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Juniors lead the way into Finals

Finals fever hits AFL North Coast this Sunday with the staging of the Semi Finals in the Junior Competition. After a heavily disrupted season due to the wet weather, all participating teams will be viewing the Semis as a just

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Finals venues are locked and loaded

AFL North Coast has today announced the venues for all matches in the Finals Series of both the Junior and Senior Competitions. The Semi Finals of the Junior Competition are the starting point for the post season action, with matches

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Persistence & hard work pay off for Cambridge

With pick 84 in the 2022 NAB AFLW Draft, the GWS GIANTS have selected former Port Macquarie Magpie Cambridge McCormick. Familiar with the AFLW environment, the 23-year-old was a train on with the Brisbane Lions during the inaugural season in

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Magpies getting on a roll

PORT Macquarie’s two senior teams recorded strong wins on Saturday to entrench their spots in the finals positions. There’s still a lot of football left in 2022 but the Magpies have found form over the past couple of weeks. The

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Indigenous culture centre stage at North Coast footy

Dozens of football clubs in NSW and the ACT are throwing their support behind the AFL’s annual Sir Doug Nicholls Round which kicks off this weekend. More commonly known as Indigenous Round, this week of footy celebrates Aboriginal and Torres

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Off field teamwork is the key to 2022 season

We’re three rounds into the Senior Competition and two rounds into the Juniors, and it’s great to see club footy back on the North Coast. It’s been made possible by the outstanding efforts of volunteer club administrators who haven’t let

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Northern Heat finetunes as end is in sight

The Northern Heat squads have had the final training run of the 2021/2022 program and are as ready as they’ll ever be to tackle their opponents in the end of program matches. The focus of the last training session was

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New Youth Girls comp is kicking goals

Preparations for the new Youth Girls Under 14 (YG14) competition are powering ahead as girls flock to footy clubs to join in. A number of junior clubs were able to run come and try days before the rain set in,

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Youth Girls Come & Try sessions planned

With so many local girls wanting to play footy, AFL North Coast will be introducing a Youth Girls Under 14 age group in the 2022 season to strengthen the pathway from Auskick through Youth Girls Under 17 and into the

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Jesse gets Life for 20 years

  Port Macquarie Magpies legend Jesse Schmidt was rewarded for 20 seasons Senior club footy with Life Membership at the club’s recent presentation night. Having debuted back in 2002 as a precociously talented 13 year old (in an era before

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