DIARY UPDATE: Week 38, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 38 2017 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Start of a new ‘era’. No more Brothers’ Leagues Club. It has closed its doors, because of […]
Author Archives: SteveRicketts
Torrid time on the Torrens
Rugby League took me to South Australia for the first time – to cover Rams v Broncos matches, one a trial in the suburbs, the other a Super League premiership […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 37, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 37 2017 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Former Test rugby league centre, Dale Shearer is keen for his biography to be written, and I […]
FLASHBACK: March 1949
MARCH 1949 Queensland members of the 1948-49 Kangaroo rugby league touring squad to Britain and France, returned to Brisbane on March 12, seven months after they had begun their momentous […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 36, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 36 2017 Noted sports journalist, Robert ‘Crash’ Craddock, on radio TAB, says Ubet have a market on who will be last to […]
THEY LOVE BIG SIRRO IN VILLENEUVE
IN Villeneuve-sur-Lot they still talk about the time ‘big Sirro’ came to town. ‘Big Sirro’ is Paul Sironen, the former international rugby league forward who played 247 matches for his […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 35, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 35 2017 MONDAY, AUGUST 28 The family of the late, Reg ‘Bubbles Pegg, have donated his State jersey to the Queensland Rugby […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 34, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 34 2017 MONDAY, AUGUST 21 Our youngest son, Lliam takes me for a tour of his Supply Partners Solar Energy equipment supply […]
FLASHBACK: MARCH 1994
Firebrand Gold Coast Seagulls’ rugby league prop, Scott Freestone promised to keep his fists down in 1994, to repay the faith of coach, John Harvey. Freestone was dropped to reserve […]
GLORY DAYS IN CHRISTCHURCH
Christchurch before the earthquake – Such a beautiful place, and I’m sure it still is, although I haven’t been there since the disaster in 2011. I look back fondly at the […]
