City New South Wales rugby league team

City
Team information
Governing body	New South Wales Rugby League
Head coach	Brad Fittler
Captain	Paul Gallen
Most caps	12 - Sidney Pearce Junior
Top try-scorer	11 - Brian Carlson
Top point-scorer	91 - Michael Cronin
Team results
	First game
	City 29–8 Country ; (10 June 1911)
	First City vs Country Origin
	City Origin 30–22 Country Origin ; (May 16th 1987)
	Biggest win
	City 55–2 Country (May 17th 1980)
	Biggest defeat
	Country Origin 42–10 City Origin (Jun 8th 2001)

The Sydney Rugby League team, known as the City Rugby League team, or Combined Sydney, or Sydney Firsts, or Sydney Capitals, was a representative rugby league team consisting of players formerly of the New South Wales Rugby League competition, one of two federations in the state of New South Wales. City played annually in the City vs Country Origin competition against the representative team of New South Wales' other federation, Country Rugby League.

Location

Any players whose junior football was played for a club within the greater area of Sydney city is deemed eligible to play for the City RL. Meanwhile, anyone from outside the Sydney area can be considered for selection for Country RL Team.

Kit suppliers and sponsors

Period	Manufacturers	Sponsors
1999-	Classic Sportswear	KARI

2017 City vs Country Match

Squad

City NSW rugby league team
2017 squad								Coaching staff
1 Matt Moylan – FB 2 Clint Gutherson – WG 3 Nathan Ross – CE 4 Tyrone Peachey – CE 5 Josh Addo-Carr – WG 6 Bryce Cartwright – FE 7 Chad Townsend – HB 8 James Tamou – PR 9 Cameron McInnes – HK 10 Paul Gallen (c) – PR 11 Curtis Sironen – SR 12 David Gower – SR 13 Hame Sele – LK		14 Joseph Paulo – PR 15 Nathan Cleary – HB 16 Pauli Pauli – SR 17 Jake Marketo – SR						Head coach Brad Fittler Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice-captain(s)

Match Details

7 May 2017
4:00pm (AEST)

Country Origin	10 – 20	City Origin
Tries: Anthony Don (36') 1 Adam Elliott (58') 1 Goals: Michael Gordon 1/2 (38')	^[1]	Tries: 1 (10') David Gower 1 (49') James Tamou 1 (80') Bryce Cartwright Goals: 3/3 Clint Gutherson (12', 40' pen, 51') 1/1 Paul Gallen (80')

Glen Willow Regional Sports Stadium,
Mudgee, New South Wales
Attendance: 8,322
Referee: Ashley Klein, Alan Shortall
Player of the Match:

James Tamou

2017 Women's City vs Country Match

The Women's City vs Country Origin is the Women's rugby league version of the game and has been running since 2017.^[2]^[3]

Squad

City NSW rugby league team
2017 squad								Coaching staff
1 Tahlia Hunter – FB 2 Taleena Simon – WG 3 Nakia Davis-Welsh – CE 4 Karri Doyle – CE 5 Kate Mullaly – WG 6 Lavina Phillips – FE 7 Allana Ferguson – HB 8 Eunice Grimes – PR 9 Rebecca Riley – HK 10 Ruby Ewe – PR 11 Talesha Quinn – SR 12 Jasmin Allende – SR 13 Nicole Backhouse – LK		14 Kayla Peck – PR 15 Vanessa Foliaki – HB 16 Kaarla Cowan – SR 17 Botille Vette-Welsh – SR						Head coach Chris Studdon Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice-captain(s)

Match Details

14 May 2017

Country Origin	8 – 20	City Origin

North Sydney Oval,
North Sydney, New South Wales

References

External links

[1] Template:Https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/city-vs-country-2017/nsw-country-vs-nsw-city.html

[2] ttp://www.nrl.com/womens-nsw-city-country-squads-named/tabid/10874/newsid/106564/default.aspx

[3] ttp://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2017/04/28/team_announcement_wo.html

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Location

Kit suppliers and sponsors

2017 City vs Country Match

Squad

Match Details

2017 Women's City vs Country Match

Squad

Match Details

See also

References

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