Nov 30, 2019 League Freak Fergo and The Freak 0
In this episode we look at the 1917 NSWRL season, the impact that one little lie had on not only one club, but on an entire competition, and how the impact of World War One effected Rugby League in...Oct 23, 2019 League Freak Fergo and The Freak 0
In this episode we look at the extraordinary 1909 season which proved to be a pivotal season for Australian Rugby League. From a failed Kangaroo Tour to the famous forfeited NSWRL Final between...Oct 23, 2019 League Freak Featured Guest Writers 0
Rugby League began its second year of existence having survived a busy and financially demanding opening season, culminating in a marathon pioneering Kangaroo tour to Great Britain. With the tour...Oct 23, 2019 League Freak Featured Guest Writers 0
Dally Messenger Born: Herbert Henry Messenger on 12/4/1883 at Balmain, New South Wales Died: 24/11/1959 at Gunnedah, New South Wales It was just 20 hours before the first game of professional Rugby...Oct 23, 2019 League Freak Featured Guest Writers 0
Very few people know of the second president of the NSWRL. Largely due to the fact he served for less than a month, however Ernest Clement Vernon Broughton was the very definition of a career...Oct 23, 2019 League Freak Featured Guest Writers 0
Edward Rennix Larkin was a man who is most remembered and revered for his leadership qualities in everything he involved himself. He was a constable in the police force, a journalist, a sergeant in...Oct 22, 2019 League Freak Featured Guest Writers 0
While the legacy of the great Dally “The Master” Messenger has endured the tests of time, and rightfully so, there was another great pioneering centre who many argue was as good as Dally. Jim...Oct 22, 2019 League Freak Featured Guest Writers 0
Born in Cooks Hill on May 3, 1879, Patrick Bernard Walsh attended Newcastle Superior Public School where he received medals for running and in 1895 he received a medal for the best cricket...Oct 22, 2019 League Freak Featured Guest Writers 0
Henry Clement Hoyle’s entire life read as the perfect plan for a man to become a senior member of the Australian Labor Party and as the first presidents of the game for the working class man, Rugby...Oct 18, 2019 League Freak Podcasts 0
Renowned Rugby historian professor Tony Collins recently appeared on the Fergo and The Freak podcast to talk about the civil war that gripped Rugby in the last 1800’s. With the controlling body...