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Junior Gulls secure Mal Meninga Cup finals berth

Junior Gulls secure Mal Meninga Cup finals berth

By Wynnum Manly Seagulls  /  April 23, 2019
By Seagulls Media It has been an incredible season for the BMD Wynnum Manly Seagulls Auswide Bank Mal Meninga Cup...
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Burns double secures gritty win in Cairns

Burns double secures gritty win in Cairns

By Wynnum Manly Seagulls  /  April 23, 2019
By Cameron Anchor BMD Wynnum Manly Seagulls winger Ed Burns scored his fifth and sixth tries of the season in...
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GAME PREVIEW: Seagulls v Northern Pride

GAME PREVIEW: Seagulls v Northern Pride

By Wynnum Manly Seagulls  /  April 18, 2019
By Seagulls Media & QRL Media The Seagulls head North this Easter Long Weekend where they will take on the...
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HELLOWORLD HIGHLIGHT: Round 6

HELLOWORLD HIGHLIGHT: Round 6

By Wynnum Manly Seagulls  /  April 18, 2019
HELLOWORLD HIGHLIGHT presented by Helloworld Travel Wynnum (more…)
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Bears outlast Wynnum Manly

Bears outlast Wynnum Manly

By Wynnum Manly Seagulls  /  April 13, 2019
By Kevin Braysher (QRL Media) The Burleigh Bears have outlasted Wynnum Manly to claim a 26-18 win at Pizzey Park....
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Junior Gulls secure Mal Meninga Cup finals berth

By Seagulls Media

It has been an incredible season for the BMD Wynnum Manly Seagulls Auswide Bank Mal Meninga Cup side as they have earned their first finals appearance since 2014.

The finals appearance caps off a remarkable turnaround for the club, who had only mustered two wins in the past three years.

21 graduates from the Seagulls Academy has been the key driver to the change in results, with a number of promising local juniors coming through the ranks.

Wynnum Junior Max Plath (son of Broncos and Seagulls legend John Plath) captains the side from the halves and has been ably supported by fellow Wynnum Juniors Harrison Graham at lock, Reece Hoffman in the centres and Brisbane Broncos’ hooker Jake Simpkin has also impressed this season. Seagulls Academy graduates and also Brisbane Broncos contracted players JJ Clarkson and TC Robati are also ones to watch in the front row and second row respectively.

Seagulls Academy Manager Glen Dreger believes the young Gulls have the potential to finish the season on a bright note and also push through for further honours.

“The side has worked very hard to get in this position, winning their first five games in a row and playing some good football.

They beat (their opponent in the semi-final) Sunshine Coast Falcons in round one but it is a different story in finals football. Hopefully in front of their families and supporters at home they can get the job done.

Once the Auswide Bank Mal Meninga Cup season is finished, a large number of these boys will push into the Hastings Deering Colts side for the rest of the season. After that, I am sure you will see a lot of them then graduate into Intrust Super Cup in the coming years.”

Check out the team named for this weekend’s semi final here.

The Seagulls will face the Sunshine Coast Falcons at BMD Kougari Oval this Saturday 27 April, kick off at 1.45pm.

In other games on Saturday, the BRL A-Grade Seagulls will play the Souths Logan Magpies at 12pm; and the second Mal Meninga Cup semi-final between Souths Logan Magpies and Tweed Heads Seagulls will be played at 3.20pm.

Burns double secures gritty win in Cairns

By Cameron Anchor

BMD Wynnum Manly Seagulls winger Ed Burns scored his fifth and sixth tries of the season in the first half as the visitors beat the Northern Pride 26-18 in Cairns.

The Brisbane Broncos U20s graduate is now second equal in the competition try scoring ladder.

Thursday night’s win ensures the Seagulls remain in the Top Four after seven rounds for the first time since 2015.

Both the Seagulls and the Pride were looking to bounce back after both sides suffered losses in round six.

It was the Seagulls who scored first when a brilliant Edene Gebbie kick was collected by halfback Sam Scarlett in the 8th minute.

Scarlett and his 18-year-old halves partner Tom Dearden provided a lot of class early in the match to control proceedings.

Burns crossed for his first try in 12th minute after some crafty work from Junior Pauga.

Four minutes later he had his double courtesy of a brilliant piece of play started by the in-form Scarlett.

The half did a show-and-go at the line to get his head through, and offloaded to a flying Kalolo Saitaua to split the defence. Saitaua then put an inch perfect kick through into the corner for Burns to win a foot race and touch down for a superb try.

The Pride did not go away and Steven Taipata on his Intrust Super Cup debut pegged one back in the 24th minute after a clever kick from Maurice Blair.

In the 28th minute, Saitaua burrowed over in trademark style from from dummy half to extend the Gulls’ lead.

Pride half Brayden Torpy was leading some incisive raids on the Seagulls’ left edge defence and he was able to break the visitors’ down when Jack Murphy crashed over out wide. Torpy then slotted the sideline conversion to bring the score to 20-12 at halftime.

The Gulls started the second half with strong intensity and were rewarded with a try to Gebbie in the 45th minute.

However the visitors would not score again as sloppy handling and decision making affected the team’s performance in the second half.

Cowboys’ contracted forward Peter Hola busted over in the 69th minute to force a close finish, however the Seagulls were able to hang on for a 26-18 victory.

The Seagulls and Pride both wore their special Colour Rush uniforms, with the Seagulls in all white and Pride in all orange, provided by their apparel partner EMU Sportswear.

Jerseys and merchandise can be purchased from the Seagulls Online Store.

GAME PREVIEW: Seagulls v Northern Pride

By Seagulls Media & QRL Media

The Seagulls head North this Easter Long Weekend where they will take on the Nothern Pride tonight at Barlow Park.

Northern Pride v Wynnum Manly Seagulls
Barlow Park on Thursday, April 18 – 6pm
Head-to-Head: Pride 12 Wynnum 10
Twitter: #intrustsupercup #PRIDEvWYN
Tipping % – via QRL Tipping: Pride 28% Wynnum Manly 72%

  • The Northern Pride will be hoping their recent form over the Seagulls will continue as they have won two of their past three games played against them.
  • However, Wynnum Manly have won two of the past three games played between these two sides at Barlow Park.
  • Pride’s recent form at home has been worrying as they have only won one of their past six games there with one drawn result.
  • After making his debut with the Broncos last weekend, Wynnum Manly forward Pat Carrigan has again been named in the NRL side for their game against Canberra on Sunday.

Can’t make it to the game? Tune into the Live Stream here

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Bears outlast Wynnum Manly

By Kevin Braysher (QRL Media)

The Burleigh Bears have outlasted Wynnum Manly to claim a 26-18 win at Pizzey Park.

The top four battle delivered a spectacle worthy of their ladder positions with a Jesse Arthars double and two massive second half plays from fullback Kurtis Rowe proving the difference.

With their fourth victory of the year the Essential Coffee Burleigh Bears now move into third place on the ladder after six rounds.

“The really good part of that victory comes from the fact that we beat a really good side who I think are probably a top four side this year,” Bears coach Jimmy Lenihan said of beating the Seagulls.

“We’ve probably been a bit stuttered this year with the way we’ve been performing and coming up against Wynnum forced us to focus a lot this week and it’s just pleasing to put in a good performance.”

Burleigh got away to a remarkable start, with Arthars charging through a gap and stepping his way around two defenders in the backfield to score an electric try in just the second minute of the game.

Arthars, already the competition’s leading try-scorer at the moment, made it an early double in the 18th minute when he stood up his opposite man for pace on the right hand side of the field, before weaving his way back under the posts to score his seventh try of the season.

Despite the poor start, Wynnum Manly were resilient and started turning the tide late in the first half.

The result was a pair of tries for back-row partners Alex Barr and Maitu Love-Henry to bring the scores level.

A Jamal Fogarty penalty goal on the stroke of halftime gave the Bears a two-point lead at the break.

The second half started in similar fashion to the first half, with the Bears scoring an electric try just two minutes after the resumption of play.

This time, it was Rowe who sliced through the defence on the right-hand side of the field, before digging back infield to score next to the posts.

The Seagulls remained in touch with a Mitch Cronin try from dummy half in the 50th minute, before another scintillating run from Kurtis Rowe setup Troy Leo in the corner.

That try gave the Bears an eight-point lead which they held until the death despite repeated Wynnum Manly raids in the final 20 minutes.

The Wynnum Manly Seagulls will face off against the Northern Pride in Cairns next Thursday evening.