DIARY UPDATE: Week 34, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 34 2021 MONDAY, AUGUST 23 One of the great characters of Queensland sports journalism was the late Kev Keliher, who was the […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 32, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 32 2021 MONDAY, AUGUST 9 My former Telegraph Sports Editor, John Morton described Bobby Banks as the Wally Lewis of his time. […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 31, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 31 2021 MONDAY, AUGUST 2 The live streaming of Wally Lewis’s Ross Livermore Memorial Lecture proves a winner, with the Queensland Rugby […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 29, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 29 2021 MONDAY, JULY 19 St George premiership winning forward, Robin Gourley has died aged 85. In an interview with the ABC’s […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 28, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 28 2021 MONDAY, JULY 12 Sydney Telegraph’s Editor at Large, Phil Rothfield says rugby league in Queensland is in trouble, and if […]
VALE DAVE HADFIELD
You may remember him as George Dunkerley, but I remember him as Dave Hadfield from Bolton, a magnificent sports journalist and a friend, who was always entertaining company. Dave’s great […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 27, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 27 2021 MONDAY, JULY 5 My former Brisbane Brothers’ rugby league teammate, Graham Quinn, who represented Australia in 1980, lost most of […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 26, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 26 2021 MONDAY, JUNE 28 THE FIGS (Former International Greats), via secretary, Peter Hogan, seek permission to post my Flashbacks on their […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 25, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 25 2021 MONDAY, JUNE 21 Former Wallabies’ hooker, Mark McBain rates French halfback, Antoine Dupont the best player in the world. McBain, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 24, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 24 2021 MONDAY, JUNE14 Rugby league people feature prominently in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which is par for the course. We […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 23, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 23 2021 MONDAY, JUNE 7 WHEN I think of Tim Pickup, the 1972 Second Test between Australia and New Zealand at Lang […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 22, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 22 2021 MONDAY, MAY 31 The Queensland team is announced for the first match of the 2021 State of Origin series, with […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 21, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 21 2021 MONDAY, MAY 24 Former North Queensland Cowboys’ rugby league players, Gavin Cooper and Ray Thompson visit Ayr, on development work […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 20, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 20 2021 MONDAY, MAY 17 Mitch Brennan was selected for Australia in 1979, but St George told the national selectors he was […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 19, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 19 2021 MONDAY, MAY 10 My interview with Gavin Payne on EastsTV attracted 5,000 viewers, according to producer, Darryl Bogan. Brisbane Men […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 17, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 17 2021 MONDAY, APRIL 26 TIGER TV’s Gavin Payne, the former Easts’ fullback and later coach, conducts an interview with yours truly, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 16, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 16 2021 TUESDAY, APRIL 20 The cross country at Murwillumbah High School in the 1960s/early 1970s, was a real ‘country’ course, taking […]
FLASHBACK: November, 2006
NOVEMBER 2006 This post is different from the ‘classic’ Flashbacks on my website, in that is largely an extract from my diary. It is meant to give readers a look […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 15, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 15 2021 TUESDAY, APRIL 13 Former Canterbury-Bankstown and New Zealand Warriors rugby league skipper, Steve Price is my interview subject when I […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 14, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 14 2021 MONDAY, APRIL 5 Yorkshireman, Ray Knight played rugby league in Christchurch, New Zealand, packing down as a hooker between Kiwi […]
Steve Ricketts 