DIARY UPDATE: WEEK 8, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 8 2021 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 The Guineas Room, Eagle Farm is the setting for a wonderful memorial service for Paul Malone, one […]
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DIARY UPDATE: WEEK 7, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 7 2021 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15 There was no-one more competitive than Brisbane Easts’ fullback, Rodger ‘The Dodger’ Kuhn, back in 1970s Brisbane […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 52, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 52 2020/TRANSITION TO 2021 MONDAY, DECEMBER 28 Legendary dual rugby international, Ray Price played in the Sydney Journalists Rugby League competition, when […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 13, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 13 2020 MONDAY, MARCH 30 Former Balmain rugby league prop, Steve ‘Blocker’ Roach recalls his time at Warrington in England, in particular […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 5, 2020
DIARY OF RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 5 2019 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Englishman, Shaun Wane succeeds Australian, Wayne Bennett as coach of the Great Britain Rugby League side. It is […]
FLASHBACK: July 1975
JULY 1975 Queensland Rugby League Chairman, Senator Ron McAuliffe called for the Maroons to be included as a separate entity, in future international tournaments, after they came within an ace […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 35, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 35 2019 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Our river cruise from Amsterdam in the Netherlands, to Budapest in Hungary, on ‘Scenic Crystal’, is into […]
THE MAGIC OF WEMBLEY
For many years, it was the ‘done thing’ for Australian rugby league fans to stay up late, to watch the BBC’s live telecast of the English Challenge Cup final from […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 32, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 32 2019 MONDAY, AUGUST 12 Australians, Craig Young and Danny Buderus, along with New Zealanders, Ruben Wiki and Stacey Jones are announced […]
LONDON TO A BRICK ODDS
TRAVEL Who would have thought my friendship with Widnes’ bricklayer, Frank Kennedy in Australia in 1973 would lead to a stay in his country manor house in England, nearly 30 years […]
VALE FRANK MYLER
VALE FRANK MYLER Frank Myler made his first team debut for Widnes when he was just 16, in 1955. Fifteen years later he captained the Great Britain Lions rugby league […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 51, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 51 2018 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 Nate Searle, the son of former Gold Coast Titans’ rugby league chief executive, Michael Searle, almost drowns […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 18, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 18 2018 MONDAY, APRIL 30 Two blokes in a van, try to sell me a surround sound system, as I leave bottle […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 48, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 48 2017 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 English couple, Terry and Joyce Holmes are our guests on a country drive. Terry is a contributor […]
RED AND WHITE PHOENIX
The name Pannowitz is revered in the Hunter Valley district of New South Wales. So it did not come as any surprise when former Hull Kingston Rovers and Keighley (England) […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 15, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 15 2017 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 Former Broncos, South Sydney, Roosters and Titans’ forward, Ashley Harrison is guest speaker at our Men of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 12, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 12, 2017 MONDAY, MARCH 20 Attend ‘Friends of Rugby League’ function at State Parliament House, where I chat to MPs from the […]
BAD DAY AT SERCOMBE FIELD
Rugby League Grand finals are always memorable, win or lose. After winning both my grand finals in the under-18 grade – in 1968 and ’70 – it was almost as […]
FALSE ECONOMICS
by Steve Ricketts, former Chief Rugby League Writer, The Courier-Mail. It seemed to make sense, in terms of the newspaper’s budget, when I was asked to return to Brisbane, from […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 50, 2015
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 ‘Old Farts’ journos lunch at Plough Inn, South Bank. Former Lord Mayor, Sallyanne Atkinson, an ‘old’ journo, is there. We chat about State of Origin II in […]
