2006 trials for all grades

[girvie]

Please post any other info on upcoming trials.

Premier League

• February 4th: North Sydney vs. Windsor (JBC) at Windsor Sporting Complex at 7.00pm
• February 4th: Balmain Ryde Eastwood vs. Nelson Bay at Nelson Bay
• February 10th: Western Suburbs vs. Parramatta at Campbelltown Stadium
• February 11th: Newtown vs. North Sydney at Henson Park at 5.00pm
• February 18th: North Sydney vs. Tweed Heads (Qld Cup) at Tugun at 6.00pm
• February 18th: Cronulla vs. Central Queensland (Qld Cup) at Rockhampton at 7.30pm
• February 18th: Western Suburbs vs. Charlestown at Newcastle
• February 18th: Newtown vs. Manly at Gosford
• February 18th: Newcastle vs. St Marys/Penrith at Cessnock
• February 19th: Newtown vs. Canterbury at Henson Park at 5.00pm
• February 25th: Manly vs. Balmain at Brookvale Oval at 3.05pm
• February 25th: Newtown vs. South Sydney at Henson Park at 5.00pm
• February 25th: Cronulla vs. Newcastle at Morrie Brean Oval, Wyong at 6.30pm
• February 25th: Canterbury vs. North Sydney at Belmore Sports Ground at 7.00pm
• February 25th: Western Suburbs vs. The Entrance (JBC) at Campbelltown Stadium
• February 25th: St Marys/Penrith vs. Parramatta at Western Weekender Stadium
• February 26th: St George Illawarra vs. Newtown at Wollongong at 3.00pm

Jersey Flegg

• February 4th: Balmain vs. South Sydney at Leichhardt Oval
• February 10th: Western Suburbs vs. Parramatta at Campbelltown Stadium
  [*]February 11th: North Sydney vs. Sydney City at Henson Park at 2.00pm
• February 11th: Cronulla vs. Canberra at Toyota Park at 6.00pm
• February 18th: Canterbury vs. Cronulla at Mollymook Oval, Mollymook at 4.00pm
• February 18th: North Sydney vs. Parramatta at Cabramatta Sports Ground at 6.00pm
• February 18th: Western Suburbs vs. Charlestown at Newcastle
• February 18th: Newcastle vs. Penrith at Cessnock
• February 25th: Manly vs. Balmain at Brookvale Oval at 1.30pm
• February 25th: Canterbury vs. North Sydney at Belmore Sports Ground at 5.00pm
• February 25th: Cronulla vs. Newcastle at Morrie Brean Oval, Wyong at 5.00pm
• February 25th: Western Suburbs vs. Central Coast at Campbelltown Stadium
• February 25th: Penrith vs. Parramatta at Western Weekender Stadium

Jim Beam Cup

• February 4th: Windsor vs. North Sydney (PL) at Windsor Sporting Complex at 7.00pm
• February 11th: Newtown vs. Asquith at Henson Park at 3.30pm
• February 25th: The Entrance vs. Western Suburbs (PL) at Campbelltown Stadium
• March 11th: Cabramatta vs. Newtown at Narellan
• March 25th: Newtown vs. Wentworthville at Henson Park at 1.00pm
• April 1st: Belrose vs. Newtown at Belrose

S.G. Ball

• January 21st: Penrith vs. North Sydney at Boronia Park, St Marys at 6.30pm
• January 28th: Western Suburbs vs. South Sydney at Hillier Oval at 11.00am
• January 28th: Balmain vs. Penrith at St Pats Dundas
• February 4th: Western Suburbs vs. Cronulla at Campbelltown Oval at 4.30pm
• February 4th: North Sydney vs. Manly at 5.15pm
• February 4th: Balmain vs. South Sydney at Leichhardt Oval
• February 4th: Newcastle vs. Penrith
• February 11th: Canberra vs. Western Suburbs at Goulburn at 1.30pm
• February 11th: Balmain vs. Sydney City at Leichhardt Oval
• February 11th: Penrith vs. South Sydney
• February 18th: North Sydney vs. Mount Annan at Camden Sports Field

Harold Matthews

• January 21st: Penrith vs. North Sydney at Boronia Park, St Marys at 4.30pm
• January 28th: Western Suburbs vs. South Sydney at Hillier Oval at 9.30am
• January 28th: Balmain vs. Penrith at St Pats Dundas
• February 4th: Western Suburbs vs. Cronulla at Campbelltown Oval at 3.00pm
• February 4th: North Sydney vs. Manly at 3.30pm
• February 4th: Balmain vs. South Sydney at Leichhardt Oval
• February 4th: Newcastle vs. Penrith
• February 11th: Canberra vs. Western Suburbs at Goulburn at 12.00pm
• February 11th: Balmain vs. Sydney City at Leichhardt Oval
• February 11th: Penrith vs. South Sydney
• February 18th: North Sydney vs. Mount Annan at Camden Sports Field

 

[brook]

yay 25 more days till the first balmain trial

and thats the best thing about supporting the lower grades - the off-season is shorter

 

[Nikki]

S.G. Ball

• January 28th: Balmain vs. Penrith at St Pats Dundas

Harold Matthews

• January 28th: Balmain vs. Penrith at St Pats Dundas

Useless piece of info, but that is my old school. How cool is that. Never had trials there when I was attending

 

[brook]

Useless piece of info, but that is my old school. How cool is that. Never had trials there when I was attending

How long ago were you there? I had a few friends that graduated in 99

 

[Nikki]

A fair while ago. I graduated in 92. The year Jimmy Webster ex balmain and parra player started. Who were your mates. Probably the only names I would know from that graduating year would be the Detjens. Oh maybe they were a few years earlier. Detjens and Ritters maybe.

 

[brook]

A fair while ago. I graduated in 92. The year Jimmy Webster ex balmain and parra player started. Who were your mates. Probably the only names I would know from that graduating year would be the Detjens. Oh maybe they were a few years earlier. Detjens and Ritters maybe.

ahh fair enough, I think my mates were in the same year as meggsy's little bro Andrew

Lauren and Mark umm having a temporary blank on their surname, they're twins anyway lol
also danielle thompson who was in the same year but left at the end of year 11 - she was only at pats for one year though.

 

[girvie]

The first junior trials are only a week away with Penrith playing Norths at St Marys on the 21st.

I am still trying to find out info on other trials being played. I'm sure there are a lot on which i haven't listed. If your clubs haven't realeased a list perhaps someone could ring them to post it here

 

[Unit]

Penrith V Norths at The Kingsway, St Marys
Harold Matts: 4:30
SG ball: 6:30

Playing 4 20min quaters

 

[NikkiShark]

11th February 2006
Jersey Flegg Sharks vs Raiders at Toyota Park 6PM

18th February 2006
Jersey Flegg Sharks vs Bulldogs at Mollymook Oval, Mollymook 4PM
Premier League Sharks vs Central Comets at Rockhampton 7:30PM

25th February 2006
Jersey Flegg Sharks vs Knights at Morrie Brean Oval, WYONG 5PM
Premier League Sharks vs Knights at Morrie Brean Oval, WYONG 6:30PM

 

[girvie]

Penrith have won both juniors matches against the Bears. SG Ball was very close.

 

[Big-Steve]

Penrith have won both juniors matches against the Bears. SG Ball was very close.

I don't know if they really won as such. Penrith were trying out twice as many players as we were. In SGB for instance we had a final squad of 26 + the 4 Flegg players. Penrith had 4 whole teams worth. Interestingly one great try was scored by us in the last quarter which made it a good finish.

I guess what I am saying is if it was a real compitition and each side had only one squad then it would matter who won but as it was on Saturday an actual result was not what anybody was looking.

 

[girvie]

PREMIER LEAGUE SQUAD NAMED FOR TRIAL

Balmain-Ryde Eastwood Tigers have named a strong squad for the Premier League trial in Nelson Bay on Saturday, February 4.
The Tigers play Nelson Bay at 6pm at the Nelson Bay Sporting Complex, Nelson Bay Road (near Helicopter Pad), Nelson Bay.
The squad is:
Full-back/wingers: Ronald Prince, Ben Jeffery, John Sinisa, Filinga Filiga, Shannon Gallant:
Centres: Michael Crockett, Cory Niwa;
Halves: Jono Rolfe, Dave Marando, Dean Caldwell.
Back-rowers: Stacey Katu, Rodney Griffin, Thomas Gemmel, Rocky Trimarchi, Dean Rysko.
Front-rowers: Jarrod Saffy, Tevita Metuisela, Sam Moa;
Hookers: Isaac DeGois, Rangi Chase, Stuart Flanagan.
Unavailable through injury: Dene Halatau, Taniela Tuiaki, Jamie Nowland, Frank Samia, Lee Bennett.

JUNIOR REPS

Balmain Tigers junior rep teams played Penrith in hot conditions at St Patricks College, Dundas, on Saturday, January 28.
David Kelly, the Balmain Football Manager, said the players performed well in testing conditions.
“Our players defended well against a very big and mobile Penrith outfit,’’ Kelly said.
“Our coaches Stuart Stanton (Harold Matthews) and Ray Windle (SG Ball) were happy with the hit out and are close to naming their final squads.’’
Results: Harold Matthews : Penrith 20 d Balmain 16, SG.Ball: Penrith 12 drew Balmain 12.

Trials
Balmain will play South Sydney in trial matches at Leichhardt Oval on Saturday, February 4.

Times are: 9.30am: Harold Matthews, 11am: SG Ball, 12.30pm: Jersey Flegg.

They have named a few players who i thought were playing for the Magpies this year?

 

[brook]

I think that side shows exactly why I just can't get myself interested in PL this year.

There are really only two players (Caldwell and Marando) who have spent any real amount of time playing for Balmain (and only a very few more that were even there last year) and of those two Caldwell is likely to spend a while in flegg and Marando will be lucky to get a bench spot once Reynolds and Nowland are fit (although Nowland at least has spent plenty of years as a tiger).

PL sides always have a high turnover but thats usually balanced by a core of players who have either come up through the grades or been long term players at the club this years team just doesn't have that. Its a classy looking team but it just doesn't feel like a Balmain team.

 

[yappy]

They are playing for the Maggies. Pretty pointless, but there you go. All the 2005 Maggies that are playing for BRET this year bar Saffy and Reynolds aren't there - they're in England.

 

[brook]

They are playing for the Maggies. Pretty pointless, but there you go. All the 2005 Maggies that are playing for BRET this year bar Saffy and Reynolds aren't there - they're in England.

well thats just stupid

whats the point of organising a PL trial without the players that will actually be playing for us

get your own trial!

 

[***MH***]

Roosters Harold Matthews and SG Ball sides take on the Bulldogs at Belmore this Saturday from 9:30am...

 

[girvie]

North Sydney defeated the Windsor Wolves 60 to nil tonight.

 

[Roland]

Girvie said

North Sydney defeated the Windsor Wolves 60 to nil tonight.

I was expecting a good game but both the Bears and us treated it as a warm up. The Bears had about 15 players do a training run on the kids ground before the game and then a second squad came out and played.

For the 1st half we put on A reserve grade players and trialists and you guys scored 9 tries. The 2nd half was a good game. We had Tito, Ben stuart and Luke Bannon from our grand final team plus Lucas Reilly and Lino who could get Deonk's spot now he is playing for Magpies. The rest were A grade players and trialists and they went good and there was no score until the Bears went in a minute from the end.

Our JB squad will have a run at the 7's next week. Good luck to the Bears in 2006.

 

[girvie]

I was expecting a good game but both the Bears and us treated it as a warm up. The Bears had about 15 players do a training run on the kids ground before the game and then a second squad came out and played.

For the 1st half we put on A reserve grade players and trialists and you guys scored 9 tries. The 2nd half was a good game. We had Tito, Ben stuart and Luke Bannon from our grand final team plus Lucas Reilly and Lino who could get Deonk's spot now he is playing for Magpies. The rest were A grade players and trialists and they went good and there was no score until the Bears went in a minute from the end.

Our JB squad will have a run at the 7's next week. Good luck to the Bears in 2006.

The other 15 players you mentioned were the contracted players. The players who took the field were trialing for a contract. There were a couple of good players i noticed in the Windsor side including Elias Paiyo from the Sydney Bulls and Danny Chiha and Paul Horan from Bears Jersey Flegg.

 

[girvie]

Here are some more trial results

Premier League:
Balmain Ryde Eastwood 68 defeated Nelson Bay 12

Jersey Flegg:
Balmain 24 defeated Souths 16

SG Ball:
Manly 20 defeated North Sydney 16
Balmain 32 defeated Souths 4
Roosters 32 defeated Bulldogs 24

Harold Matthews:
North Sydney 24 defeated Manly 20
Balmain 24 defeated Souths 8
Bulldogs 52 defeated Roosters 0