Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
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 [...]
Soccer Semi-Final
MOREE Services FC Blue charged into the Namoi Football League grand-final after thumping Narrabri FC 8-nil at Moree Services Club fields on Saturday – sweet revenge after Narrabri FC trampled sister team, Moree FC Yellow, the previous week. Moree FC Blue now play defending premiers Narrabri Eleven FC, in the Namoi Football League grand-final at [...]
Sport
THE brightest minds in rugby league will come together next month for a first-of-its-kind conference aimed at providing game-changing strategies to improve performance, reduce injury risk and optimise training methods. Hosted by the University of New England at the NSW Rugby League Centre of Excellence, the Beyond The Game conference will feature world-renowned keynote speakers, [...]
Run the Plains
ORGANISERS of Moree’s newest signature event, Run the Plains, need help to run the plains. Volunteers are being called to help out at the two-day running event on Friday-Saturday, September 26-27. Run the Plains, organised jointly by Moree Little Athletics, Tourism Moree and Moree Run Club, is expected to draw more than 400 competitors across [...]
Sport
MOREE Services Football Club is one win away from a grand-final spot, with Moree FC Blue playing Narrabri FC in a semi-final showdown at Moree Services Club fields today. The winner will play defending premiers Narrabri Eleven FC in the Namoi League grand-final next weekend. Moree has enjoyed another strong season, with the club’s two [...]
Grand-Final Fever
EVERY Moree try was scored in a corner – and gun goal-kicker Adrian Smith converted four from six from the sideline as the Boars powered to a 32-16 win over Gunnedah Bulldogs in the Group 4 rugby league grand-final at Boughton Oval on Sunday. Smith, the group’s highest point-scorer this season, was also kicking for [...]
Grand-Final Fever
MOREE ladies tackle etched their name on the 2025 Group 4 grand-final trophy with a come-from-behind win again nemesis Gunnedah at Boughton Oval on Sunday. Gunnedah inflicted Moree’s only defeat this season two weeks earlier at Boughton Oval, when winning 30-20. The heartbreaking loss cost Moree a crack at the Clayton Cup, which is usually [...]
Grand-Final Fever
IT’S been four frustrating years for the Dungowan Cowboys, but that frustration turned to elation when captain-coach Nic Syron led his second-grade team to a 24-22 win over Moree Boars at Boughton Oval on Sunday – nearly an identical scoreline to last year when defeated by Werris Creek. Neither side gave an inch of ground [...]
Rugby Grand-Finals
QUIRINDI Lions’ first-grade team came to Weebolla Oval on Saturday to play grand-final rugby against Moree Bulls. And the Lions left town with the cherished Heath Shield safely in their keeping after walloping the Bulls 57-36 – Quirindi’s first Central North first-grade grand-final win since 1992. Quirindi Lions, co-coached by team captain Daniel Calavassy – [...]
Rugby Grand-Finals
A super-fit Moree Bulls second-grade outfit charged to another Central North grand-final victory at Weebolla Oval on Saturday with a thumping 44-29 win against Tamworth Pirates in a game that, at times, could’ve gone either way. But Bulls second-grade can now rightly call the Central North grand-final trophy their own after winning the title nine [...]
