Australian Under 20s impress in warm-up

25th May 2014

The Australian Under 20 team beat The GrainCorp NSW Country Cockatoos at Chatswood Oval 53-5 in the first of two warm-up games in Sydney.

They had beaten Samoa in two warm-up games during their camp at Bond University earlier in the month, but they had more players available to try out against the Country boys. They have one more warm-up game before leaving to compete in the Junior World Championship in New Zealand, next Thursday.

The Cockatoos had opened their season well when they retained the Maher Ross Cup against a NSW Suburban side 20-0 at Terrigal last Saturday and were looking for another scalp before their competition season started.

First half

Country gave as good as they got in the opening stages and the Australian Under 20s [the Juniors] were pinged a few times for slowing down their ball or for off-side.

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