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Rugby Club awards a glittering affair
The Cobar Camels Rugby Club members threw off their playing jerseys and donned their formal attire for the club’s end of season presentations on Saturday night. Sam Baker was named the Club’s Best and Fairest Player of the season with Panapa Asiata voted the Players’ Player for 2018. Ryan Hall […]
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Juniors help out at Rugby Country Championships carnival
The Cobar Camels Junior Rugby Club, as part of the Western Plains Junior Rugby Club, supported the NSW Country Championships in Warren on the weekend. New South Wales Country Rugby Union (NSWCRU) is the largest Rugby province in the world encompassing over 80 per cent of the regional and rural […]
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Camels kick season off with classy first round win
The Cobar Camels displayed plenty of honed rugby skills in their classy 31-17 win over Gulargambone at Ailsa Fitzsimmons Memorial Oval on Saturday. It was a great start to the 2018 Western Plains Rugby season for new coach Len Baker who admitted he was nervous as to how his previously […]
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Stephen Gillette steps up to take on the Camels’ top job
A current senior player and well respected member of the Camels squad, Stephen Gillette was elected to the top job at the Cobar & District Rugby Union Club’s annual general meeting on Sunday at the clubhouse. The meeting was well attended with 24 players, Old Boys, player’s partners and supporters […]
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Camels make their first foray into Rugby 7s competition
The Cobar Camels made their first foray into the shortened version of Rugby on the weekend when the club sent a team to compete at the annual Mudgee Rugby 7’s. The original plan was to have a men’s and women’s squad compete but unfortunately the club could only raise a […]
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Local Cobar/Nyngan derby doesn’t fail to entertain crowd
Night rugby returned to Cobar at the Ailsa Fitsimmons Memorial Oval last Friday with the local derby between Cobar and Nyngan’s Bogan Bulls. The Bulls, sitting second on the Western Plains Rugby competition ladder, were looking for a big win to sneak closer to the minor premiership, while the Camels’ […]
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Decision to de-contest scrums a disadvantage for Camels
It was a very entertaining game of rugby at Ailsa Fitzsimmons Memorial Oval on Saturday when the Cobar Camels took on the Warren Pumas. The club also took advantage of the home game to help promote Batyr with raising awareness and much needed funds for their locally based mental health […]
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Camels turned up late to play their game
The excitement and anticipation had been building for months among the local rugby fraternity for the Cobar club’s Western Plains Rugby ‘Reunion’ match against Gulargambone on Saturday. Players that beat Gulargambone 20 years ago in the 1996 grand final (along with members of the Cobar team that defeated Walgett in […]
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Cobar rugby club will celebrate ‘The Good Old Days’
With the Cobar & District Rugby Union Club planning to hold a reunion later this month for players who participated in the 1976 and 1996 premiership winning sides, The Cobar Weekly this week recaps the 1976 game from The Cobar Age report published September 8, 1976. The Western Plains Rugby […]