Not only does it host the Hume League football and netball finals every year, but it is also home to one of the region's best country shows.

The finals series in August and September and the annual show on the first Monday of October attract thousands of visitors who provide a much-needed boost to the town's coffers.

Graeme "Snow" McMaster is a stalwart of Walbundrie's vibrant sporting community and was only a lad when he first pulled on the boots for the Walbundrie Tigers.

A veteran of 150 senior games, Mr McMaster was the club's treasurer for 21 years and a committee member for 31 years.

He well knows the importance of a strong sporting sector in townships like Walbundrie.

"It holds the town together," he said.

"If you lost the football club, the shop would suffer and the hotel would go.

"You must have a sporting body and football is great because it attracts so many people.

"It's hard to keep the kids here now because the farming game isn't as good as it should be.

"The young fellows go to town for work and it's hard to get them back."

Speaking in the handsome Walbundrie Sports and Recreation Pavilion, largely funded by the community and opened in 1995, Mr McMaster said the football club was formed in 1910 but combined with Rand in 2005 to become a strengthened Rand-Walbundrie Tigers.

Netball, cricket and tennis are also played at the sportsground.

Mr McMaster is proud of the show, "the best one-day show in the Riverina".

"I think the one-day holiday is its biggest asset -- the Monday holiday of the Labour Day long weekend," he said.

"It helps that there are four terms in the school year now which means there's no school next day.

"People have stuck by us; people come to this show where they won't go anywhere else."

The 101st show will be staged on October 1.