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Thirroul Dent Collies Record
Tuesday 7th June, 2005
News courtesy
of Chris Thomas's
Web of Steel
Thirroul 26 Collies 12
4-6-2005
Scenes of jubilation erupted at Gibson Park when
Thirroul overcame the unbeaten Collies in one of their
greatest ever premiership victories. The Butchers
dominated proceedings from the start and had the
better of both possession and field position
throughout a tough opening ten minutes.
They opened the scoring through Trent Bryan's
spectacular grab of a
pinpoint crossfield bomb from Ty McCarthy. Bryan
failed to convert from touch and Thirroul led 4-0.
Three minutes after the restart, Aaron Beath sent
an almost identical kick to the wing of Chris
Timmins, who equalled Bryan's leap and touchdown.
Another conversion failed as Thirroul's
goalkicking woes continued, making it 8-0 to the home
side.
Thirroul continued to completely dominate proceedings
until Collies scored a good team try to Jason Brown
completely against the run of play. The Lachlan
Russell conversion brought Collies dangerously within
two points of Thirroul, despite being completely
dominated for the majority of the match so far.
The Dogs then got on top of Thirroul for a few minutes
but made uncharacteristic errors during this period
which Thirroul match with their own. After some
close scoring chances by both sides were lost and
Thirroul again took the advantage, Collies equalised
with a 38th minute penalty to draw level at 8-8.
A great touch finder by Aaron Beath from a penalty
just before the break gave the Butchers great field
position and when Collies were penalised in front of
their own posts, Beath potted the goal to give
Thirroul a 10-8 lead at the break.
Damian Willis made a bustling break two minutes
into the second half and wins penalty for a strip.
Collies attacked the Thirroul line for the next
couple of minutes, without success. Thirroul then
worked their way downfield, only to be thwarted by
great defense by the Dogs on their own line.
Willis again broke clear from a scrum in the 48th
minute and looked set to score before a try-saving
tackle by Aaron Beath brought him down on halfway. Two minutes later
Fuad Suljkanovic stepped through the Collies line
from close range to extend the Butchers lead to
16-8.
Simeon Hoyle made a 50 metre run that led to a Collies
movement that ended when the last pass was called back
as they were crossing for a try. Errors were
starting to creep into both side's games as the pace
of the match started to take it's toll around the hour
mark.
The Butchers suffered a blow when Ty McCarthy was
carried off with a knee injury. When Aaron
Beath potted another penalty after being hit late
whist kicking, Thirroul led 18-8 with less than a
quarter of the match remaining.
Both sides were penalised for shepherding in the 64th
minute and Thirroul almost scored off another bomb
kicked to their wing two minutes later. A great
tactical kick by Beath produced an error and a dropout
from under the posts. The short kick failed to go the
ten and Beath kicked the penalty. Thirroul now
looked good at 20-8 with 10 minutes left.
A 72nd minute penalty led to Mick Blackwell strolling
over for a simple try for Collies. The important
conversion hit the upright and bounced away,
leaving Collies eight points adrift at
20-12.
Jason Brown made a powerful burst from the kickoff,
only to lose the ball in a strip. Thirroul then
handed possession back over to Collies right in front
and with six minutes remaining. Collies couldn't
score and Aaron Beath gave Thirroul repeat
sets with a huge kick that trapped the Dogs in
goal.
Ben Linde crashed over from dummy half shortly after
the dropout and Thirroul had a memorable 26-12 victory
in the bag when Beath kicked his firth straight goal. They were
brilliant right throughout their top seventeen and
were led by Beath, Grose and Suljkanovic out wide,
with the whole pack standing out.
Collies were frustrated by great defense from Thirroul
during the match and played way below the high
standards they have set throughout 2005. This is not
to say they played badly, in fact, they played quite
well for most of the game and were only defeated by a
switched on opposition combined with a few more errors
than normal. Their best were Robbie Payne and Simeon
Hoyle and are still premiership leaders and favourites
after this match.
This was a fantastic display of local rugby
league, with the big crowd showing their pleasure
at watching such a gutsy victory over a very
classy side in Collies. It is a win that has
rejuvenated the whole competition in a weekend
where the Tooheys League bounced back from the
disastrous Uni pullout with three matched before
over 1500 fans.
Thirroul 26 (Tries: Trent Bryan, Ben Linde, Chris
Timmins, Fuad Suljkanovic; Goals: Aaron
Beath 5/5) defeated Collies 12 (Tries: Jason
Brown, Mick Blackwell; Goals: Lachlan Russell 2/3)
Referee: Todd Yarrow. Touch Judges: Liam Nicholls
and Darren Love.
Reserve grade: Collies 14 Thirroul 12
Collies pipped the Butchers by 14-12 to remain
unbeaten in reserve grade.
Under Eighteens: Dapto 22 Thirroul 13
The opening game saw the Canaries have to work hard
for their nine point win over an improving Butchers.
At Gibson Park Thirroul. Saturday June 4 2005. Crowd
650
THIRROUL
1 Chris Potter 2 Trent Bryan 3 Fuad Suljkanovic 4 Todd
Grose 5 Chris Timmins 6 Ty McCarthy 7 Aaron Beath(c) 8
Ben Couchman 9 Ben Linde 10 Jay Van Meegan 11 Joel
Attenborough 12 Mark Corrigan 13 Mark Sheppard.
INTERCHANGE - 14 Paul Crawford 15 Lewis McPhail 17 Ali
Korouche18 Brett Pincham.
COLLIES
1 Lee Finnerty 2 Chris Barnes 3 Damian Willis 4 Wes
Hallam-Mann 5 Kurt Fittler 6 Simeon Hoyle 7 Gavin
Clinch (c) 8 Robbie Payne 9 Josh Guyatt 10 Jason Brown
11 Michael McBain 12 Wade Forrester 13 Lachlan Russell
INTERCHANGE - 14 Mick Blackwell 15 Drew Forrester 16
Grant Williams 17 John Bailey.
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