Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Regional Sport
TAMWORTH is set to serve up top-class tennis this month, with the city to host its first Australian Pro Tour event – the Capital of Country International. Australian tennis legend John Fitzgerald was in Tamworth recently to launch the new event alongside Tamworth Regional Council mayor Russell Webb and Tennis NSW CEO Darren Simpson. Running [...]
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 [...]
