2018 NSWRL Senior Comps - ISP, Flegg, RMC, Shield

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Addison Demetriou has landed a spot on the Newtown bench this week after his hat trick of tries against St Marys. While Glebe Burwood are weakened by this promotion they have benefited from the return of Ben Marschke, Royce Tout, Ryan King and Malakai Houma from ISP duty.

St Marys have Soni Luke and Henry Seumanu returning from ISP and Marli Sini back from injury.

 

[earl park riot]

Don’t forget...huge day for the Newtown Jets with their first free to air tv match at Henson Park in 36 years. If you can’t get to the ground make sure you watch it channel 9 at 1pm. Glebe Burwood play Hills straight after at 3pm (sadly not on TV!).

 

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RMC
Mounties 28 Brothers 12
Blacktown 32 Cabra 30
Glebe Burwood 38 Hills 4
Wests 20 St Marys 6

SS
Cabra 36 Blacktown 18
East Campbelltown 25 St Marys 16

Jackson Hastings turned up to cheer on some team mates as Blacktown took advantage of a week off in ISP to bolster the RMC side with Honeti Tuha, John Folau, Fred Mauala and Joshua Martin playing their first RMC game for 2018. Blacktown were quick out of the blocks dominating early play to lead 22-6 at half time.

When Tuha completed a hat trick in the 44th minute it looked a case of by how far but Cabra showed their more competitive 2018 persona and 2 converted tries to Miller brought it back to 28-18 with 15 to go. It looked on when Mapesone crossed shortly after but the pass was ruled forward. From the next set Tuitahi wrapped it with 6 points in the opposite corner before Cabra made it look closer than it was by scoring twice in the last 3 minutes.

Sukarmunu Raki, Eric Newbigging, Rhys Scigitano and Jesse Jackson bounced down to SS due to the inclusion of the ISP guys in RMC but it made no difference as Cabra won with ease in the early game.

As Glebe Burwood made 4/4 they have the chance next week to be the first team to qualify for the finals if they can overcome Cabra. Brothers and Hills look to be 2 of the 3 teams that will not win the 5 games required to make the finals but there are a number of teams competing to avoid the 3rd losing spot on the table.

 

[Broncos93]

5 games is that all? Still top 8 I'm assuming?

 

[imgunawin72]

Cabra bounced back today in SS after a poor effort last week against Asquith.
Jamon wormleaton a stand out, made 3 or more line breaks, also the 2 starting props had excellent games with no props on the bench.
Cabra on had 3 on the bench, no props

 

[kbw]

Cabra bounced back today in SS after a poor effort last week against Asquith.
Jamon wormleaton a stand out, made 3 or more line breaks, also the 2 starting props had excellent games with no props on the bench.
Cabra on had 3 on the bench, no props

they did turn it around. Cam Davis is a prop although he doesn't admit it and the #15 while not huge has played a bit of prop in Massey for Kingsgrove in the past.. But I don't want to take away the effort from the 2 starting props that did play well and big minutes.

 

[rightleftin]

5 games is that all? Still top 8 I'm assuming?

Yeah, only bottom 3 miss out.

 

[Tigers1986]

Wests won 20-6

 

[Pantherman72]

Is it mathematically impossible for more then 8 teams to get to 14 points (5wins plus 2byes)?

 

[rightleftin]

Is it mathematically impossible for more then 8 teams to get to 14 points (5wins plus 2byes)?

At the start of the season it is mathematically possible that each team will win 10 and lose 10 but unrealistic and the results will be mainly driven by the quality of the teams, which will mean that some teams will win many games and others very few. A simple mathematical distribution would suggest that if 72% of teams are in the finals they would require a points total of 28% and with 20 games this equals 5.6 wins.

This number will be skewed by certain factors eg if a club recruits half a new team during the season that changes them from a losing to winning side eg Auburn last year, whilst another club loses all its players eg Blacktown last year, the number could be skewed higher. If there are 2 very weak teams like Brothers and Hills it could drive the number lower. The final requirement depends on whether the 9th team can beat anyone other than the bottom 2, if so, it may require 6 wins.

 

[imgunawin72]

Did anyone watch the St Mary's SS and RMC games ?
Looks like they are not travelling as well as last year

 

[rightleftin]

Did anyone watch the St Mary's SS and RMC games ?
Looks like they are not travelling as well as last year

I didn't see them play yesterday but St Marys are way below 2017. They have lost nearly 20 players that appeared in 5 or more games last year. Injuries at both Penrith and St Marys has exacerbated the situation. The SS side is still one of the 4 contenders but the RMC is struggling.

 

[kbw]

I didn't see them play yesterday but St Marys are way below 2017. They have lost nearly 20 players that appeared in 5 or more games last year. Injuries at both Penrith and St Marys has exacerbated the situation. The SS side is still one of the 4 contenders but the RMC is struggling.

Where do they go ?
Other teams, retire ?

 

[rightleftin]

Where do they go ?
Other teams, retire ?

half of them are playing ISP for Penrith, Canterbury, Mounties, Wests and Central Qld. A few are playing with Blacktown and Asquith and maybe retirements etc for the rest.

in today's games Guildford beat Asquith in RMC while the reverse applied in SS while Brothers and Hills had their first wins in SS at the expense of Moorebank and Belrose.

 

[Broncos93]

One of the more bizarre refereeing decisions today. Asquith score a try, late defender knees try scorer in the back, try scorer gets up and shove the tackler then all the handbags start.

End result try scorer ends up in the bin, Guildford player on report.

Asquith already had one in the bin so for an act of foul play BY GUILDFORD, Asquith go down to 11 men and Guildford receive nothing.

Very strange decision - it was actually one try all while the Asquith players were sin binned but they were cooked after that and had no gas when they came out in the second half.

 

[rightleftin]

Sounds like the refs were onto the incident by putting the Guildford player on report. It seems to be a universal problem these days that players will not leave the adjudication to refs and instead try to make retribution or continually verbal refs and linesmen.

 

[Broncos93]

Sounds like the refs were onto the incident by putting the Guildford player on report. It seems to be a universal problem these days that players will not leave the adjudication to refs and instead try to make retribution or continually verbal refs and linesmen.

Yeah I understand that, but my point was Asquith benefit in absolutely no way from the bloke being put on report. Instead, they're punished by having another man sent to the sin bin following an act of foul play?

Infringement after scoring should be a possible eight point try, no?

 

[rightleftin]

Yeah I understand that, but my point was Asquith benefit in absolutely no way from the bloke being put on report. Instead, they're punished by having another man sent to the sin bin following an act of foul play?

Infringement after scoring should be a possible eight point try, no?

Yeah, 8 point tries are rare but there was one awarded to Asquith in the SS today. I am no expert on the laws but I think it may be determined by whether the illegality was after the try was scored or in the process of scoring the try.

 

[Timmah]

Results & ladder - RMC




Shield results & ladder

 

[rightleftin]

2 weeks ago Jesse Martin was part of the Asquith side that beat Cabra yet last Saturday he was part of the Cabra team that lost to Blacktown.