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Note: Shane Webcke with Ian Heads.
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Hard Road : Tough Thoughts on a Tough Game
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'Shane Webcke's memoir Warhorse was the surprise bestseller of 2006, with sales of 40,000 trade paperbacks. Now, in Hard Road, Webcke brings his story up to date and turns his tough and uncompromising gaze to the game of rugby league itself - free to say what he really thinks now that he's no longer a contracted player.

'Webcke gives us the inside running on the dramatic 2006 finals series, including the controversial coaching strategy employed by the Brisbane Broncos in the lead-up to their 2006 NRL Premiership triumph. From the highs of that euphoric victory to the lows of getting lost in the post-retirement maze, Webcke's unflinchingly honest and down-to-earth views are both revealing and insightful.

'Webcke then tackles the game of rugby league in Australia and shows no mercy. His sometimes brutal honesty on everything from Wayne Bennett quitting the Broncos and players drunken behaviour, to the inclusion of a disgraced Joey Johns in the Team of the Century and rugby league's rivalry with rugby union, will send shockwaves through rugby league's administrators, the media, the players and the game's fan base. Webcke's strong, commonsense suggestions for the future of the game in Australia throw down a gauntlet to the game's administrators, and will make the league sit up and pay attention.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan Macmillan Australia , 2009 .
      Extent: 310p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 1 April 2009. (Note: on 24 March 2009, one week before the due publication date, Shane Webcke asked Pan Macmillan to pulp Hard Road. He then re-considered his request and publication proceeded a planned.)
      ISBN: 9781405038874

Works about this Work

How Could I Have Been So Naive? Paul Crawley (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 29 March 2009; (p. 9)
Tangled Webcke Halts Pulping of Book Glenn Jackson , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 March 2009; (p. 36)
Glenn Jackson reports that Shane Webcke rescinded his decision to ask for Hard Road to be pulped and for Webcke to buy out the copyright. Webcke's initial reluctance to publish related to his chapter on the behaviour of Broncos football players. The release of the full version of the book proceeded as planned.
Writer's Block : Webcke Asks Publishers to Pulp His Autobiography Brad Walter , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 2009; (p. 38)
Writer's Block : Webcke Asks Publishers to Pulp His Autobiography Brad Walter , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 March 2009; (p. 38)
Tangled Webcke Halts Pulping of Book Glenn Jackson , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 March 2009; (p. 36)
Glenn Jackson reports that Shane Webcke rescinded his decision to ask for Hard Road to be pulped and for Webcke to buy out the copyright. Webcke's initial reluctance to publish related to his chapter on the behaviour of Broncos football players. The release of the full version of the book proceeded as planned.
How Could I Have Been So Naive? Paul Crawley (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 29 March 2009; (p. 9)
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