DIARY UPDATE: Week 40, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 40 2018 MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 The Tweed Daily News is 130 years old. I started my journalistic career at the paper on […]
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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 […]
RUGBY LEAGUE VIOLENCE AT TWICKENHAM
Testicle grabbing and hand stomping. It was all part of the England v Australia World Cup rugby league match at London’s Twickenham Stadium on October 28, 2000. It was the […]
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 […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 38, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 38 2017 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Start of a new ‘era’. No more Brothers’ Leagues Club. It has closed its doors, because of […]
BAN LIFTED FOR PR REASONS
by Steve Ricketts It was the tour which saw Wayne Bennett lift the media ban he had imposed on me, three years earlier. The peace accord was brokered by Australian […]
SIGN OF THINGS TO COME
What a time for a sports journalist to take a holiday! It was September, 2000; the Sydney Olympics were being held, and my editor told me to go on leave! […]
GAVIN COOPER – BETTER WITH AGE
It was a Gold Coast Titans’ training session at Runaway Bay in 2007 when former Queensland State of Origin forward, Scott Sattler told me Gavin Cooper reminded him of Gorden […]
FLASHBACK: February 1997
St George signings, Gorden Tallis and Anthony Mundine sounded an ominous warning to rival Super League clubs with a smooth transition into the Broncos free flowing style of football in […]
FLASHBACK: January 1997
After 18 months self imposed exile from rugby league, Gorden ‘Raging Bull’ Tallis made his return to the playing field – for Australia against the United States in the inaugural Super […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 19, 2015
TUESDAY, MAY 5 To French restaurant, Lutece tonight for an Alsace Wine dinner. Marie and I and our three children spent a lovely week in the Alsace in 1990, staying in […]
FLASHBACK: January 1965
BRISBANE Easts pulled off a major coup for the game in Queensland when they signed ‘The Little Master’, Clive Churchill as non-playing coach. Churchill, who had coached Canterbury-Bankstown in 1964, […]
