Friday’s inaugural Dolphins-Broncos derby marks the opening of a new chapter and also a return to a vanished golden era
– the football club which defines the river city more than any other – and the Dolphins – the NRL’s new kids on the block – goes a long way to explaining the hype behind a derby being dubbed ‘the battle for Brisbane’.
In a rabbit warren of arcade stores – op shops, two dollar stores, sellers of records and nick nacks – beside the Redcliffe jetty, Louis Murray sells rugby league merchandise from a hole in the wall he’s run for almost 20 years.Dolphins coach Wayne Bennett.awarded the NRL’s 17th franchise 18 months ago
Ash Vienna is a venue manager at the Caxton Hotel in the shadows of Lang Park. For decades, the street and the pub have been synonymous with the Broncos. The club’s legends are immortalised on its walls, and post-match revelry and scandals have played out in its beer gardens. Vienna is too young to remember it any other way.
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