Club Weekend Results | 22nd – 23rd August, 2026

The Roosters NSW Cup team have kept their thin finals hopes alive, with one round remaining, with a big win over Western Suburbs on Sunday.

NSW Cup

The 6th placed Sydney Roosters have made it seven wins from their last eight matches with a 44-28 victory over 9th placed Western Suburbs at Wentworth Park on Sunday, after the Roosters led 26-12 at half time.

The club went into the match missing Blake Steep (knee), Jaxson Rahme (ankle) and Brooklyn Heath (ankle) with injury and Cody Ramsey, Rex Bassingtwaighte, Egan Butcher and Tommy Talau on NRL duty.

The team missed the start and fell behind 12-0 after 17 minutes but once they were able to control the ball they were a threat to the Wests defence. In a 12-minute period the Roosters ran in four converted tries to lead 24-12.

Right winger Tom Rodwell opened the scoring in the 19th minute off a scrum spread where Rodwell beat three defenders to score in the corner, before five eighth Reece Foley scored off the next set after left winger Junior Pauga broke into the backfield and put through a lovely centre kick which Foley collected to score under the posts.

Soon after, with Magpies centre Starford To’a in the sin bin, fullback Owen Flaherty broke through the defensive line before linking with right edge back rower and captain Max McCathie, who found Tom Rowell in support to race away to score his second try of the day, in the 27th minute. After scoring 20 tries in 22 games last season, Rodwell, the 2025 Roosters NSW Cup Player of the Year, took his 2026 try tally to 14 from 19 games, with today’s double.

With To’a still in the sin bin, Roosters left edge forward Hayden Barton stormed on to a Reece Foley pass close to the line to post the Roosters fourth try of the half. A penalty to the Roosters just before the half time break added two more points to the Roosters score. The fifth Toby Rodwell goal of the day, from as many attempts, took the score to 26-12.

Toby Rodwell, the Rooster halfback and playmaker opened the scoring in the second half with a customary dummy and run (and conversion) to stretch the lead to 32-12 inside the first three minutes of the second half.

Looking secure, the Roosters then lost momentum and field position, conceding three tries in fifteen minutes to lead by just 32-28 with fifteen minutes remaining. Fortunately, the Roosters got back into the game with better ball control and a solid kicking game from Toby Rodwell, and posted two tries of their own in the final ten minutes to wrap up the game. Both tries were scored by prop Taylor Losalu and converted by Toby Rodwell, who made it eight from eight for the day and took his season points tally to 192.

With that result the Roosters remain in 6th spot ahead of a final round bye. The Roosters now must rely on 3rd placed Newcastle Knights beating 5th placed New Zealand in Auckland next Sunday morning to qualify for the finals for the first time since re-entering the competition in 2023. Unfortunately, the Knights have only won one of their last four games and were beaten 40-12 at home last Saturday by Manly-Warringah, which was just the wooden spooners second win of the season.

The Roosters finished the regular season with 13 wins and 9 losses and a placing no worse than 6th. Each year since readmission the Roosters have improved their ladder position.

Jersey Flegg Cup (Men’s Under 21s)

The 10th placed Sydney Roosters have lost their final Jersey Flegg Cup match of 2026 to 5th placed Wests Tigers 40-26 at Wentworth Park on Sunday, after the visiting team led 22-10 at halftime.

The Roosters were again without a plethora of eligible players with an injury list headed by Aholoka Toia, Itula Seve, Zac Sarfati, Zac Gillett, Jackson Pennell, Brooklyn Heath, Jackson De Lisle and Enzo Griffier, whilst aged eligible players Toby Rodwell, Reece Foley, Rex Basingthwaighte, Jake Elliott, De La Salle Va’a, Jackson Stewart, Salesi Foketi, Kanaan Magele and Charleston Te Rore continue to play in higher grades.

Roosters NRL development player Lachlan Dooner returned to rugby league, through this Jersey Flegg Cup fixture on Sunday, after he missed the last 16 weeks with a shoulder injury. He played right centre and scored two second half tries.

The Roosters began poorly and after 18 minutes the Wests Tigers were keeping pace with the clock o lead 18-0. It was this period that was to eventually cost the Roosters a chance at victory. Poor ball control, discipline and defensive lapses were taken advantage of by the Tigers, and whilst the Roosters posted five tries to four after this period it was all to no avail.

Halfback Carter Mareko and fullback E.J. Mahu-Delamere scored first half tries with individual efforts and Dooner scored his double in the 53rd and 79th minutes of the match in an impressive return to the game.

19-year-old Kiwi Mahu-Delamere, scored again in the second half, to finish his Jersey Flegg Cup season with 17 tries from 12 games. A dual S.G. Ball Cup premiership winger, Mahu-Delamere is one of a number of Roosters Academy players that have greatly impressed since taking the step up in grade. He was switched to fullback late in the season after fellow Kiwi Jackson Stewart was promoted to the NSW Cup.

With that result the Roosters drop to 11th spot on the ladder, and finish their 2026 season with 8 wins and 13 losses. A final ladder position won’t be determined until after next week’s final round, in which the Roosters have a bye. They have failed to qualify for the finals and finished the season with three successive losses. However, the side battled a substantial injury list throughout the season and gave opportunities to a number of highly promising youngsters, many of whom are still in their teens and are likely to have very bright futures in the game.

NSW Women’s Premiership

The 5th placed Central Coast Roosters have stormed into the competition’s Top 4 with a 52-20 defeat of last placed Canterbury-Bankstown at Belmore on Saturday, after leading 26-16 at half time. The Roosters scored ten tries to four in their third successive win.

The Roosters team featured NRLW squad members Talea Tonga (halfback), Mia Wood (fullback), Shawden Burton (hooker), Eliza Lopamaua (bench), Tatum Bird (bench hooker) and Nikiah Campbell (right edge), as well as development players Te Raukura Leafe (prop), Logan Fletcher (right wing), Mia Vaotu’ua (five eighth) and Anastasia Leatupue (right centre). NRLW squad members Marcie Carlile and Keighley Simpson remained sidelined with knee injuries, whilst Taneisha Gray was on NRLW duty, replacing Rima Butler (concussion), and therefore unavailable. Prop Tyra Dymock was a late withdrawal with a groin injury.

The Roosters began the match horribly. After dropping the ball from the kick off, the Roosters didn’t touch it again until the Bulldogs had already opened up a 12-0 lead, after conceding two tries in the first three minutes. When the Roosters eventually received the ball, they struggled to complete any sets, with some elementary handling errors preventing any possibility of pressuring the Bulldogs defence.

However, after their worst 15 minutes of the season, the Roosters steadied, reduced their error count and scored an incredible five tries in eight minutes against the previously winless Bulldogs, to lead 26-12 (converting three of the tries) after 25 minutes. The Bulldogs didn’t touch the ball as the Roosters scored at a rate rarely seen at any level of rugby league.

After winger Logan Fletcher scored the first Roosters try in the 16th minute, after some nice right side backline ball work, prop Te Raukura Leafe charged through the Bulldogs defence, after a nice inside pass from five eighth Mia Vaotu’ua, to score the second in the 18th minute. The third try was scored by Vaotu’ua herself, with a 50-metre dash to the line in the 20th minute, off the 3rd tackle of the next set, after big charges by Leafe and fellow prop Felila Fakalelu took the Roosters back into Bulldogs territory.

A bomb by Vaotu’ua in the 22nd minute, on the 5th tackle of the following set, was spilt by the Bulldogs and a simple dummy and run by right centre Anastasia Leatupue, after collecting the ball 30 metres out from the line, was more than enough to beat the Bulldogs defence and post the Roosters fourth try.

From the next kick off, the ball was passed to bench prop Eliza Lopamaua, who had just entered the field. The Samoan international was returning to the game for the first time since last year’s Pacific Championships. Lopamaua took the ball 15 metres from the Roosters own line and amazingly broke the Bulldogs defensive line and beat all those attempting to tackle her to score under the posts. An 85-metre individual try by the 21-year-old with her first touch of 2026 was one to remember.

Bulldogs’ winger Moana Courtney did score the first of her two tries six minutes from half time, but those five tries in eight minutes enabled the Roosters to take a 26-16 lead into half time.

The Roosters scored five more second half tries to the Bulldogs one (a second to Moana Courtney in the 40th minute) after her opposite winger Logan Fletcher scored the second of her double three minutes earlier. With a 32-20 lead, after the Bulldogs second half try, the Roosters had not wrapped up the game, by any mean,s but did so soon after, with further tries to left centre Majayda Darcy in the 45th minute, halfback Talea Tonga in the 52nd, prop Tia Cook in the 62nd and finally left winger and captain Sharni Waters in the 65th. It was Waters’ 12th try from 10 matches this season that posted 50 points for the traveling team.

Fletcher finished the game with 20 points, from two tries and 6 goals and the 52 points scored by the Roosters was the most in a match by the Central Coast Roosters in this competition since 2021.

With that win the Roosters rise to 3rd place on the competition table, ahead of their Round 11 clash with 2nd placed South Sydney at Redfern Oval next Saturday. To qualify for the finals, the Roosters will either need to beat the Rabbitohs or hope that either the Steelers or the Mounties are also defeated in their final round clashes next Saturday.

Ron Massey Cup

The season has been completed for the Dirty Reds, finishing the year in 9th place, with just three wins and fifteen losses.

5th placed Hills Bulls were knocked out of the competition on Saturday, after losing their minor semi-final, leaving the Bulldogs (3rd) and minor premiers Ryde-Eastwood to play in the preliminary final next weekend for the right to play 2nd placed St Marys in the Grand Final on September 5th.

Sydney Shield

The season has been completed for the Dirty Reds, finishing the year in 7th place, with just five wins and eleven losses.

4th placed Penrith Brothers were knocked out of the competition on Saturday, after losing their minor semi-final, leaving the Wentworthville (3rd) and Mounties (2nd) to play in the preliminary final next weekend for the right to play minor premiers St Marys in the Grand Final on September 5th.

See the latest results below for all the Senior Representative and Affiliate club sides.