AFL on the North Coast is bucking the trend of three years of pandemic and wet weather and will embark on a second successive season of competition expansion in 2023. With overwhelming support from the clubs, a new Under 10…
The new Northern Heat program literally hit the ground running at the first training session in Armidale on Saturday. To establish a baseline on players’ fitness, the entire squad was put through their paces in a gruelling session that featured…
With Grand Finals having been played across Northern NSW you could be forgiven for thinking that local footy is now on an extended break, but for the 28 players that have been named in the Northern Heat program, the “off-season”…
The Sydney Swans are set to launch the newly created First Nations Academy to help identify the next wave of Indigenous stars, with Academy centres to be based in two North Coast locations. The Swans are renowned for having an…
IN the end a 100 minute slog between two desperate teams was decided by a single moment. Trailing by three points half way through the final term, Port Macquarie had forced a stoppage only 20 metres out from their goal.…
IT was a day that was three seasons in the making but finally the women from Northern Beaches can call themselves premiership players. After doing the grand final in 2020 and not being able to compete in the finals at…
THE Casino Lions have won the club’s first premiership after winning the Reserves grand final against the Coffs Breakers. Four goals were kicked in the first half and it was the Lions who kicked all four of them to build…
THE Coffs Breakers handled the slippery conditions better than their cross town rivals to win the Under-17s premiership. After 50mm of rain fell the night before the grand final between the Breakers and Sawtell/Toormina, both sides were faced with surface…
THE day where heroes are made and legends are born is almost upon us. Saturday at C.ex Coffs International Stadium promises to be a drama filled day with a forecast predicting wet weather football will be the order of the…
Fraser Duryea has won the Brian Saville Medal for a third time. His wins in 2016, 2021 and now 2022 sees the Northern Beaches star join Brian Rava, Mark Couzens and Jesse Schmidt as three time winners of the Brian…
