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Peter Argent

McDonald makes strong first impression

HAILING from the South Mildura Football Club, teenager Ajay McDonald had a strong impact in his SANFL under 16s debut for the North Adelaide Roosters. McDonald played for the Roosters in a clash with Central District in round five of the 2025...

28 Apr 2025

Sport

‘Magician’ Meuret reminisces

ONE of the inaugural inductees into West Adelaide’s Hall of Fame in 2005, Peter Meuret was a mercurial footballer and a key member of the Bloods’ 1983 premiership win over the Double...

27 Apr 2025

Football

South Roos pair make North debut

IN round five of the 2025 South Australian National Football League (SANFL) under 16s campaign, the South Broken Hill pair of Will Stephens and Campbell Day played their first games for North Adelaide at this level in 2025. The pair donned the North...

25 Apr 2025

Football

Broken Hill-born among South Australia’s best

ORIGINALLY hailing from the Central Broken Hill Magpies, Frederick “Neil” Davies enjoyed a mercurial football career in six competitions. Touted as ‘the next big thing’, Davies joined Glenelg from Broken Hill in 1951, and from there he had an...

20 Apr 2025

Sport

A generational talent and matricah of dynasties

25 Broken Hill sporting icons - Anita Lynch By Peter Argent WIFE of West Broken Hill sportsman, raconteur and premiership winning coach John Lynch, Anita Lynch is generally regarded by her peers and one of the elite all-round female sporting talents...

20 Apr 2025

Football

From the Silver City to South Australia

ATHLETIC and skillful Chris Duthy played his early football with the South Broken Hill Football Club. He was born in Broken Hill on June 19, 1961 and etched out a significant career as a strong marking key defender, who played predominately as...

12 Apr 2025

Sport

Sports reporter’s decades of dedication

AN accomplished junior sportsman and a member of the Barrier’s 1982 Harry Meyer Cup-winning cricket team, at the SACA Country Cup as a tear-away quick, John Casey has come through the ranks of Australia’s sporting media to become one of the...

28 Mar 2025

Football

Footballer made life member

PLAYING his 280th AFL senior game last Saturday against Essendon, along with 19 pre-season matches and the AFL Allstars v Victoria Bushfire Relief Match at the start of 2020 at Marvel Stadium, means Broken Hill’s longest serving football servant...

28 Mar 2025

Football

25 Icons of Broken Hill Sport Colin Casey Footballer, Coach, Administrator

EDUCATED at Railway Town Primary School and Broken Hill High School, Colin Casey first came to national football prominence in 1967, selected for New South Wales Combined High School and becoming vice-captain of the team that played in national...

15 Mar 2025

Football

Raven readies for third Central season

THE SANFL Women’s competition enters its ninth season in 2025, starting this weekend, with two games on Saturday, March 15, and Central District playing Glenelg in their season opener at X Convenience Stadium, Elizabeth starting at 12pm, on...

15 Mar 2025

Cricket

Delbridge the keystone to West’s decades of success

25 Icons of Broken Hill Sport – Geoff Delbridge A TOWERING figure in the history of the West Broken Hill Cricket Club from the mid 1960s to the turn of the century, Geoff Delbridge is a true Icon of Barrier cricket. Across...

07 Mar 2025

Football

A true club man who saw big success

25 Broken Hill Sporting Icons - Visco Sulicich BORN on May 8, 1960, the oldest of three children of a Croatian immigrant, Visco Sulicich would excel at both Australian summer and winter passions of Australian Rules Football and...

01 Mar 2025