Warriors breakout second half overpowers the Jets

TheNewtown Jets have dropped to tenth place on the Canterbury Cup NSW competitiontable, following their 34-8 loss to the New Zealand Warriors at Mt SmartStadium, Auckland on Saturday.

TheCanterbury Cup premiership table is tightly congested, with very littleseparating tenth and sixth place.

TheJets trailed by only 10-8 at halftime after a hard-fought opening fortyminutes, but a series of possession turnovers and defensive errors empoweredthe Warriors to race away to a commanding 28-8 lead in the game’s thirdquarter.

Itwas a disappointing result for the Jets, but they fielded a less than fullstrength line-up because of the run of injuries in the Cronulla Sharks NRLsquad.

NextSaturday, 27^th July, is a huge day for the Newtown Jets club, withthe fourth annual Beer, Footy & Food Festival being held at Henson Park,with the gates opening at 12 noon. As described elsewhere on this website,there will be the largest ever roll-out of boutique breweries and gourmet foodoutlets, along with children’s entertainment.

Onthe rugby league front on Saturday, the Newtown Jets will be at home tocompetition leaders Canterbury-Bankstown at 3.00pm. There are twocurtain-raiser matches being played at Henson Park prior to the Jets-Bulldogsshowdown. The Glebe Dirty Reds play Penrith Brothers in a Ron Massey Cupfixture at 10.45am, followed by Cronulla Sharks taking on the CanterburyBulldogs in a Jersey Flegg Cup match at 12.45pm.

LastSaturday’s match details were:

NSWRLCanterbury Cup NSW – 18^th Round

Saturday,20^th July 2019

MtSmart Stadium, Auckland

NewZealand Warriors v Newtown

Kick-offwas at 12 noon (NZT).

NewZealand Warriors 34:

AdamKeighran 2, Cole Waaka, Phillip Makatoa, Leivaha Pulu, Setu Tu tries;

TaaneMilne 5 goals

defeated

Newtown8:

TeigWilton try;

BraydonTrindall 1 goal.

Half-Time: New Zealand Warriorsled 10-8.

Referee: Kieren Irons.

TouchJudges:Chris McMillan and Paki Parkinson.

Playingsurface:Excellent.

Weather: 13 degrees, sunnywith occasional showers.

Newtown’steam on Saturday was:

LatrellSchaumkel, Sione Katoa, Jonah Ngaronoa, Tyrone Phillips, Tyla Tamou, LukePolselli, Braydon Trindall, Wes Lolo, Grant Garvey, Jimmy Jolliffe (Capt), TeigWilton, Siosifa Talakai, Daniel Vasquez.

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

Coach:Greg Matterson.

NewZealand Warriors:

PaulTurner, Lewis Soosemea, Cole Waaka, Taane Milne, Setu Tu, Hayze Perham, AdamKeighran, Chris Satae, Temple Kalepo, Jackson Frei, Adam Tuiamave-Gerrard, LigiSao (Capt), Leivaha Pulu.

Bench:Preston Riki, Sean Mullany, King Vuniyayawa, Phillip Makatoa.

Coach:Nathan Cayless.

Newtown’snext game details are:

NSWRLCanterbury Cup NSW – 19^th Round

Saturday,27^th July 2019

HensonPark

Newtown(10^th place) v Canterbury-Bankstown (1^st place)

Kick-Off:3.00pm.