Quirindi Lions Rugby Union

🏉🦁 ROUND 10 – TEAM LISTS ARE IN! 🦁🏉

This Saturday, the Lions hit the road to take on the Highlanders in a crucial Round 10 clash at Inverell.

📋 Team lists are now in, check them out and get behind the Lions and Lionesses!

🕐 Game Day Times
• 12:50pm – Women
• 1:50pm – Reserve Grade
• 3:15pm – First Grade

With only 7 games remaining before finals, every competition point counts.

🍻 Lions supporters, pack the cars, make the trip to Inverell and get behind all our teams as they look to bring home some valuable points.

🦁Travel strong, make some noise and roar the Lions home!

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🥂 SAVE THE DATE 🥂

Quirindi Rugby Union Club Ladies Day 2026 is locked in!

📅 Saturday 1st August
🏉 Quirindi vs Moree
📍 Quirindi Rugby Grounds

Gather your friends and save the date for one of the biggest days on the QRUC calendar.

✨ More details coming soon.

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🏉🦁 ROUND 10 – AWAY GAME 🦁🏉

This weekend the Lions hit the road to take on the Highlanders in a crucial Round 10 clash at Inverell.

After a tough day at Narrabri, where all three grades suffered defeats, our teams will be looking for redemption and a strong response this weekend.

🕐 Game Day Times
• 12:50pm – Women
• 1:50pm – Reserve Grade
• 3:15pm – First Grade

🍻 Lions supporters, pack the cars, make the trip to Inverell and get behind all our teams as they look to bounce back and keep their finals campaigns on track.

Let's travel strong, make some noise and roar the Lions home! 🦁🔥💪

📊 Current Ladder Positions

With only seven games remaining before finals, every competition point matters.

First Grade
1️⃣ Moree – 41 pts
2️⃣ Quirindi – 39 pts
3️⃣ Narrabri – 37 pts
4️⃣ Tamworth Pirates – 25 pts
5️⃣ Inverell – 23 pts
6️⃣ Gunnedah – 18 pts

Reserve Grade
1️⃣ Moree – 45 pts
2️⃣ Narrabri – 30 pts
3️⃣ Quirindi – 29 pts
4️⃣ Tamworth Pirates – 27 pts
5️⃣ Inverell – 26 pts
6️⃣ Gunnedah – 10 pts

Women's
1️⃣ Narrabri – 45 pts
2️⃣ Tamworth Pirates – 40 pts
3️⃣ Moree – 30 pts
4️⃣ Gunnedah – 25 pts
5️⃣ Inverell – 18 pts
6️⃣ Quirindi – 11 pts

3rd Grade
1️⃣ Narrabri – 26 pts
2️⃣ Gunnedah – 25 pts
3️⃣ Moree – 25 pts
4️⃣ Quirindi – 15 pts
5️⃣ Tamworth Pirates – 12 pts
6️⃣ Inverell – 10 pts

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Quirindi 🦁 🆚️ Narrabri 🐗
1️⃣st Grade Photos 📸

Quirindi 🦁🆚️Narrabri 🐗
2️⃣nd Grade Photos 📸

🦁🏉 Good luck to our junior helpers this June Long Weekend!

At Quirindi Rugby, we love seeing our juniors helping out each home game as ball boys and girls and kicking tee runners, Whether they're chasing kicked balls all over the ground or spending hours running alongside the Assistant Referees across multiple matches, they're a huge part of our game days.

That's why it's so great to see some familiar names selected in the Central North Junior Rugby Union representative teams for the NSW Junior Rugby Union State Championships.

Congratulations on your selection, and thank you for all your help around the club this season. Your efforts never go unnoticed.

Best of luck representing Central North.

🦁🏉 The Ladies Game 🏉🦁

A few photos from our women's match in Narrabri on Saturday.

While the scoreboard may not have reflected the effort and spirit of the game, our Lionesses should be incredibly proud of the way they played. The game was played in a fantastic atmosphere, with plenty of learning, laughs and great rugby along the way.

A huge thank you to the two legends from Narrabri who came across to assist our ladies throughout the match. Your support, encouragement and willingness to share your knowledge helped our players learn more about the game and continue building their confidence on the field.

We are incredibly grateful for your help, and our ladies thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Enjoy the weekend off ladies.

We love our supporters💙🤍

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Georgia Moore never let being the only girl on a boys rugby team daunt her.

Giving it her all and showing pure determination has launched her from the footy fields of Quirindi and the Central North all the way to the city and around the world.

Resilience and a tough attitude have been two key ingredients she's carried with her from the family farm into the sport, now able to teach her city teammates a thing or two about grit.

Growing up on a 1214 hectare cropping, sheep and Wagyu farm at Werris Creek, rugby has always been a part of Georgia's life.

"My dad played senior rugby and we grew up on the sideline following him all around the Central North," she said.

"In 2010 my mum took myself and my brother to a come and try day and that's how it all started."

Starting in under-sevens, like many young country girls Georgia grew up playing with all boys until she was 14.

"It was pretty crazy going from playing with a whole boys team to a whole girls team," she said.

"Seeing the comparison from the boys getting to play from a young age and then going to girls rugby where they've had to start when they're much older and the skill level is very different."

Having played representative rugby through high school and captaining Central North sides, Georgia got her first taste of senior rugby at only 16 when her local club the Quirindi Lions was looking to enter a women's team in 2019.

"I got an age dispensation done to play up so it was pretty scary a little 16-year-old playing against fully grown women twice my age," she said.

"My coach at the time Nick Rees named me as captain so I was literally bossing these women around so it was pretty daunting but it was a pretty cool experience and it's great for Quirindi to have a women's team."

Showing her prowess on the field, Georgia was selected to play for the country team at the 2023 Australian Rugby Shield, which the team took out.

"It was a pretty big milestone for me," she said.

"Up in Brisbane, my whole family got up there and it was surprising we took it out - there were some pretty strong teams like Queensland Country, ACT, all very great rugby teams that play a lot more rugby than we do."

It was this experience that was the pivotal moment for Georgia's rugby career.

"After playing in that country team, my coach pulled me aside and said 'I think you have the talent to go all the way, is it something you've thought about'," she said.

"I was always keen to try and take my rugby to the next level - I just didn't really know how."

Georgia said her coach helped her take the next step, finding clubs and after various trials did a session with the Southern Districts Rugby Club in the Sutherland Shire.

"I just loved it, he girls are great, the coaches are great and in 2024 I decided to make the move," she said.

"Back home we only get to play 10s but down here it's 15 a-side and that's my passion.

"The quality and the standard of rugby is much higher which is great and the competition's extremely competitive."

Georgia had previously been selected into the Waratahs training squad two years in a row, but unfortunately injury ruled her out.

"The goal is to be in the Super W program somewhere, whether that's Waratahs or somewhere else," she said.

"I want to play rugby at the highest level possible and might make it all the way to Australia who knows, but want to crack Super W first."

While it was a big move from a small town to the city, Georgia has been able to bring her country grit to Sydney and has captained the Southern Districts side.

"When I moved here all the girls couldn't understand how I was so tough and how I could just keep going," she said.

"I think it all just came to down how in the country we don't have a whole pool of girls to pull players from - we were running at the bare minimum the whole season so you had to play every position from front row to winger to halfback.

"We had to be pretty versatile and pretty tough in that situation so I think the resilience has taught me a lot to bring me down here to Sydney and just to keep going no matter how hard it gets.

"The city girls, they're a little bit scared and timid at times, but I always get in and have a good crack."

Alongside this, Georgia has also played several rugby 7s tours with the Pacific Nomads, an organisation based out of Tamworth giving country girls the opportunity to play overseas, including a recent trip to France.

While the high adrenaline footy field is a passion, Georgia said it was the community around the sport that has been just as important.

"I like rugby, especially from a country point of view because it's an outlet for us," she said.

"We get away from the land for a day and the farmers and community all come together and celebrate the sport we all love."

With her experience so far, Georgia said the relationships and connections she has made all over the world now, was something she would carry for the rest of her life.

"If rugby in Australia isn't working for me and I want to go overseas I've created that connection now," she said.

"It's a sport that brings people together and you make mates for life."

Through her whole rugby journey so far, Georgia credits her family for their support.

Georgia Moore has a passion not just for rugby, but the community around the sport too: https://www.theland.com.au/story/9253752/