Taking It To The Streets - The Second Life of the Newtown RLFC: the remarkable and uplifting story of the Newtown Jets' second life in rugby league football
Coming soon …
Taking It To The Streets – The Second Life of the Newtown RLFC willbe available in late July.
Thisbook is an updated version of the history of the Newtown Jets that focuses on theclub’s second life in rugby league from 1991 to 2018. Along with manyanecdotes, photos, interviews and observations, this book looks at how theNewtown club has survived and reinvented itself in greatly-changed times.
“Themodern saga of the club that refused to die is one of the great and inspiringtales of modern rugby league” … Ian Heads (respected Australian sportsjournalist, author and historian).
“Thisis the classic tale of re-invention, of a club that wouldn’t lie down and die”… Dave Hadfield (award-winning English rugby league journalist andauthor).
“TheNewtown Jets’ recent history is about passion and the Australian spirit, aboutovercoming adversity and surviving against the odds” … Anthony Albanese MP,Leader of the Federal Opposition.
“Thisbook is an important record of a landmark period in this old club’s history …the author Glen Dwyer is uniquely positioned and qualified to tell the story ofNewtown’s recent history” … Terry Williams (rugby league author andhistorian).
“Thisis the rugby league club that was consigned to oblivion in the middle 1980s,and now proudly competes again in a high standard rugby league competition. Theold club attracts good crowds to its spiritual home, Henson Park, and hasreally connected with the modern version of inner-western Sydney and its newpopulation” … Ron Sparks (radio broadcaster, journalist and programmanager formerly with 2SM, 2UW, Triple M, 2Day FM and WSFM.)
Taking It To The Streets – The Second Life of the Newtown RLFC willbe directly on sale from the Newtown RLFC office, online and through selectedbookshops from 30th July.