DIARY UPDATE: Week 16, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 16 2019 MONDAY, APRIL 22 A photograph of Wally Lewis, making his Test debut for Australia against France at the Sydney Cricket […]
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FLASHBACK: February 2010
FEBRUARY 2010. The likes of Northern Rivers’ Indigenous heroes, Lionel Morgan, Walter Slockee, Stokel Currie, Alan Lena, Billy McDermott, Claude McDermott and Gerald Chadburn came to mind as I covered […]
FIRED FOR EFFECT
BOOK REVIEW Jasper Samuel Creagh, from Wingham in New South Wales, was one of the ‘old originals’, who sailed to Europe with 13 Battery in 1915. Two years later, Creagh’s war […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 6, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK SIX 2019 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11 OzTag competitors leave lots of litter behind, at our Emerald Beach Caravan Park. Excellent coffee from Emerald […]
FLASHBACK: December 2009
DECEMBER 2009 Queensland Rugby League managing director, Ross Livermore said his organisation would not stand in the away of an independent commission taking over the game, but insisted grassroots development […]
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 […]
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 46, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 46 2018 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 It is our third, full day at Lennox Head on the Far North Coast of New South […]
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
TRAVEL Noted sports trainer, Jack Hartigan was keen to prepare Jon Ricketts for the 1949 Stawell Gift. Now, I should point out that Jack was my uncle, and Jon my […]
IS IT RICKETY GATE OR RICKETY KATE?
Travel My wife’s maiden name is Donnelly, so it seemed only right that we should visit the Donnelly River region during our motoring trip around South West Australia in January, […]
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 […]
FLASHBACK: June 1994
JUNE 1994 Wigan’s British Test rugby league winger, Martin Offiah said he feared for his life when spear tackled twice in the 20-14 World Club Challenge win over the Broncos […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 16, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 16 2018 THURSDAY, APRIL 19 Sydney Telegraph’s editor at large, Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield Tweets that rugby league is now officially shit. After […]
RING! RING! WHY DON’T YOU GIVE ME A CALL
“That’ll be the phone”, Rod Jennings said, barely able to suppress his laughter. There was a bloke, at the bar of the Swansea Rugby Union Social Club, who could perfectly […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 13, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 13 2018 MONDAY, MARCH 26 Radio TAB’s John McCoy said he was in tears, when he heard the news, Australian cricketers had […]
KERRI-ANNE SHOWED THE WAY
My late sister, Kerri-Anne was the pioneer overseas adventurer in our family, and I owe her a lot. Her tales from Britain and Europe helped plant the seeds of travel […]
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 5, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 5 2018 TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 LUNCH at Port Office Hotel with journo mates, among them Bart Sinclair, Robert ‘Crash’ Craddock, Steve Waddingham, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 1, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 1 2018 MONDAY, JANUARY 1 A Cardiff v Scarletts rugby union match is my first live sport for 2018, and it is […]
RUGBY LEAGUE’S ANZAC SPIRIT
WHEN I think of ANZAC Day and rugby league connections, gentleman footballer, Jack Rayner immediately springs to mind. My father, Jon Ricketts often mentioned Jack as one of the toughest […]
