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Premium Content Subscriber only Many of Lismore s CBD small businesses enjoyed a massive boost to weekend trade thanks to the NRL s pre-season trial game between the Gold Coast Titans and the New Zealand Warriors at the recently upgraded Oakes Oval. In the past few years the region has been through the wringer with floods, bushfires and COVID-19 to name a few of the challenges. Lismore City Council s Manager of Economic Development Tina Irish estimates that the game bought in almost $350,000 into our local economy. The council said tickets to the game sold out on Friday night with a reduced capacity of 4800 due to COVID-19. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only Rugby league fans no matter which team you follow, are urged not to risk being locked out of Saturday s ring-a-dinger battle between the Gold Coast Titans and New Zealand Warriors. A Lismore City Council spokesman said people should not delay as there are limited numbers of tickets they can sell for the Oakes Oval game due to the pandemic. You must pre-book There are only general admission tickets left available, they can be purchased online here. BYO food and non-alcoholic drinks or support your local sports club He said food will be available at the venue. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only AHEAD of the match against the Gold Coast Titans next week, recently signed New Zealand Warriors coach Nathan Brown is upbeat about the Kiwis ability to play sensational footy. Brown, 47, who was born in Maclean said the last time the Warriors played the Gold Coast in Lismore in 2009, he was coaching in the UK. When asked if he thought the players could recreate the impressive seven-tries-to-two 34-12 victory on February 27 at Oakes Oval, Brown smiled. Â Â I was coaching Huddersfield and can t remember who was playing in the Warriors back then, he said. But as the new coach I know the team will go out, play their best and give the local fans a thrill. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only With one NRL trial match cancelled, the New Zealand Warriors are picking up the pace with their pre-season training before they arrive in Lismore next week. The match between the New Zealand Warriors and the Gold Coast Titans will be the first time recently-appointed Kiwi coach Nathan Brown will see his players front up under his aegis. On Thursday the Maclean-born Brown hinted that the full squad, including star recruits Euan Aitken, Addin Fonua-Blake, Kane Evans and Ben Murdoch-Masila, but minus forward Eliesa Katoa who has an injured cheekbone, will run out on Oakes Ovals to play Gold Coast Titans on February 27. ....