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Enough rugby greats to fill two teams

The Cobar Weekly invited Rugby Union stalwart, Kevin ‘Rusty’ Mitchell to pick Cobar’s Best Rugby Team which he found pretty hard going and so Rusty selected enough players for two sides. “There are so many good players here I could not forecast the winner if they played each other,” Rusty […]

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Options thrown about for netball

The Cobar Netball Association is keen to start their 2020 season and has been making contingency plans ready to put into place when they are given the green light for sporting competitions to recommence. Netball competitions, like all other team sports, have been banned under the government’s COVID-19 social distancing […]

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Competition golf to recommence

The local golf competition is scheduled to start again this weekend with a revised format. It’s over a month since the last competition game of golf was played and a lot of players having been champing at the bit for the course to open again. Some players have kept in […]

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A team of Cobar’s best netballers

Local respected netball umpire Sue Francisco was invited by The Cobar Weekly to choose a netball team as part of our ‘Cobar’s Greatest Sporting Teams’ series. Sue joined in the local netball competition when she first came to Cobar in 1982. “I hadn’t played netball for many years because my […]

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Goonrey picks greatest Rugby League Team

Having played 326 First Grade games for the Cobar Roosters (as well as coached Reserves and Junior teams and watched countless games at Tom Knight Memorial Oval), we called upon Jim Goonrey as someone of authority who could pick Cobar’s Greatest Rugby League Team. Jim’s rugby league career with the […]

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Is this Cobar’s greatest ever cricket side?

In the absence of any current sporting news, we asked Cobar’s Mr Cricket, John Collins, to select ‘Cobar’s Greatest Cricket Team’ and give his reasons why. Having played his first game of cricket with Nymagee in 1961 and then over the next 50 years with Nymagee, Bobadah, Rugby Union, Colts […]