January 19, 2023: Balmain Two Tribes launch this Sunday at The Sackville, Rozelle
We shall commence festivities at 1.30pm; live music at 3pm.
WE had a great roll-up at the Cronulla launch last night: David Gallop, Steve Gillis, Peter Gow, Scott Longmuir, Michael and Monique McDonald, Barry and Greg Pierce, Shane Richardson, Adam Ritson and more.
Time to pick up the pace, though.
The Sackville in Rozelle gets rave reviews from none other than Kerry Hemsley - that’s a good enough recommendation for me.
There is even live music on Sundays from 3pm.
See you there this Sunday from 1.30pm.
LINDSAY OFFERS TO GIVE WAY FOR PEACE
Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, November 13 1997
WORLD Rugby League Board chairman Maurice Lindsay has offered to stand down in the interests of peace in Australia.
Lindsay, the chief executive of Britain's Rugby Football League who took over from Ken Arthurson when the international game switched to Super League two years ago, said he wouldn't stand in the way of an ARL appointee again heading the governing body.
Under a peace proposal already tabled at talks between ARL chief executive Neil Whittaker and News Ltd director of sport Ian Frykberg, the establishment regains control of the Australian team.
"I never wanted Ken's job I would have been happy for Ken to retire," Lindsay said on Tuesday night.
"It wasn't as though I was pushing to be International Board chairman.
"Right now, if there is compromise in Australia, and it suits the arrangement for a different structure to be in place and I can help by letting someone in the ARL to be world No 1, I don't need any more labels on my jacket."
Lindsay revealed the World Board would earn about $200,000 for its international development fund from the Anglo-Australian series, which concludes on Sunday at Elland Road here.
But he said he wanted to continue having a say in the running of the game internationally and was determined membership of the board would not return to the pre-Super League level of just five.
"On the contrary, I want to take it from 10 to 20," he said.
He estimated Super League Australia's gross earnings from the expected aggregate gate of 120,000 would be about $1 million.
In Test news, Australian second-rower Gorden Tallis has been placed off-limits to the British media as the focus on him intensifies before Sunday's deciding Test.
Tallis, who claimed to have been baited and head-butted in the Second Test, and was sin-binned and reported after he responded, has been attacked on consecutive days by Great Britain team manager Phil Lowe.
Previously best-known in Britain for his toe-to-toe stoush with Wigan prop Terry O'Connor during the World Club Challenge, Tallis's reputation as a fiery player seems to be being used as a marketing ploy as the Test heads towards a 40,000 sellout,
"It seems every English journalist wants to talk to Gorden, and he says he is simply getting too many calls to get anything else done," team manager Robert Finch said on Tuesday night.
"He wasn't happy with the situation, so we have had to draw a line and he won't be doing any more interviews with the British press."
Tallis is determined not to be provoked into ill-discipline this weekend, telling reporters he plans to play "like a robot".
With the Brisbane tearaway out of the public eye, the spotlight has moved to New Zealand referee Phil Houston, who will control the biggest game of his life as Britain try to end a 38-year home drought in Anglo-Australian Tests.
British coach Andy Goodway told a media conference on Tuesday that Houston, who will have refereed more Tests than top-level club games by Sunday night, was "a worry" to both sides.
"I think there would be concerns with the inconsistences of his rulings from both sides," he said.
Australian centre Ryan Girdler was able to train on Tuesday despite his knee problem but remains in doubt, while three-quarter Brett Mullins (leg) is in severe doubt.