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 […]
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 […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 10 2021 MONDAY, MARCH 8 Former rugby league television commentator, George Doniger and I swap yarns about Kangaroo Supporters’ tours of the […]
AUGUST 1986 Wynnum-Manly’s Test rugby league skipper, Wally Lewis welcomed the prospect of a Brisbane side entering the New South Wales competition in 1987, describing it as the salvation of […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 50 2020 MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 John Leahy says it is a misconception that Tweed product, Lionel Morgan was the first indigenous man […]
FLASHBACK NOVEMBER 1995 Former Wallaby, Garrick Morgan’s return to rugby union was confirmed, after he struggled in rugby league, playing for new club, the South Queensland Crushers, under novice coach, […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 20 2020 MONDAY, MAY 18 The brewery and a butcher shop on Mt Tamborine have closed. Victims of Covid? Or perhaps their […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 28 2019 MONDAY, JULY 15 Coffee from Lure, Yeppoon is yummy. Young bloke out front, with his dog, looks the archetpyal ‘bushie’. […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 18 2019 MONDAY, MAY 6 ‘Cash-only’ is the mantra at the Dayboro Hotel’s public bar on this Labor Day public holiday. No […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK FIVE 2019 MONDAY, JANUARY 28 Australian rocker, Billy Thorpe’s version of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ is played on Ray Hadley’s radio program. […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 3 2019 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 Lunch at Montague Pub, West End with fellow members of the Beer and Beef club, to discuss […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 49 2018 MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 Drive to our youngest lad, Lliam’s place at Auchenflower, via Red Hill, where a huge media scrum […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 47 2018 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 ‘Schoolies’ is in full swing on the Gold Coast as my wife, Marie and I drive back […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 45 2018 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Brothers Tom and Liam Duggan are my interview subjects, in Toowoomba, for Men of League magazine. Liam […]
Australian Rugby League skipper, Wally Lewis was heckled by spectators at the Sydney Cricket Ground, as he made a speech following the Kangaroos’ 20-7 win over Great Britain, to clinch […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 29 2018 TUESDAY, JULY 17 Rugby League Hall of Fame’s new inductees are Mark Graham, Cliff Lyons, Ricky Stuart, Petero Civoniceva, Gorden […]
APRIL 1994 Broncos’ Test prop, Glenn Lazarus entered into an agreement with coach, Wayne Bennett that he would forfeit $1,000 from his pay cheque the next time he was seen […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 49 2017 MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 BRIBIE Island is the destination today as we entertain our English guests, Terry and Joyce Holmes. Coffee […]
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 39 2017 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Our daughter, Melanie phones at 4 a.m. Her flight back to Hong Kong (from Brisbane) has been cancelled […]
It may have been a more relaxed time in the early days of the Broncos, but superstars like halfback, Allan Langer still had plenty of pressure. There was the pressure […]
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 […]