BOGGABRI Kangaroos tackle unbeaten North Tamworth Bears determined to improve on their first round effort when beaten 84-nil at Jack Woolaston Oval.
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The Roos forfeited last season's clash at North Tamworth and Group 4 ruled they had to give up their home game this season against the Bears because of that.
Kangaroo coach Shane Rampling has been juggling teams all season, faced with shift workers and now some injuries on top of losing star lock Kahn Juhnke.
He has named hooker Steve Taylor as a stop -gap replacement at lock for Sunday's clash.
The busy little No.9 has been a great addition to the club and first grade quad this season.
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He and Matt Gillham will alternate at nine.
"Steve's been great for us," Rampling said.
"He'll be defending in the middle and can have a dart or two out dummy half too. He's been a good addition to our squad and done a job for us.
"It does make it hard we have Ben (Haire), Nick (Millar) and Willy (Urquhart) out. And it doesn't help our second grade is struggling. They copped a few injuries last week too. Isaac Harris might have to play two full games.
"But it is what it is. We just want to get through this week against Norths. We want to put up a good effort in respect of the score.
"We'll be much better than the 84-nil in the first round. We started all right in that game. Our first 25 minutes was good and we only trailed 10-nil."
He said his side has improved markedly and doesn't want to see them waste what has been a good month or so for them, where they have gone close against the likes of Gunnedah and Kootingal-Moonbi and beaten Dungowan and Narrabri.
They still retain a hope of making the semi-finals.
On Saturday, Werris Creek are at home to Kootingal-Moonbi and Dungowan host Gunnedah.
TOOHEYS GROUP 4 FIRST GRADE LADDER
P W L D Bye For A Diff Pts
NORTH TAMWORTH 9 8 0 0 1 428 120 308 18
WERRIS CREEK 9 5 3 0 1 252 236 12 12
KOOTINGAL 9 4 4 0 1 206 231 -25 11
NARRABRI 9 4 4 0 1 277 282 -1 10
GUNNEDAH 9 3 4 0 2 162 204 -42 10
BOGGABRI 9 2 5 0 2 142 256 -114 8
DUNGOWAN 9 1 6 0 1 160 298 -138 4
Kootingal receive a point for losing to Narrabri in golden point extra time.
TOOHEYS GROUP 4 TEAMS
Round 10
Saturday, July 13
WERRIS CREEK v KOOTINGAL
David Taylor Park, Werris Creek. First grade kick off 2.30pm. Referee - Ryan Schmiedel
WERRIS CREEK: (Unofficial) 1 Harlee Millgate, 2 Zac Leonard, 3 Nathaniel Slater, 4 Kieran Williams, 5 Miles Kearney, 6 Dwight Millgate, 7 Bryce Daniels, 8 Marcus Doran, 9 Scott Berry, 10 Kaleb Parsons, 11 Beau Parry, 12 Cody Tickle, 13 Jamie Bailey, 14 Dion reid, 15 Cohal Millgate, 16 Darren Clarke, 17 TBA. Coaches - Ron Dellar, Matt Parsons.
KOOTINGAL: (Unofficial) 1 Jack Rumsby, 2 Will Saunders, 3 Kyle Cochrane, 4 Jesse Campbell, 5 Jack Anderson, 6 Ben Williams, 7 Jordan Sharpe (capt), 8 Chris Vilder, 9 Zach Hatch, 10 Cameron McDonald, 11 Logan Howard, 12 Liam Hatch, 13 Anthony Smith, 14 Brody Cummins, 15 Brad Vidler, 16 Nicholas Pascoe, 17 Leroy Livermore. Coach - Geoff Sharpe.
DUNGOWAN v GUNNEDAH
Dungowan Recreation Reserve. First grade kick off 2.30pm. Referee James Brown
DUNGOWAN: Unavailable.
GUNNEDAH: (Unofficial) 1 Dylan Lake, 2 Lachlan King, 3 Aaron Donnelly, 4 Adam Mooney, 5 Luke Boorer, 6 Reece Jaeger, 7 Jonathon Crowe, 8 Rory Harding, 9 Kurt Hartmann, 10 Lincon Smith, 11 Dan Russell, 12 Jason Smith, 13 Matt Baker, 14 Zac Turnbull, 15 Ben Gardner, 16 Lance Martin, 17 Kerred Smith. Coach - John Hickey.
Sunday, July 14
NORTH TAMWORTH v BOGGABRI
Jack Woolaston Oval, North Tamworth. First grade kick off 2.30pm. Referee - Luke Sheather.
NORTH TAMWORTH: 1 Mitch Sheridan, 2 Zac Nigro, 3 Richard Clegg, 4 Andrew Moodie, 5 Luke Fisher, 6 Scott Blanch (c/c), 7 Kieran Fisher, 8 Alec Cocking, 9 Ryan Ingram, 10 Shane Leigh Wadwell, 11 James Cooper, 12 Jake McManus, 13 Nic Dobson, 14 Cody Byrne, 15 Jack Patterson, 16 Ben Jarvis, 17 TBA.
BOGGABRI: 1 Jack Gillham, 2 Nic Hobden, 3 Matt Avandano, 4 Brock Sankey, 5 Jarrod Adams, 6 Dylan O'Brien, 7 Jayde Campbell, 8 Andrew Cameron, 9 Matt Gillham, 10 Nathan Millar, 11 Mitch Campbell, 12 Bailey Lennox, 13 Steve Taylor, 14 Hawken Durrant, 15 Isaac Harris, 16 Sam Pryor, 17 TBA. Coach Shane Rampling.
