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 10, 2021
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 […]
FLASHBACK: AUGUST 1986
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 UPDATE: Week, 50, 2020
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
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 UPDATE: Week 20, 2020
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 UPDATE: Week 28, 2019
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 UPDATE: Week 18, 2019
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 UPDATE: Week 5, 2019
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 UPDATE: Week 3, 2019
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 UPDATE: Week 49, 2018
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 UPDATE: Week 47, 2018
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 UPDATE: Week 45, 2018
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 […]
FLASHBACK: July 1984
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 UPDATE: Week 29, 2018
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 […]
FLASHBACK: April 1994
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 UPDATE: Week 49, 2017
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 UPDATE: Week 39, 2018
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 […]
THE FANS LOVE ALF
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 […]
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 […]
Steve Ricketts 