Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Rugby League
THE 2026 NSW Rugby League Koori Knockout is heading coastward after Newcastle Yowies scraped home to beat Bourke Warriors 25-24 in a grand-final for the ages at Tamworth’s Riverside Sporting Complex on Monday. With the score deadlocked 24-all, a late field goal less than two minutes from full-time by former Queensland Cowboys NRL player, Kyle [...]
Rugby League
And then there were eight. After two days of do-or-die rugby league, four men’s teams and four women’s teams face off in the semi-finals of the 2025 Koori Knockout at Tamworth’s Riverside Sporting Complex today. Newcastle Yowies, who beat Newcastle All-Blacks 14-12 yesterday, play Baryugal Descendants on Field 1 at 9.10am. Baryugal Descendants announced their [...]
Cricket Season Launch
MOREE senior and junior cricket clubs launch their seasons the same day, with an innings overlap at Ron Harborne Oval next Saturday, October 11. From 9am until 1pm, Moree Junior Cricket Club will conduct a come-and-try morning for aspiring young cricketers thinking about padding up for the season. Later in the afternoon, Moree District Cricket [...]
Rugby League
MOREE Boomerangs men’s seconds, coached by Brian Saunders, will play Yuin Connections at 9.50am today in the 2025 Koori Rugby League Knockout at Tamworth’s Riverside Sporting Complex. The Moree club’s men’s firsts, coached by Chris Binge, drew the bye in the opening round of the Pool A draw and will play either Griffith 3 Ways [...]
Rugby League
THE 2025 Koori Knockout in Tamworth will be the biggest competition in the event’s history and comes to the country music capital for the first time in its 52-year history. The knock-out will bring thousands of players and visitors to Tamworth, but it’s about much more than footy. One of the largest cultural gatherings in [...]
Rugby League
MOREE Boomerangs will field six teams at the 2025 NSW Koori Rugby League Knockout in Tamworth this weekend, with nearly 150 local senior and junior players registered to represent the town and district. Hundreds of supporters will join the entourage, and such is the groundswell of local support, the Lake Keepit Sport and Recreation Centre [...]
Sport
PROUD Pally girl and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks backrower Rhiannon Byers was crowned the 2025 Veronica White Medallist at the Dally M Awards in Sydney on Wednesday night. Presented by Westpac, the annual awards recognise the efforts of players who have not only achieved on the field but have made exceptional contributions off the field in their [...]
Our Community
IT was proven conclusively at the weekend the hugely successful Run the Plains festival is here to stay after organisers received 800 registrations – double the number recorded at last year’s inaugural event. Hundreds of visitors joined hundreds of locals to take part in running events designed for all ages and abilities, over varying distances [...]
Racing Legacy
IN 1999, Nyngan racehorse trainer Rodney Robb bought a brand-new Isuzu horse truck and started driving to race meetings across Australia. During the next 25 years, Robb clocked one-and-a-half-million miles in the Isuzu – but it’s how he got the cash to buy the truck in the first place that makes for a better yarn. [...]
Running Room Only
THERE was running room only in Balo Street Friday night when Run the Plains 2025 was launched in front of a record crowd under perfect conditions. Hundreds of spectators lined both sides of the main street as runners of all ages and abilities contested a series of running events designed to promote health, fitness and [...]
