By Tallon Smith The push to get a rugby league club up and running again in Deniliquin is gathering momentum after a successful initial meeting. The event held at the Bowling Club in Deniliquin on March 10 recorded a higher than expected turnout of interested locals, and with increasing coverage in the local press and a growing online following, the team has now set their … Continue reading Things in motion for return of rugby league to Deniliquin

By Jamie Parsons The Proten Cup has released its draw for the 2024 season, with premiers Narrandera hosting the first round on May 18th as the Cup enters the last year of its first six-year cycle.   The competition plays a full weekend’s games at one location each week, with clubs Goolgowi, Hillston, Rankins Springs, Narrandera, Barellan & Ivanhoe hosting one round each over the 6-week … Continue reading 2024 Proten Cup Draw Revealed

By Tallon Smith Brent Parsons will lead the Proten Community Cup competition into 2024 after the Rankins Springs President was elected to the post of competition President at last Sunday’s AGM at the Griffith Leagues Club. Parsons will be joined by ten other committee members, with his cousin Jamie Parsons continuing in the external role of publicity officer for the competition, while fellow competition founder … Continue reading Proten Cup Committee Appointed for 2024 season

By Tallon Smith The Narrandera Lizards have successfully gone back-to-back in the ProTen Community Cup by defeating the Ivanhoe Roosters 20-14 in the Grand Final in Goolgowi on Saturday. Although the Lizards claimed the Group 17 crown by exactly the same scoreline and against the same opposition as last year, the game could have not been any more different when compared to last year’s decider. … Continue reading “Narrandera’s the best team of all”: Lizards go back-to-back in the Proten Community Cup

By Tallon Smith The Barellan Rams have capped off one of rugby league’s more remarkable fairytales, taking home the ProTen Community Cup Women’s Nines title courtesy of a 16-14 win over a gutsy Ivanhoe side. On a day where the small community of Ivanhoe fielded sides in both grades, the Rams were forced to come from behind for the first time this season to beat … Continue reading Rams for the win: Barellan take out Women’s Nines title undefeated in inaugural season

By Tallon Smith The Ivanhoe Roosters have produced one of the biggest upsets in country football this year to comfortably defeat Hillston on their home turf at Stan Peters Oval on Sunday. A week after producing a mammoth upset over the highly fancied Goolgowi Rabbitohs in the Elimination Semi Finals, the Roosters again proved the critics wrong, including myself, to set up a date with … Continue reading Proten Cup Preliminary Finals Wrap and Grand Final Previews

By Tallon Smith The Narrandera Lizards are the first team into the 2023 Proten Community Cup Grand Final after they comfortably defeated Hillston 30-12 at the Narrandera Sportsground on Saturday afternoon. The runaway competition leaders showed their Minor Premiership-winning qualities in the victory, with seventeen year old Campbell Lyons crossing for a hat-trick and Gary Ingram booting four of the Lizards’ five conversions in the … Continue reading Proten Cup Finals Wrap: Narrandera first side into Grand Final after comfortable win over Hillston

By Tallon Smith The Narrandera Lizards, Hillston Bluebirds, Goolgowi Rabbitohs and Ivanhoe Roosters have emerged from the Proten Community Cup regular season as the finalists for the 2023 season. The Lizards kept their perfect record intact after a nail-biting 19-18 win over Round 6 hosts Goolgowi on Saturday afternoon. Glen Borg was the hero for Narrandera, landing a field goal to secure the win, which … Continue reading Proten Community Cup Wrap: Lizards crawl over the line against hometown Rabbitohs