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Looking back on landmark victory

THE North Football Club will this weekend celebrate the premiership heroes of their 1975 flag winning team at their annual past player’s function. The side ended a 10-year premiership drought for the Bulldogs and is regarded as one of the greatest...

Cats’ small man a Silver City success

ALONG with Essendon defender Dean Solomon, the only other known Broken Hill export to play in a VFL/AFL premiership is Geelong small man Robert Walter ‘Bob’ Troughton. Born on June 17, 1904, he played with the Geelong in the tough VFL days, during...

South to keep rolling on

FOR me this contest is tantalising. Central really need to win or simply stay in the contest just to simply install belief moving forward. However, South to me don’t look like slowing down; they seem to just getting...

Cumming to clock up his AFL century

IN the Showdown LVIII (#58) clash at the Adelaide Oval, between the Crows and Port, the second one of these encounters that Isaac Cumming plays in, has a special significance for this North Broken Hill junior. In his first year at the West Lakes...

South take North apart

WELL, was it an admiration or were South that good? I watched the game, and yes, South were just that good. They completely picked North apart. North’s team defence was nonexistent. I have been on North’s bandwagon all year...

Hill’s Bown Norwood bound

HAILING from the West Broken Hill Robins Football Club, Stuart Bown had already made his A Grade debut as a 15-year-old and played 49 games for the Broken Hill club. Broken Hill was then in the Norwood zone and former Redleg Matthew Kelly, who was...

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South continue march to the finals

WHAT a tantalising contest this will be, but I’m not going to get to excited as they do meet each other again before the home and away season ends. Then we get the real stuff but we could be looking at the grand final...

Dogs keep getting the job done

SOUTH continue to march on there on top of the ladder for all the right reasons such as teamwork, organisation, discipline, they’re well connected, and they sacrifice their individual game for others. I couldn’t get to this...

Northern men start strong

BOTH Central Broken Hill’s Jordan Etto and long term servant at this level, South Broken Hill’s evergreen champion Marc Purcell were members of the Northern Zone side that finished sixth, despite winning their opening fixture and being in grand...

Broken Hill girls exceed at country champs

BOTH of the talents selected out of the Broken Hill Women’s Football competition further enhanced their credentials at the South Australian Country Football Championships held in Port Pirie from last Friday, July 11 to Saturday evening, July 12...

Low’s career cut short

HAILING from the Silver City, although born at North Adelaide, David Low started his playing career with the North Broken Hill Football Club, coming down to play the SANFL in 1910. During his 68-games league stint with West Torrens between ‘10-15...

Roos look to cruise past last placed West

WESTIES got a wake up call last week. But that’s all it, was you suggest. Plenty of time to get back on the horse for the Robins. While South keep rolling on and have proven they will be hard to beat when it really matters...

Junior players kick off at Adelaide oval

YOUNG footballers from the Far West travelled to Adelaide over the weekend to play on the Adelaide Oval during halftime between the Adelaide Crows and Melbourne Demons. AFL Broken Hill development officer David Bearman said local AFL players have...

Dogs dine on Robbins’ decline

IN this game, North had the ability to score against the wind in both quarters. West could only manage one goal into the breeze late in the last quarter. Looking at the game, North’s skillsets, game sense, and general footy...

Roving play in Barnes’ Bloods

BORN in Mount Barker in regional South Australia, Robert “Bobbie” Barnes, with his parents, moved to Broken Hill when he was young. Barnes started played his early football for West Broken Robins Hill Football Club in the Barrier Ranges Football...

Lynch football genes run deep

TEENAGER Ruby Lynch is starting to etch her own path in football, following in the footstep of her highly respected grandparents, John and Anita. The Lynch clan have a rich history in the Silver City! John Lynch, who ran the Royal...

West look for best while Roos to cruise

WELL, with only six rounds to go after this weekend’s matches, things are surely heating up with West getting a few wins on the board, which could possibly spring board their momentum in the second half of the season. I’ve...