# 2015 New South Wales Cup

The 2015 New South Wales Cup season, was the second tier rugby league competition held in New South Wales, after the National Rugby League. The 2015 season kicked off on 7 March 2015 and was won by the Newcastle Knights.

## Clubs

In 2015, 12 clubs were fielding teams in the New South Wales Cup.
It was announced in 2014 that the longstanding relationship between the Sydney Roosters and the Newtown Jets had come to an end, with the NRL Club deciding to link with the Wyong Roos in the NSW Cup as their feeder club. The Cronulla Sharks decided to pull their own team from the competition opting into taking the Newtown Jets on as their feeder club, forming a new relationship with a 3-year agreement between the clubs.
| Club | Location | Stadium | Founded | Joined* | A-Grade Team |
| Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | Belmore, NSW, Australia | Belmore Sports Ground | 1934 | 2008 | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs |
| Illawarra Cutters | Wollongong, NSW, Australia | WIN Stadium | 2012 | 2012 | St. George-Illawarra Dragons |
| Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | Manly, NSW, Australia | Brookvale Oval | 1946 | 2008 | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles |
| Mount Pritchard Mounties | Mount Pritchard, NSW, Australia | Mount Pritchard Oval | 1927 | 2012 | Canberra Raiders |
| Newcastle Knights | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | Hunter Stadium | 1988 | 2012 | Newcastle Knights |
| Newtown Jets | Newtown, NSW, Australia | Henson Park | 1908 | 2008 | Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks |
| New Zealand Warriors | Penrose, Auckland | Mount Smart Stadium | 1995 | 2014 | New Zealand Warriors |
| North Sydney Bears | Sydney, NSW, Australia | North Sydney Oval | 1908 | 2008 | South Sydney Rabbitohs |
| Penrith Panthers | Penrith, NSW, Australia | Sportingbet Stadium | 1966 | 2014 | Penrith Panthers |
| Wentworthville Magpies | Wentworthville, NSW, Australia | Ringrose Park | 1963 | 2008 | Parramatta Eels |
| Wests Tigers | Campbelltown, NSW, Australia | Campbelltown Stadium Leichhardt Oval | 1999 | 2013 | Wests Tigers |
| Wyong Roos | Kanwal, NSW, Australia | Morrie Breen Oval | 1910 | 2013 | Sydney Roosters |
*: The season the team joined is in the NSW Cup, not any other competition before this.

## Ladder

2015 New South Wales Cup season - Final Table :
| | Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | Mount Pritchard Mounties | 22 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 653 | 493 | +160 | 36 |
| 2 | Wyong Roos | 22 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 581 | 422 | +159 | 36 |
| 3 | Penrith Panthers | 22 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 489 | 387 | +102 | 36 |
| 4 | New Zealand Warriors | 22 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 516 | 556 | -40 | 32 |
| 5 | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 22 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 578 | 524 | +54 | 30 |
| 6 | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 584 | 571 | +13 | 28 |
| 7 | Newcastle Knights | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 552 | 542 | +10 | 28 |
| 8 | North Sydney Bears | 22 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 550 | 563 | -13 | 26 |
| 9 | Newtown Jets | 22 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 492 | 560 | -68 | 23 |
| 10 | Illawarra Cutters | 22 | 8 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 526 | 552 | -26 | 22 |
| 11 | Wests Tigers | 22 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 460 | 586 | -126 | 21 |
| 12 | Wentworthville Magpies | 22 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 402 | 627 | -225 | 18 |

## Finals series

For the fourth year in a row, the NSWRL used the finals system previously implemented by the ARL competition from the 1990s and the NRL from 2012 to decide the grand finalists from the top eight finishing teams.
| Home | Score | Away | Match information | Match information | Match information | Match information |
| Home | Score | Away | Date and time (local) | Venue | Referees | Crowd |
| QUALIFYING & ELIMINATION FINALS |||||||
| Wyong Roos | 28 10 | Penrith Panthers | 5 September | Penrith Stadium | | |
| Mount Pritchard Mounties | 43 – 10 | New Zealand Warriors | 5 September | Belmore Sports Ground | | |
| Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 22 – 4 | North Sydney Bears | 5 September | Belmore Sports Ground | | |
| Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | 6 – 45 | Newcastle Knights | 5 September | Belmore Sports Ground | | |
| SEMI FINALS |||||||
| Newcastle Knights | 44 12 | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | 12 September | Jubilee Oval, Kogarah | | |
| Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 33 – 20 | New Zealand Warriors | 12 September | Jubilee Oval, Kogarah | | |
| PRELIMINARY FINALS |||||||
| Mount Pritchard Mounties | 26 – 30 | Newcastle Knights | 19 September | Leichhardt Oval | | |
| Wyong Roos | 44 – 20 | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 19 September | Leichhardt Oval | | |
| GRAND FINAL |||||||
| Newcastle Knights | 20 – 10 | Wyong Roos | 27 September | Pirtek Stadium | | |

### Chart

| Qualifying and elimination finals | Qualifying and elimination finals | Qualifying and elimination finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Preliminary finals | Preliminary finals | Preliminary finals | Grand final | Grand final | Grand final |
| Belmore Sports Ground | Belmore Sports Ground | Belmore Sports Ground | | | | | | | | | |
| 1 | Mount Prichard Mounties | 43 | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | New Zealand | 10 | Kogarah Jubilee Oval | Kogarah Jubilee Oval | Kogarah Jubilee Oval | | | | |
| | | | New Zealand | New Zealand | 20 | | | | |
| Belmore Sports Ground | Belmore Sports Ground | Belmore Sports Ground | Canterbury-Bankstown | Canterbury-Bankstown | 33 | Leichhardt Oval | Leichhardt Oval | Leichhardt Oval | | | |
| 5 | Canterbury-Bankstown | 22 | | | | Mount Prichard Mounties | Mount Prichard Mounties | 26 | |
| 8 | North Sydney | 4 | | | | Newcastle | Newcastle | 30 | 27 Sept, Pirtek Stadium | 27 Sept, Pirtek Stadium | 27 Sept, Pirtek Stadium |
| | | | | | | | | | Newcastle | Newcastle | 20 |
| Belmore Sports Ground | Belmore Sports Ground | Belmore Sports Ground | | | | Leichhardt Oval | Leichhardt Oval | Leichhardt Oval | Wyong | Wyong | 10 |
| 6 | Manly-Warringah | 6 | | | | Wyong | Wyong | 44 | | |
| 7 | Newcastle | 45 | Kogarah Jubilee Oval | Kogarah Jubilee Oval | Kogarah Jubilee Oval | Canterbury-Bankstown | Canterbury-Bankstown | 20 | | |
| | | | Newcastle | Newcastle | 44 | | | | | | |
| Penrith Stadium | Penrith Stadium | Penrith Stadium | Penrith | Penrith | 12 | | | | | |
| 2 | Wyong | 28 | | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | Penrith | 10 | | | | | | | | |

## 2015 NRL State Championship match

From 2014 onwards, New South Wales Cup Premiers play against the Queensland Cup Premiers with the winner to be crowned the NRL State Champions.
* Sunday, 4 October 3:40pm (AEDT)
| Newcastle Knights 2015 NSW Cup Premiers | 12–26 | Ipswich Jets 2015 QLD Cup Premiers |
| Tries: G Ndaira (28') J Feeney(42') Goals: G Ndaira 2/2 | Report | Tries: M Parcell (1') B McConnachie (10') M Barba (37') R Griffin(63') Goals: C Anderson 5/5 |
* ANZ Stadium, Sydney Referee: Matt Noyen

## Broadcast Information
### Television
#### Fox Sports (Australia)

Fox Sports 1 provide live coverage of at least one match each week throughout the regular season along with selected finals.

#### Sky Sport (New Zealand)

Sky Sports NZ cover a number of New Zealand Warriors home matches. Some of these matches will be simulcast in Australia on Fox Sports 1 at their discretion.

### Radio
#### Hawkesbury Radio

Hawkesbury Radio call a number of Panthers VB NSW Cup games and some of Windsor Wolves games in the Ron Massey Cup where possible.

#### SteeleSports.com.au

Covering predominantly Newtown Jets home fixtures.

#### 2GLF

2GLF provide coverage of a host of VB NSW Cup games with a specific charter of servicing teams such as the Tigers, Mounties, Bulldogs and Magpies.

#### Alive 90.5

ALIVE fm call selected Wentworthville Magpies home fixtures from Ringrose Park.

#### Triple H 100.1FM

Triple H call a few VB NSW Cup games from time to time where possible.

#### 2GB

Provide score updates where possible during the regular season.

#### ABC Radio Grandstand

Provide Full Time scores to their listeners as they become available throughout the weekend.

## Ron Massey Cup
### Ladder

2015 Ron Massey Cup season - Final Table :
| | Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | Mount Pritchard Mounties | 20 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 722 | 322 | +400 | 40 |
| 2 | Wentworthville Magpies | 20 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 602 | 343 | +259 | 32 |
| 3 | Asquith Magpies | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 607 | 460 | +147 | 28 |
| 4 | Windsor Wolves | 20 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 486 | 510 | -24 | 28 |
| 5 | Guildford Owls | 20 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 529 | 543 | -14 | 23 |
| 6 | Concord Burwood Wolves | 20 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 540 | 572 | -32 | 23 |
| 7 | Blacktown Workers | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 558 | 455 | +103 | 22 |
| 8 | Auburn Warriors | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 619 | 558 | +61 | 22 |
| 9 | Western Suburbs Magpies | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 477 | 518 | -41 | 22 |
| 10 | Cabramatta Two Blues | 20 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 586 | 563 | +23 | 20 |
| 11 | Kingsgrove Colts | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 232 | 1114 | -882 | 4 |

### Finals

| Qualifying and elimination finals | Qualifying and elimination finals | Qualifying and elimination finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Preliminary finals | Preliminary finals | Preliminary finals | Grand final | Grand final | Grand final |
| 1 | Mounties | 24 | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | Windsor | 34 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Mounties | Mounties | 36 | | | | |
| | | | Auburn | Auburn | 4 | New Era Stadium, Cabramatta | New Era Stadium, Cabramatta | New Era Stadium, Cabramatta | | | |
| 5 | Guildford | 22 | | | | Windsor | Windsor | 30 | |
| 8 | Auburn | 24 | | | | Asquith | Asquith | 32 | 27 Sept, Pirtek Stadium | 27 Sept, Pirtek Stadium | 27 Sept, Pirtek Stadium |
| | | | | | | | | | Asquith | Asquith | 14 |
| | | | | | | Leichhardt Oval | Leichhardt Oval | Leichhardt Oval | Mounties | Mounties | 30 |
| 6 | Concord Burwood | 6 | | | | Wentworthville | Wentworthville | 2 | | |
| 7 | Blacktown | 50 | | | | Mounties | Mounties | 12 | | |
| | | | Asquith | Asquith | 38 | | | | | | |
| | | | Blacktown | Blacktown | 14 | | | | | |
| 2 | Wentworthville | 34 | | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | Asquith | 6 | | | | | | | | |

## Sydney Shield
### Ladder

2015 Sydney Shield season - Final Table :
| | Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| 1 | Wentworthville Magpies | 20 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 670 | 412 | +258 | 38 |
| 2 | Windsor Wolves | 20 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 652 | 474 | +178 | 30 |
| 3 | Peninsula Seagulls | 20 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 602 | 474 | +128 | 30 |
| 4 | Mounties | 20 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 608 | 503 | +105 | 30 |
| 5 | Hills District Bulls | 20 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 602 | 424 | +178 | 29 |
| 6 | East Campbelltown Eagles | 20 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 592 | 450 | +142 | 27 |
| 7 | Belrose Eagles | 20 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 504 | 466 | +38 | 22 |
| 8 | Guildford Owls | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 479 | 514 | -35 | 22 |
| 9 | Blacktown Workers | 20 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 554 | 573 | -19 | 19 |
| 10 | Auburn Warriors | 20 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 532 | 684 | -152 | 19 |
| 11 | Cabramatta Two Blues | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 524 | 818 | -294 | 16 |
| 12 | Asquith Magpies | 20 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 421 | 616 | -195 | 15 |
| 13 | Western Suburbs Magpies | 20 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 431 | 763 | -332 | 13 |
Two points deducted from Windsor for playing an unregistered player.

### Finals

| Qualifying and elimination finals | Qualifying and elimination finals | Qualifying and elimination finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Preliminary finals | Preliminary finals | Preliminary finals | Grand final | Grand final | Grand final |
| 1 | Wentworthville | 34 | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | Mounties | 30 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Mounties | Mounties | 24 | | | | |
| | | | Hills District | Hills District | 30 | New Era Stadium, Cabramatta | New Era Stadium, Cabramatta | New Era Stadium, Cabramatta | | | |
| 5 | Hills District | 38 | | | | Wentworthville | Wentworthville | 68 | |
| 8 | Guildford | 8 | | | | Windsor | Windsor | 6 | 27 Sept, Pirtek Stadium | 27 Sept, Pirtek Stadium | 27 Sept, Pirtek Stadium |
| | | | | | | | | | Wentworthville | Wentworthville | 26 |
| | | | | | | Leichhardt Oval | Leichhardt Oval | Leichhardt Oval | Hills District | Hills District | 22 |
| 6 | East Campbelltown | 14 | | | | Peninsula | Peninsula | 18 | | |
| 7 | Belrose | 26 | | | | Hills District | Hills District | 26 | | |
| | | | Windsor | Windsor | 34 | | | | | | |
| | | | Belrose | Belrose | 16 | | | | | |
| 2 | Windsor | 24 | | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | Peninsula | 30 | | | | | | | | |