Hughenden <p >Hughenden is located half-way between Townsville and Mount Isa on the Flinders Highway, North West Queensland and is the major centre of the Flinders Shire. <p >About Hughenden <p >Hughenden - Muttaburrasaurus and the Coolibah Tree Hughenden is 376 km west of Townsville on the banks of Queensland's longest river, the Flinders. The town owes its existence to the railway line and the surrounding cattle grazing land. <p >It is located at the edge of Australia's ancient inland sea and there have been a number of important fossils found in the area. Undoubtedly the most important discovery was that of Muttaburrasaurus, which is displayed prominently in a building in the centre of town. The skeleton was the first entire fossil to be found in Australia. <p >Hughenden History <p >Frederick Walker was an Inspector of the Native Mounted Police. In 1861 he was appointed to take charge of a party to trace the tracks of Burke & Wills. Walker's party camped on the area where Hughenden is today and carved his initials F.W&rdquo; on a tree at his camp. This is believed to have been the historic Coolabah Tree&rdquo; of Waltzing Matilda fame. Landsborough named Mt Walker in Hughenden in his honour. <p >Hughenden Attractions <p >Hughenden has four National Parks, gem fields, mountainous volcanic basalt country, sweeping black soil plains and rich fossil and dinosaur areas. Put swimming, fishing and bird watching high on your agenda. Hughenden is the centre for real outback fun with many unusual events such as the Hughenden Country Music Festival and Bush Poets Breakfast, the Hughenden Camp Draft and Flinders Classic, Prairie Races, Outback Scrap Weekend and The Gertrude Langer Ensemble Award. <p >/Portals/0/Users/087/07/542807/Dino.jpg
rich fossil and dinosaur areas.... lol. you blokes make me chuckle with all these. big fan. another great addition to the FU family Cheers Batfink
Welcome to the ORFFU Batfink, it's open slather on trades so if you see someone you like on another list PM the coach and try your luck.Good luck!
Welcome aboard mate! Maybe we could play for the fossil cup with the Serengeti being the place of the earliest human skeleton discovery!
<table id='tblPostBody71906' width='100%' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' align='left' border='0] <td align='left' valign='top' style='padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: left; width: 100%;] <div id='spBody' class='Forum_Normal] Hansen and Kerridge have arrived safely in Hughenden and are about to join their new teammates at the club'sSaturday afternoon training session. They are keen to impress and I have no doubt will be the long term players the club is looking for as part of the re-building programme under the new coach. The coach sees Hansen stabilising the back line following his consistent season in 2014 and will develop further with guidance from the mature Sam Fisher.Kerridge provides the flexibility needed through the midfield and forward line and will be released from a tagging role this year making him ball hungry for 2015 and beyond. Kerridge's fitness is superb and it will test his team mates which the ensuring an improved performance from the team. The coach is stoked.
Thank you for the welcome. It's tough to come in after most teams have already heavily traded and to adjust an ageing list. Hence the controversial trade to reposition the player list for the future, otherwise in a year or so I'll have 5 retirements, no ability to trade anything of value and average PSDs. Happy to bring some extra discussion to the league.
]After starting the season with 3 away games, the boys are feeling a bit weary with the travel and it showed against the Crocs, another inconsistent performance across the team. ] ]The boys are looking forward to their first home game of the season this week at Hughenden Park against the Grenades who are coming off their first win of the season.
I can foresee the future, the newspapers in a week they will be saying 'Premiership favourites Gisborne to strong for new team Hughenden'
Minor team changes for the journey to the Monarchs home ground KingDome. The Hughenden boys have been encouraged by 2 away wins on the trot and are looking forward to the challenge against the only unbeaten team of the competition. Lee Spurr has earned his position on the park after a strong performance last week andmovesTroy Chaplin to the pine. Blaine Boekhorst has a spell back in the reserves to find some touch withKyle Langford making his debut as the travelling emergency. Go the P Dogs.