DIARY UPDATE: Week 25, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 25 2021 MONDAY, JUNE 21 Former Wallabies’ hooker, Mark McBain rates French halfback, Antoine Dupont the best player in the world. McBain, […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 25 2021 MONDAY, JUNE 21 Former Wallabies’ hooker, Mark McBain rates French halfback, Antoine Dupont the best player in the world. McBain, […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 44 2020 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 EXCLUSIVE. Wallaby Star, Andrew Slack to Switch to Rugby League. Well, it would have been a nice […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 40 MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 Newcastle was held in the same high regard as Brisbane, when I played rugby league on the Tweed. […]
FLASHBACK JANUARY 1981 There is nothing new about the struggle to get kids to play that toughest of all team body contact sports, rugby league. When I was growing up […]
This is an article I wrote for The Courier-Mail in October, 1995, but to my knowledge was never published, not for sinister reasons. I think it was simply a lack […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 46 2019. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Bush-fire smoke has cleared enough to be able to see Broken Head for the first time, from […]
JUNE 1980 Australian centre, Chris Close was sent off by referee, Jack ’10 yards’ Percival, after a wild brawl in the tour match against a veteran Maori side at Hastings […]
December 1994 The Queensland Rugby League State of Origin ‘brains trust’ had a new look, heading into the 1995 season, with Wayne Bennett returning as coach, replacing Wally Lewis. Bennett […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alex Murphy, one of the greats of British rugby league, took a pot shot at the egos of Australian players during a talent scouting trip ‘down under’ for the St […]
State of Origin stalwarts, Chris Close, Colin Scott and Dave Brown were axed from the Queensland side to play New South Wales in the second match of the 1986 series. […]
Paul Vautin’s Queensland, the most maligned team in State of Origin history, clinched the 1995 series with a 20-12 win over New South Wales in the return match at the […]
COACHED by former Test halfback, Barry Muir, Queensland Country put up a brave showing against City at Lang Park, and won six places in the State side to face New South Wales. […]
EASTS’ lock, John Tobin scored the decisive try three minutes from fulltime as the Roosters carved out a 14-4 win over Combined Brisbane at Lang Park in the opening Tooth […]
The arrival of Test coach, Frank Stanton raised the hopes of Redcliffe supporters, with the club experiencing a premiership drought going back to their inaugural title in 1965, when Henry […]