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 […]
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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 […]
