The Greater Northern Tigers under-18s must attend to their error rate if they are to beat the Newcastle Knights in their second-round Laurie Daley Cup Country Championship match at Scone Park on Saturday.
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The Tigers made a number of handling errors and gifted some silly penalties to Central Coast in last Saturday’s opening round loss at Wyong.
The Tigers lost 34-26 against a bigger pack.
Tiger coach Peter Stevens said it was a game the Tigers could have easily won. “Their effort was good,” he said.
“The trouble was most of the errors were unforced.
“We just need to be better against the Knights. They will be tougher and just as big. They are the benchmark of our pool.”
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The Tigers will be missing fullback Trent Taylor (knee injury) and centre Jhett Butler (suspended).
But they have Blair Moloney and Bailey Miller coming into the squad which will train at Scone on Friday evening.
The match start at 1.20pm, and is preceded by the under-16 match between the Tigers and the Knights.
The Tigers then play Parramatta, North Coast and Northern Rivers in their hopeful run to a semi-final berth
Tigers: Mackenzie Shepherdson (Denman), Blair Moloney (Farrer), Kyle Johnson (Dungowan), Cooper Harris (Dungowan), Harrison Freeman (Dungowan), Brayden Reid (North Tamworth), Steven Dengate (Muswellbrook), Kalab McMillan-Bassett (Narrabri), Clay Frendin (Dungowan), Jackson Shade (Singleton), Sam Wentworth (Dungowan) capt, Blake Trees (Singleton), Kobe Bone (Tamworth), Daniel Kelly (North Tamworth), Hugh Collins (Aberdeen), Jalen Darcy (Scone), Zak Turnbull (Gunnedah), Bailey Miller (Denman). Coach: Peter Stevens (Warialda), Manager: Brad McManus (North Tamworth), Trainers: (yellow) Richard Ingram (Tamworth), (blue) Chris Bryant (Singleton), (orange) Daniel Swan (Maitland).
