Bears Put Legal Threat In Path Of Gold Coast
Deal
By
ANDREW WEBSTER
THE SUN-HERALD - 22/5/2005
"It is the wrong decision.
They’re going to destroy us" - Mike Gibbins
Warriors-Souths Clash Moved Across Sydney Harbour
STUFF.CO.NZ - 4/5/2005
Stdney: The New Zealand Warriors' National Rugby League (NRL) visit to
South Sydney has moved across Sydney Harbour after a venue clash with
rugby's Super 12.
Central Coast Bears Still In The Hunt
By BRENT READ
THE AUSTRALIAN- 6/5/2005
The Central Coast Bears are
still the preferred option - Russell Tate
Bears Finally On
Top
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 23/3/2005
Stop the competition, let’s play the grand final tomorrow — North Sydney
is on top of the NSWRL Premier League ladder!
Signs Of
An Impending Storm
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 18/3/2005
Having (Melbourne’s) first graders on board really helps everyone lift.
They know what it takes to get to the next level and that professionalism
rubs off on everyone — Anthony Kiro.
Old Rivalries
Re-born
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 11/3/2005
A Humble junior representative rugby league game is about to make one
famous North Shore father feel very strange and have a generation or two of
Sydney sports fans asking where the years have gone.
Norths Win Gives Coach Freeman Perfect Start
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 9/3/2005
The Gary Freeman and Melbourne Storm era at
North Sydney Rugby League club is off to the prefect start.
Bears Book Date With Jason And His Argonauts
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 4/3/2005
On any
other day, Jason Taylor would be willing North Sydney to victory and doing
anything he could to help the club out.
It’s A Bear Market As North Sydney Make One Last Bid For Survival
By BRAD WALTER
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - 26/2/2005
North Sydney president Mike Gibbons and a
group of businessmen will try to gain control of the leagues club in a
last-ditch bid to save the Bears from extinction and re-ignite their
campaign to rejoin the NRL.
New Faces, Names Steeped In History
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 25/2/2005
Two of the greatest names in rugby league
history will feature for North Sydney tomorrow on what shapes as a
significant day for the club.
Prize
Storm Signing Backfires
By KARL DEKROO
THE HERALD SUN - 25/2/2005
Prize Storm recruit Jamie Feeney says he will
be fit to start the NRL season despite being diagnosed with a back injury,
similar to that which prematurely ended the career of Melbourne fullback
Robbie Ross.
Grizzly
Bears
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 18/2/2005
For the Bears supporters that didn’t make it
out to Marrickville,
Bears
Lose But Aren’t Panicking
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 16/2/2005
Coach Gary Freeman felt optimistic after his
first match in charge of North Sydney’s Premier League team, despite losing
28-4.
Bears’ Funding Slashed
By CAMERON BELL
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
- 13/2/2005
The future of foundation club North Sydney looks as bleak after leagues
club boss Jim Henry confirmed funding to the football club would be halved
this year.
Bid Groups Demand NRL Honour Due Process Promises
By ANDREW WEBSTER
THE SUN HERALD -
13/2/2005
Officials behind the Central Coast and
Wellington bids to become the competition’s 16th team have implored the NRL
to honour its promise to reconsider all the bids as the groundswell of
support for the Gold Coast Dolphins gathers momentum.
Bears Still
Confident
By TERRY LIBEROPOULOS
RUGBY LEAGUE REVIEW - 2/2005
The North Sydney Bears are still confident that they will be part of the
NRL competition in the future despite reports that the Gold Coast will be
fast-tracked.
Bears Still Keen To Be NRL’s Sweet 16
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 19/1/2005
The North Sydney rugby league club is not concerned about suggestions
they are being jostled out of the race for the 16th NRL position.
Bears First Grade Legends
On Show In Sevens Tournament
By STEVE
LITTLE
REDANDBLACKZONE.COM - 12/1/2005
Orara Valley on NSW’s North Coast is set to relive the glory
days of the Bears as a North Sydney side competes in the annual Orara
Valley 7’s Tournament.
Year Was A Shocker Say Bears
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 7/1/2005
If any organisation was relieved to see the back of 2004, then
surely it was North Sydney Rugby League Club.
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Q & A With Greg Florimo
By TORTURED
SOUL
WWW.RLFANS.COM FORUM - 22/12/2004
Please leave your comments on the following threads;
Mighty Bears Forum thread - http://www.jumbles.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=851
OR
rlfans.com Forum thread - http://boards.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=100913.
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Fax Boss Reels In Fisher
HALIFAX
TODAY - 19/11/2004
Halifax have added a sixth new recruit to their 2005 line-up,
landing highly-rated North Sydney hooker Ben Fisher on a one-year
contract.
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Grin And Bear The Pain
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 10/12/2004
While most of you are enjoying a lengthy sleep-in on Sunday
morning, North Sydney’s Premier League squad will be working their
backsides off.
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Central Coast Door Ajar For
Sydney Club
By ROY
MASTERS and BRAD WALTER
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - 7/12/2004
The possibility of a Sydney team relocating to Gosford increased
dramatically yesterday with the revelation that it would no longer have
to be called the Bears.
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Bears Incensed As Rabbitohs
Cross Harbour
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 4/12/2004
The North Sydney rugby league club is incensed and perplexed by
the strong possibility of South Sydney relocating to this side of the
Harbour.
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Souths Fans Back Move North
By BRAD
WALTER and JESSICA HALLORAN
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - 1/12/2004
The Mayor of North Sydney, Genia McCaffery, hopes to finalise
before the end of the year a deal for the Rabbitohs to shift their home
games across the harbour after the move last night won the backing of
the National Rugby League team's supporters.
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Vale - Henry Thomas Taylor
NORTH
SYDNEY BEARS OFFICIAL WEBSITE - 30/11/2004
Harry came into grade in 1942 as a ‘young sandy-haired lock,
able to run a football field in even time’.
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Bears Angry At Courting Of
Rabbitohs
AAP -
30/11/2004
Greg Florimo has labelled South Sydney's mooted shift to North
Sydney Oval as another "kick in the guts" for his former NRL club the
Bears.
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Rabbitohs Home In On North
Sydney
By BRAD
WALTER
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - 30/11/2004
South Sydney, the NRL's oldest-surviving club, is set to abandon
Aussie Stadium as its home ground and move to North Sydney Oval in a
deal worth up to $1million a year to the Rabbitohs.
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No Whiz Bang Holidays Here
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 5/11/2004
New North Sydney Premier League coach Gary “Whiz” Freeman wasn’t
joking when he said that life under his direction “wouldn’t be a
holiday”.
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Wounded Bears Form United
Front
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 29/10/2004
It may have come five years late, but a public push to
resuscitate North Sydney Rugby League Club has finally begun.
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Freeman Happy With The
Bears’ Minimum
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 22/10/2004
New Bears coach Gary Free man has declared the club’s financial
plight doesn’t bother him and he would have taken on the job even if
they were not a feeder club for NRL club, Melbourne Storm.
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Greg Florimo Calls On Bears
Fans For Support
By BIG-STEVE
BIG-STEVE'S RED AND BLACK SITE - 24/10/2004
Norths legend and now General Manager of the North Sydney
Football club has called for all Bears fans and foundation club
supporters to get down to North Sydney Oval this coming Tuesday night.
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Help Save Our Bears
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 15/10/2004
Desperate for funds and clinging to survival by it’s ever-
weakening claws, North Sydney Rugby League Club has opted to go
cap-in-hand and beg for financial support from the North Shore
community.
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Bears Cash Strapped
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 1/10/2004
North Sydney rugby league club’s future as a competitive
sporting unit is in peril this week, after its operating budget for
next season was slashed in half.
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Important Information
Meeting
By MIKE
GIBBONS
NORTH DISTRICT RUGBY LEAGUE FOOTBALL CLUB - 6/10/2004
In recent months, the football club has received the latest in a
series of body blows:
Download this notice as a Word document here.
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Bears Walk On Water At
Presentation Night
By BIG-STEVE
BIG-STEVE"S RED AND BLACK SITE - 25/9/2004
The glamorous and spectacular Sydney Show Boat was the venue for
the North Sydney Bears Senior presentation night on Saturday on 25th
September.
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Florimo: Bears Won’t Die
By ADAM
HAWSE
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - 26/9/2004
The future of foundation club Norths has been placed in jeopardy
by a drastic cut in funding from North Sydney Leagues Club but Bears
legend Greg Florimo says he will not let the club die.
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Bears' Kiwi Fruition
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 24/9/2004
“Manly has poached one of ours again, but nothing they do
surprises me any more.” - Greg Florimo
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Bears Alliance On The Cards
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 17/9/2004
The Bears might make a pretty ugly bride, but they expect to be
enjoying wedded bliss with and NRL club very soon, giving their
yougsters the chance to play at the top level.
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Will The Bears Hibernate?
By MATT
STARKEY
RUGBY LEAGUE REVIEW - 9/2004
The decision by the NRL’s Partnership Committee to continue the
competition at 15 teams for season 2006 has placed the future of the
North Sydney Bears in limbo following the lack of any sort of
framework, direction or criteria regarding admission to Rugby League’s
premier competition, via the Central Coast.
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Cruel End To Season
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 15/9/2004
l’ve got no doubt that if we had finished seventh, we could’ve
gone all the way through — Josh White
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Fired Up To Challenge
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 10/9/2004
On the strength of just about every statistic you can point to,
it seems that the North Sydney boys needn’t bother going to Aussie
Stadium for Sunday’s Jersey Flegg Cup rugby league qualifying final
against the Sydney Roosters.
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Tag Gala Day
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 10/9/2004
The North Sydney branch of the Australian rugby league
foundation is holding another gala day for local kids.
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Robbie’s In Sights
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 10/9/2004
Robbie O’Davis has every right to feel insulted after reportedly
being offered just $8000 to go around with the Newcastle club that he
has served so well next season.
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No Burden To Bear
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 8/9/2004
I’ll still be involved in some way. When a hand is needed, I’ll
be there. It’ll be very hard to pull myself away completely — Gary
Larson
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Rampant Roosters Headed For
The Title???
By BEN
EVERILL
BIG LEAGUE - 9/9/2004
Will they ever lose?
Us Bears fans think so. - BIG-STEVE
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Bearing Down
By PETER
BADEL
BIG LEAGUE - 26/8/2004
The demise of the Bears is one of league’s saddest tales. But as
long as people like Greg Florimo are around hope floats north of the
harbour.
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NRL Rules Out Expansion In
2006
By NRL MEDIA
NRL - 16/8/2004
The National Rugby League partnership
executive has today ruled against expanding the competition in 2006.
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White Man For The Job
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 6/8/2004
Josh White has been re warded for his smart work with North
Sydney’s finais bound Jersey Flegg Cup unit by being promoted to the
club’s top coaching position for 2005.
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Bring Back the Bears
By GEOFF
DAVIDSON
CENTRAL COAST BEARS UNOFFICIAL WEBSITE - 6/8/2004
On the 16th of August the NRL partnership committee will meet to
hopefully decide whether to expand the NRL competition to include a
16th team for the 2006 season. The Central Coast Bears have been
building towards this momentus occassion since the downfall of the
Northern Eagles in 2002.
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Florimo Boots Up Again As
Bears Plead For 16th NRL Spot To Stave Off Extinction
By BRAD
WALTER
SYDNEY MORNING HEARLD - 7/8/2004
North Sydney will be lost if the Central Coast Bears aren't
admitted to the NRL, but the Dolphins are circling, writes Brad Walter.
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Dolphins vs Dolphin
Wannabes – The Battle Gains Momentum
By
REDCLIFFE DOLPHINS MEDIA
REDCLIFFE DOLPHINS FOOTBALL CLUB - 6/8/2004
The Gold Coast NRL consortium has stirred up a hornet’s nest and
an online petition as the Redcliffe Dolphins and many league supporters
cry foul over their dogged determination to use the name Dolphins
despite knowing that the highly successful and respected Redcliffe Club
has proudly borne the Dolphin emblem for 36 years.
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Daily Telegraph NRL Fans
Survey: Let's Get To It Folks
By BIG-STEVE
BIG-STEVE'S RED AND BLACK SITE - 6/8/2004
Well, we were supossed to of had a decision in March regarding a
16th team. Then it was delaid till July. Now August the 16th! ven then
a decission is not certain.
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More Debate Over
Anti-tampering
By DANIEL
PACE
AAP - 15/7/2004
A 16th franchise will be forced to field a "reserve grade" side
unless the NRL grants it a dispensation to negotiate with off-contract
players before next year's proposed October anti-tampering deadline.
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Singleton Won’t Cop NRL
Snub: Head Bear
By GREG
PRICHARD
THE SUN HEARLD - 11/7/2004
Central Coast bid boss Warren Wilson says he can’t believe the
NRL isn’t falling over itself to accept the John Singleton-backed Bears
as the competition’s 16th team.
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Coaches Split On 16th Team
As NRL Call In Experts For Help On Expansion
THE SUNDAY
TELEGRAPH - 11/7/2004
The NRL has hired an independent third party to help sift
through the options for the code’s expansion. The firm has worked with
Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games bid teams and is already polling
league fans on their thoughts on a 16th team.
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Official Raiders Match
Preview
RAIDERS.COM.AU-
7/7/2004
Injured Fone Zone Canberra Raiders forward Tyran Smith is set
for a return to the action this weekend, after being named in the
Raiders Premier league lineup for this Saturday's home clash against
North Sydney.
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Central Coast Bears Preview
By BIG-STEVE
BIG STEVE'S RED AND BLACK SITE - 29/6/2004
Ever wondered what it would be like to actually see the red and
black Bears play out of Gosford Stadium?
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Revitalised Bears End Long
Hibernation
By DAVID
ROWLANDS
NORTH SHORE TIMES - 23/6/2004
How on earth does a team that has lost six games in a row manage
to beat a team that has won the same number in succession?
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Singo's Hit List
By BEN
BLASCHKE
BIG LEAGUE - 23/6/2004
To be honest, I’d neck myself if the Central Coast came into the
competition and I wasn’t
a part of it - PAUL STRINGER
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Bears Hot Despite The Cold
NORTH
SYDNEY BEARS WEBSITE - 19/6/2004
The mighty North Sydney Bears threw the form book out the window
and defeated the inform Newtown Jets 28 to 18 on a bitterly cold
Saturday afternoon at Bear Park.
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