It will be a home game away from home for the Newtown Jets when they venture to Muswellbrook to tackle the Wyong Roos in a round 13 NSW Cup fixture.
With the NSWRL conducting their Country Weekend round of matches, the Jets will head north well rested after last week’s bye, while the inclusion of Sami Sauiluma, Tinirau Arona and Tim Robinson, the trio missing from Newtown’s last match while on duty with the Sharks NRL side, is sure to strengthen them for their match up with the Roos.
The match is scheduled for a 2.45pm kick off at Olympic Park in Muswellbrook on Saturday.
NSW Cup team list – Round 13
Jets v Wyong Roos
Saturday, June 6
Olympic Park, Muswellbrook
Kick-off – 2.45pm
1 Nathan Gardner
2 Daniel Abou-Sleiman
3 Sami Sauiluma
4 Mitch Brown
5 Nesiasi Mataitonga
6 Dallas Wells
7 Todd Murphy
8 Andrew Pearn
9 Pat Politoni
10 Ray Moujalli
11 Tinirau Arona
12 Junior Roqica
13 Tim Robinson
Interchange
14 Kurt Dillon
15 Kurt Kara
16 Patrice Siolo
17 Saulala Houma
Following is a preview article courtesy of Glen Dwyer, Newtown Jets Media
Jets get ready for Hunter Valley assignment.
In what is a very tightly-contested NSW Cup competition, the Newtown Jets play away this weekend in the NSW Rugby League’s Country Weekend round of matches. The Jets are currently in fifth place on the NSW Cup premiership table and will play the fourth-placed Wyong Roos at Olympic Park, Muswellbrook on Saturday, 6th June at 2.45pm. The Roos are now the partnership club to the Sydney Roosters and are expected to field a very strong side for this 13th round fixture. Both teams are coming off a competition bye last weekend and have had the chance to freshen up for the second half of the NSW Cup season.
Newtown Jets head coach Greg Matterson is reasonably pleased with his team’s performance so far this year as the competition passes the midway mark this coming weekend. Like all NSW Cup team coaches, he acknowledges that most teams tend to rise or fall according to the number and quality of full-time NRL squad members available for selection in their NSW Cup team on any given weekend. Matterson points out that his team has been particularly well served this season by four of Newtown’s own squad members, NSW Cup veterans Ray Moujalli, Andrew Pearn, Tim Robinson and Kurt Kara, who have all provided leadership and stability to this year’s team. Cronulla NRL squad members of the calibre of Nathan Gardner, Blake Ayshford, Mitch Brown and Junior Roqica have provided extensive experience and strike power to the Jets this season.
The Newtown club has paid tribute to a man who was one of the club’s last links to the history-making years of the 1940’s. Joe Wade has passed away at the age of 99 years. Mr Wade had played with Newtown in 1939 and 1940 and was a team-mate of giants of the Rugby League game such as Frank “Bumper” Farrell, Athol Stewart, Tom Kirk and Tom Nevin. He was Newtown’s oldest living former first grade player, and also the NSW Rugby League’s oldest living former first grader. Both the Newtown RLFC and the NSW Rugby League have extended condolences to the Wade family.
Photo:
Gary Sutherland Photography.
