Australian coach, Ron Willey and appointed Tommy Smales and David Hobbs in a caretaker role. Willey, a former Manly, Penrith and NSW State […]
Steve Ricketts 