Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
On The Bunny
MOREE husband-and-wife greyhound trainers Gary and Bobby Moore, and a new addition to their kennel could be city-bound in the coming weeks – but first there’s a rich final at Tamworth on Saturday to tackle before a possible road trip to Sydney. New kennel recruit, Hang On Rob, owned in Sydney by Rob Losurdo, gave [...]
Buckin’ Hell
AUSTRALIA’S best bull riders will go head-to-head with the fiercest bulls in the country, and the stakes couldn’t be higher when the toughest sport on the planet rides into Armidale this weekend for a night of heart-pounding, bone-rattling action. The 2025 PBR Monster Energy Armidale Invitational features the final qualifying event before the all-important Origin [...]
G4 Rugby League
TODD Mitchell is not one to rest on his laurels. The unassuming president of Moree Boars Rugby League Club said winning last year’s Group 4 first-grade premiership was a crowning achievement for an outfit that has seen a few dry gullies over the years. The club was, for a long time, one of the hunters. [...]
2025 Group 4
A major sponsor, major coach and a major new addition to the 2025 Group 4 rugby league season has been launched, with Moree Boars’ ladies tackle team lacing up to run on at Boughton Oval on Saturday. The season-opener against Dungowan Cowboys will be a history-creating chapter for the game of rugby league in Moree. [...]
League Reunion
IT was one of the rare moments in Moree’s deep 1970s rugby league history that saw the scoresheet tarnished. The 1970s was an incredible decade for The Big M, with 16 grand-final wins across four grades. Moree swept to an A-grade premiership win in 1972, ahead of a hat-trick of grand-finals in 1977, 1978 and [...]
Border Sport
RONNY’S Runners ran like hell at Goondiwindi on Saturday. Moree junior athletes Will Smith, Marley and Austin Legg, Lachlan Bowhay, Will and Bella Boland, and Chase and Levi Cosgrove left a few senior athletes speechless as they tore through the notorious Hell of the West triathlon carnival at the border-town. On Kenway and Clark Super [...]
Border Sport
THE 34th annual Hell of the West triathlon was held last weekend in Goondiwindi, with the race attracting top professional athletes, along with nearly 700 individuals and more than 60 teams competing over two days. The event, one of the few remaining grass-roots community-run triathlons in Australia, drew athletes from as far away as Cairns, [...]
Racing
ALL 19-year-old Charlotte Murrell has wanted to do most of her life is ride horses. She began pony-clubbing and showjumping four or five years ago on an ex-racehorse owned by her mother, Amanda. The galloper, Kay Bea’s Lad, was trained at Armidale by Frank Tanner and won a couple of races. Kay Bea’s Lad didn’t [...]
Junior Sport
THE Moree Riders Club is excited to announce the commencement of a double-header series in 2025, with the first series scheduled to spring from the starting pads on Monday, March 31. Club president Steele Sutton said the move to Monday nights works in with other sports, and he hopes similar numbers to last year again [...]
Local sport
PHIL Hobday has been appointed Moree Services Club bowls co-ordinator with a charter to generate more player numbers on the greens, especially from schools across the Moree Plains Shire. Lawn bowls as a sport has not been played in Moree schools for more than 20 years, but Hobday and Moree Services Bowls Club president Wayne [...]
