Round 4
North Sydney Bears 40 d. Western Suburbs Magpies 20

2006 VB NSWRL Premier League Index [Table] [Draw] [Player Stats]

Location: Australia > New South Wales > State/Metropolitan Level Competition: VB NSWRL Premier League

Wests Magpies Premier League Report vs North Sydney
Wed April 5, 2006
The Magpies were looking for their first win of the season in this away game against the Bears. The first half was an even affair with tries to hooker Sam Hoare and half Nathan Waters, however the Bears took a 14-8 advantage into the break.

The second half had just started when winger Ben Yelavich crossed for a fine try, which was converted by Ryan Powell locking the scores at 14-all. The Bears dominated the remainder of the second half and despite a late converted try to lock Rocky Trimarchi, the Bears ran out winners 40-20.

Scorers for the Magpies - Sam Hoare 1 try, Nathan Waters 1 try, Ben Yelavich 1 try, Rocky Trimarchi 1 try and Ryan Powell 2 goals.

Best for the Magpies - Chris Paterson, Ryan Powell, Nathan Waters, Sam Hoare and Ben Weir.

The Magpies play the Balmain Tigers at Campbelltown Sports Stadium at 3.30pm on Sunday 8 April 2006.

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North Sydney come through with timely win
Wed April 5, 2006
Source: www.northsydneybears.com.au

The North Sydney Bears have posted a win against the Magpies at TG Milner Field with a solid second half, rolling on from a 14-8 lead at half time. Improving on their completion rate in the second half, Norths took control of the match and won 40-20.

The Bears Filinga 'Fingers' Filiga scored first for the Bears to make it four points all after lead up work from Daniel Watkins and Ben Black. After the Maggies hit back again, Ben Black sent Daniel Watkins in to score in the corner levelling the score once again to 8-all. Then after looking for gaps for most of the half Chris Walker hit the floor running off a Ben Black pass and ran 40 metres, scoring under the posts and giving an easy conversion for Daniel Russell to make a half time score of 14-8 to Norths.

In the second half the Magpies scored early to level the score for the last time. Then Norths captain Daniel Russell did great work to dodge a number of defenders to get to the line and convert his own try, and soon after he added a penalty goal to the growing score. Daniel Russell then set up Ben Black to score twice. Once with a pass to find a hole for Ben in the line and second a chip kick over the defence in to the hands of Ben to score. A final try to Wests occurred before Ben Black set up Ben Ellis to score. With Dan Russell successful with 6 from 8 kicks the score blew out to 40-20.

Players Player Ben Black and hooker Ben Ellis shined in the second half. Coach White felt Blackie's passing and kicking game and the controlled service from dummy half of Ben Ellis were major contributions to the successful second half. Daniel Russell (sporting a new peroxide hair cut) and a hard running Aaron Trinder were also major contributors to the win. "We played ugly football but achieved the objective of getting the two points," said Coach Josh White.

Bears Harold Matthews team have only just missed out on the two points losing to the Magpies 28-26 in the last minutes of the match. Leading at the half way mark 20-6 a mistake at the kick off after the final try gave the Maggies the impetus to score two tries and over take the Bears.

Coach Kevin Nicholls said, "We did very well in defence and scored some great tries," Coach Nicholls named Junior Rika, Tom Scrivener and Kenneth Cheer as his best performers. This game also saw the return from injury of the talented back Paul Nguyen scoring a try on his return.

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