WHETHER you need to burn off a few Easter Eggs or you just want some extra colour in your life, the Senex ColourXplosion in Roma is the place to be on Sunday.
You can run, walk, skip or hop the five kilometre course at Bassett Park while raising funds to allow PCYC Maranoa to deliver community and youth development programs and provide sporting equipment.
Senex Energy is again sponsoring ColourXplosion. Senex community relations Manager Trevor Robertson said it as one of the most popular family events in the Roma region.
“More than 400 people turned out in 2021 and their smiles as they crossed the finish line, covered from head to toe in colour, make this fun run one for the photo album,” he said.
“The PCYC Maranoa works tirelessly to meet the needs of young people in Roma and surrounds and Senex is delighted to help by sponsoring colourXplosion for the fifth year.”
ColourXplosion’s roots come from the Hindu festival of Holi tradition where young and old “play with colours” resulting in a crowd covered in a rainbow of colours by morning’s end.
This is why Holi is also called the Festival of Colour.
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Participants will be given a packet of paint power to use along the way with early registrations also receiving a ColourXplosion t-shirt, but stocks are limited.
PCYC Maranoa Manager Sergeant Dion Horn said events like ColourXplosion provide essential funds to support PCYC’s work.
“I’d like to extend a heartfelt thanks to Senex for again partnering with our hardworking PCYC personnel,” he said.
While ColourXplosion is on a Sunday, organisers suggest not wearing your Sunday best if you ever want it to be pristine again!
The Senex ColourXplosion is on Easter Sunday, 17 April, 2022 from 8am at Bassett Park.
Tickets are just $15 for adults, $5 for youth and free for anyone under 13.
This election – to be held on May 21 – presents a clear choice.
It has been an absolute honour to represent Maranoa since 2016 and I am proud to have secured more than $6.9 billion for our region.
You know what the Coalition stands for, you can see what we’ve delivered and you can see our plan for the future.
We’re delivering tax relief for workers and small businesses. We’re halving the tax you pay at the petrol pump for six months and our tax plan will put more money in your pocket in the coming weeks and months, on top of our longer-term tax relief for everyone earning up to $200,000 a year.
I’m about better and safer roads to make sure you and your loved ones get home – like the $678 investment million for the Outback Way to unlock the interior from Winton, $508 million to upgrade the Warrego Highway from Miles to Toowoomba, $36.19 million to upgrade the Gore Highway at Wyaga Creek in the Goondiwindi region and $20 million to upgrade Warwick’s Eight Mile Intersection.
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We’re making record investments in health and other essential services. The Coalition’s plan is to have record bulk-billing, we’ve made Telehealth permanent to limit the tyranny of distance and listing more than 2800 drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to make medicines more affordable for you and your family.
Investment in tourism to not only diversify economic opportunity and create local jobs but also celebrate and educate about our unique way of life, history, innovation and resilience. Whether it was securing $47 million in funding to stimulate the economy by rebuilding Winton’s Waltzing Matilda Centre after it was destroyed by fire, upgrades to Longreach’s Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and the Qantas Founders Museum, a new Charleville Outback Museum of Australia, $5 million to develop Cunnamulla’s Artesian Hot Springs and Warrego River Walk, and $4.5 million to help transform Kingaroy’s CBD.
Maranoa’s agriculture has done the heavy lifting in our economic recovery post COVID-19 and I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with farmers and graziers to boost Australia’s production to $100 billion by 2030.
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This government has committed more than $5.5 billion in direct support across the seven themes of Delivering Ag2030 – Trade and Exports, Biosecurity, Stewardship, Supply Chains, Water and Infrastructure, Innovation and Research, and Human Capital – which sets the foundation for industry to not only achieve its goal, but also help primary producers build resilience and access new markets across the world.
Maranoa represents 43% of rural and remote Queensland with thriving communities and vibrant regions and I am fully committed to continue to get our fair share to ease cost of living pressures, more investment for safer and better roads, access to education and better health support and aged care.
DESPITE first round losses in both A-grade and Reserve-grade the rebuilding Miles Devils are showing signs of promise and look likely to field their fair share of wins this season.
Miles hosted the Chinchilla Bulldogs on Saturday and will relish the fortnight off before the Roma and District Rugby League competition resumes after Easter.
The score in Reserve-grade was 40-0 to Chinchilla and fitness was the obvious difference between the two sides.
While the heavy hitting Devils forwards such as Kevin Brown and Bluey Smith did a lot to wear out the opposition, plenty of preseason fitness training at Chinchilla, and the injection of several Under-18 speedsters, proved too much for Miles to keep up with.
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A-grade was a much tighter contest as the teams traded tries throughout the first half.
Miles opened the scoring when captain Ryan Rayner leapt up to catch a perfectly weighted kick before diving down over the line in the north eastern corner of Centenary Oval.
Unfortunately for Miles, Chinchilla shot back only minutes later when notoriously slippery Bulldogs fullback Romada Barnes stepped through for a try under the posts at the southern end.
Miles Devils A-grade centre Locky Tribe
There were strong performances across the board from the boys in blue.
Second rowers Jed Bignell and Josh Moore tackled all afternoon. In the backline five-eighth Steven Ferguson was fierce in defence while centre Locky Tribe seemed to threaten Chinchilla’s line whenever he had the ball in hand.
The final score was 34-20 to Chinchilla, but at no point did the players drop their heads and let the opposition run away with the game.
Rayner said there were plenty of positive aspects of Miles’s performance.
“We’re definitely happy with a few things but we’ve got a lot to work on,” he said.
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“We killed ourselves in defence and there were drop balls, but there were positives from the game.
“When we were attacking the line we were going really well and completing sets.
“We like playing Chinchilla. It’s a bit of a grudge match. We hate each other on the field but it’s good having a beer with them at the end.”
The Devils will next week travel to St George.
Roma will host Mitchell and the Western Ringers will make the long trip to Chinchilla.
Chinchilla Bulldogs Reserve-grade coach and fife-eighth Danny Deleiuen
THREE people will face court on a string of drugs and weapons charges after police uncovered large stashes of ice and cannabis, and an allegedly illegal weapon, during a raid on a property at Oakey.
Officers from the Toowoomba Tactical Crime Squad and Criminal Investigation Branch executed a search warrant at the Ramsey St property about 4pm on Sunday, April 2.
A total of 11.8 grams of methylamphetamine (ice) and 128 grams of cannabis was located and seized, as well as multiple clip seal bags, drug utensils, a bolt action rifle, and more than $22,000 in cash.
Police bodycam footage of the raid can be viewed below.
An allegedly illegal bolt action rifle seized by police during a drug raid at Oakey
More than $22,000 in cash seized by police during a raid at Oakey
A police statement said:
“A 44-year-old Oakey man has been charged with two counts each of possessing dangerous drugs, possessing anything for use in the commission of crime, possessing utensils or pipes, and one count each of receiving or possessing property obtained from trafficking or supplying, unlawful possession of a weapon, authority required to possess explosives, unlawful possession of suspected stolen property.
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“A 38-year-old Oakey woman has been charged with one count each of possessing dangerous drugs, fail to take reasonable care and precautions in respect of syringe or needle, obstruct police officer.
“An 18-year-old Oakey man has been charged with two counts of possessing dangerous drugs.”
They will all face Oakey Magistrates Court on May 6.
WHILE some of Australia’s finest cowboys and cowgirls are thrilling crowds at the inaugural Road to Rodeo spectacular in Longreach later this month, outside the arena some of the country’s most renowned beef chefs will be serving up the iconic tastes of outback Queensland.
Legendary pit bosses The Shank Brothers and Brisbane Valley Protein chef Jason Peppler are teaming up with Droughtmaster Australia to offer the very best of beef at Road to Rodeo, held at the Longreach showground over the long weekend from April 30 – May 1.
Road to Rodeo is a brand new event organised by the team behind the famous Mount Isa Rodeo, which has launched Road to Rodeo in Longreach as a curtain raiser for the iconic Mount Isa Rodeo later this year.
The event will feature some of the biggest names in both Australian rodeo and Australian country music, and now organisers have added some of Outback Australia’s finest food and culinary offerings to the menu.
The Shanks Brothers and chef Jason Peppler will host daily barbecue and cooking sessions on the Community Stage in the George Hickey Wool Pavilion, and the Brown Brothers will present the famed Prosecco Paddock.
The main meat on the menu will come from the renowned Droughtmaster breed. Droughtmaster Australia CEO Simon Gleeson (pictured) said the decision to support Road to Rodeo was “a no brainer”.
“Droughtmaster beef is served in iconic pubs like The Pineapple in Brisbane and many others across Queensland, and we can’t wait for its incredible flavours to fill the showground at Road to Rodeo,” Gleeson said.
“The breed was developed for Australian conditions, by Australian cattlemen, and we are excited to be in Longreach, in the heart of cattle country, celebrating rodeo and our fabulous breed.”
Droughtmaster beef, added to the menu at the inaugural Road to Rodeo
On the live music stage at Longreach will be an all-star country music line-up comprising The Wolfe Brothers, James Johnston, Bella Mackenzie, Luke Geiger & Bareback, Corinne Ballard and local legend, singer-songwriter John Hawkes and his bullock Ollie.
The rodeo schedule will include the bull ride, saddle broncs, bareback broncs, rope and tie, steer wrestling, team roping, barrel racing, breakaway roping, local station buck jump and mini bull ride.
Isa Rodeo CEO Natalie Flecker said locals and visitors had been flocking to ticket outlets and accommodation providers for the biggest rodeo to hit Longreach in living memory.
“Demand is so high for accommodation in Longreach that we have announced ticket and tent packages,” Flecker said.
“With the outback being the home of big skies, we just had to create more options for travellers, event and rodeo fans, and so our ticket and tent experiences were born” she said.
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Brisbane Valley Protein chef Jason Peppler will be among the experts serving renowned Droughtmaster beef at Road to Rodeo
QUEENSLAND’S Western Downs region carries the unflattering statistic of having one of the highest rates of firearm theft in the state, as police and Crime Stoppers announce a crackdown on illegal weapons.
Detectives from Queensland police’s Firearms and Cannabis Team have joined Crime Stoppers on a tour of rural Queensland to announce the second phase of a statewide blitz on gun crime.
The campaign over the previous six months resulted in 2,300 weapons being surrendered as part of a permanent national amnesty.
Authorities say there are an estimated 260,000 firearms circulating around the country, many of which are stolen from rural properties and sold on the black market to organised crime gangs such as bikies.
Map showing Weapons Offences crime in the Western Downs local government area. IMAGE: Queensland Police Service
Despite its low population compared to other regions, the Western Downs recorded more than 65 weapons offences over the past year.
Detective Snr Sgt Tony Parsons from the Firearms and Cannabis Team said the region had one of the highest rates of weapons theft in the state.
“Rural areas like the Western Downs have a greater rate of gun ownership per population compared to urban areas by simple fact of the nature of occupations and lifestyle,” he said.
“The Crime Stoppers campaign provides an avenue for the community to take some responsibility in combatting the illicit firearms market through providing information to Crime Stoppers.
Weapons seized by the QPS Firearms and Cannabis Team. IMAGE: Crime Stoppers Queensland
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“This information from the public enables investigators to take action and remove these firearms from people in the community who should not have them and who are looking to harm others.
“The local community is vital in assisting investigators to locate and seize illicit firearms. We all have an important role to play to ensure illicit firearms do not get into the hands of criminals.”
Senior Constable Dan O’Hara, the Dalby-based Crime Prevention Coordinator for Western Downs Patrol Group, with Crime Stoppers Queensland volunteer director Andrew James
Senior Constable Dan O’Hara, the Dalby-based Crime Prevention Coordinator for Western Downs Patrol Group, said lack of security on rural properties helped to enable weapons theft.
“Because this is a rural area we like to try and educate people on the proper way to secure their firearms, making sure that they’re kept locked in a safe and that the bolt, magazine and ammunitions are stored separately to the gun,” he said.
“The source of a lot of illegal firearms is thefts from rural properties due to their isolation. A lot of these properties are often unoccupied, which can make them a soft target.
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“Weapons can enter the illegal black market and be used in armed hold ups, and the last thing we want to see is them being used against the police.”
Being caught with an unregistered or illegal firearm outside amnesty conditions could result in a fine of up to $66,725, up to 13 years in jail, and a criminal record.
The public can provide information about illegal weapons to police anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Weapons seized by the QPS Firearms and Cannabis Team. IMAGE: Crime Stoppers Queensland
TECHNOLOGY developed by the world’s richest person, celebrity entrepreneur and business magnate Elon Musk, is being built on the Western Downs.
Publicly owned power generator CS Energy has announced plans to install a 100MW battery at the site of its Kogan Creek Power Station near Chinchilla , comprising “Megapacks” designed by Musk’s company Telsa.
The battery, storing 200MW hours of power, is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2023, costing $150 million and creating 80 jobs during construction.
It will be the newest instalment at an “energy hub” being established at Kogan Creek, the site of CS Energy’s 750MW coal fired power station and newly announced renewable hydrogen demonstration plant.
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CS Energy CEO Andrew Bills (pictured) said the battery project would provide employees with exposure to new assets, training and skills as Australia’s energy sector transformed.
“This project is about utilising the Kogan Creek site’s existing attributes of grid connection, water, land and workforce to create new opportunities,” Mr Bills said.
“Large-scale batteries are an important next step in creating a more flexible and diversified energy portfolio for CS Energy and our owners, the people of Queensland.
“Adding firm, fast start generation assets to CS Energy’s portfolio will enable us to more effectively respond to the changing demand and shape of the National Electricity Market.”
The battery will have a relatively small footprint of 100m x 150m and be connected to the grid via Powerlink’s 275 kV Western Downs substation.
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Queensland energy, renewables and hydrogen minister Mick de Brenni said the state government was keen to fund new grid-scale batteries to ensure a sustainable future for Queensland’s publicly owned energy companies.
“This battery represents further diversification of energy and modernisation of Queensland publicly owned power companies,” he said.
“Queenslanders want clean energy, but they also want reliable energy, so the inclusion of batteries into the CS Energy portfolio will support further expansion of their variable (renewable) energy assets alongside existing traditional generation.
Artist impression of the CS Energy’s Tesla battery being built at Kogan Creek
QUEENSLAND polocrosse queen Sydnee Johnson, hailing from the local club in Tara, will tomorrow begin the Maroons’ campaign to win back-to-back national women’s titles in regional Victoria.
Johnson has represented Queensland since 2012 and first captained the team in its ‘State of Origin’ victory over NSW at last year’s Barastock Interstate Polocrosse series in Warwick.
The Maroons will face off against the Blues again tomorrow in the opening round of the open women’s competition at the Petstock Australian Polocrosse Nationals in Ballarat.
“NSW has got a very strong strong side and we’ve got a few new faces in our team, so we’re starting out against the big guns and we’re very eager to get going,” Johnson said.
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“It’s really exciting. There’s really great atmosphere down here and the grounds are just buzzing. It’s quite chilly, so the Queenslanders especially are freezing our butts off!”
For a small organisation, Tara Polocrosse is well represented across the Queensland contingent of 11 teams which have travelled Ballarat.
Many players come from the polocrosse capital of Warwick, some from the Gold Coast and Toowoomba, and plenty more from across the state’s country towns.
By nature, those in team horse sports are spread over vast geographic areas, so all of those competing at Ballarat this week will have to overcome the challenge of distance and limited amounts of squad training.
Chinchilla Polocrosse Club players representing Queensland this week in BallaratSydnee Johnson celebrating success in the 2018 Australian Polocrosse Nationals
There have been no national title carnivals held for the past three years but Johnson was part of the first Queensland women’s team to win a national title in the most recent event in 2018.
Her younger sister Lindsay Doolan, of Miles, is also part of the open women’s team and has represented Australia in the sport.
“We’ve had two training weekends prior to this, trying to play together as a team and preparing out horses and making sure they’re fit to play,” Johnson said.
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“It’s been a bit challenge to get everyone together to practice, especially with the amount of rain everywhere, but we’ve done the best we can.
“I think the team’s coming together very well. It’s fortunate that I’ve got my sister in the team and we’ve got second set of sisters in the team, so we’re very used to playing together and linking up.
“We’re a bit nervous but I’m feeling confident and I think we’re definitely capable of winning the title.”
WATCH: Country Caller coverage of the 2021 Barastock Interstate Polocrosse series in Warwick
IT hasn’t taken long for Australian bull riding prodigy Sam Woodall to make a statement at the centre of world rodeo, clinging on for a 92-point ride at the renowned Ty Murray Invitational PBR event in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Woodall, 23, is on his first tour of the United States as a professional open bull rider, but an injury not long after his arrival in January meant he had to spend several weeks watching from behind the chutes before clocking his first 8-second ride.
And what a ride it was.
Having drawn High Tide Blues, a relatively unknown but clearly fierce bucking bull, Woodall with his signature green helmet stunned the Albuquerque crowd with a blistering 92-point ride.
WATCH: Sam Woodall’s 92-point ride on High Tide Blues at Ty Murray Invitational. VIDEO: PBR
“I saw everything on that ride,” Woodall told the Caller from his base in Stephenville, Texas.
“There’s definitely bull rides where everything just happens in a blur and you don’t really know what happened, but on this one I saw everything.
“I realised every time he sort of got me out of position and I had to fight back for it. It comes from being in the right position and being aggressive enough to keep that position.”
High Tide Blues has a 0-percent ‘buckoff’ rate, meaning everyone who’s sat on the bull has successfully ridden him for 8 seconds – but the bull’s only been attempted twice, and the first rider also clocked a huge score of 88.5 points.
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“I didn’t know a thing about him (High Tide Blues)… nothing at all,” Woodall said.
“I didn’t even know what he looked like until he ran into the race where I put my rope on.
“I asked the fella who owned him ‘what is he like’, and he said ‘he’s that black bull right there’, and I said ‘righto, that will work.”
Woodall, from Heywood in rural Victoria, has steadily risen to become one of the top cowboys on the PBR Australia circuit.
The Caller was there to report on Woodall’s first PBR victory when he won the PBR Rockhampton invitational in September 2020.
Since then he’s placed in the top 10 in several PBR events, and last year won the PBR Grand Final in Townsville.
Sam Woodall riding to victory in the PBR Grand Final in Townsville. IMAGE : PBR Australia
The 23-year-old’s has so far amassed more than $31,000 in prize money.
By the time he arrived in America his world ranking was 13, but now sits at number 41 having been unable to continue his form due to injury.
A bull landed on his back during his second week in the states, lacerating his liver and kidney. The Caller asked whether the risks of bull riding was a constant concern.
“If you’re worried about that stuff you shouldn’t be doing, that’s what I always say anyway,” Woodall said.
“I’m starting to feel really good again, I’ve been working out and it’s going well. I was really just happy to get a score in Albuquerque. I’d been having a bit of trouble getting one the board and I just needed to get that out of the way.”
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Woodall will this weekend join up to 70 competitors at a major PBR event in Souix Fall, South Dakota, as he continues to enjoy the right of passage in USA bull riding which many Aussie cowboys have taken before him.
“It’s definitely bigger in the states. You’re competing in front of massive crowds at all the stadiums, there’s a huge atmosphere,” he said.
“Our better bulls in Australia are the quality of what pretty well all of these bulls are here, so you’re always getting on quality bulls and you’re getting on them often.
“Everyone you’re competing against at that level, all the riders are just as good as each other. So anyone, on their day, can win the event.”
WATCH: Country Caller coverage of the Rockhampton PBR 2020
THE underdogs reigned supreme but “everybody went home happy” on a weekend of rugby league which saw every Western Downs club represented in two separate preseason carnivals.
For the first time in six years the Tara Panthers raised the Terry Charles Memorial Trophy in the annual round robin competition, which was this year held at Ross Bourke Oval in Taroom.
As the only club in the carnival which doesn’t field a team for the regular season, coach Doug Bougoure admitted the Panthers “probably go in as the least favoured team” each year.
But he said strong leadership, keeping calm and maintaining teamwork helped the underdogs put together back to back wins to take home the trophy named in honour of a passed Tara local.
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The victorious Tara Panthers
“We kept getting together and training, a few guys are ex-Tara people who play in the Toowoomba competition and enjoying coming back to play for their home town,” Bougoure said.
“When you put a couple of classy players in the side that we have, it makes a difference. All of our players get along and work as one. They played exceptionally well as a team on the weekend.
“Our game plan was to not push things too much, play things conservative, don’t go for the Hail Mary pass, and just grind the games out.
“It’s always nice to come away with it. When you get a group of people together and you go out to win the carnival and it happens, it’s very pleasing.
Terry Charles was a Tara local, a well known and well liked supporter of Western Downs rugby league. He died in a car accident some decades ago and the carnival is held in his memory each year.
Tara Panthers captain Cliff Purcell holds the coveted Terry Charles Memorial Trophy
As well as fellow coach Mick Kelly and longtime first aid assistant Paul Gunnis, Bougoure heaped praise on the Tara Panthers captain, dummy-half Cliff Purcell.
“As a captain Cliffy’s magnificent. He keeps the players calm, he doesn’t rush into things and he’s an exceptional leader,” Bougoure said.
“He’s not a big talker but he leads by example and keeps the team level headed. He’s been playing for Tara for a long time. He comes out every year. I think he’s 45 or 46 years old, and for a man his age he’s exceptionally fit.”
The Tara Panthers also expressed their appreciation to loyal club sponsor, the Tara Commercial Hotel.
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It was upsets all round at the home of the Taroom-Wandoan Battlers on Saturday.
Tara firstly had to overcome the best efforts of the Chinchilla Bulldogs, who in recent weeks recorded a comfortable win and a narrow loss in trial games against Toowoomba league teams Brothers and Pittsworth.
Then the Miles Devils beat the Battlers for their spot in the final. The game went down to the wire and it was a penalty goal in extra time which gave Miles an 8-6 victory.
Miles Devils president Ken Brown said despite ultimately going down to Tara in the final, the first round win in the Terry Charles and a victory over Mitchell in a trial the previous week had given the rebuilding club a good confidence boost.
The Miles Devils, Terry Charles grand finalists
“The Battlers are an experienced team. They might be a Reserve-grade team but realistically they’ve got a few guys in the side who should be playing A-grade,” Brown said.
“We have a lot of young fellas in our Miles team so it was a good hit out for them against a more experience pack. They ground their way to the win. It was really good to show some resilience and it will be really good for them in the future.”
Miles’s last premiership came in 2013 and the Devils were also Roma competition grand finalists in 2017.
Brown said recent years had been a promising rebuilding period, with a core group of young players showing enthusiasm for the club and the for game in general.
“We want to get everything right at the top first, in the office,” he said.
“We’re building great facilities and getting the boys a bit more equipment and promoting the game, giving the kids something to do on the weekend.
“We’re not out there playing for sheep stations but we’re just keeping this club going. We’ll chip away at it and we’ll be right, I reckon.”
Fishhooks and Diehards men of the match trophies, sponsored by Morrissey & Co, were awarded to Willie Cambourn and Travis Babington. IMAGE: Karel Karel Brownhall
Meanwhile, over at Jandowae, the home town Fishhooks fought to victory over the Dalby Diehards in the neighbouring towns’ annual preseason exhibition match on Saturday.
Despite Dalby being a consistently strong competitor in the Toowoomba competition, their games against the makeshift Fishhooks have been close on the scoreboard since the annual preseason hitout began six years ago.
Jandowae won in the the first year but the trophy has gone to Dalby ever since.
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In a touch of irony, the final score in the game was 16-10, which was the same tally from Jandowae’s inaugural win in 2017.
Fishhooks spokesman Ben Davison said the club and the community was thrilled to celebrate victory once again.
“It was a very physical game and there was a lot of big hits and it was very gritty, especially in the first half,” Davison said.
“All the players were pretty buggered but we just kept going.
“All the games have been very close – last year we lost in the final minute – and because it had been song long we really wanted it this year.
“When the women won the first curtain raiser game it really got the crowd going. Everyone was on a high and we just dug in.
“The crowd hung around well after the game because they were having such a good time.
“It’s probably the biggest crowd we’ve had yet. It’s always well supported but I reckon there would have been close to a thousand people there, which would be a record.”
Jandowae Fishhooks ladies grind their way to victory over Dalby in their inaugural curtain raiser to the men’s game. IMAGE: Karel Brownhall
