rugby league

Wests defeat Newtown to take the 1918 City Cup

Submitted by Rick Eyre on August 19 2018, 7:23 am

Western Suburbs defeated Newtown 18-8 in front of around twenty thousand people at the SCG on Saturday 24 August 1918 to win the City Cup for the first time.

In the early game Eastern Suburbs defeated South Sydney 10-4 to win the reserve grade League Cup, while Harold Horder won the 100 yard sprint final.

Preview: The Arrow, 23/8/1918

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/103527570

Report: The Sun 25/8/1918

Match day Instagram: Newtown v Wentworthville

Submitted by Rick Eyre on July 15 2017, 10:10 am

A double header of Bluebags at Henson Park on Saturday July 8 2017.

Curtain raiser in the Harvey Norman NSW Womens Rugby League Premiership saw the Redfern All Blacks playing North Newcastle. Norths' comeback as a rugby league club at all is remarkable, but to be the Newcastle representative in the state women's premiership is extraordinary indeed. Competition leaders Redfern beat the Bluebags 44-12. Match data on the NSWRL website.

Newtown Jets premiers of NSW Cup - a storification of Grand Final day

Submitted by Rick Eyre on October 1 2012, 11:34 am

The Newtown Jets won the 2012 NSW Cup grand final on 29 September at ANZ Stadium with a heart-stopping 22-18 victory over the Balmain Ryde Eastwood Tigers. In my opinion it was easily the best of the three games on Grand Final day, and gave the Jets their first victory in the NSW Cup since it was reconstituted as the de facto reserve grade for non-Queensland NRL clubs.

Here's a storification of selected tweets and images of the Jets victory, including progress reports of the game and the celebrations afterwards:

Rugby league in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific on LinkedIn

Submitted by Rick Eyre on March 31 2012, 5:17 pm

Join my LinkedIn rugby league groupIt's not quite as ground-breaking as my creation of aus.sport.rugby-league seventeen years ago, but I've set up a discussion group for LinkedIn members interested in the NRL and Pertinent League Matters in the Australasia/South Pacific basin.

I launched "Rugby League in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific", to give its descriptive title, because I believe it fills a niche that hasn't been catered for on LinkedIn to date.

Tribe, starring Arthur Beetson

Submitted by Rick Eyre on December 2 2011, 7:09 am

Arthur Beetson, one of Australia's greatest rugby league players of all time, died suddenly on December 1 at the age of 66. A larger-than-life figure who was a brilliant play maker in the second row for Balmain, Easts and Parramatta, his last major game of football as a player was the inaugural State of Origin clash between Queensland and New South Wales in 1980. The first indigenous Australian to captain a national sporting side, Beetson became a coach, mentor and indigenous community leader in later years. And he even had a go at acting.

NRL player needs you to switch off NRL on Saturday night

Submitted by Rick Eyre on March 23 2009, 11:24 am

Congratulations to Newcastle Knights fullback Kurt Gidley for being an ambassador for this year's Earth Hour.

Today's Newcastle Herald has more.

Meanwhile, it's business as usual for the NRL on Earth Hour evening, unless they intend to play Parramatta against Canberra and North Queensland versus Melbourne in the dark for sixty minutes.