ISP: Round 8 vs. Wenty

Wests Tigers Intrust Super Premiership side have defeated the Wentworthville Magpies 40-18 in their Round 8 clash on Sunday afternoon at Ringrose Park.

Coming into the match in eighth position, Paul Stringer's side welcomed back Josh Addo-Carr and Joel Edwards from first-grade commitments as well as Justin Hunt from injury — leading from start to finish to emerge with a comprehensive 22-point win in the end.

The match began in perfect fashion for the visitors, with Michael Chee Kam crossing out wide after just two minutes. Moments later, Addo-Carr would cross for the first of his three first-half tries, with Josh Drinkwater coverting to give Wests Tigers a 10-0 lead after eight minutes.

Addo-Carr would extend Wests Tigers lead after 25 minutes when he touched down for his second of the day, with Drinkwater converting to give the visitors a 16-0 advantage.

The halfback would then take on the line himself in the following set, breaking the Magpies open to cross for his third try of the season and take Wests Tigers to a 22-0 lead.

With Wests Tigers on a roll, a smart kick in behind the line woudl allow Addo-Carr to grab his third try of the half, to take the visitors to a 26-0 lead after 33 minutes. Drinkwater would continue his strong game by adding the extras and extending the scoreline to a surprising 28-0.

Wenty would finally get on the board just minutes before half-time, with Scott Schulte touching down out wide to take the score to 28-4 as both teams hit the sheds at Ringrose Park.

Joey Grima's side came out firing to begin the second half, with two quick tries — including a second to Schulte — saw them cut Wests Tigers lead to 28-14 with 20 minutes to go.

However, Addo-Carr would continue to cause havoc for the Magpies' defence, streaking away down the wing before finding Chee Kam on the inside to give the centre his second try of the game, and restore Wests Tigers' 34-14 lead with 11 minutes remaining.

Captain Asipeli Fine would put the icing on the cake for Wests Tigers when he crossed with three minutes to go, with Drinkwater's conversion taking the score to 40-14, before an intercept on full-time for Wentworthville would see the scoreline finish at 40-18.

Paul Stringer's side will look to make it back-to-back wins when they take on the North Sydney Bears on Saturday, April 30 at 3:00pm as they travel to Moss Vale for Country Round.

http://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2016/04/24/match_report_intrust.html
 
It was an afternoon to remember for the Wests Tigers, as they put their stamp on the Intrust Super Premiership NSW competition with a convincing upset over the Wentworthville Magpies.

The Tigers left side completely tore the Magpies apart, with their centre-wing combination amassing five tries between them in the 40-14 showing.

Josh Addo-Carr scored a hat-trick in his return match from the NRL, while his centre Michael Chee Kam bagged a double himself with some brilliant service all afternoon by the in-form halfback Josh Drinkwater.

The victory is the Wests Tigers third for the season; while this was only the second time the Magpies have tasted defeat in 2016.

The Magpies coughed up possession around the halfway line in the early stages of the match, and the Tigers immediately capitalised on the field position with a Chee Kam try.

A penalty off the ensuing set followed by an error coming out of trouble let the Wests Tigers on the attack again on numerous occasions, and Drinkwater took advantage of the situation by putting in a nice cross-field kick behind the defence, only for Addo-Carr to reel it in with one hand and plant the ball down.

Drinkwater went incredibly close soon after with a show-and-go that almost broke the Magpies defence, before a couple of centimetres were the difference between a Manaia Cherrington try and a double movement on the next play.

The Tigers were at it again the next time they were on the attack, as Drinkwater threw a wonderful ball to put Chee Kam on the outside of his opposition defender, which created an over for Addo-Carr to bag his second try and increase their lead to 16-0.

Tries began to become clockwork for the Tigers, as in the 28th minute, Cherrington put in a neat grubber from dummy-half for Drinkwater to win the race to the ball, plant the ball down and increase the margin to 22.

In the 32nd minute, Addo-Carr recorded his hat-trick when he showed blistering speed and agility to grasp a Drinkwater cross-field chip on the run, evade the defence and get to the line.

The Magpies finally got on the board with five minutes remaining in the opening half thanks to Scott Schulte, who ran a perfect line onto a brilliant Mitch Cornish face-ball.

A freakish accident occurred off the kick-off set. Mitch Cornish sold a dummy on his inside to a charging Kaysa Pritchard, only for them to collide into each other’s legs, which caused a minor delay in the match shortly before the half-time break.

11 minutes into the second half, it looked like Bureta Faraimo had scored the Magpies second try, only to be stopped by some Matthew Eisenhuth cover defence that was nothing short of outstanding.

His good work was undone moments later, however, as the Tigers almost immediately coughed up possession and Honeti Tuha crossed in the opposite corner to reduce to deficit to 28-8.

Schulte scored the Magpies third consecutive try with a long-range effort off a scrum, and suddenly the momentum began to swing the way of the home side despite still trailing by 14.

The Tigers had not scored for a while, so they decided to revert to what worked for them so well in the first half. Josh Drinkwater put in another cross-field chip for Addo-Carr, who over-head threw the ball to Chee Kam for his second try of the afternoon.

To put the nail in the coffin in the dying stages of the match, Asipeli Fine crashed over after some nice lead-up play by Drinkwater, before a consolation try against the run of play to James Hasson made the final score 40-18.

http://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2016/04/24/isp_nsw_report_wentw.html
 
Now, how can J Taylor justify leaving Addo Carr out of first grade for Thursday? This Intrust Cup side know that many in the side are chances for first grade this week. I wonder if the Intrust side is looking forward to Milone playing for them?
 
@macman said:
How did Cherrington go ?
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Well I thought for the amount of minutes that he had which was very few he played pretty well except he didn't go to the correct side and receive a bit of a mouthing off from littlejohn… But he did seem to turn Wenty's tired middle around a bit..

7/10 - Played very well in the limited opportunity that he had
 
@Newtown said:
Now, how can J Taylor justify leaving Addo Carr out of first grade for Thursday? This Intrust Cup side know that many in the side are chances for first grade this week. I wonder if the Intrust side is looking forward to Milone playing for them?
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To be honest Newtown I don't think Milone would make our reserve grade team MCK had a blinder and looked at home in the centres and Chance Peni played well enough to retain his spot.
 
@Born tiger said:
@Newtown said:
Now, how can J Taylor justify leaving Addo Carr out of first grade for Thursday? This Intrust Cup side know that many in the side are chances for first grade this week. I wonder if the Intrust side is looking forward to Milone playing for them?

To be honest Newtown I don't think Milone would make our reserve grade team MCK had a blinder and looked at home in the centres and Chance Peni played well enough to retain his spot.
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I'm hoping MCK makes the first grade side this week. Naiqama looks like he will struggle with the short turnaround. I'd love to see Simona and Nofoaluma on one side and MCK and Addo Carr on the other. This would free Rankin to move into 5/8 and Moses to Half.

Milone can go back to Intrust or Ron Massey.
 
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