Last weekend they hosted a reunion for the players in the team of 1997 – the last time the Rams won the First Grade premiership.

“There was a reunion in 2007 to mark ten years,” said Walcha Rugby Club president Andrew Crawford. “This second reunion coincided with Walcha's first grade bid to win this years premiership which will be exactly 20 years since we won.”

Mr Crawford said 17 guys who were involved back in 1997 took part in the festivities on the weekend and all are positive about the team’s chances this year.

“The 1997 team have already booked a hotel in Tamworth and in Walcha on the premise that this year’s Rams will hopefully make the grand final and all 97 club players have been notified so as to get as many supporters at the game as possible,” he said. 

Mr Crawford and his wife Virginia commissioned a sculpture from the young artist Ben Tooth, a good friend of their son Angus, to mark the occasion.

The giant ram was installed outside the Walcha Ram’s clubhouse last week.