Charles "Chicka" Cahill
Premiership winning Newtown forward in the 1940s and actively involved with the Bluebags for the next forty years.

Match details

7.00 pm, Saturday, 13 February

Henson Park

Meet the players

The Newtown Jets easily accounted for North Sydney 38-6 in the NSW Cup trial match played in extremely wet conditions at Henson Park on Saturday evening.

Newtown had supplied four players to the Sydney Roosters for their NRL trial match in North Queensland on Friday night, with the Jets only using a total of 18 players against the Bears.

Jets coach Greg Matterson cautioned Newtown supporters against getting overly-excited about a comfortable trial match win in early February. He noted that all of these players have a lot of Rugby League in front of them between now and early October, and that trial match results are long forgotten once the competition rounds get underway.

Matterson was still pleased with several aspects of his squad's performance, with particular reference to their enthusiasm and fitness plus their commitment in defence in restricting the Bears to only one try late in the third quarter.

Newtown's next NSW Cup trial match is against Western Suburbs at Henson Park next Sunday afternoon, 21st February, with this match kicking off at 4.00pm.

Match summary

Newtown 38: Paul Kiely, Dylan Sharp, Brad Barrett, Richard Kambo, Chris Afamasaga,
Charlie Herekotukutuku, Drew Lanston tries; Charlie Herekotukutuku 5 goals

North Sydney 6: Sosaia Fifita try, Jarryd Hogan goal.

The match was played in four twenty-minute quarters with the scores at the end of each quarter being as follows: Newtown 4-0; Newtown 20-0; Newtown 26-6; Newtown 38-6.

Results of junior representative curtain-raisers played at Henson Park this afternoon

Harold Matthews Cup - Round One - Sydney Roosters 34 defeated North Sydney 14.
SG Ball Cup - Round One - Sydney Roosters 24 defeated North Sydney 4.

Who played

Interchange

Tommy Cremona, Anaru Grant, James Koloamatangi, Dylan Sharp, Mason Pure.