Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Junior Rugby
SOME things are meant to be. MOREE Bulls under-16s travelled to Tamworth on Friday and lit up Scully Park as they swept to a nail-biting 29-27 win against Farrer Green in the North West Regional Youth Rugby grand-final. After a gruelling season, emotionally, physically and mentally, the team was at Scully Park for one reason [...]
Sport
MOREE District Cricket Association is dusting off the wickets and padding up for another big season at Ron Harborne Ovals. The 2025-2026 cricket season will get underway on Saturday, October 18, but there is an important stand-alone day one week before the launch. Moree club president, Grady Sinclair, said Rowdo’s Day will be held on [...]
Grand-Final Fever
LATE last year, a cop and a community engagement officer walked onto Boughton Oval in Moree and started shooting the breeze about rugby league. Before anyone could say “four-nil, with a kick to come”, this unlikely pair were handed the keys to the Moree Boars first-grade outfit – the reigning Group 4 champions. Local cop [...]
Grand-Final Fever
KNOWING Dave Swan is watching, makes a big difference. The Moree Junior Rugby Union Club’s under-16s minor premiers, with nine wins and a draw from 10 games this season, travel to Tamworth today to play Farrer Green at Scully Park in the Central North grand-final. The under-16s started the season coached by Dave, the quietly-spoken [...]
Grand-Final Fever
MOREE footy club presidents Todd Mitchell and David Watts are making a habit of catching up for a chat around this time each year. Watts’ mighty Bulls are set to dominate the Central North rugby union grand-finals in three grades at Weebolla Oval on Saturday and the next day, Mitchell’s beloved Boars will play in [...]
Grand-Final Fever
MOREE Giants under-14s boys on Saturday spearhead a big weekend of footy fever for Moree when they travel to Warialda to play Inverell Hawks in the Group 19 junior rugby league grand-final. The under-14s, coached by Daniel West and Chris Cooney, play one of eight grand-finals featuring Moree teams across two codes, with six of [...]
PCYC Access
ACCESSING PCYC Moree’s gym just became a lot easier with Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan delivering a Community Building Partnership grant for the club to install a 24-hour fob system. The $13,172 grant will allow members to use the gym area at any hour of the day, making it more accessible for shift workers and parents. [...]
Grand-Final Fever
ALF Newman says it’s not a footy team – it’s family. Newman, one of Moree’s most respected sportsmen and citizens, has been playing rugby league and cricket for more than 30 years, and this year signed on as co-coach with Charlie Shearer – a surname saturated in rugby league history – to lead Moree Boars’ [...]
State Knock-Out
A combined team of students from Gravesend Public School and Croppa Creek Public School – affectionately known as Gravo Creek – has secured a spot in the top eight teams in New South Wales after making a remarkable run in the Small Schools Knock-Out Touch Football competition. Gravo Creek will now head to Penrith next [...]
2025 Moree Cup
MENTION the name Brandenburg anywhere around North Queensland – especially on the rodeo circuit– and stories of admiration and praise will flow. Mention the name at the races, and the conversation ramps up a notch. Former gun jockey Troy Brandenburg was back at one of his old stomping grounds on Sunday, this time as an [...]
