DIARY UPDATE: Week 5, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK FIVE 2019 MONDAY, JANUARY 28 Australian rocker, Billy Thorpe’s version of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ is played on Ray Hadley’s radio program. […]
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IT’S NOT THAT BAD, LADS (AND LASSES)
TRAVEL A week in Leeds! The 44 people who had signed up for my 1994 Kangaroo rugby league supporters’ tour were horrified, when I first raised the prospect. ‘Leeds? It’s […]
A GRAND PUB CRAWL
TRAVEL “It sounds like a glorified pub crawl to me,” said my mate, Andrew Varley as I contemplated the 234km Grand Union Canal, tow path walk in England – from […]
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 […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 36, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 36 2018 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 Day 26 of our British/Irish adventure and we are staying with friends, Andrew and Sandy Varley at […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 35, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 35 2018 MONDAY, AUGUST 27 Day 19 of Britain/Ireland adventure and we head north from London to Lymm in Cheshire, where we […]
DRUNKEN KIWI STEALS HEARTS AT WEMBLEY
It could have been an absolute disaster, but it had a happy ending. For the first and only time in my life, I sold a ticket to a scalper, outside […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 16, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 16 2018 THURSDAY, APRIL 19 Sydney Telegraph’s editor at large, Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield Tweets that rugby league is now officially shit. After […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 9, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 9 2018 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Bruny Island Cruises take us on a sensational jet boat trip around the south eastern tip of […]
FLASHBACK: May 1989
Great Britain five eighth, Shaun Edwards made an impressive Sydney rugby league debut for Balmain in the Tigers’ 12-2 win over a gutsy Gold Coast Seagulls’ outfit at Leichhardt Oval. […]
2019 ROSS LIVERMORE MEMORIAL LECTURE: AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND
AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND Former Queensland State of Origin coach and player, Michael Hagan will deliver the 2019 Ross Livermore Memorial Lecture, at Queensland Rugby League Central, Castlemaine Street, Milton, on Saturday, […]
LEEDS’ RICH RUGBY HISTORY
‘Leeds used to be a rugby town’, a bloke said to me as I waited for my Indian takeaway at the nearby ‘Home Bar’ at Roundhay, in November, 2009. He […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 33, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 33 2017 TUESDAY, AUGUST 15 My wife, Marie goes to ‘The Ekka’ (Royal Agricultural Show) – early – to see the animals, […]
MAL NOT IMPRESSED BY BITING CLAIMSÂ
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. […]
Diary entry: Week 12, 2015
THURSDAY, MARCH 19 ‘Freddy’ Fittler on Channel 9 says he loves XXXX Gold. “You can drink 20 of them”. Hear today of a dispute between Brothers Seniors and Juniors (rugby league) […]
Diary entry – Week 4, 2015
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20. To the movies to see ‘Birdman’. Very good, and one cannot accuse Michael Keaton of vanity. Photographer mate of mine in England, Andrew Varley, has extended his […]
