THORNETT BOYS WERE PRODUCTS OF A GOLDEN AGE.
The Burgess Brothers. As much as I love them, they are not in the same class as the Thornett brothers. Let me explain. The reason I love the Burgess boys […]
Author Archives: SteveRicketts
DIARY UPDATE: Week 19, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 19 2017 MONDAY, MAY 8 Hermitage Gardens manager, Harry Moore says the company that erected new fences here, wont be back. The […]
MAL NOT IMPRESSED BY BITING CLAIMS
Thank heavens the worldwide web was in its infancy in 1992, otherwise the accompanying photograph of me with Great Britain rugby league coach, Mal Reilly, might never have been taken. […]
FLASHBACK: January 1949
JANUARY 1949 MARSEILLES was the setting of Australia’s first post-war rugby league Test against France, and the crowd of 15,679 got full value for money in a free flowing, fiery […]
GRAND UNION CANAL WALK
BRITISH Waterways and rugby league. What do they have in common? Quite a lot actually, given that a big part of Britain’s canal system runs through rugby league heartland, the […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 18, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 18 2017 TUESDAY, MAY 2 Tweed rugby league stalwart, Bill Carroll phones to say Robert ‘Foxy’ Graham passed away yesterday. ‘Foxy’ was […]
CAN I HAVE ICE WITH THAT?
As my 1990 Kangaroo Supporters’ Tour, ‘Regis’ coach pulled up outside the Hindhead Hotel in Surrey, England, I reinforced to my 33 loyal ‘subjects’, that ‘When in Rome, do as […]
TOURING WITH ‘PINK’
HAVING bought Rugby League Week every week since the first edition in 1970 (when I was still at school), it was a great thrill to be able to cover the […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 17, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 17 2017 TUESDAY, APRIL 25 ANZAC Day Dawn Service at The Gap, and there is a big turn-out, for the service itself […]
COMMENT: WE SHOULD HAVE PAID THE MANAGERS
Player-managers – I didn’t have a great deal to do with them during my 32 years as a rugby league writer. I certainly didn’t rely on them as much as […]
