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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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