Macleay Valley Mustangs Rugby league club

The Macleay Valley Mustangs Rugby league club is an Amateur rugby league club in the Group 3 Rugby League competition on the Mid North Coast of Australia. It is the main rugby league club based in Kempsey, New South Wales and surrounding areas of Kempsey Shire.

About[]

Macleay Valley Mustangs is a rugby league club that caters to youth's 17 to 18s to reserve grade & first grade competitions in the Group 3 rugby league comp. It is a supportive system for young rugby league players in Kempsey Shire area to further their rugby league careers as adults.

2012[]

Macleay Valley Mustangs won the 2012 group 2 premiership with a great win over Nambucca Heads Roosters in the grand final 36–12.

2013[]

MACLEAY Valley Rugby League Club was expelled from the remainder of the 2013 Group 2 competition. An "independent panel" convened by Country Rugby League made the decision after considering a motion that the Mustangs had brought rugby league into disrepute. This came after events at Geoff King Motors Oval in 2013 where a match involving Coffs Harbour Comets was abandoned following a wild melee in the 61st minute.^[1] after the melee the Group 2's chief administrator Jim Anderson said Macleay's Valley lower grades sides would not take part in the semi-finals series of 2013, Due to the melee's.

2014[]

The Macleay Valley was excluded from Group Three Rugby League season of 2015. Macleay was found guilty of breaching the group's code of conduct and the National Rugby League code of conduct during the season.^[2]

Titles[]

|2019 |align=left | Macleay Valley Mustangs | 34–24 |align=left | Wauchope Blues |align=left | Group 3 |}

Notable players[]

• Wayne Bartrim – Gold Coast Seagulls, St. George Dragons, St. George Illawarra & Castleford Tigers
• Sam Howe – Gold Coast Titans NRL Under-20s
• Malcom Webster Jr. – South Sydney Rabbitohs Toyota Cup player
• Anthony Cowan

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