DIARY UPDATE: Week 27, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 27 2020 MONDAY, JULY 6 Former Brisbane Souths’ rugby league forward, Eric Pappas doesn’t like the new look rugby league. “It is […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 22, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 22 2020 MONDAY, JUNE 1 How long has this been here? That is the reaction of my wife, Marie and I as […]
2002 MY LAST SUPPORTERS’ TOUR
Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and/or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not in the […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 14, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 14 2019 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 My physio, Paula Nutting’s brother, Bill is interviewed in The Courier-Mail about the family business, Brett’s Hardware. […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 4, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 4 2019 TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 MY grandmother, Polly Kelly, would not grant the wishes of her daughter (my mum) to board at […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 3, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 3 2019 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 Lunch at Montague Pub, West End with fellow members of the Beer and Beef club, to discuss […]
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 […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 29, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 29 2018 TUESDAY, JULY 17 Rugby League Hall of Fame’s new inductees are Mark Graham, Cliff Lyons, Ricky Stuart, Petero Civoniceva, Gorden […]
DANISH LADS ON SONG
What could go wrong? The singing from the cellar bar in down town Copenhagen, Denmark, sounded like a bunch of footy fans enjoying a few beers before a match. So […]
IT’S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS
Rocket fuel! That best described the liqueur I shouted 43 fellow Australians (and one Welshman), in a posh Strasbourg restaurant, one October night in 1994. My intentions were good. My […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 12, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 12 2018 MONDAY, MARCH 19 A fire engine stops, and the firemen wave as I take our grandsons, Ethan and Connor to […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 37, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 37 2017 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Former Test rugby league centre, Dale Shearer is keen for his biography to be written, and I […]
EUROPEAN ODYSSEY TOUR
The 9/11 terror attacks on the United States in 2001 made air travel, particularly international flights, unappealing for many people. So it was an absolute miracle that my fourth, and final, ‘supporters’ […]
CAN I HAVE ICE WITH THAT?
As my 1990 Kangaroo Supporters’ Tour, ‘Regis’ coach pulled up outside the Hindhead Hotel in Surrey, England, I reinforced to my 33 loyal ‘subjects’, that ‘When in Rome, do as […]
DIARY UPDATE: 2015 becomes 2016!
Monday December 28. Our eldest son, Damien texts with the wonderful news that he and wife, Emma are parents – a beautiful baby girl, Parker Kerri Ricketts has been born. […]
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