Ron Massey Cup/Sydney Shield 2016

[Sharkie Army Gorilla]

Kingsgrove turned up to play Guildford with 10 players.

It's 30-0 at half time. 3 players turned up covered in mud so I guess they came straight from A-Grade

Dunno how the NSWRL allow that to happen

 

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Kingsgrove turned up to play Guildford with 10 players.

It's 30-0 at half time. 3 players turned up covered in mud so I guess they came straight from A-Grade

Dunno how the NSWRL allow that to happen

I don't have a problem with these guys playing A grade because that is where the team belongs but I checked the combined comp rules and you are not allowed to play if you have played NSW Cup, RMC or SS in the weekend. So maybe where they have a RMC game on sunday they make sure they are scheduled for 1pm in A grade so that it is BEFORE they have played RMC but its a complete joke.

 

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Saw the games @ Blacktown today

In the Sydney Shield Asquith had a real dig. It looked for 60 minutes of the match they could produce a massive upset. You could tell both sides hadn't played in a while with a lot of drop ball. 6 all at the break. Score stayed that way until Blake Goodman broke the deadlock with about 20 to go. The floodgates opened with Workers running in a few late tries. Asquith were reduced to 11 men for the last 5 minutes with two players mouthing off. Shae Jarvis has returned to Asquith and played really well. The 34-6 scoreline doesn't reflect how close the match was.

In the Massey Blacktown lost their 4th match of the season in the last 60 seconds. Another heartbreaking loss.

If Blacktown had won those games they would be in the top 4. Todays results put Hills into the 8. Guildford after adding a 4th player with NRL experience in Peni Manumanleilii, have also now moved into the 8 at the expense of St Marys, another side with 4 players with NRL experience.

Meanwhile Mounties steam ahead, looking particularly unstoppable in the SS while Windsor continued its good recent run with a big win over Wets in poor conditions.

 

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Results | Ron Massey Cup Round 15

Auburn Warriors v Wentworthville Magpies at Lidcombe Oval was postponed due to wet weather.

Mounties 44 (F Dibley 2, C Porter 2, J Martin, S Tavita, S Bristow, M Beggs-Mowzcan tries; M Kennedy 6 goals) def St Marys 16 (C Aunese Scanlan 2, L Nadurutalo tries; J Butfield 2 goals)

Asquith 24 (A Nicholls-O'Neill 2, J Makatoa 2, H Tomkins tries; M Daoud, C Yates goals) def Blacktown 22 (A Cartisano 2, H Raiwalui, M Place tries; K Horton 3 goals)

Hills District 26 (B Falcone 2, S Mow, D Baumann tries; J Boustani 5 goals) def Concord Burwood 10 (S Latu, R Mason tries; A Booth goal)

Guildford 42 (L Ngaluafe 3, T Shelly, A Bush, D Timoteo, K Manu, J Farlow tries; M Farrell 5 goals) def Kingsgrove 0

Western Suburbs 14 (J Davies, J Williams tries; S Gallant 3 goals) def Windsor 0

Cabramatta bye.

 

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Results | Sydney Shield Round 15

Auburn Warriors v Wentworthville Magpies was postponed due to wet weather

Belrose Eagles v Hills District Bulls was postponed due to wet weather

Mounties 52 (J Hoston 2, M Li 2, M Sivo 2, S Chapman, S Aiga, B Speechley, B Chahoud tries; J Horton 6 goals) def St Marys 12 (J Tuliatu, R Tuigamala tries; G Toomalatai 2 goals)

Blacktown 34 (B Goodman 2, D Cassone, J Attard, J Mau, J Leadai tries; A Seini 3, B Goodman 2 goals) def Asquith 6 (S Jarvis try; A Papera goal)

Peninsula 18 (T Wilson 2, J Pickering, M Kelly tries; L Martin goal) def Guildford 10 (M Soultan, J Petero tries; T Spienza goal)

Windsor 48 (L Atchison 2, M Crompton 2, M Wade, I Fiaalii, B Smallwood, S Fitzgerald tries; B Hudd 5, L Jackson 3 goals) def Western Suburbs 12 (L Tali, G Nasilai tries; N Tuitavuki 2 goals)

East Campbelltown 10 (W Dunley, M Talolua tries; E Connor goal) def Cabramatta 8 (B Nathan, L Lavender tries)

 

[Broncos93]

Did Guildford only put ten up against Kingsgrove? Seems strange they'd only beat a Kingsgrove side with 3 missing by 40 odd.

 

[Joker44]

The heavy rain over the weekend probably contributed to the result.

 

[Joker44]

The heavy rain over the weekend probably contributed to the result.

 

[Tarantosaurus]

The club most badly affected by the inclusion of Kingsgrove in the RMC is Guildford. Whereas the 13 team SS in 2015 allowed for 3 clubs to receive byes in Rd 11 and Rd 22, the 2016 RMC has no such arrangements and 4 clubs will only have one bye - Wests, Guildford, Cabra and Hills. In addition, 4 clubs only play Kingsgrove once - Auburn, Mounties, Guildford and Blacktown so Guildford have the double whammy.

The one-bye saga has been sorted.

Round 20 (30th/31st July):
Guildford v Hills is now a bye for the RMC teams
Cabra v Wests is also a bye for the RMC teams

Shield will still continue to play.

 

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The one-bye saga has been sorted.

Round 20 (30th/31st July):
Guildford v Hills is now a bye for the RMC teams
Cabra v Wests is also a bye for the RMC teams

Shield will still continue to play.

That is good news, especially for Hills, Cabra and Guildford whereas Wests are travelling pretty smoothly.

 

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It looks like Evan Lee has moved from Asquith to Wenty, although perhaps not because e has been listed by both clubs.

 

[Joker44]

Tautalatasi Tasi who has played a couple Ron Massey Cup games for Asquith this season (2-3 I believe) and played with Norths NSW Cup for the last few weeks has been named on the wing for Souths NRL side this weekend

 

[Tarantosaurus]

That is good news, especially for Hills, Cabra and Guildford whereas Wests are travelling pretty smoothly.

I found it awesome that all 4 play each other in the one round. Made life a lot easier haha

 

[Broncos93]

Tautalatasi Tasi who has played a couple Ron Massey Cup games for Asquith this season (2-3 I believe) and played with Norths NSW Cup for the last few weeks has been named on the wing for Souths NRL side this weekend

Wow! Kudos to the lad. He was in and out of Bulldogs Cup/Auburn RMC last year, thought he was quite a dynamic player with Auburn last year when I saw him.

Norths have been playing him at back row lately in Cup. Makes it all the more interesting to see a lad start the season in Ron Massey and be playing NRL half way through the season.

 

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Tony Dosen's RMC Wrap

Defending premiers Mounties again established themselves as the yardstick team in the Ron Massey Cup with a 44-16 humbling of the St Marys Saints in the Match Of The Round at Aubrey Keech Reserve, Hinchinbrook last Saturday.

For the second successive week, the Mulga put class opposition to the sword after a relatively tight first half.

The Saints went with the defending premiers for 50 minutes as the home side only led 20-12 at half-time.

Wingers Finlay Dibley and Jordan Martin along with class five-eighth Chad Porter got tries for Mounties in the first half, while Saints wingers Chris Aunese-Scanlan and Luke Nadurutalo got converted tries to keep St Marys in the game in the first 40 minutes.

However, just like last week against Wentworthville, the Mulga stepped up a gear after half-time and the Saints could not go with the defending premiers in the second stanza.

Dibley and Porter completed doubles, while Mitch Beggs and Steve Tavita also scored tries as Mounties completed an eight tries to three win.

Maurice Kennedy kicked six goals from eight attempts in a welcome return to Massey Cup play after making way for Sam Williams in Mounties’ Intrust Super Premiership team across town against Manly.

A try to Alex Nicholls-O’Neill and conversion by Mark Daoud in the final minute saw the Asquith Magpies’ steal a heartstopping 24-22 win over Blacktown Workers at Laybutt Sports Fields, Blacktown last Saturday.

After a tight first 15 minutes, Andrew Cartisano opened the scoring for the Workers in the 17th minute before Asquith fullback Nicholls-O’Neill got the Magpies’ – and his – first try for the game in the 20th minute for Asquith’s only first half points.

The Workers then extended their lead when quality ex-Wenty fullback Henry Raiwalui scored five minutes from half-time to hold a handsome 12-4 lead at the break. Kurt Horton converted both Workers’ first half tries.

Asquith then came out on fire to start the second half. Five minutes into the second stanza tyro winger Hugh Tomkins burst through the left side defence to score and reduce the Workers lead to 12-8.

Then Asquith hit the front for the first time in the 49th minute when Jeco Makatoa posted his first try with another left side bust to send Asquith to a 14-12 lead after Cameron Yeats’ conversion.

The lead then swapped four more times in a pulsating last 30 minutes as one side then the other looked to be gaining the upper hand.

After Blacktown regained the lead in the 55th minute when Matt Place scored for Horton to convert, Makatoa got his second try to level the scores at 18-all with 20 minutes to go after the attempted conversion hit an upright.

After the Magpies threw everything at the Workers with a mountain of possession for the next 15 minutes, the home side responded with Cartisano bagging his second try at the end of a superb long range movement to hit the front at 22-18 with just over five minutes to play.

However – as has been the case too often this season – just as Blacktown looked home, they were on the wrong end of yet another last minute ‘miracle’.

One last desperate Asquith attack saw Nicholls-O’Neill score his second try with just over a minute to play to level the scores. It was Nicholls-O’Neill’s 14th try of the season – which puts him at the top of the Ron Massey Cup try scorer’s list.

Lebanese international Daoud converted to put the Magpies in front, and Asquith held on in the last minute to once again break Blacktown hearts.

It was the fifth time the Workers have lost by four points or less – with four of those losses in the last minute of play in what is now already looming as a season of missed opportunities.

Hills District Bulls jumped back into the Massey Cup Top Eight with a dominant 26-10 win over a disappointing Concord-Burwood Wolves in wet conditions at Goddard Park last Sunday.

With class half James Boustani running the show in his best performance of an injury riddled year to date and Ben Falcone scoring two tries, the Bulls posted back to back wins for the first time this season.

The Bulls forwards were tireless led by veteran Mick Hawkings and skipper Tim Robinson up front in standing up to the bigger Wolves pack in the torrential rain that lashed Sydney during the day, giving Boustani time and space to get the better of Marc Russell in the battle of the halves.

The Bulls scored five tries to two in their convincing win, with Boustani landing a perfect five goals from five attempts with the boot in the heavy conditions.

Stimon Mow and Dave Baumann got the Bulls other majors, while Rodney Mason and Sami Latu got tries for the beaten Wolves.

Western Suburbs maintained sole leadership of the Massey Cup with a grinding 14-nil shut out of the Windsor Wolves in atrocious conditions at Windsor Sports Complex last Sunday.

Drenched by over five hours of incessant rain – and a Sydney Shield match – before kick-off, the ground resembled a wrestling mud pit between the 30 metre lines through the middle corridor in a throw back to quagmire conditions of yesteryear.

Both sides opted for strong kicking safety first games in the conditions – with the Magpies taking a 2-nil half-time lead courtesy of a Shannon Gallant penalty goal in the 26th minute. Windsor turning down a kickable penalty late in the half to run the ball – only to see a David Harris intercept snuff out the play.

The conditions ensured that poor handling restricted scoring opportunities in the second half – and the Magpies made the most of theirs with backrower Jackson Williams scoring a double to secure a Wests’ win.

Williams first pounced on a Brendan Waters grubber that stopped dead in goal and fooled the Wolves cover in the 55th minute, before loping giraffe like down the blind side to score in the corner for his second try two minutes later.

Gallant converted both tries to extend the lead to 14-nil – a lead that the Magpies comfortably held in the conditions in the final 20 scoreless minutes.

The Guildford Owls made light work of an undermanned Kingsgrove Colts to win 42-nil in the other game of the round at McCredie Park played during last Sunday’s ‘big wet’.

With the Colts again having problems juggling commitments between their Ron Massey Cup and Sydney Combined A Grade teams – with a core of players forced to play in both competitions – embarrassing scenes were on show for those who braved the rain at McCredie Park.

The Colts only started with 10 players against the Owls – with reportedly three players making a mad dash from Campbelltown’s Waminda Oval after appearing to have played in the Colts’ SCC A Grade match earlier in the day against East Campbelltown’s reserve grade squad (to the Eagles’ Sydney Shield team) that had a 1:00pm kick-off.

Guildford duly racked up a 30-nil half-time lead against their outnumbered and outclassed opposition.

The torrential rain and atrocious handling conditions slowed the Owls down in the second half – but Guidlford still coasted to a third successive win to keep their place in the Massey Cup Top Eight.

Winger Leslie Ngaulafe bagged a hat trick in Guildford’s eight tries to nil shut out of the embarrassing Colts.

The Auburn v Wentworthville match at Lidcombe Oval set down for last Saturday was postponed on Friday of last week after surface water from recent rains and a poor weather forecast for the weekend forced Warriors officials into the postponement.

The match is yet to be rescheduled as the logical spare weekend of July 23/24 presents problems for Wentworthville.

The Magpies are providing coach Chris Yates and are expected to provide a number of players to the still un-named Ron Massey Cup representative team that take on the Queensland Rangers at the Gold Coast’s Pizzey Park on Sunday July 24.

Cabramatta had the bye and avoided the weekend’s ‘big wet’ with their two competition points.

Wests maintain the Massey Cup lead on 22 points, with Mounties moving into second after their win on 20 with Wentworthville’s postponement pushing them back to third on 18.

The bottom half of the Top Eight has tightened up with five teams separated by just three points. The Colts are still a clear last on just their four competition points.

Weather permitting, a full round is set down for this weekend – with four games on Saturday and two games on Sunday.

The two stand out games both involve a set of Magpies. First, Wests take on Concord-Burwood in the match of the round on Saturday as part of the “Return To Lidcombe” old boys day for the proud Western Suburbs club.

Then on Sunday at Storey Park the 2015 Ron Massey Cup Grand Finalists – Mounties and Asquith – square off for the first and only time this year in the regular season since they played each other in the decider at Parramatta’s Pirtek Stadium last September.

 

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Jake Horton (Mounties) has now scored more than 200 points this season in the SS.

 

[Sharkie Army Gorilla]

Expect a big announcement next week in regards to Blacktown Workers playing future. Massive step in the right direction.

 

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RMC

St Marys 26 (A Davis 2, S Jones, R Lesoa tries; Davis 5 goals) def Auburn 18 (C Jones, P Dakunaqa, J Tia Kilifi tries; A Demetriou 3 goals)

Western Suburbs 28 (T Capper 2, J Davis, S Gallant, L Williams tries; Gallant 4 goals) def Concord-Burwood 10 (J Garlick, S f**kof**ka tries; M Russell goal)

Blacktown 52 (M Place, W Butler, J Fraser, H Raiwalui, R Teuku, A Cartisano, J Attard, J Tangitau, D Parata, B Goodman tries; A Cartisano 4, Place 2 goals) def Kingsgrove 12 (A Raheb, A Nasser tries; J Steadman 2 goals)

Guildford 36 (L Ngaluafe, M Rickard, K Manu, T Shelly, J Farlow, M Farrell, H Hunt tries; Farrell 4 goals) def Cabramatta 18 (L Sopi, BJ Nathan, I Montgomery, B Hikaka tries; J Jackson goal)

SS

St Marys 46 (J Wormleaton 2, J Tuliatu 2, J Butfield, G To'omalatai, R Tuigamala, L Aiono, R Graham tries; J Butfield 5 goals) def Auburn 32 (J Anderson 2, J Farrant, B Boumelhem, J Finau-Alatini, A Soni tries; Z Greene 4 goals)

Belrose 28 (M Slavin 2, B Nichols 2, A Saunders tries; J Mortimer 4 goals) def Western Suburbs 20 (V Tsikrikas, J Pearce, K Coakes, J Tali tries; H Leuea 2 goals)

Peninsula 38 (J Johns, J Geann, N Grant, M Kelly, J See, J Pickering, R Goodwin tries; L Martin 4, Goodwin goals) def Blacktown 6 (J Leapai try; A Sen goal)


Guildford 41 (A Layoun-Nohr 2, J Petero, J Maree, B Ashmore, S Hunt, T Spienza tries; Maree 6 goals; Layoun-Nohr field goal) def Cabramatta 28 (B Hawkins 4, J Bichan tries; J Webb 4 goals)

 

[Tigers1986]

Astonishing day back at Lidcombe today. HUGE turnout for an RMC game and the NSWRL really need to get behind this and continue it. I'd love to see an RMC game get televised on Fox each week, possibly on a Sunday night as a replay or Wednesday afternoon. It's great footy being played that doesn't get the audience that it deserves.

 

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RMC

Wentworthville 30 (E Lee, S Sisifa, R Gillett, N Kassis, A Ha'Angana tries; S Sisifa 5 goals) def Windsor 22 (M Sini, A Murdock, J Goring, A f**kas tries; A f**kas 3 goals)

Mounties 68 (F Dibley 3, C Porter 2, S Bristow 2, A Mulia, J Martin, M Whitehouse, M Beggs, J Goodwin tries; C Porter 10 goals) def Asquith 4 (A Nicholls-O'Neill try)

Hills bye

SS

Windsor 28 (L Jackson 2, L Atchison, M Compton, K Hopwood tries; B Hudd 3, L Jackson goals) def Wentworthville 12 (J Maxwell-Offen, R Roha tries; K Cryer 2 goals)

Mounties 66 (W Dargin 3, J Horton 2, F Tagiilima 2, M Sivo 2, S Chapman, M Li, P Vaiotu tries; J Horton 9 goals) def Asquith 0

East Campbelltown 34 (T Taylor-Sweeney 2, M Stevens 2, E Connor, C Vaotuua, M Talolua tries; E Connor 3 goals) def Hills District 14 (N Betar, B De Vries, J Flavell tries; N Holliday goal


Mounties look stronger every week in both grades. Solid performances by Windsor in both grades with SS now to be its priority after the mid season turnaround. Hills led 14-6 at half time but could not go on with it.