SOCCER
The Forbes Foxes are ready to roar this Sunday as they step onto the field to defend their Lachlan District Amateur Soccer Association premiership.
Many of last year’s winning squad have returned in 2025, and their growth as a team has been clear - just two losses all winter. One of those, however, was to the Parkes Raptors, a result that cost the Foxes a home grand final.
Now, the stage is set for a rematch. The Foxes will face the Raptors in Sunday’s decider, and they’re eager to even the score.
While familiar faces dominate the line-up, fresh talent has also made its mark.
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New recruit Navneet Chand has been electric, scoring a hat-trick in the Foxes’ 5–1 demolition of last year’s runners-up, the Parkes Vipers.
The blend of experience and newcomers has clicked, producing some of the season’s most commanding performances.
Foxes stalwart David Hodge is urging Forbes fans to make the trip up the Newell Highway for the 1pm kick-off on Sunday, September 14.
Wear orange, bring your GO FOXES signs and your spectator voices, he said.
“It’s going to be a tough game, hard, ... but we can’t wait to be lifting that premiership trophy again and bringing it back to Forbes.”
The Foxes know it won’t come easy.
Their last clash with the Raptors in the major semi-final was a 90-minute arm-wrestle, locked at 0–0 before extra time, where the Raptors edged a 1–0 win.
That set up Forbes’ emphatic semi-final victory over the Vipers, and now they're ready to finish the season strong.
Your 2025 Forbes Foxes are: Goalkeeper Ash Milford, Ethan Byrne, Luke Davis, Elias Bernardi, Alexander Earney, David Hodge, Pablo Garcia (absent), Navneet Chand, Karl Biles, Shane Percy, Harry Stewart, captain Jack Janetzki, Jacob Collits, Ben Crowley, Isaac Bernardi, Andrew Leslie, Brody Hodges, Danny Bilsborough and Karma Dechen.
The game will be at Parkes' Harrison Oval on Sunday, 14 September, with kick off expected at 1pm although yet to be confirmed at time of preparing for press.
Check the Forbes Foxes social media pages for any changes or updates to that.
