DIARY UPDATE: Week 2, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 2 2019 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9 Radio TAB’s John McCoy played rugby union for Gregory Terrace against The Southport School, in a curtain […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 51, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 51 2018 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 Nate Searle, the son of former Gold Coast Titans’ rugby league chief executive, Michael Searle, almost drowns […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 50, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 50 2018 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 Spend the night at my brother, Jeffrey’s place at South Tweed Heads. Jeff reminds me that, when he […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 33, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 33 2018 MONDAY, AUGUST 13 It is day five of our UK/Ireland trip and I am hanging out for a coffee, in […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 27, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 27 2018 TUESDAY, JULY 3 Interview Broncos’ foundation player, Billy Noke over coffee at Logan Hyper Dome. He tells yarns about his […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 19, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 19 2018 MONDAY, MAY 7 Several Labor Day marchers down a few ales at Stafford Tavern. One eyewitness to the march, tells […]
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 10, 2015
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 10 2018 MONDAY, MARCH 5 The Bay of Fires is our Tasmanian base for another two nights. Our boat trip on the […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 9, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 9 2018 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Bruny Island Cruises take us on a sensational jet boat trip around the south eastern tip of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 51, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 51 2017 MONDAY, DECEMBER 18 New South Wales State of Origin rugby league coach, Brad ‘Freddy’ Fittler joins my wife, Marie and […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 44, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 44 2017 MONDAY, OCTOBER 30 Sue Calder, the widow of former Queensland Men of League chief executive, Steve Calder, has joined our […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 42, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 42 2017 MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 Our first full day at Agnes Water on the Central Queensland coast. We visit neighboring Town of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 34, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 34 2017 MONDAY, AUGUST 21 Our youngest son, Lliam takes me for a tour of his Supply Partners Solar Energy equipment supply […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLBOYS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH
COMMENT By Steve Ricketts, former chief rugby league writer, The Courier-Mail. Australia’s schoolboy rugby league players have lost some of their aura in the professional age. The academy system in […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 2, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 2 2017 MONDAY, JANUARY 9 Field a call from former ‘Courier-Mail’ colleague, Mike Colman, who has been tasked with exploring commercial opportunities […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 35, 2016
WEEK 35 2016 TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 Haircut from Paul ‘The Barber’ at Zillmere. The little cafe next door is licensed now. Paul’s side-kick, Chaz, has quit and cuts hair at home. […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 51, 2015
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 Our youngest son, Lliam shouts me to the movie, ‘Creed’ at Indooroopilly, after a meal in Vietnamese restaurant. A couple of young blokes leave the movie early, […]
