The Central West is a sporting region like no other.
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The sheer diversity across the region - the baking plains of Dubbo and Parkes to the frigid climates of Orange and Oberon, the big hits of Group 10 down to the burgeoning growth of disc golf in Molong - it's insane.
A region having this many sports - both league and union, a top-tier hockey competition, Australian rules, football - or soccer, if you rather - cricket, golf, massive local netball competitions: if you're a sports lover, the Central West is the place to be.
I'm going to be self-indulgent for a minute, and in my last week at the Central Western Daily look back at my five top memories of live sport in my time in the last three years.
Is it tacky? Yes. Is it full of nostalgia? You betcha. Have I included something Australian rules related like the filthy Victorian I am? Put the house on it.
They're in no particular order and - for someone who expected to come to Orange and be inundated with league and only league - shows the breadth of sport out here. You're onto something good here, Orange.
WOODBRIDGE CUP: Cargo v Canowindra, 2019
Despite starting in 2017, my first chances to cover a game of rugby league didn't appear until two years down the track. I'd wander up to Wade Park every now and again to watch CYMS or Hawks go at it, but rugby league games were the domain of colleague Matt Findlay.
Well, they were until I was sent to cover the Woodbridge Cup on a Saturday. To a Cargo v Canowindra derby, no less.
This city slicker was not ready for the Woodbridge Cup on the hallowed turf of Cargo Oval in all its glory.
Within seconds of kickoff someone was flat on their back. Welcome to bush footy.
The game itself wasn't something I was likely to forget, but what sealed the deal was interviewing a player I won't name in the sheds.
He was stripped up from the waist, standing in a wheely bin full of ice, with a lit cigarette in high right hand and lighting another in his left, with steam everywhere from showers.
ORANGE NETBALL ASSOCIATION: Grand final, 2020
This is genuinely one of the best games of sport I've ever seen live. Any level, any competition, any sport - this was incredible.
You couldn't put together a bigger underdog story if you tried. Orange High School's side, which hadn't made a grand final in over a decade, coming up against the heavyweights of the ONA.
Orange City was gunning for a 13th title in a row, if you don't mind, and the Hornets' coach Tegan Dray would be lining up against her charges in a high-stakes grand final.
In the end, the only thing which could split them was a Poppy Keegan goal seconds before the buzzer, sending the students into the tears of happiness and screams of joy teenage girls specialise at.
It was about the only part of the day you realised how young they were, too - for the full four quarters they played well beyond their years and experience.
TOUCH FOOTY STATE CHAMPS - 2019
Over the long weekend in 2019, hordes of children, parents and coaches descended on Orange for the touch football state championships, coming from all over the state.
They turned up in singlets and shorts to face the full brunt of Orange's coldest weekend of the year, with snow and wind and ice and hail and sleet and everything winter at Waratahs has to offer.
Watching kids run off the field and have rugs thrown over them was insane, watching parents wearing as many layers as they could find was weirdly cathartic for a reporter still not used to taking photos in sub-zero temperatures.
RUGBY UNION - Grand finals 2020
I know derbies are a big deal, but derbies in grand finals? Hoo boy. All the 2020 CWRU deciders were big games.
The Colts decider pitted two sides who'd been split by one point in two games against each other during the regular season, and the decider was no different. Just one point split the two sides, and you could see what it meant to both Emus and City to be going at it, head-to-head, in a curtain raiser for the main game.
While the main game wasn't as close, but I loved seeing Orange City running around in a grand final after two virtually win-less seasons.
AFL CENTRAL WEST - Grand final 2018
If you thought I'd get away without one last mention of the best sport in the world, you were very much mistaken.
And also, I'm going to mount a serious argument this is the best game of sport I've seen in the region over the last three years, across any code, with only the 2020 ONA grand final rivalling it.
The Tigers were 27 points down at three-quarter-time when I walked over to Western Advocate reporter Anya Whitelaw and told her to begin writing her match report. Boy was I wrong.
The Tigers mounted one of the most incredible grand final comebacks I've seen to win by just three points in a final-stanza hurrah.
And as much as I roll my eyes when Andrew Henry tells the story about kicking the winning goal with two minutes to go (which by my rough estimate I've heard 163 times) - I can't get enough of it.
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