The Jets and Warriors in desperate struggle to remain in finals contention

Boththe Newtown Jets and New Zealand Warriors go in with depleted team line-ups fortomorrow’s 18^th round Canterbury Cup NSW match at Mt Smart Stadiumin Auckland.

TheNRL partners of both clubs (Cronulla Sharks and the NZ Warriors) clash at theWestpac Stadium in Wellington tonight.

TheCronulla Sharks and Warriors Jersey Flegg teams play in an early curtain-raiseron Saturday morning to the Jets-Warriors game.

Matchdetails:

NSWRLCanterbury Cup NSW – 18^th Round

Saturday,20^th July 2019

MtSmart Stadium

NewZealand Warriors (10^th place, 14 points) v Newtown (8^thplace, 15 points)

Kick-Off:10.00am (AEST), 12 noon (NZT).

Referee: Kieren Irons

TouchJudges:Chris McMillan and Paki Parkinson

Followthe progress scores on Twitter: https://twitter.com/newtownrlfc

Newtown’s team (as per Thursday’s Big League magazine. There could be further changes):

Latrell Schaumkel, Sione Katoa, Matt Evans, Tyrone Phillips, Tyla Tamou, Luke Polselli, Braydon Trindall, Wes Lolo, Grant Garvey, Jimmy Jolliffe, Teig Wilton, Siosifa Talakai, Daniel Vasquez.

Bench:Josh Carr, Chris Tupou, Kayleb Milne, Greg Eastwood.

Coach:Greg Matterson.

NewZealand Warriors:

AdamPompey, Lewis Soosemea, Cole Waaka, Blake Ayshford, Selu Tu, Hayze Perham, AdamKeighran, Chris Satae, Tyler Slade, Jackson Frei, Taane Milne, Ligi Sao,Leivaha Pulu.

Bench:Adam Tuimavave-Gerrard, Preston Riki, Clayton Williams, Sean Mullany, KingVuniyayawa.

Coach:Nathan Cayless.

TheNewtown RLFC was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Steve Brewster. Hewas a first class fellow and a tremendous worker for the rugby league game inNew Zealand. We extend condolences to his family on their loss.