Friday evening’s match at Panthers Stadium is of critical importance to the Jets

TheJets travel to the foot of the Blue Mountains tomorrow for a rare Fridayevening appointment with the Penrith Panthers. Newtown’s finals hopes took aheavy blow with last Saturday’s loss to the Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles, andthe outcome of this 21^st round Canterbury Cup fixture against thePanthers now takes on the status of being of vital concern.

Matchdetails:
NSWRLCanterbury Cup NSW – 21^st Round

Friday,9^th August 2019

PanthersStadium

Penrith(3^rd place, 24 points) v Newtown (10^th place, 17 points)

Kick-Off:5.40pm.

Referee: Drew Oultram

TouchJudges:Cameron Mitchell and Daniel Luttringer

Newtown’steam for Friday evening (as per the listings in Thursday’s Big LeagueMagazine):

WillKennedy, Luke Polselli, Latrell Schaumkel, Jackson Ferris, Tyrone Phillips,Jack A. Williams, Braydon Trindall, Wes Lolo, Grant Garvey, Jimmy Jolliffe,Scott Sorensen, Siosifa Talakai, Jayson Bukuya.

Bench:Tyla Tamou, Teig Wilton, Brandon Luamanu, Greg Eastwood.

Coach:Greg Matterson.

ThePenrith Panthers team is:

CharlieStaines, Malakai Watene-Zelezniak, Stephen Crichton, Jed Cartwright, MathesonJohns, Matt Burton, Dean Blore, Sam McKendry, Brendan Hands, Kaide Ellis, BillyBurns, Frank Winterstein, Hame Sele.

Bench:Reed Izzard, Paea Pua, Pat Hollis, Tyrell Fuimaono.

Coach:Guy Missio.

Hereare the previews for the 21^st round of the Canterbury Cup NSWcompetition:  https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2019/08/08/previews--canterbury-cup-nsw-rd-212/

Hereare the highlights from last Saturday’s match at Lottoland:  https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2019/08/05/highlights--blacktown-v-newtown---rd-20/

TheNewtown RLFC expresses sincere condolences to members of the Markham family onthe recent passing of Mr George Markham. George Markham was a club officialwith the Newtown Jets in the early 1980s, and the Markham family have beenrenowned Newtown RLFC supporters for many years. Our thoughts are with theMarkham family at this time.