While it’s a funny little idiom, its hard not to look at Coonamble at the moment and ask that question.
Coonamble's history has long been intertwined with rugby league, the Bears are a proud club, but for whatever reason the town has never really ever had any long term representation on the professional stage.
It would be rude to ignore Ron Boden who played 38 games for Parramatta in the 1960s, or Knights halfback Steven Fulmer who played for Newcastle in the NRL from 1988-1991, and who could forget the mighty Lancelot . . .
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