2018 NSW Cup season

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2018 Intrust Super Premiership NSW
League NSW Cup
Duration24 Rounds + Finals
(March-September 2018)
Teams12
Broadcast partners Fox League, Nine Network
2018 season
Premiership winners Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

The 2018 Intrust Super Premiership NSW season was the tenth season of the New South Wales Cup, the top rugby league competition administered by the New South Wales Rugby League. The competition acts as a second-tier league to the ten New South Wales-based National Rugby League clubs, as well the Canberra Raiders and New Zealand Warriors. The winner of the Premiership, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, competed against the winner of the 2018 Queensland Cup, the Redcliffe Dolphins in the 2018 NRL State Championship, which they won 42-18. The Penrith Panthers were the defending champions, following their 20-12 victory against the Wyong Roos in the 2017 Grand Final. [1]

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Teams

In 2018, 12 clubs fielded teams in the Intrust Super Premiership. Illawarra RLFC were renamed to the St George Illawarra Dragons to bring the club in line with the NRL’s ‘whole of game’ strategy, that will also see top-grade squads increased from 25 players to 30. [2]

An under-20s competition will be run in parallel to the New South Wales Cup. [3]

ColoursTeamNRL Feeder Club
Northern Eagles colours.svg Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly warringah Sea Eagles
Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Wellington colours.svg Mount Pritchard Mounties Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders
Auckland colours.svg New Zealand Warriors Auckland colours.svg New Zealand Warriors
Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights
Newtown colours.svg Newtown Jets Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney Bears South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs
Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith Panthers Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith Panthers
St. George Illawarra colours.svg St George Illawarra Dragons St. George Illawarra colours.svg St George Illawarra Dragons
Hullcolours.svg Wentworthville Magpies Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels
Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs Magpies Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers
Wyong.png Wyong Roos Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters

Ladder

PosTeamPldWDLBPFPAPDPts
1 Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith Panthers 241624255041014038
2 Illawarra colours.svg St George Illawarra Dragons 24140824944148032
3 Newtown colours.svg Newtown Jets 241228260741918830
4 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 24130925374528530
5 Wests Tigers colours.svg Western Suburbs Magpies 24120102477473428
6 Wellington colours.svg Mount Pritchard Mounties 241101125324617126
7 Auckland colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 24100122429489-6024
8 Wyong.png Wyong Roos 2492112501579-7824
9 Northern Eagles colours.svg Blacktown Workers Sea Eagles 2482122476496-2022
10 Western Suburbs colours.svg Wentworthville Magpies 2490132436583-14722
11 North Sydney colours.svg North Sydney Bears 2472132479532-5320
12 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights 2452152379589-21016

Finals

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and TimeVenueReferee(s)Crowd
QUALIFYING AND ELIMINATION FINALS
Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith Panthers 28 – 18 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Saturday 1 September Penrith Stadium 1,000
Wellington colours.svg Mount Pritchard Mounties 21 – 20 Auckland colours.svg New Zealand Warriors Saturday 1 September Penrith Stadium
Western Suburbs colours.svg Western Suburbs Magpies 14 – 18 Wyong.png Wyong Roos Sunday 2 September Penrith Stadium 1,000
St. George colours.svg St George Illawarra Dragons 28 – 26 Newtown colours.svg Newtown Jets Sunday 2 September Penrith Stadium
SEMI-FINALS
Newtown colours.svg Newtown Jets 34 – 16 Wellington colours.svg Mount Pritchard Mounties Saturday 8 September Netstrata Jubilee Stadium 1,000
Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 34 – 24 Wyong.png Wyong Roos Sunday 9 September Netstrata Jubilee Stadium 1,000
PRELIMINARY FINALS
Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith Panthers 24 – 28 Newtown colours.svg Newtown Jets Saturday 15 September Leichhardt Oval 2,000
St. George colours.svg St George Illawarra Dragons 26 – 28 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Sunday 16 September Leichhardt Oval 1,000
GRAND FINAL
Newtown colours.svg Newtown Jets 12 – 18 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Sunday 22 September Leichhardt Oval 6,000

Source: [4]

NRL State Championship

As premiers of the NSW Cup, the Cannterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs faced Queensland Cup premiers Redcliffe Dolphins in the NRL State Championship match.

Sunday, 30 September
3:40pm (AEST)
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Canterbury colours.svg 42 18 Redcliffe colours.svg Redcliffe Dolphins
Tries:
Josh Cleeland (36', 38') 2
Rhyse Martin (6') 1
Chris Smith (47') 1
Renouf To'omaga (52') 1
Jayden Okunbor (72') 1
Fa'amanu Brown (77') 1
Goals:
Rhyse Martin 5/6
(8', 37', 48', 54', 58' pen)
Greg Eastwood 1/1
(74')
Josh Cleeland 1/1
(78')
1st: 16 6
2nd: 26 12
NRL Stats
Report
Tries:
2 (30', 60') Kotoni Staggs
1 (74') James Taylor
Goals:
2/2 Bryce Donovan
(61', 75')
1/1 Kotoni Staggs
(31')
ANZ Stadium, Sydney
Referee: Adam Cassidy, Liam Kennedy

Television Broadcast

Fox League will continue to broadcast a game per round, however Channel 9 will also be broadcasting a game per round starting with the 2018 for the first time.

References

  1. Media, NRL Digital. "Panthers Clinch 2017 Intrust Super Premiership". NRL CLUBS. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  2. Media, NRL Digital. "Dragons adopt Nuclear Model in 2018". NRL CLUBS. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. Media, NRL Digital. "New State-Based Under-20 Competitions From 2018". NRL CLUBS. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  4. "Draw". New South Wales Rugby League. Retrieved 10 March 2023.