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 […]
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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 […]
FLASHBACK: FEBRUARY 2009
FEBRUARY 2009 Gold Coast Titans v New Zealand Warriors at Oakes Oval, Lismore, was a dream assignment for me. It was a match in the town where I was born, […]
THERE’S NOTHING SO DREAR
There are few things sadder, from a community point of view, than the closure of a much loved ‘local’. Now, I don’t wish to glorify drinking. This item is all […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 25, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 25 2017 MONDAY, JUNE 19 A lazy last day on Sicily at the Grand Hotel Villa Igiea. Marie and I say farewell […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 21, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 21, 2017 MONDAY, MAY 22 Billy Slater misses out on a place in the Queensland State of Origin side, something I had […]
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: Week 14, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 14, 2017 TUESDAY, APRIL 4 Morning tea with Ron and Annie McIntosh, former managers of our Hermitage Gardens town house estate, who have […]
BYRON BLUES AND REGRETS
Trips to Byron Bay always terrified me. I’m talking quite some time back, and it was nothing to do with the traffic, alternative life style people or anti-vaxxers. No, back […]
BAD DAY AT SERCOMBE FIELD
Rugby League Grand finals are always memorable, win or lose. After winning both my grand finals in the under-18 grade – in 1968 and ’70 – it was almost as […]
