Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
DUAL Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Roberto Frias – Professor Bob – will be in Moree in October to exclusively teach super-classes for kids and adults. Brazilian jiu-jitsu, known as BJJ, is a self-defence martial art and combat sport based on grappling, ground fighting and submission holds. Moree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club will host Frias at an [...]
Run the Plains
WITH perfect weather forecast and record nominations, the starter’s gun is poised and ready to launch the two-day Run the Plains community-led running festival in Moree on Friday. Organisers are thrilled to announce Cirque-Um-Navigate will bring their incredible roving performance to Run the Plains on opening night. Cirque-Um-Navigate has performed across Australia at regional shows, [...]
Regional Sport
THE Bingara bowling greens will undergo an overhaul thanks to a grant from the Community Building Partnership program. Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan visited the Bingara Sporting Club to deliver the $18,000 in funding which will see wheelchair access to the green improved, more seating and shade, and repairs to the green’s ditch head. [...]
Feature Story
MOREE Boars captain-coach Jamie Sampson has called full-time on his incredible football career, and will be a spectator in the stands when the Group 4 rugby league competition resumes next year. Sampson, 32, has played with the Moree Boars for the past four years. This season, Sampson and co-coach Jack Durheim led Moree first-grade to [...]
Senior Sport
MOREE Services FC Blue capped an enormous season with a sweet 2-1 win against Narrabri FC Elevens in the Namoi Football League grand-final at Hogan Oval in Narrabri on Saturday. The team waited 12 months to exact revenge on Narrabri Elevens after being beaten in last year’s grand-final – ironically by the same score. After 90 [...]
Junior Sport
MOREE has always been regarded as a New South Wales bush sporting capital across many codes. And the well-credentialled title was pushed through the nets on Saturday when hundreds of players, parents, carers, family members, and spectators and friends, crammed Ron Harborne Oval for the Moree Junior Soccer Club’s season finale and trophy presentation morning. [...]
Regional Sport
THE Narrabri community is catering to record visitor numbers and economic activity, with the Santos Festival of Rugby currently underway this weekend. Santos is proud to stage its fifth Festival of Rugby which has become a fixture on the national and regional rugby calendars. The centrepiece of the Festival is the game between Queensland Reds [...]
Santos Festival of Rugby
THE 2025 Santos Festival of Rugby kicks off in Narrabri today – pun intended – as the Queensland Reds take on the NSW Waratahs for the Santos Cup during an incredible weekend of sport and entertainment. In partnership with Queensland Rugby Union and New South Wales Rugby Union, the Santos Festival of Rugby combines elite [...]
First Nations Footy
NATIONAL Indigenous Television – NITV – will broadcast the 2025 Koori Knockout over the October long weekend, with full day match coverage of the finals live and direct from the Riverside Sporting Complex in Tamworth. The telecast, also available on SBS On Demand, will be screened on Sunday, October 5 and Monday October, 6 from [...]
Soccer GF
IT’S definitely a family thing. Eleven players from Moree Services FC Blue soccer team will run onto Narrabri’s Gately Oval on Saturday to play defending premiers Narrabri Eleven FC in the Namoi Football League grand-final – and six of those Moree players are father-son or father-daughter combos. Steve Pinner and his daughter Olivia, Phil Strahan [...]
