FLASHBACK: May 1977
MAY 1977 Queensland hooker, Nick Geiger outplayed his highly regarded New South Wales’ rival, George Peponis in the first match of the 1977 inter-state series, under the lights at Brisbane’s […]
MAY 1977 Queensland hooker, Nick Geiger outplayed his highly regarded New South Wales’ rival, George Peponis in the first match of the 1977 inter-state series, under the lights at Brisbane’s […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 30 2021 MONDAY, JULY 26 Former Wynnum-Manly premiership winning halfback, Peter Dawes reckons the Seagulls would have beaten Sydney premiers, Canterbury-Bankstown in […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 24 2021 MONDAY, JUNE14 Rugby league people feature prominently in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which is par for the course. We […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 14 2021 MONDAY, APRIL 5 Yorkshireman, Ray Knight played rugby league in Christchurch, New Zealand, packing down as a hooker between Kiwi […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 9 2021 MONDAY, MARCH 1 Tweed Heads Seagulls, a rugby league club which lays claim to being the oldest outside Sydney and […]
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 […]
by Steve Ricketts. Tom Raudonikis took the wheel of his car, after a long lunch at the Breakfast Creek Hotel, and invited the passengers to help themselves to a beer, […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 33 2020 MONDAY, AUGUST 17 My former ‘Telegraph’ and ‘Courier-Mail’ newspaper colleague Mark Oberhardt retires from mainstream journalism after an eternity in […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 30 2020 MONDAY, JULY 27 The Courier-Mail’s chief sports writer, Robert Craddock speculates on whether the Broncos will drop young forward, Andrew […]
When rugby league fans talk about ‘what might have been’, the name Terry Saunders quickly springs to mind. Chosen for the Queensland State of Origin side in 1981, the Wynnum-Manly star’s […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 49 2018 MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 Drive to our youngest lad, Lliam’s place at Auchenflower, via Red Hill, where a huge media scrum […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 8 2019 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19 People hurry to work in up-town Hobart, as I seek out my morning coffee on the first […]
Whenever I see a dachshund, and they are back in fashion, the nightmares return. It was 1972, and I had arrived at my uncle, Bill Ricketts’ Kingaroy residence to stay […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 4 2018 MONDAY, JANUARY 22 Kerry McGreedy and his wife, Roseanne have donated South Queensland Crushers’ magazines to the QRL History Committee. […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 40 2017 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4 Chat to Gold Coast Titans’ coaching staff member, Terry Matterson at Beaches Cafe, Main Beach. His daughter […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 31 2017 TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 Former ABC boss, David Hill launches his sports book, ‘The Fair and The Foul’. I sat beside […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 28, 2017 MONDAY, JULY 10 Barry Dick and Wayne ‘Ticker’ Heming are inducted into the Media Hall Fame at Suncorp Stadium, alongside […]
COMMENT By Steve Ricketts, former chief rugby league writer, The Courier-Mail. GIVE IPSWICH A GO THE Broncos stand-alone-status in Brisbane is the stuff of envy elsewhere in the NRL, given […]
There is a plaque at Neumann Oval, Albion, to signify it was once the home ground of the mighty Fortitude Valley Rugby League Club. It is now the Allan Border […]
NORTHS’ hooker, Nick Geiger was the obvious, but somewhat controversial choice in the Queensland side to play New South Wales in the first match of the 1977 inter-state series, with […]