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Sport | Rugby league |
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Instituted | 1987 |
Number of teams | 2 |
Country | Australia (NSWRL/CRL) |
Sheild Holders | City Origin (2009) |
Most titles | City Origin (12 titles) |
Related competition | State of Origin |
City vs Country is an annual Australian rugby league football match that takes place in New South Wales between City and Country representative sides. The City side represents the Sydney metropolitan area and the Central Coast just to the north[1], and the Country side represents the rest of New South Wales.
The concept of an annual clash between a City and Country team originally started in 1911 with a Metropolitan side taking on the Country team. The first match officially took place on June 10, 1911 with City taking the victory 29 to 8. It would take another nineteen years before an annual clash between an official City and Country side was agreed upon during the 1930 season.
Both sides were originally made up of the best players playing in the Country Rugby League of New South Wales and the Sydney-based NSWRL Premiership. However, the increasing drain of players from rural areas to the NSWRL clubs led to the City side becoming increasingly dominant and the Country side uncompetitive. The 'origin rule' for player qualification being introduced in 1987 so players in NSWRL clubs originally from outside Sydney became eligible to represent Country.
The players who now represent the City and Country sides come from the National Rugby League competition in Australia. The match is played before the Rugby League State of Origin series and is often referred to as a selection trial for the New South Wales Blues team.
History
Country V City has long played a part in New South Wales sporting history, with the first traces of the concept being linked back as far as 1886. The then Southern Rugby Football Union (later to become the NSWRU) would hold an annual `test match' between a Combined Countrymen and Metropolis sides, with the match to be used by the organisation for picking players for NSW.
The concept took off and by the early 1900s `Country Week', as it was titled, became a major component of the Rugby calendar. This rivalry between City and Country continued to occur after Rugby League was formed in 1907. However, it was only in 1911 that rugby league held its first recorded City V Country clash. While there is some indication that a match may have been played in 1910, the code's infancy probably resulted in the game not being of a high enough standard to be recorded.
The representative match was played on a laissez-faire basis in League up until 1928 when the Country Rugby League and New South Wales Rugby League saw the value in making the tournament an annual match. This was understandable at the time for League, as many areas in Country NSW had not even heard of League until late 1927.
Newcastle was the first non-Sydney town to take up the code in 1909 in its own domestic competition, which was boosted by the participation of the `Rebels' in the NSWRL Sydney competition in 1908 and 1909. The Illawarra region followed in 1910, but further away from Sydney it took longer for the code make any impact.
By the time the match was made a permanent fixture, interest in the concept was high enough to make it sustainable. However, similar to State of Origin before 1980, Country Rugby League faced the problem of its major players being snapped up by the richer Sydney clubs, draining the regional representative sides. This assisted City's domination of the fixture.
It wasn't till 1987, with the recent inclusions of Canberra, Illawarra and Newcastle in the NSWRL competition, that the "player drain" issue was addressed. The Origin rule, which was also used to revive the State of Origin concept, proved invaluable in giving Country the player base it needed to compete with the City team. However, Country only recorded their first win five years after the concept was introduced, in 1992.
Country then won three out of the five years after their first Origin victory before the City vs Country concept was removed from the representative scene (much like the World Sevens and Kangaroo Tours) as a result of the Super League War.
The competition wasn't revived again till four years later, when the National Rugby League saw the match's value in terms of media exposure, television ratings and the merit of taking the fixture to country towns.
City vs Country results
Overall summary
Team | Played | Wins | Losses | Draw | |
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City | 84 | 65 | 17 | 2 | |
Country | 84 | 17 | 65 | 2 |
Year by year
The table below shows the results of the annual City vs Country games from 1930 to the present day. The colour of the year denotes the team that has won or retained the shield.
Under residency selection rules
1930 | Country | 35 | City | 26 |
1931 | City | 17 | Country | 15 |
1932 | City | 27 | Country | 14 |
1933 | City | 47 | Country | 16 |
1933 | City | 17 | Country | 17 |
1934 | City | 28 | Country | 14 |
1934 | City | 32 | Country | 29 |
1935 | City | 20 | Country | 5 |
1936 | City | 41 | Country | 8 |
1937 | Country | 20 | City | 12 |
1937 | Country | 15 | City | 5 |
1938 | City | 42 | Country | 12 |
1939 | City | 38 | Country | 17 |
1940 | City | 28 | Country | 10 |
1941 | City | 44 | Country | 21 |
1942 | Country | 14 | City | 11 |
1943 | City | 37 | Country | 25 |
1944 | City | 17 | Country | 10 |
1945 | City | 41 | Country | 12 |
1946 | City | 31 | Country | 10 |
1947 | City | 33 | Country | 10 |
1948 | City | 28 | Country | 13 |
1948 | Country | 10 | City | 6 |
1949 | City | 23 | Country | 2 |
1950 | City | 51 | Country | 13 |
1951 | City | 24 | Country | 6 |
1952 | City | 23 | Country | 21 |
1953 | Country | 28 | City | 27 |
1954 | City | 50 | Country | 9 |
1955 | City | 31 | Country | 18 |
1956 | City | 32 | Country | 17 |
1957 | City | 53 | Country | 2 |
1958 | City | 55 | Country | 14 |
1959 | City | 37 | Country | 7 |
1960 | City | 22 | Country | 2 |
1961 | Country | 19 | City | 5 |
1962 | Country | 18 | City | 8 |
1963 | City | 35 | Country | 11 |
1964 | City | 27 | Country | 4 |
1965 | City | 32 | Country | 2 |
1966 | City | 18 | Country | 14 |
1966 | Country | 16 | City | 12 |
1967 | City | 17 | Country | 16 |
1968 | City | 34 | Country | 14 |
1969 | City | 27 | Country | 20 |
1970 | City | 22 | Country | 18 |
1971 | City | 17 | Country | 0 |
1972 | City | 35 | Country | 6 |
1973 | City | 33 | Country | 17 |
1974 | City | 23 | Country | 0 |
1975 | Country | 19 | City | 9 |
1976 | City | 47 | Country | 0 |
1977 | City | 36 | Country | 0 |
1978 | City | 30 | Country | 13 |
1979 | City | 39 | Country | 0 |
1980 | City | 55 | Country | 2 |
1981 | City | 38 | Country | 7 |
1982 | City | 47 | Country | 3 |
1983 | City | 30 | Country | 13 |
1984 | City | 38 | Country | 12 |
1985 | City | 18 | Country | 12 |
1986 | City | 34 | Country | 16 |
Under origin selection rules
1987 | City | 30 | Country | 22 |
1988 | City | 20 | Country | 18 |
1989 | City | 16 | Country | 8 |
1990 | City | 28 | Country | 26 |
1991 | City | 22 | Country | 12 |
1992 | Country | 17 | City | 10 |
1993 | City | 7 | Country | 0 |
1994 | Country | 22 | City | 2 |
1995 | City | 16 | Country | 8 |
1996 | Country | 18 | City | 16 |
1997 | Country | 17 | City | 4 |
2001 | Country | 42 | City | 10 |
2002 | City | 26 | Country | 16 |
2003 | City | 17 | Country | 16 |
2004 | Country | 22 | City | 18 |
2005 | City | 29 | Country | 22 |
2006 | Country | 12 | City | 10 |
2007 | City | 12 | Country | 6 |
2008 | Country | 22 | City | 22 |
2009 | City | 40 | Country | 18 |
- City vs Country not held 1998-2000
City vs Country Origin 2009
Squad line-ups
City Origin | Position | Country Origin |
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Wade McKinnon | Fullback | Luke Patten |
Jarryd Hayne | Winger | James McManus |
Michael Jennings | Centre | Beau Scott1 |
Ben Pomeroy4 | Centre | Jamie Lyon |
David Williams | Winger | Joel Monaghan |
John Sutton | Five-Eighth | Terry Campese |
Peter Wallace | Half-Back | Jarrod Mullen |
Keith Galloway | Prop | Josh Perry |
Robbie Farah (c) | Hooker | Michael Ennis |
Luke Stuart | Prop | Michael Weyman |
Trent Waterhouse | Second Row | Andrew Ryan (c) |
Mark Minichiello | Second row | Ben Creagh |
Luke O'Donnell | Lock | Alan Tongue |
Craig Wing | Interchange | Justin Poore |
Shane Shackleton | Interchange | Anthony Tupou |
Mark O'Meley5 | Interchange | Brett White2 |
Ryan Hoffman | Interchange | Jamie Soward3 |
John Cartwright | Coach | Laurie Daley |
1 - Matt Cooper was originally selected but withdrew due to injury (replaced by Beau Scott).
2 - Steve Simpson was originally selected but withdrew due to injury (replaced by Brett White) .
3 - Ben Hornby was originally selected but withdrew due to injury (replaced by Jamie Soward).
4 - Chris Lawrence was originally selected but withdrew due to injury (replaced by Ben Pomeroy).
5 - Adam Cuthbertson was originally selected but withdrew due to injury (replaced by Mark O'Meley).
Match summary
8 May 2009, 7:30pm
Tries: 1 Lyon (11'), 1 Patten (26'), 1 Tongue (57').
Goals: 3/3 Lyon (12', 27', 58').
Tries: 2 Minichiello (33', 73'), 1 Hayne (44'), 1 Wing (48'), 1 Williams (65'), 1 Jennings (76'), 1 Wallace (80').
Goals: 6/7 Wallace (34', 50', 67', 74', 77', 80')
Injuries: Sutton - Hand
Half time: 12 - 6
Man of the match: Peter Wallace
Referees: Gavin Badger, Shayne Hayne
Attendance: 8,226
Match timeline
11st: 6 - 0 (Try: Lyon, Goal: Lyon)
26th: 12 - 0 (Try: Patten, Goal: Lyon)
33rd: 12 - 6 (Try: Minichiello, Goal: Wallace)
44th: 12 - 10 (Try: Hayne)
48th: 12 - 16 (Try: Wing, Goal: Wallace)
57th: 18 - 16 (Try: Tongue, Goal: Lyon)
65th: 18 - 22 (Try: Williams, Goal: Wallace)
73rd: 18 - 28 (Try: Minichiello, Goal: Wallace)
76th: 18 - 34 (Try: Jennings, Goal: Wallace)
80th: 18 - 40 (Try: Wallace, Goal: Wallace)
See also
- Australian Rugby League
- New South Wales Country Rugby League
- New South Wales Rugby League
- Rugby league in New South Wales
- State of Origin
External links
- ^ While technically it is Sydney v rest of NSW, players from the Central Coast (such as Matt Orford and Mark O'Meley) often represent City