Jim Beam Cup - Round 1

[metroman]

Souths Juniors opened the 2004 season in a manner that would have erased the memories of consecutive losses in last years' semis by defeating Woy Woy 50-20 at Redfern tonight.

The game opened at a cracking pace as the forwards traded big hits. Souths led 6-4 after 20 minutes but were starting to outmuscle the peninsula side. With the base established souths started to spread the ball with silky skill and scored 7 tries in the next 35 minutes to lead 46-8.

Woy woy earned some respect for their efforts in the latter part of the game but despite all the new faces there was a touch of deja vu about their performance.

There were no weak links in the Souths team but coach Bill Grech would have been particularly pleased by the perfomances of Toufic Nicholas, Clinton McAuliffe, Joe Lichaa, Garth Wood, Chris Saab, Robert Simms, Wes Patten and Anthony Farah.

The action moves to Henson tomorrow (2.45) where Newtown take on a Bulls combination lacking several first string forwards following injuries during the trials.

In other games tomorrow Cabramatta are at home to Ourimbah at 5.15pm, Ryde Eastwood take on Wenty at Leichhardt at 5.45pm in the match of the round, and Windsor are at home to Erina at 8pm. Premiers The Entrance have the bye.

 

[The Dawson Twins Minus 1]

Taffy, Garth, Joe and Wes are all in that team, eh? Maybe Souths Juniors should start wearing Royal Blue next.

It would have been great if we could have afforded to keep all those guys. At Newtown they were all PL players - at Souths, they're JBC level.

Sounds like they'll give the comp a real shake this year.

Regards,
TDT-1

 

[metroman]

The Sydney Bulls beat Newtown 48-22 at Henson today. It was a test of depth as two more changes were made to the bench. The newtown pack appears to have toughened up this year and the halves Crotty and Young looked constructive.

A highlight was the try by Adam Tippett were he volleyed a poor pass on his foot, hit the cross bar and recovered to score. Sam rakabu score a hat trick and the Bull's new benchman Jared Warren made a satisfactory debut - he is huge.

Over at Leichhardt it looked like it was going to be a cakewalk as Wenty methodically ran up a 28-6 lead just after half time. Then in an extraordinary form reversal Ryde Eastwood hit back with 4 tries in seven minutes to trail 24-28. Interchange players Charlie Farah and Brett Kelly were making an impact.

The game settled back into an arm wrestle until a converted try to Fakahua gave Ryde the lead with 8 minutes left. Ryde neutralised the final Wenty set and a brawl broke out after full time. 3 players were placed on report including Carrington who entered the fracas from his position on the Ryde bench.

 

[izzo]

anyone know the premier league score for newtown v knights? today

 

[Bluebag]

Newtown 34 Newcastle 32

 

[brook]

The Sydney Bulls beat Newtown 48-22 at Henson today. It was a test of depth as two more changes were made to the bench. The newtown pack appears to have toughened up this year and the halves Crotty and Young looked constructive.

A highlight was the try by Adam Tippett were he volleyed a poor pass on his foot, hit the cross bar and recovered to score. Sam rakabu score a hat trick and the Bull's new benchman Jared Warren made a satisfactory debut - he is huge.

Over at Leichhardt it looked like it was going to be a cakewalk as Wenty methodically ran up a 28-6 lead just after half time. Then in an extraordinary form reversal Ryde Eastwood hit back with 4 tries in seven minutes to trail 24-28. Interchange players Charlie Farah and Brett Kelly were making an impact.

The game settled back into an arm wrestle until a converted try to Fakahua gave Ryde the lead with 8 minutes left. Ryde neutralised the final Wenty set and a brawl broke out after full time. 3 players were placed on report including Carrington who entered the fracas from his position on the Ryde bench.

Jared is a big boy alright - hope he goes well even if he is playing for the bulls cause I miss him at Balmain (we have better players but theres something about jared that you just gotta like )

I'm suprised Kelly is on the BENCH for R-E...he's a top class player and I actually assumed he must have been injured when he didn't turn up in the Balmain team.

sounds like carrington at least is in trouble...at least the hawkes should get danny brown back next week.

 

[izzo]

Newtown 34 Newcastle 32

I like that scoreline 8)

 

[Bluebag]

It went right to the wire with both sides having chances to win.

 

[Jeffles]

I've known Jared Warren for a few years. Used to work with him a bit. He always has been a big boy. Was on the bench in Flegg for the Tigers when I saw him last year. He's a likeable bloke and hopefully he gets back on track after some personal problems a couple of years ago.

Brook, do the Tigers still have his brother Aron? Also, how is Nathan Lavers travelling?

Newtown JBC struggled with right side defence and they were beaten for pace by many of the Bulls. But there were many positives the Bluebags can take from the match.

 

[brook]

Aron is with the sharks this year, I never saw that much of him when he was with the tiges - is he like his brother?

Lavers is going alright - nothing incredible but he's done some good things

 

[Jeffles]

Aron is a Jared clone. Both huge. Although Aron is (relatively speaking) the small one.

 

[brook]

yeah I guess it doesn't say much to say someone is smaller than Jared

I hope both go well - I think he should be able to turn into a good JBC player although sadly I think he lacks the fittness to go any further.

Still one of my funniest lower grade memories come from him - at last years semi-final v wests. Some (brave) wests bloke thought he could line a charging jared up by himself...jared didn't blink just, very slowly, lifted his arm up for the fend and the poor magpie kid went flying....learnt his lesson though noone attempted a one-one-one tackle on him again that game :lol:

 

[Jeffles]

:lol:

I think you are right. Fitness will be an obvious problem. But he was very handy off the bench for the Bulls. If the motivation is there he could carve a little (I use that term loosely) niche for himself.