Huge month at Henson Park coming up for the Jets

June is going to be a big month for Rugby League at Henson Park, with the Newtown Jets playing at home on three consecutive Saturdays.

This Saturday, 4^th June, the third-placed Jets play the Illawarra Cutters (currently in fourth place) at Henson Park at 3.00pm. This will be the Intrust Super Premiership match of the round, with the St George-Illawarra NRL partnership club having prevailed against the Jets by 28-14 in Wollongong seven weeks ago. Newtown had a bye last weekend while the Cutters seized a last-minute victory at WIN Stadium against Wyong.

The Jets will be home again versus Wentworthville on the 11^th June, and then back at Henson Park on the 18^th June when they will host one of the competition’s form teams, the Stacey Jones-coached New Zealand Warriors. There will be first-rate family entertainment laid on at all three of these home game occasions, including a Latin American Rugby League celebration day on the 11^th June.

Jets head coach Greg Matterson is unequivocal about how important all of these home games will be. He noted that this year’s ISP competition is fiercely-contested, and that one loss can send a team plummeting down several places on the competition table. Newtown has the chance with this hat-trick of home games and the backing of their army of loyal fans to lock in a place among the competition’s pace-setters.

All of Newtown’s run of home games in June kick off at 3.00pm, and there will be curtain-raisers from 11.00am onwards on each day.