The Jets and Dragons meet in a Qualifying Final this Sunday

The third-placed Newtown Jets square off against the second-placed St George-Illawarra Dragons at Panthers Stadium this Sunday. The winner of this match progresses to the Preliminary Final stage in two weeks time, while the loser goes into an elimination semi-final on the weekend of 8^th/9^th September. The Newtown Jets camp is in an upbeat mood on the back of two convincing victories in the last two competition rounds.This Sunday’s match details are:NSWRL Intrust Super Premiership NSW – Qualifying FinalSunday, 2^nd September 2018Panthers StadiumSt George-Illawarra (2^nd place) versus Newtown (3^rd place)Kick-Off: 1.45pm.Referee: Damian Briscoe.Touch Judges: Liam Nicholls and Jake Sutherland.In-Goal: Damian Brady and Clayton Wills.Newtown’s team is:Will Kennedy, Matt Evans, Aaron Gray, Reubenn Rennie, Sione Katoa, Jack A. Williams, Kyle Flanagan, Wes Lolo, Blayke Brailey, Ava Seumanufagai, Briton Nikora, Anthony Moraitis, Jaimin Jolliffe.Interchange: Billy Magoulias, Bessie Aufaga-Toomaga, Addison Demetriou, Malakai Houma, Matthew Jurd.Coach: Greg Matterson.St George-Illawarra:Patrick Herbert, John Tohi, Reuben Garrick, Steven Marsters, Shaun Sauni-Esau, Adam Clune, Darren Nicholls, Pio Sokobalavu, Reece Robson, Mitchell Allgood, Jackson Ford, Jacob Host, Hame Sele.Interchange: Joe Lovodua, Damien Sironen, Ashleigh Nisbet, Joshua Kerr, TJ Uele.Coach: Mat Head.Delayed telecast on Fox League at 9.30pm, Sunday.The match is being broadcast live by Steele Sports on: www.steelesports.com.auThe highlights from last Saturday’s Newtown-Western Suburbs match:  https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2018/08/25/magpies-winning-run-halted-by-jets/Here are the match statistics from last Saturday’s match at Henson Park:  https://www.nswrl.com.au/siteassets/competitions/intrust-super-premiership-nsw/stats-reports/round24-stats---jetswests.pdf.pdfThe NSWRL ISP NSW Team of the Week for Round 24:  https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2018/08/27/isp-team-of-the-week--rd-24/How the NSWRL website has previewed this Sunday’s match:  https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2018/08/30/preview--dragons-v-jets/The winning answer to last week’s quiz was:The three former Newtown Jets players in the 2018 Challenge Cup-winning Catalans Dragons team were Samisoni Langi, Jason Baitieri and Remi Casty.The former Newtown Jets and Catalans Dragons player now with the Canberra Raiders is Michael Oldfield.The Glebe-Burwood RLFC (aka the Glebe Dirty Reds) play Asquith in an elimination final at St Marys Leagues Club Stadium on Saturday.The full match details are:NSWRL Ron Massey Cup – Elimination FinalSaturday, 1^st September 2018St Marys Leagues Club StadiumGlebe-Burwood (6^th place) versus Asquith (7^th place)Kick-Off: 5.00pm.Referee: Keiren IronsTouch Judges: Patrick Mackey and Mitchell Stone.In-Goal: Martin Jones and Stephen Bourke.