ORIGIN FOOTBALL AT CROSSROADS
COMMENT by Steve Ricketts, former Chief Rugby League Writer, The Courier-Mail Good luck to rugby league administrators next year, as they try to promote State of Origin as ‘The Best […]
Category Archives: The Column
WELL DONE ROOSTERS
Take a bow Trent Robinson. If every coach was like the Sydney Roosters’ boss, maybe our game would be known, and played, more widely. Robinson took his NRL championship winning […]
SIGN OF THINGS TO COME
What a time for a sports journalist to take a holiday! It was September, 2000; the Sydney Olympics were being held, and my editor told me to go on leave! […]
MORNINGTON ISLAND CONVOY
‘Eliza Fraser’ will never go down as one of the best movies made in Australia. The 1976 bawdy adventure didn’t have a massive budget, but involved quite a large logistical […]
WHAT NOW FOR FRINGE PLAYERS?
They were unsettling times for fringe players – the period leading up to the start of the inaugural NRL season in 1998. The Australian Rugby League and Super League were […]
DID BIG MAL PLAY 500 GAMES?
Melbourne Storm skipper, Cameron Smith already holds the record for most appearances in first grade, and, if he plays another two seasons as planned, his tally will be hard to […]
PACK YOUR BAGS GATOR
It’s not often you get to tell a young man he has just been selected for Australia. But I had that honor in 1983 when second rower, Wally Fullerton Smith […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
