Had enough of the endless cricket and tennis over the summer months?

The good news is that the mental torture ends this coming weekend, with the Newtown Jets first trial match for 2017 being played at Henson Park on Saturday, 4^th February.

Here is the full schedule for the Newtown Jets 2017 trials program:

Saturday, 4^th February:

Henson Park

4.00pm – Intrust Super Premiership NSW: Newtown v North Sydney.

Saturday, 11^th February:

Henson Park

9.30am – Harold Matthews Cup: Roosters v WSAS

11.00am – S.G. Ball Cup: Roosters v WSAS

12.30pm – Tarsha Gale 9’s: Sydney Indigenous Academy v Canberra

4.00pm – NYC/RMC: Cronulla NYC v Mounties Ron Massey Cup

6.00pm – ISP NSW: Newtown v Mounties

Saturday, 18^th February:

Henson Park

9.30am – Tarsha Gale 9’s: Sydney Indigenous Academy v Cronulla

10.30am – Harold Matthews Cup: Roosters v Cronulla

12.00pm – S.G. Ball Cup: Roosters v Cronulla

4.00pm – NYC: Cronulla v Wests Tigers

6.00pm – ISP NSW: Newtown v Wests Tigers

Newtown’s head coach Greg Matterson, now heading into his 10^th season at the helm of the Jets, was in top form when he was interviewed recently for the NSW Rugby League’s website:  http://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2017/01/30/newtown_change_surro.html

Congratulations to Malakai Houma, Kurt Kara and Matt Evans who have been selected in the Cronulla-Sutherland squad to play in this weekend’s Auckland NRL Nines tournament.

There are several familiar and not so familiar Newtown Jets names in the Cronulla-Sutherland NRL trial squad that travels to Brisbane this weekend:

NRL Team List v Brisbane Broncos
Trial at Dolphin Stadium, Redcliffe
Kick-off: 7:15pm (AEST)

1            Valentine Holmes
2            Haydn Peacock
3            Jordan Drew
4            James Tuitahi
5            Josh Tualagi
6            Fa’amanu Brown
7            James Maloney
8            Andrew Fifita
9            Daniel Mortimer
10          Sam Tagataese
11          Jayden Walker
12          Jayson Bukuya
13          Paul Gallen

14          Jeremy Latimore
15          Kurt Dillon
16          Jaimin Jolliffe
17          Jayden Brailey
18          Blayke Brailey
19          Jesse Savage
20          Ryan King
21          Eddie Faalau
22          Luke Towers
23          Ben Fritz
24          Bessie Aufuga-Toomaga
25          Via Uia