Saturday’s Festival crowd will incentivise the Newtown Jets

The anticipated big attendance at the 2019 Beer, Footy & Food Festival at Henson Park on Saturday should provide the partisan atmosphere to get the Newtown Jets home against their highly-rated opponents, Canterbury-Bankstown. The Bulldogs are currently top of the Canterbury Cup NSW premiership table and the Jets are just outside of the top eight – but this adrenalin-charged occasion is sure to provide a massive boost to the Jets.

There are two curtain-raisers being played at Henson Park on Saturday, 27^th July. Glebe-Burwood (the Glebe Dirty Reds) play Penrith Brothers in the Ron Massey Cup at 10.45am, and the Cronulla Sharks meet Canterbury Bulldogs in the Jersey Flegg Cup at 12.45pm.

Newtown’s match details for this Saturday are:

NSWRL Canterbury Cup NSW – Round 19

Saturday, 27^th July 2019

Henson Park

Newtown (10^th place, 15 points) v Canterbury-Bankstown (1^st place, 23 points)

Kick-Off: 3.00pm.

Referee: Kieren Irons.

Touch Judges: Adam Reid and James Vella.

This match will be broadcast live by Steele Sports.

If you can’t make it to Henson Park on Saturday, you can still tune into Alby and his team from Steele Sports who will be calling all the action from 2.30pm. To listen, click on the Jets Radio Live Stream play button on the home page of www.newtownjets.com.

Newtown’s team for this Saturday’s vital Canterbury Cup NSW fixture:

Will Kennedy, Luke Polselli, Jackson Ferris, Tyrone Phillips, Tyla Tamou, Jack A. Williams, Braydon Trindall, Wes Lolo, Grant Garvey, Jaimin (Jimmy) Jolliffe, Teig Wilton, Siosifa Talakai, Daniel Vasquez.

Bench: Josh Carr, Latrell Schaumkel, Chris Tupou, Greg Eastwood.

Coach: Greg Matterson.

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs:

Toa Mataáfa, Christian Crichton, Morgan Harper, Connelly Lemuelu, Jayden Okunbor, Brandon Wakeham, Faámanu Brown, Ofahiki Ogden, Ben Marschke, Jack Nelson, Bronson Garlick, Raymond Faitala-Mariner, Kayne Kalache.

Bench: James Roumanos, Dalton Smith, Elie El-Zakhem, Jesse Marschke, Javvier Pitavao.

Coach: Brad Henderson.

Please note these teams are as listed in Thursday’s Big League magazine.

The Newtown RLFC congratulates the talented and hard-working back-rower Billy Magoulias on his selection in the Cronulla Sharks NRL team who play the North Queensland Cowboys at Pointsbet Stadium on Thursday night (25^th July).