{"id":133633,"date":"2025-09-10T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133633\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:44:09","slug":"reminiscences-and-research-to-reignite-geoffs-rugby-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133633\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminiscences and research to reignite Geoff\u2019s rugby days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Eric Fisher, Mark Pitts, Cath Goldsmith, Pat Cullen and Geoff Deans. Cath has been liasing with support workers, rugby old boys and local historians to shed light on Geoff\u2019s rugby days.<\/p>\n<p>Rugby old boys are entering the ruck with a disability worker to bring joy to a former teammate and chart local sport history.<\/p>\n<p>Former Coonamble Rams players Pat Cullen and Eric Fisher caught up with Koonambil resident Geoff Deans at Global Village Caf\u00e9 on Friday 29 August, where the three reminisced about Geoff\u2019s amateur rugby union and . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coonambletimes.com.au\/latest-online-editions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Access to this content is available via a current Coonamble Times subscription.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration-hover,underline); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset-hover,var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs))); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); outline-color: var(--color-body); filter: var(--link-filter-hover,unset);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coonambletimes.com.au\/register\/your-membership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscriber log-in<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coonambletimes.com.au\/latest-online-editions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase single issue downloads<\/a> of the Coonamble Times online editions for only $2.50 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coonambletimes.com.au\/online-subscriptions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">become a subscriber<\/a> for full access to online flip-books, archive downloads and the latest local news content.<\/p>\n<p>For free content see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coonambletimes.com.au\/category\/news-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Featured Local News<\/a> category<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Eric Fisher, Mark Pitts, Cath Goldsmith, Pat Cullen and Geoff Deans. Cath has been liasing with support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[28950,64,63,92338,2289,760,85],"class_list":["post-133633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-2025-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coonamble-cares","tag-local-news","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}