When Squalleyball veteran Colby Lawrence was asked to pick his Dream Team for The Cobar Weekly he said at first he was afraid, he was petrified. And then when he sat down to write up a team list, he found it hard going. “I’m going to list nine players as […]
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 […]
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 […]
It may not be quite as grand as the National Rugby League’s Project Apollo but local footy is also once again in the planning. The 2020 Christie and Hood Castlereagh League competition is hoping to kick off mid-July according to Castlereagh league secretary Bryson Luff. Mr Luff said the committee […]
In the absence of any current local sporting events, The Cobar Weekly has invited various sports people and commentators, to provide us with their Greatest Teams Ever. Their brief was to choose a side based on anyone they had played with or had watched play in Cobar. This Indoor Soccer […]
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 […]
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 […]
Looking back on our golfing history during 1981 Cobar was in the grip of drought after two drier than normal years. That year good rain came in May and the outlook improved over the rest of the year and a number of golf competitions got washed out. Cobar’s top golfers […]
Another sporting casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic is the Davidson Shield competition which was to have been contested between Cobar, Nyngan, Bourke and Walgett high schools next month. The annual sporting contest has a long history and for many of the school’s former students, it was a much anticipated event […]
It is with regret, due to the Coronavirus, that all Cobar ladies golf competition games have been cancelled until further notice, including Cobar’s staging of the Far West Rose Bowl that was set down for July. NSW Golf have been updating their website regularly and local golfers are advised that […]
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