Jets return to their spiritual home could be the circuit-breaker
The Newtown Jets will play at Henson Parkthis Saturday (13th April) for the first time in 2019, and theopening home game is against historic rivals, the North Sydney Bears.
The Jets remain without a win after four rounds of theCanterbury Cup NSW competition, while the Bears (who are in the first year ofan extended partnership deal with the Sydney Roosters) are in second positionwith three wins and one loss.
Saturday’s match at Henson Parkwill be preceded by curtain-raisers at 10.45am and 12.45pm.
Saturday’s match details are:
NSWRL CanterburyCup NSW – Round Five
Saturday, 13th April 2019
Henson Park
Newtown v North Sydney
Kick-Off: 3.00pm.
Referee: Martin Jones
Touch Judges: James Vella andClayton Wills
Newtown’s team:
Will Kennedy, Tyla Tamou, Matt Evans, RonaldoMulitalo, Isaac Lumelume, Luke Polselli, Braydon Trindall, Wes Lolo, JamesSegeyaro, Jaimin Jolliffe, Teig Wilton, Siosifa Talakai, Billy Magoulias.
Bench: Greg Eastwood, Josh Carr, Daniel Vasquez, CruzTopai-Aveai.
Coach: Greg Matterson.
Second-rower Anthony Moraitis is injured and has beenreplaced by Teig Wilton (who captained last year’s premiership-winning CronullaSharks Jersey Flegg Cup team).
North Sydney:
Kieran Moss, Asu Kepaoa, Ed Murphy, James Tuitahi, Bernard Lewis, Lachlan Lam, Brock Lamb, John Tuivaiti, Bradley Deitz, Max Bailey, Sitila Tupouniua, Nat Butcher, Josh Curran.
Bench: Sam Verrills, Drew Hutchinson, Fletcher Baker,Stefano Hala, Thomas Freebairn.
Coach: Jason Taylor.
Curtain-Raisers at Henson Parkthis Saturday:
12.45pm: Ron Massey Cup: Glebe-Burwood v Mounties;
10.45am: Sydney Shield: Sydney Universityv Ryde-Eastwood.
The club extends best wishes to Ava Seumanufagai whohas agreed to terms with Leeds in the EnglishSuper League. Ava was a Cronulla Sharks contracted player who played with Newtown on numerousoccasions in 2018, including the grand final against Canterbury-Bankstown.
The Newtown RLFC regrets to announce that PeterArmstrong passed away earlier this week. Peter played with Newtown in 1965 after eight seasons with StGeorge from 1957 to 1964. The club extends sincere condolences to his familymembers.