DIARY UPDATE: Week 42, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 42 2018 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 Murwillumbah rugby league stalwart, Bill Carroll tells me of the passing of former Murwillumbah Brothers’ player, Brian […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 30, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 30 2018 MONDAY, JULY 23 Things are crook in the Northern Rivers Rugby League, with Lower Clarence forfeiting, after being down 62-0 […]
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 3, 2018
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 3 2018 TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 Former Australian rugby union skipper, Tony Shaw walks by, with his two dogs, as I walk along […]
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 […]
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 49, 2015
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Former All Black, Jonah Lomu’s memorial service from Eden Park, Auckland is live on Fox. The entire Warriors’ NRL squad is in attendance and Warriors’ Kiwi international […]
DIARY: Week 35, 2015
MONDAY, AUGUST 24 Enjoy a lovely two hour chat with former Test rugby league referee and Sheffield Shield cricket umpire, Don Lancashire and his wife, Carol at their Mount Warren […]
Diary entry: WEEK 11, 2015
TUESDAY, MARCH 10 Stuart Wagstaff dead at 90. When I think of him, the Benson and Hedges television advertisements are the first things that spring to mind. NRL 360 tonight features […]
DIARY ENTRY: Week 7, 2015
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Meet with former Brisbane representative rugby league back, Neil Wharton, who is a new addition to the staff at QRL headquarters. Neil, wants me to write prose […]
