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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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Port juniors show strength in numbers

PORT Macquarie’s junior club had a fantastic 2021 with three minor premierships and an increase in player numbers. This season there were 126 players who made up seven teams across the four age groups at Wayne Richards Park as well

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Grand Final devastation for AFL North Coast

Today’s announcement by the NSW Government that the lockdown for the North Coast and Mid North Coast will be lifted at 12:01a.m. on Saturday is great news for our communities, but the ongoing restrictions on community sport means that we

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Jaxon’s football journey finds an unexpected shortcut

The pathway to Indigenous and multicultural representative teams may have been postponed due to COVID-19, but that isn’t stopping AFL NSW/ACT providing opportunities for football development to players like Jaxon Mawson Gulliford. Although there’s no opportunity to play or train

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Plan announced for resuming Juniors & Seniors Finals

AFL North Coast and competing clubs have met tonight and agreed on a roadmap for the re-scheduling of the Junior Grand Finals and Senior Finals Series. The plan will be dependent upon the restrictions in place under the NSW Government’s

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3 sleeps to go to Junior Grand Finals!

Photo: Green Shoots Marketing   The countdown is on to the Grand Finals of the AFL North Coast Junior Competition, with excitement building day by day as the deciders draw closer. It’s been an outstanding season of Junior footy that

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Lismore’s flock makes waves on the North Coast

Article reproduced from www.aflnswact.com.au.   For season 2021, the Lismore Swans decided that for the first time in its 37-year history it would part ways with the Northern Rivers competition and join AFL North Coast. The new kids on the

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Pies prevail to earn a finals berth

IN a virtual elimination final at Wayne Richards Park, it was Port Macquarie who made it to the final four and Northern Beaches who ended up missing out. Port Macquarie’s 26-point over the Blues means the Magpies will now meet

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Contrasting day of Junior Semi Final action

The Junior Semi Finals had it all – sun, rain, a close result, skillful play, great team work, and plenty of excitement. The first of the Under 11 matches saw Coffs Harbour Breakers claim the local derby against Sawtell Toormina Saints. The

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