AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND Former Queensland State of Origin coach and player, Michael Hagan will deliver the 2019 Ross Livermore Memorial Lecture, at Queensland Rugby League Central, Castlemaine Street, Milton, on Saturday, […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 1 2018 MONDAY, JANUARY 1 A Cardiff v Scarletts rugby union match is my first live sport for 2018, and it is […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 52 2017 MONDAY, DECEMBER 25 Small congregation at Christmas Day Mass at St Columba’s Wilston. Marie and I have lunch at Sprout […]
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 […]
APRIL 1979 Wally Lewis, Ross Strudwick and Peter McWhirter were rated ‘the most deadly rugby league trio in town’ after Valleys began the 1979 Brisbane premiership campaign with a 30-8 […]
MARCH 1949 Queensland members of the 1948-49 Kangaroo rugby league touring squad to Britain and France, returned to Brisbane on March 12, seven months after they had begun their momentous […]
by Steve Ricketts It was the tour which saw Wayne Bennett lift the media ban he had imposed on me, three years earlier. The peace accord was brokered by Australian […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 28, 2017 MONDAY, JULY 10 Barry Dick and Wayne ‘Ticker’ Heming are inducted into the Media Hall Fame at Suncorp Stadium, alongside […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 26, 2017 MONDAY, JUNE 26 Day six of our cruise on Silversea’s newest ship, Silver Muse. We are moored off Taormina, Sicily, […]
JANUARY 1979 The Courier-Mail’s Barry Dick trumpeted Mal Meninga as a player to watch in the 1979 Brisbane Rugby League season, after the giant centre starred for the Queensland under-18s […]
