2019 RM Cup & Sydney Shield

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Apparently St Marys were disqualified for using 23 players in the game against Wests

 

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Round 2 of the Challenge Cup

Cabramatta v Wests @ New Era Std. Saturday 2pm

Wyong v Wentworthville @ Morry Breen. Saturday 4pm

Guildford v Tweed Heads @ McCredie Park. Saturday 5pm

Dubbo CYMS v Glebe Burwood Wolves @ Apex Oval. Sunday 2pm

 

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Trials for this weekend

Ryde Eastwood v Hills District @ St Patricks College Dundas. Saturday 5pm (Syd Shield)

Moorebank Rams v Guildford Owls & Asquith Magpies @ Hammondville Oval. Saturday 5pm (Syd Shield 3 way trial)

Mounties v Wentworthville @ Aubrey Keech. Saturday 6.30pm (ISP & Massey)

 

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Wenty might be up against it at Wyong if they have to supply too many players to the Mounties game. Wyong have some decent players - Mitch Williams, Luke Sharpe, Terrence Seu Seu, Shaq Mitchell and Jake Lewis.

If the trial against Sydney Uni is any indication, Ryde Eastwood are now a "development" club as their side was basically their under 20's from last season. In the past they were often full of guys that had played some first grade, and even when the Metro Cup went into recess, they signed Australian hooker Jeff Masterman to captain their A grade and in the Aristocrat Cup final they beat Cronulla Caringbah, coached by Billy Smith with about 10 guys that played first grade including the likes of Mick Mullane, Barry Andrews, Chris Wellman and Barry Hulbert.

 

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Challenge Cup - Tweed Heads Raiders 62 Coffs Harbour 0

Trials - SS Ryde Eastwood 40 Sydney Uni 22
Glebe Burwood 24 Norths Flegg 12

There are no Sharks or Roosters playing in the Norths/Newtown trial today so a good chunk of the 27 listed for Newtown will end up playing regularly with Glebe Burwood and similarly a number of the Norths side will be available for consideration by Asquith.

Cabramatta SS def Asquith SS 2 tries to 1.

 

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Asquith now playing Penrith Brothers on Saturday. Sydney Shield 1.30pm, RMC 3.30pm @ Hickeys Lane

 

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Cabramatta has posted details of all of its home games for 2019 on its facebook page.

 

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Cabramatta has posted details of all of its home games for 2019 on its facebook page.

Any news on Cabramatta squad for this weekend ? Nothing on Facebook yet.

 

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Challenge Cup Round 2

Wests 30 Cabra 18
Guildford 38 Tweed Coast 8
Wyong 12 Wenty 6

Dubbo CYMS to play Glebe Burwood tomorrow.

The appointment of Darren Maroon as Wests coach has resulted in an influx of talent with 5 players from the Auburn Warriors 2017 Grand Final playing today - Omar Slaimankhel, Maniah Rudolp, Adrian Hangaana and Ahmed Ellaz havinh joining Avia Minute who was at wests in 2018. Another Auburn player, Hala Akhoula is also in the squad. It appears that about 8 Cabra players were in the Canterbury ISP side that lost 18-6 to a Wests Magpies side that 11 players from the Wests Tigers NRL squad.

Guildford rested their big guns, Matt Ryan, Taniela Lasalo and Josh Lewis today against the Northern Rivers champions who had won 62-0 in the first round. Apparently coach, Brent Kite is the only person that is paid by Tweed. They looked fit and running into the wind managed to hold Guildford to a 8-2 lead at half time but as the game progressed Guildford went further and further ahead. Tweed scored their only try early in the 4th quarter. Penani Manumanellii and Blake Judd played for Guildford today, so Guildford will have 5 players with 1st grade experience this year.

The Wenty team today was

1Josh Bergamin 2 Epa navale 3 Rydge Smith 4 Josh Minhinnick 5 Charlton Schaffhausen 6 Dylan Izzard 7 Beau Henry 8 Brendan Shoveller 9 Brad Keighran 10 Mitch Butfield 11 Haimona Hiroti 12 Nick Okladnikov 13 Joel Luani 14 Keiran Hayman 15 Josh Bermingham 16 Danny Howard 17 Jacob Esau 18 Drhys Miller 19 Liam Mulvihill 20 Blake Cook

 

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Challenge Cup Round 2

Wests 30 Cabra 18
Guildford 38 Tweed Coast 8
Wyong 12 Wenty 6

Dubbo CYMS to play Glebe Burwood tomorrow.

The appointment of Darren Maroon as Wests coach has resulted in an influx of talent with 5 players from the Auburn Warriors 2017 Grand Final playing today - Omar Slaimankhel, Maniah Rudolp, Adrian Hangaana and Ahmed Ellaz havinh joining Avia Minute who was at wests in 2018. Another Auburn player, Hala Akhoula is also in the squad. It appears that about 8 Cabra players were in the Canterbury ISP side that lost 18-6 to a Wests Magpies side that 11 players from the Wests Tigers NRL squad.

Guildford rested their big guns, Matt Ryan, Taniela Lasalo and Josh Lewis today against the Northern Rivers champions who had won 62-0 in the first round. Apparently coach, Brent Kite is the only person that is paid by Tweed. They looked fit and running into the wind managed to hold Guildford to a 8-2 lead at half time but as the game progressed Guildford went further and further ahead. Tweed scored their only try early in the 4th quarter. Penani Manumanellii and Blake Judd played for Guildford today, so Guildford will have 5 players with 1st grade experience this year.

The Wenty team today was

1Josh Bergamin 2 Epa navale 3 Rydge Smith 4 Josh Minhinnick 5 Charlton Schaffhausen 6 Dylan Izzard 7 Beau Henry 8 Brendan Shoveller 9 Brad Keighran 10 Mitch Butfield 11 Haimona Hiroti 12 Nick Okladnikov 13 Joel Luani 14 Keiran Hayman 15 Josh Bermingham 16 Danny Howard 17 Jacob Esau 18 Drhys Miller 19 Liam Mulvihill 20 Blake Cook

I went out to watch my son debut for Cabramatta yesterday, and I was impressed by Wests performance.
To be fair to Cabramatta, they were missing some important players, in the halves, and at times seemed very unorganised. Especially last tackle options when they managed to hold the ball for the entire set.
Cabramatta scored 2 out of their 3 tries via intercepts in the first quarter, and forth quarter(my son). Apart from that it was just a tackling drill for them.
Wests looked sharp, and will definitely be happy with the quality they showed with ball in hand.

 

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Dubbo CYMS leading Glebe Burwood 18-0 in the 1st quarter.

 

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Dubbo CYMS leading Glebe Burwood 18-0 in the 1st quarter.

If they played the Challenge Cup during the season the Ron Massey Cup teams would flog these country teams. During the preseason nearly all of the clubs have half their Ron Massey players doing ISP pre seasons and playing trial games there until round one.

 

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If they played the Challenge Cup during the season the Ron Massey Cup teams would flog these country teams. During the preseason nearly all of the clubs have half their Ron Massey players doing ISP pre seasons and playing trial games there until round one.

Yes it is a handicap for most of the Sydney sides eg Newtown had 24 players against BWSE yesterday and none of them were Sharks so possibly up 15 of the Glebe Burwood side will come from that Newtown trial team. But the RMC clubs don't want to play during the season as demonstrated last year with withdrawals by Mounties, Wenty and St Marys.

Dubbo up 24-6 at half time.

 

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Final score Dubbo 38 Glebe Burwood 12

The GB team ( only 17 of allowable 20) was:

1 Harry Crocker 2 Michael Zakhia 23 Jack O'Brien 4 Nathan Graham 5 Corey Jefferies 6 Brock Pelligra 7 Matt Thomas 8 Rumone Jackson 22 Jazz Flavell 10 Isaac Prokopiou 11 Ryan Turner 12 Tess Talauli 13 J P Hanawe 20 Matt Mesaan 15 Nick Serafino 17 Soakmi Tuitavuke 18 Phenix Kasimausi

The 3 players that may be in the RMC side for round 1 are the two from Hills - Pelligra and Flavell and the central coast giant Prokopiou, although Flavell has strong competition for the hooker spot from T J McLean and Jackson Garlick.

Pelligra, Prokopiou, Hanawe and Turner all played for Newtown last week against Norths.

CYMS reported that they had many leading players missing today.

 

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Final score Dubbo 38 Glebe Burwood 12

The GB team ( only 17 of allowable 20) was:

1 Harry Crocker 2 Michael Zakhia 23 Jack O'Brien 4 Nathan Graham 5 Corey Jefferies 6 Brock Pelligra 7 Matt Thomas 8 Rumone Jackson 22 Jazz Flavell 10 Isaac Prokopiou 11 Ryan Turner 12 Tess Talauli 13 J P Hanawe 20 Matt Mesaan 15 Nick Serafino 17 Soakmi Tuitavuke 18 Phenix Kasimausi

The 3 players that may be in the RMC side for round 1 are the two from Hills - Pelligra and Flavell and the central coast giant Prokopiou, although Flavell has strong competition for the hooker spot from T J McLean and Jackson Garlick.

Pelligra, Prokopiou, Hanawe and Turner all played for Newtown last week against Norths.

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12-13 players who ran out for Newtown yesterday were either Glebe-Burwood-contrasted or are trialling with the Dirty Reds, so we were a little undermanned today. But then Dubbo might have had a few out as well. It’s just the nature of a largely pre-season knock-out competition.

 

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Maile Li and Fou Tagilima have moved from Mounties to Blacktown Workers with both playing against Newtown on Saturday.

Does anyone know if Mounties played Wenty on Saturday? - nothing on either clubs websites.

 

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Saturday's Challenge Cup Week 1 Finals

Wyong v Guildford 3:15pm @ Morry Breen
Wests v Dubbo 3pm @ Henson Park

Other RMC/SS trials:
RMC Cabramatta v Mounties Sat 3:30pm @ New Era
SS St Marys v Moorebank Sun 12pm @ St Marys
SS St Marys v Cabramatta Sun 2pm @ St Marys
RMC St Marys v BWSE Sun 4pm @ St Marys
SS Hills v Asquith Sun 1pm @ Tony Burn (Baulkham Hills)
RMC Hills v Asquith Sun 3pm @ Tony Burn (Baulkham Hills)
SS Ryde Eastwood v Norths Flegg Sun 3pm @ TG Milner

 

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Saturday's Challenge Cup Week 1 Finals

Wyong v Guildford 3:15pm @ Morry Breen
Wests v Dubbo 3pm @ Henson Park

Other RMC/SS trials:
RMC Cabramatta v Mounties Sat 3:30pm @ New Era
SS St Marys v Moorebank Sun 12pm @ St Marys
SS St Marys v Cabramatta Sun 2pm @ St Marys
RMC St Marys v BWSE Sun 4pm @ St Marys
SS Hills v Asquith Sun 1pm @ Tony Burn (Baulkham Hills)
RMC Hills v Asquith Sun 3pm @ Tony Burn (Baulkham Hills)
SS Ryde Eastwood v Norths Flegg Sun 3pm @ TG Milner

Apparently BWSE have pulled out of the RMC trial with St Marys

 

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Apparently BWSE have pulled out of the RMC trial with St Marys

So what is St Marys doing? - are the going to play Cabra SS - will that be the only trial for their RMC players?

 

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So what is St Marys doing? - are the going to play Cabra SS - will that be the only trial for their RMC players?

All the players in their combined SS and RMC squad will be playing on Sunday in the game against cabra or moorebank. The majority of the squad has at least one game already in the two previous trials the western rams u23’s and wests RMC.
There is a few to come back from Penrith also.