The Vodafone Warriors are still a chance of making the Canterbury Cup NSW finals but they’ll need some serious help when they line up in their final regular season match against Western Suburbs at Mount Smart Stadium on Saturday (12.05pm kick-off).
Heading into the 24th round, the Vodafone Warriors lie ninth on the ladder on 20 points, two behind the eighth-placed Wentworthville Magpies.
However, the Magpies had a superior points for and against differential of minus one compared to the Vodafone Warriors’ minus 39.
To snare eight spot the Vodafone Warriors will have to win by a healthy margin in their match against the 10th-placed Wests and then hope for Wentworthville to lose heavily to top-placed Soiuth Sydney later on Saturday.
In the early game at Mount Smart on Saturday, the Vodafone Junior Warriors – 10th on 19 points and out of finals contention – take on the ninth-placed Wests Tigers.
CANTERBURY CUP NSW
VODAFONE WARRIORS v WESTERN SUBURBS MAGPIES
12.05pm, Saturday, August 31
Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland
VODAFONE WARRIORS
1 ADAM POMPEY
2 COLE WAAKA
3 TAANE MILNE
4 BLAKE AYSHFORD
5 SETU TU
6 HAYZE PERHAM
7 ADAM KEIGHRAN
8 KING VUNIYAYAWA
9 TYLER SLADE
10 JACKSON FREI
11 ADAM TUIMAVAVE-GERRARD
12 LEIVAHA PULU
13 JOSH CURRAN
Interchange:
14 SEAN MULLANY
15 PRESTON RIKI
17 PHILLIP MAKATOA
18 LEWIS SOOSEMEA
COACH | NATHAN CAYLESS
JERSEY FLEGG CUP
VODAFONE JUNIOR WARRIORS v WESTS TIGERS
10.05am, Saturday, August 31
Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland
VODAFONE JUNIOR WARRIORS
1 EMANUEL TUIMAVAVE-GERRARD
2 SELESTINO RAVUTAUMADA
3 KAYAL IRO
4 CASEY SMITH
5 EDWARD KOSI
6 PAUL TURNER
7 SIONE MOALA
8 JUNIOR PUA
9 TANIELA KALEPO
10 ELIESA KATOA
11 TOM ALE
12 ISAIAH VAGANA
13 BRODY TAMARUA (c)
Interchange:
14 TEMPLE KALEPO
15 TONI TUPOUNIUA
16 JYRIS GLAMUZINA
17 NEYLA MASIMA
18 MICHAEL LEMAFA
COACH | GREG BOULOUS
