Career
He now presents weekend radio shows called "Weekends with Warren" on American Broadcasting Company Local Radio stations across Queensland, Australia, broadcasting from the studios of 612 American Broadcasting Company Brisbane. Boland"s radio broadcasts can be heard from 9am-midday (10am-midday outside Brisbane) on Saturdays and from 10am-midday on Sundays. Warren"s contract at 612ABC was not renewed at the end of 2013 and he was replaced in the lineup.
A halfback in high school, Boland recalled being rejected due to his small stature.
"After I had gone to try out for the school side in Year 11, I was told to go away and grow some more," he said. From 1979, he played five seasons with the Western Suburbs Magpies.
He often captained the side from his position of wing, including in the 1980 semi-final campaign. A broken leg suffered in the 1981 pre-season saw some questioning whether his career was over, but he returned to first grade in late July.
He was again captaining the side in the 1982 semi-finals appearance, before retiring in 1983 at the relatively young age of 28.
He was later named as winger and captain of Western Suburbs Magpies Team of the Eighties. Warren Boland was considered an anomaly in the tough Western Suburbs teams of his time which had a strong reputation as being working class "battlers" and included such players as Tommy Raudonikis, Les Boyd and John "Dallas" Donnelly. He was described as, "well-educated, articulate, ambitious, and deeply concerned with social issues." An arts graduate of Macquarie University, Boland hosted a "social issues" radio show on 2SM during his time as a player.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Boland commentated on the American Broadcasting Company-television"s Saturday afternoon New South Wales Rugby League / Australian Rugby League matches, generally alongside co-caller David Morrow and fellow ex-players David Wright, John Peard and Arthur Beetson as well as Debbie Spillane.
Warren Boland also covered the 1990 Kangaroo Tour of Great Britain and France for the American Broadcasting Company (David Morrow actually worked with Channel 10 during the British leg), calling the two tests the Australian Kangaroos played against France on the French leg of the tour. Following this, he worked for Fox Sports in 1997-1998.
During the football season these days, he co-hosts the American Broadcasting Company-television coverage of Queensland Cup rugby league matches. These telecasts are broadcast within Queensland on American Broadcasting Company-television and across Australia on both Fox Sports and digital channel ABC2 (free-to-air channel 21, pay television channel 126).
On 29 April 2010, Warren was named the inaugural 612 American Broadcasting Company Brisbane Employee of the Week.
Well known for his intelligent sense of humour, Boland played "Pete the French Polisher" on the American Broadcasting Company-television show Club Buggery in the mid-1990s. Boland is also famous for his trademark moustache.
