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 […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 30, 2021
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 UPDATE: Week 24, 2021
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 UPDATE: Week 14, 2021
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 UPDATE: Week 9, 2021
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 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 […]
TOM TERRIFIC COULD NOT BE CAGED
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 UPDATE: Week 33, 2020
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 UPDATE: Week 30, 2020
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 […]
FROM TEXAS TO ALICE SPRINGS, VIA WYNNUM AND BLACKPOOL
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 UPDATE: Week 49, 2018
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 UPDATE: Week 8, 2019
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 […]
Dash it all
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 UPDATE: Week 4, 2018
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 UPDATE: Week 40, 2017
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 UPDATE: Week 31, 2017
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 UPDATE: Week 28, 2017
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: Give Ipswich a go
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 […]
CORBETT PARK NOSTALGIA
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 […]
FLASHBACK: May 1977
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 […]
Steve Ricketts 