Five youths will appear before children’s court charged after a number of alleged aggravated break-and-enters and police pursuits in and around Moree. Local police, working with officers attached to New England Proactive Crime Team and the Police Dog Unit, responded to a number of incidents on...
Moree has produced some great sportsmen and sportswomen down through the decades, and many involved in local rugby league will return home later this month to reminisce – and more than likely replay – many of the town’s finest sporting moments. Former player Geoff Orman will...
Mention the number 9 to anyone from Moree remotely interested in rugby league and the name Bernie Briggs immediately springs to mind. Bernie, known by many simply as ‘9’, was for many years widely regarded as one of Moree’s living treasures. Bernie passed away in 2017 after...
MOREE Boars converted a 34-point half-time lead into a 68-18 thrashing of the Gunnedah Bulldogs in the WEG Toohey’s Group 4 first grade clash at Boughton Oval on Sunday, reports Geoff Newling. The win was a magnificent way to celebrate Bernie Briggs Day, a memorial to...
HE doesn’t figure in all the try-scoring or point-scoring tables and has just the one point in the WEG Toohey’s G4 B&F Award. However, Aaron Robinson does figure in the pain department. Big time. As in inflicting pain on rival forwards, backs or whoever gets in...
GROUP 4 Chairman Terry Psarakis completed a family double when was awarded an Order of Australia Medal on the King’s Birthday weekend. The 66-year-old accountant followed in the footsteps of his late father, Jim Psarakis. “Yeah, dad received an OAM too,” Terry told G4 Media this week. “Great...
A spot in bush racing history journals beckons equine influencer Fiocchi after the popular grey gelding defied an apparent aversion for dirt tracks to narrowly win the 1400m B&W Rural Titan Ag Mallawa Cup on Saturday. Moree, Mallawa and Talmoi make up bush racing’s Golden Triangle...
In 1973, Moree High School threw its name in the ring for a crack at the University Shield, a schoolboy rugby league knock-out competition steeped in history. The squad, made up of names that would later be etched in local and State sporting history, faced a...
NORTH Tamworth Bears dropped out of the WEG Toohey’s Group 4 top four when they stumbled to a 30-14 first grade loss to unbeaten Moree Boars at Jack Woolaston Oval on Saturday, reports Group 4 Media’s Geoff Newling. It was the third successive loss for the...
Moree trainer Peter Sinclair collected his 11th consecutive B&W Rural Boolooroo Cup at Moree picnic races on Saturday – round one of bush racing’s Golden Triangle – when popular grey gelding Fiocchi led throughout to narrowly win the history-laden race. Sinclair has trained every Boolooroo Cup...