Season 2018

Newtown’s 2018 ISP NSW campaign begins this Saturday when the boys in royal blue travel to the northern end of the Central Coast for their opening competition round against Wyong Roos. The match details are: NSWRL Intrust Super Premiership NSW – Round One Saturday, 10th March 2018 Morry Breen Oval Wyong v Newtown Kick-Off: 4.30pm…

Brad Fittler, the 2018 NSW State of Origin coach, has confirmed he will be attending the Newtown Jets season launch, to be held at the Petersham RSL Club on the evening of Tuesday, 6th March at 7.00pm for 7.30pm. Phil Gould, Penrith Panthers CEO and former Newtown Jets player, is already locked in as the…

Jets coach Greg Matterson was pleased with Saturday’s 22-18 trial match win against Western Suburbs at Campbelltown Stadium, but with more than twenty-five players to be under consideration the exact shape of the Newtown team for the ISP NSW first round is still unknown. The Magpies took an early 12-0 lead on Saturday, but the…

Here are the details for the Newtown RLFC 2018 season launch: Date: Tuesday, 6th March 2018 Venue: Petersham RSL Club, 7 Regent Street, Petersham Time: 7.00pm for 7.30pm Cost: $135 per ticket or $1250 for a table of ten Dress: Lounge suit or smart casual RSVP: 28th February 2018 MC: Graeme Hughes Principal guest: Phil…

NSWRL Intrust Super Premiership NSW – Official Trial Match: Saturday, 17th February 2018 Southern Cross Group Stadium, Woolooware Newtown v Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles Kick-Off: 5.05pm. Newtown 22: Anthony Moraitis 2, Jordan Topai-Aveai, Matthew Jurd tries; Addison Demetriou 3 goals drew with Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles 22: 4 tries, 3 goals. Half-time: Newtown led 16-6.…

The Newtown Jets ISP NSW squad travels to the Southern Cross Group Stadium for their second trial match for 2018. The Jets meet Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles for the second weekend in a row, although both teams are substantially changed from last Sunday’s match at Wentworth Park. Newtown’s trial game details are: Date: 17th February…

Rugby League returned to Wentworth Park on Sunday, 11th February for the first time in many years, with the re-born Glebe Dirty Reds and the Newtown Jets both playing pre-season trials against the Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles. In the Ron Massey Cup trial match that kicked off at 3.00pm, Blacktown Workers defeated Glebe 34-26 after…

When the Newtown RLFC last played in a rugby league match at Wentworth Park 91 years ago, the great Jack Lang was the Premier of NSW; the Sydney Harbour Bridge was still being built; and the abominable Adolf Hitler was still just the leader of an insignificant political party in Germany. The Newtown Jets will…

The ISP NSW draw for 2018 is now available and can be viewed on this link:  http://bit.ly/2rW1d2M or on the NSWRL website: www.nswrl.com.au Several important features of this year’s draw will be highlighted and explained in later newsletters. For the moment here are some notable aspects of the 2018 draw: ISP NSW games are going…

Any rugby league history wonk driving at the southern end of Illawarra Road last Thursday evening might have done a double take. Here was the somewhat bizarre spectacle of a rugby league team wearing the colours of the supposedly-defunct Glebe Dirty Reds playing in a trial match on Mahoney Reserve, South Marrickville. The explanation was…