DIARY UPDATE: Week 47, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 47 2019 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Former Valleys’ premiership winning halfback, Ross Threlfo has died, aged 77, in a nursing home at Ballina […]
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GIVE ME MAD MONDAY, NOT MADMEN
TRAVEL The London bombings of July 7, 2005 sent shock waves through the Ricketts’ household at Tedman Street, Zillmere in Brisbane, given our two eldest children, Melanie and Damien lived […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 32, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 32 2019 MONDAY, AUGUST 12 Australians, Craig Young and Danny Buderus, along with New Zealanders, Ruben Wiki and Stacey Jones are announced […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 31, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 31 2019 MONDAY, AUGUST 5 Former Courier-Mail colleague, Mark Mazzaglia now works at Ladbrokes, Lutwyche, where my former sports editor, Karl deKroo […]
END OF HOSTILITIES
Chris Johns’ appointment as manager of the Australian team for the 2004 Trans-Tasman rugby league Test in Newcastle was viewed as a controversial one in some quarters. Johns was an […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 25, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 25 2019 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 Our daughter-in-law, Channelle says the food was ordinary at a business breakfast at the Convention Centre, South […]
CAPTAIN COOK BICENTENARY CELEBRATIONS 1970
When I met ‘The Queen’ on April 30, 1970, the conversation went (exactly) like this. (It’s not something you forget). Her Majesty: What is your name? Yours truly: Stephen Ricketts. […]
MY FIRST KANGAROO SUPPORTERS TOUR
TRAVEL Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 17, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 17 2019 MONDAY, APRIL 29 Radio TAB’s Peter Psaltis says the Newcastle Knights have a reputation as a party club. Psaltis has […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 9, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 9 2019 MONDAY, MARCH 4 The Courier-Mail’s Peter Badel asks new Brisbane Broncos’ coach, Anthony Siebold if he will continue with plans […]
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 […]
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 […]
