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Two youngsters from the Newcastle Jets Academy will join 26 other talented players from across the country in Townsville this month for the Under 16 National Talent Identification Camp for boys.

Angus Muddle, 16, and Janni Rafty, 15, will both attend the elite camp from April 11-15, where they will train at the North Queensland Cowboys’ newly opened Community, Training and High Performance Centre with its elite multi-sport training spaces, sports medicine and sports science laboratories. They will be pushing to grab a permanent spot in the Australia U17s team.

Fellow Jets player Kai Herd is also on the national team radar and will be on standby for the Camp as a reserve.

The youngsters have impressed recently with Rafty recently promoted to the Jets Youth side playing in Football NSW’s League Three First Grade, while Muddle also was promoted to the Jets U20s team.

The players will be joined by Australian U17s Head Coach Trevor Morgan as well as former Socceroos Luke Wilkshire and Mark Milligan, and will play 11v11 matches internally, and against a ‘select’ team at 1300SMILES Active Park which will be streamed by Football Australia.

Newcastle Jets Youth Head Coach Daniel McBreen was extremely pleased about the players’ selections.

“This is a great opportunity for these boys to experience training at an elite level in a national team environment,” McBreen said.

“Their selection in this camp is a reward for all their hard work and top performances they’ve produced – performances that have also seen them promoted recently through the ranks of the Jets Academy.

“I’m sure both will take a great deal from this opportunity and bring that level of training quality back to their respective teams and amongst their teammates.

“As a Club, we’re proud of their achievement and being able to progress promising youngsters to their potential, and we hope to see more players step up to that level.”

The Club wishes both players all the best at the Camp!

source: https://newcastlejetsfc.com.au/

U16s Newcastle Jets chalked up their 7^th consecutive victory of the 2022 season with an emphatic 5-0 away win over a hapless St George City team.

In cool but fine weather conditions the Newcastle team began the match with very little space to play as St George set up 4-5-1 formation. Newcastle’s defensive third was unchallenged but beyond that there were bodies everywhere. The Jets attempted to probe the St George goal with balls over the top and through the flanks but without much success. The effect of this tactic by the St George team was to create a slow tempo game with few goal mouth incidents. The deadlock was broken just before half time from a Jets corner and a scrapy goal mouth incident which resulted in the ball finding it’s way at the back of the St George net.

With a goal down the St George team abandoned their 4-5-1 formation in the 2^nd half and the game came to life. There were more goal mouth incidents in the first five minutes than there had been for the entire first half. The Jets finding space to build increased the tempo of the game and in the 6^th  minute of the 2^nd half increased their lead to 2-0 with a nice solo run through the middle, a cross from the right and a well drilled shot into the net which the Sydney goal keeper couldn’t keep out.

The Jets continued to pile on the pressure and created one chance after another. During one such occasion the St George defence fouled an opponent inside the box and the converted penalty put the game beyond reach at 3-0.  Another goal was scored with a header after the St George defence were unable to clear a corner. The final 5-0 score line came after another poorly cleared corner and a half volley from outside the box which was assisted even further by another Jets player that ensured the Sydney goal-keeper had no chance!

This win for the U16s Newcastle Jets is their 7^th consecutive victory in as many matches and needless to say, they are 1^st on the points table, 6 points ahead of Hills United.

Next week they welcome to the Lake Macquarie Regional Football Facility Central Coast United.

Round 7: St George City FA vs Newcastle Jets on Saturday 2^nd  April  at Penhurst Park.

U18s Jets won 3-1

U16s Jets won 5-0

U15s Jets lost 1-0

U14s Jets lost 3-0

U13s Jets lost 2-1

Round 7 FNSW Boy’s Youth League 2 Results:

U16s FNSW Boy’s Youth League 2 Table:

source: Tom Tsamouras