The Weekly Times - TWT - 27th March 2019
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The Weekly Times - TWT - cheekily describes itself as a campaigning, crusading, truth-seeking, death defying, Aussie battler-aligned, one-eyed-Tiger-led news organisation dedicated to Sydney's north west.
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Wednesday 27 <strong>March</strong>, <strong>2019</strong> THE WEEKLY TIMES 27<br />
Cup action feast at<br />
Junior League launch<br />
By CHRIS KARAS<br />
BALMAIN junior representative rugby league teams<br />
face their moment of truth when they host North Sydney<br />
in crunch Junior Cup fixtures this Saturday at<br />
Leichhardt Oval.<br />
<strong>The</strong> much anticipated<br />
U/16 Harold<br />
Matthews Cup and<br />
U/18 S.G Ball Cup<br />
matches between<br />
the Tigers and Bears<br />
are the curtain raisers<br />
to a Leichhardt<br />
Oval rugby league<br />
fest to celebrate<br />
the Balmain Junior<br />
League’s <strong>2019</strong> season<br />
launch.<br />
n all important Matthews<br />
Cup game followed<br />
by the S.G Ball<br />
fixture at 11.30am.<br />
Penrith dented the<br />
Tiger cubs’ finals<br />
hopes when they recorded<br />
32-14 and<br />
30-14 victories in the<br />
NSWRL Junior Cup<br />
U/16 and U/18 competitions<br />
last Saturday<br />
at Leichhardt Oval.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tenth placed Tigers<br />
face a must-win<br />
match against ninth<br />
placed North Sydney<br />
in the Matthews Cup<br />
series after a disappointing<br />
loss to the<br />
Panthers.<br />
Balmain conceded<br />
three early tries and<br />
trailed 20-4 at the<br />
interval before succumbing<br />
to the slick<br />
Penrith outfit.<br />
Ross Murdocca’s<br />
cubs will pin their<br />
hopes on power forwards<br />
Brandon Tumeth,<br />
Will Carroll,<br />
Mataele Fifita, Jaxson<br />
Rahme and Wilkinson<br />
Papalii-Afoa to provide<br />
the go-forward<br />
for talented halves<br />
Christian Jardim and<br />
Liam Wright-Terry,<br />
fullback Ponipate Rakuli,<br />
centres Chris<br />
Trad and Semisi Foliaki<br />
and elusive winger<br />
Alex Miltiadous to<br />
show their wares.<br />
Balmain S.G Ball<br />
side led 8-0 against<br />
Penrith after 21 minutes<br />
with early tries<br />
by half back Cooper<br />
Wood and centre<br />
Josh Rizk before the<br />
visitors hit back with<br />
four pointers to Ryan<br />
Eisenhuth and centre<br />
Zion Tauasa and<br />
a Bailey Hughes conversion<br />
to lead 10-8 at<br />
the interval.<br />
But the Panthers<br />
dominated after the<br />
break - piling on another<br />
four tries to register<br />
a resounding win.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sixth placed<br />
Tigers will be chasing<br />
victories over the<br />
Bears and Central<br />
Coast Roosters in<br />
the final two rounds<br />
to consolidate a top<br />
eight finals berth in<br />
the U/18 Cup series.<br />
Skilful halves Zane<br />
Camroux and Cooper<br />
Wood and gun centres<br />
Livai Saukuru<br />
and Josh Rizk will<br />
spearhead an exciting<br />
backline with<br />
strong forwards Daniel<br />
Sykes, Callum Ellis,<br />
hooker Jake Kusto,<br />
Braydon Guyan, Zayn<br />
Wilkins, Stylez O’Mara<br />
and Jason Smyth laying<br />
the foundations.<br />
Ryde Eastwood<br />
Hawks meet the Rams<br />
in a third round Sydney<br />
Shield fixture at<br />
1.15pm while competition<br />
leaders Concord<br />
Burwood-Glebe lock<br />
horns with Asquith<br />
Magpies in a Ron<br />
Massey Cup clash at<br />
3pm.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’ll be lots of<br />
kids activities and a<br />
Tigers cake - so bring<br />
the family to an entertaining<br />
day’s football<br />
in Tigertown.<br />
FOOTY<br />
TIPSTERS<br />
NSWRL Volunteer of the Year Norm Towells<br />
(Five Dock JRLC) was also joint winner of Balmain<br />
Junior League’s George Thompson Trophy<br />
with Carlingford Cougars secretary Kathy<br />
Lansdown. <strong>The</strong>y are pictured with NSWRL<br />
CEO David Trodden. <strong>TWT</strong> on-the-spot PHOTO.<br />
Five Dock RSL stalwart Norm earns<br />
NSWRL Volunteer of Year award<br />
A CASUAL visit to an inner western suburbs park nearly 30 years ago to register three of<br />
his sons in Junior Rugby League has turned into a rewarding hobby for popular Five Dock<br />
RSL Junior Rugby League Club stalwart Norm Towells.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tireless Dockers official<br />
was recognised for his outstanding<br />
service to the game<br />
last season when he was<br />
named the NSWRL Gordon<br />
Lowrie Volunteer of the Year<br />
and joint winner of the Balmain<br />
Junior League’s George<br />
Thompson Memorial Award.<br />
Norm’s sterling commitment<br />
to grassroots rugby league over<br />
29 years through the Five Dock<br />
club and the wider Balmain District<br />
JRL earned him the prestigious<br />
NSWRL award, which was<br />
selected from the 12 District<br />
nominees.<br />
<strong>The</strong> awards cap a memorable<br />
2018 for Norm, who was made<br />
a Life Member of the Balmain<br />
Junior League earlier in the year.<br />
He has proved the “heart and<br />
soul” of the Five Dock rugby<br />
league fraternity with his passion<br />
and selfless approach to<br />
helping develop up and coming<br />
juniors.<br />
“This was totally unexpected;<br />
I have won this acclamation<br />
for doing what I thought was<br />
somethingeveryone did,” said<br />
Mr Towells.<br />
“I didn’t know anything about<br />
rugby league until one of my<br />
sons started playing 29 years<br />
WESTS<br />
TIGERS<br />
ago … the rest is history,” he<br />
said.<br />
“I love being involved because<br />
of the lifelong friends you make<br />
and the influence you can have<br />
on children and playersthrough<br />
sport.”<br />
He was introduced to the code<br />
back in 1990 when he took eldest<br />
son David and twins Michael<br />
and Paul down to Five Dock<br />
Park to register with the Five<br />
Dock club.<br />
“David started in Under 10s<br />
and the twins in Under 8s and<br />
I volunteered to take on roles<br />
as a trainer and team manager,”<br />
Norm reflected.<br />
“My other sons Chris and<br />
Brendon later joined their elder<br />
brothers in the Five Dock playing<br />
ranks and I found myself on<br />
the club’s committee.”<br />
Brendon would later form a<br />
potent partnership in the front<br />
row with a 16 year old Aaron<br />
Woods at the Leichhardt Juniors<br />
Rugby League Club.<br />
Norm was encouraged to participate<br />
in rugby league by his<br />
brother-in-law Colin Campbell,<br />
a former South Sydney Presidents<br />
Cup and Under 23s forward<br />
back in 1973.<br />
“Colin often talked about the<br />
camaraderie at club level and<br />
V<br />
CANTERBURY<br />
BULLDOGS<br />
the many friendships he formed<br />
while staying involved with the<br />
game,” revealed Norm.<br />
<strong>The</strong> hard working Towells established<br />
himself as a trainer<br />
and team manager before<br />
serving as the Dockers’ Club<br />
Treasurer, Vice President, Club<br />
Patron and in recent years as<br />
manager of the club’s A Grade<br />
squad in the Combined Sydney<br />
competition.<br />
As well as encouraging the<br />
club’s junior and senior mens<br />
teams during the winter months,<br />
Norm can also be found on<br />
weekends supporting the Five<br />
Dock Ladies side.<br />
“Great Five Dock leaders like<br />
John Critchley, Joe Dougal ad<br />
Nick Speranza have been major<br />
influences on myself and I thank<br />
them immensely,” said Norm.<br />
It has been a real family affair<br />
for Norm and his brood at the<br />
Five Dock club over the past 29<br />
years.<br />
As well as having his five sons<br />
carve out long careers with the<br />
Dockers, Norm was joined on<br />
the panel by daughters Kim<br />
- the club’s current secretary -<br />
and Julia, a junior coach.<br />
He was named joint winner<br />
of the Balmain Junior League’s<br />
George Thompson Trophy with<br />
SUNDAY<br />
MARCH 31 4.05PM<br />
CAMPBELLTOWN<br />
STADIUM<br />
tireless Carlingford Cougars<br />
secretary Kathy Lansdown.<br />
Norm received his NSWRL<br />
Volunteer of the Year award at<br />
Waterview in Bicentennial Park,<br />
Sydney Olympic Park last September.<br />
NSWRL Chief Executive David<br />
Trodden said the annual<br />
NSWRL Volunteer of the Year<br />
Awards night is about celebrating<br />
and acknowledging the<br />
hardworking Junior League<br />
volunteers who have given their<br />
time, without an expectation of<br />
reward or recognition, to make<br />
the 2018 season such a success.<br />
“It is only with the commitment<br />
and passion for the game<br />
of these truly wonderful people<br />
that Rugby League continues to<br />
grow and prosper in NSW,” Mr<br />
Trodden said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> participation figures released<br />
are testament to that.<br />
For the first time in five years<br />
participation in NSWRL competitions<br />
has increased (up 5.5<br />
per cent) and retention is above<br />
the national average, which<br />
means our volunteers and staff<br />
are creating a positive environment<br />
for participants to get involved<br />
– and stay involved – in<br />
our game.”<br />
JOHN<br />
ALEXANDER<br />
Bennelong MP<br />
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