Twenty-four years since last claiming premiership honours, the Redfern All Blacks defeated the Coogee-Randwick Wombats 42-24 to claim the shield and title of Premiers 2015 in Junior Rugby League.
Each Sunday morning over the past three months volunteers have gathered at Waterloo Oval to cheer on the Redfern All Blacks and to raise money for the club.
“Aboriginal culture is being reframed through a new appreciation of Indigenous language” is one way of describing the play Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui starring local Redfern Aboriginal woman Dalara Williams.
On Friday August 30 the four Burgess brothers, Sam, George, Luke and Tom, took the field for South Sydney in their game against the Wests Tigers. It was the first time in more than 100 years of top-flight league competition in Australia that a quartet of brothers had played together in the one team. In 1910 Annandale’s Roy, Ray, Rex and Bernard Norman played side by side.
Before a big crowd at ANZ Stadium two foundation clubs clashed in the NSW Cup rugby league grand final at midday on September 30. The Jets played strong. The Balmain Ryde-Eastwood Tigers, who finished the regular season in eighth position, just one place behind Newtown, played strong.
