Luke Ricketson
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| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Luke Ricketson | |
| Date of birth | February 5, 1973 | |
| Place of birth | Forster, Australia | |
| Nickname | Ricko | |
| Position | Lock | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| Bondi United | ||
| Professional clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (points) |
| 1991-2005 | Eastern Suburbs | 301 (162) |
| Representative teams | ||
| 1996-1997 1999-2003 2000 2003 |
City Origin New South Wales Ireland Australia |
2 10 (8) 4 4 |
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* Professional club appearances and points |
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Luke Ricketson is a former Australian rugby league player who played for the Sydney Roosters.
"Ricko" as he was known, became, over the course of his career, one of the most respected players to pull on the Red White and Blue of the Bondi club. He was known mostly for his tireless work in defence, where he set a benchmark for effort. Ricketson was not a typical Lock forward, in that his main asset wasn't his ability to run the ball, and pass it. He started out his First Grade career as a winger or centre, and gradually moved closer to the action in the middle of the field as his career went on. He was picked in representative teams (NSW and Australia) due to his reading of the opposition attack, and his ability to be in the right place to make tackles, and to stop the big opposition forwards from making too much ground. In the latter stages of his career, he began to run the ball more often, and take the pressure off some of his bigger teammates.
One interesting fact about the early part of Ricketson's career is that his debut game of first grade for the Roosters co-incided with the final game of two of the great players of the 80's and early 90's, Kiwi International Hugh McGahan, and Manly, Queensland and Kangaroo legend Paul "Fatty" Vautin, who played out his last two seasons of first grade with the Roosters.
He appeared on the fourth series on the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars.
[edit] References
Like father like son The Sydney Morning Herald [1]
