Joeys winger Tom Garrido touches down in front of a bumper crowd at Captain Cook Oval on Saturday during a thrilling clash wth De La Salle, which was won by the defending premiers 24-16.
(Photo: Adam Wrightson)
The start of the 2025 season was a fantastic weekend with some big attendances at CJRL venues and some fantastic weather. Hopefully both trends will continue across the 2025 season.
A reminder to clubs that every team put out on the field needs to have an appropriate First Responder in attendance at their game. Specifically, these are Level 1 trainer or Level 2 trainer for each team in u13 and above fixtures (tackle and leaguetag). For u6-u12 ages competitions, the minimum First Responder permitted is a League First Aider, with one in attendance for each match the minimum requirement.
Current accreditation is mandatory, and trainers must wear the correct shirt/vest that relates to their First Responder role. These are not negotiable.
Best of luck to all teams taking to the field this weekend.
John Mannah Chairman – Cronulla Junior Rugby League
NRL Code of Conduct
# Remember – all participants at CJRL fixtures are subject to the NRL Code of Conduct
CODE OF CONDUCT – SPECTATOR/PARENT
✓ Condemn all violent or illegal acts, whether they are by players, coaches, officials, parents or spectators.
✓ Respect the referee’s decisions – don’t complain or argue about calls or decisions during or after a game.
✓ Behave! Unsportsman like language, harassment or aggressive behaviour will not be tolerated.
✓ Encourage players to play by the rules and to respect opposition players and officials.
✓ Never ridicule or scorn a player for making a mistake – respect their efforts.
✓ Understand that sport is part of a total life experience, and the benefits of involvement go far beyond the final score of a game.
✓ Participate in positive cheering that encourages the players in the team you are supporting; do not engage in any cheering that taunts or intimidate opponents, their fans or officials.
✓ Remember that children participate in Rugby League for their own enjoyment, not yours!
✓ At all times, follow the directions of the Ground Manager and/or other match day staff.
✓ Never arrive at a CJRL game under the influence of alcohol, never bring alcohol to a CJRL game and only drink alcohol, if it is available at senior fixtures, in a responsible manner in the designated licensed area.
Important Notice
Players need to be aware that offensive language may incur a penalty by the match official in any fixture.
Cronulla Junior Rugby League wishes to acknowledge our partners who are supporting the delivery of senior and junior Rugby League in 2025
Senior Competition Naming Rights Partner
Sharks News
Cronulla Sharks School Holidays Junior Jaws Clinic at Sharks Stadium – proudly sponsored by Westfield Miranda.
This event is for boys and girls aged 5 - 12 years old.
Accredited tackle ready coaches will teach safe landing and tackle ready exercises throughout the clinic.
Cost: $75 per participant - including a 2025 Junior Jaws T-shirt.
Key Timings: The registration check-in desk will open from 9am to collect your t-shirt and to sign-in.
Clinic: 9:30am - 11:30am
Registrations will close Monday 21st April (11pm) unless sold prior.
Please Note: This event and location is subject to change and or cancellation by the Sharks Group. Player appearances are not guaranteed.
Sharks News
Cronulla Sharks School Holidays Mini Mermaids Clinic at Sharks Stadium – proudly sponsored by Westfield Miranda.
This event is for girls and boys aged 4 - 12 years old. Learn dance routines on-field from our 2025 Mermaids in collaboration with Prodigy Performing Arts.
Cost: $75 per participant - including a 2025 Mini Mermaids T-shirt.
Key Timings: The registration check-in desk will open from 9am to collect your t-shirt and to sign-in.
Clinic: 9:30am - 11:30am
Registrations will close Monday 21st April (11pm) unless sold prior.
Please Note: This event and location is subject to change and or cancellation by the Sharks Group. Player appearances are not guaranteed.
Club News
Roosters take over Sunday NRL Footy Show
This week, one of our clubs has some great news: the Menai Roosters and their young players were featured on the Sunday Footy Show. On the big screen, the Junior players seized the chance to stand next to some of the greatest NRL players, such as El Masri and Freddy Filter. The Rooster got a chance to compete in the weekly 'Freddy's Pass off Challenge' which they are now in 3rd place overall for the 2025 season.
Clubs Secretary Deanne stated “For the Menai Roosters this was a humbling experience filled with so many childhood memories for our club President Hayden, and our kids. We are grateful for the opportunity and our members back at the ground and clubhouse cheered us on.
Congratulations to Riley and Lily May for representing the Cronulla Junior Rugby League and Menai Roosters JRLFC.
One family, One team, One community - that's our team- Menai Roosters where big dreams really do come true”!
These sorts of stories are what make Rugby League the greatest game of all, so keep on sending them in throughout the year. Make sure you keep up to date with all the good news, highlights and stories as the season goes on.
Photos supplied by Menai JRLFC
BarTV Coverage
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Milestone Games
Congratulations to Callum Firth who played his 100th game or Aquinas last weekend.
Milestone Games
Two Roosters had plenty to crow about last weekend, with Ethan Gerovassilis (u15s) and Riley Kendrick (u10s) celebrating 50 games for the club.
Milestone Games
There must be something in the water up Menai way with another Rooster clocking up 50 games this weekend when Issac Ortiz-Parison takes the field for the Menai u12s.
Milestone Games
Archie Oldfield played his 100th game for Kurnell on Saturday when he ran out for the Stingrays u13 gold team.
Southern Corridor Competitions
NSWRL Southern Corridor Competitions are looking very healthy for the 2025 season, with significant increases in nominations for open women’s, u18 women’s and under 18 boys’ competitions.
It appears all competitions will be able to offer graded structures with Gold and Silver competitions.
All Southern Corridor competitions commence on 26/27 April.
Likely nominations below (TBC).
C’town Collegians Oran Park Engadine De La Salle Aquinas Taren Point
C’town City Thirlmere Taren Point Camden Como-Jannali Dapto/Port Kembla
The Oaks Warragamba Collegians C’town Collegians Renown Corrimal
Shellharbour Stingrays of Shellharbour Corrimal Liverpool CC Thirroul Helensburgh
Corrimal Western Suburbs Stingrays of Shellharbour Western Suburbs Avondale
Engadine Avondale Kiama Corrimal Thirroul CronCaringbah De La Salle C’town City Collegians
Taren Point
Camden Glenquarie
Kingsgrove Eaglevale St. Andrews De La Salle Kingsgrove
Under 12 Girls Tackle Competition
With the under 12 girls tackle competition commencing on 26 April, there is still time to get involved. Como-Jannali, Gymea and Cronulla-Caringbah are all welcoming new players.
Games will be played on Saturdays and also include two teams from Illawarra in this development competition.
Any girls interested should contact generalmanager@cronullajrl.com.au to register their interest, or contact the above CJRL clubs directly.
NSWRL RESPECT Round
NSWRL RESPECT Round
2025 #RESPECT PROGRAM OUTLINE
Our theme this year is POSITIVE WORDS HAVE POWER
In 2025, we ask all our participants to carefully choose the words they use, acknowledge and refrain from using derogatory, hateful, disrespectful and offensive language, and instead use words that inspire, compliment, encourage and embrace diversity and inclusion.
‘Positive Words Have Power’ allows us to acknowledge that words have the ability to either hurt or heal, to inspire or discourage, to insult or praise. The words we use can affect a person’s self-confidence and self-worth, the way they look at and value themselves, and the way in which they feel able to express themselves.
#RESPECT ROUND
#RESPECT Round will be a month-long campaign kicking off on 12-13 April and closing on 16 May with the winners being announced on 23 May.
All Clubs, teams and match officials will be asked to participate in game-day protocols where team captains and match officials meet in the middle of the field before each game and shake hands as a show of #RESPECT.
2025 NSWRL DANIELLE KIFOOTI #RESPECT AWARD
The NSWRL #RESPECT Award is named after Danielle Kifooti, who passed away in February 2024. Danielle founded the annual #Respect Round in 2016.
The top three clubs as judged for their pledge and 25 words or less stating what impact positive words have on their clubs’ teams and culture will be awarded a prize, along with the top club being presented with the 2025 NSWRL Danielle Kifooti #RESPECT Award.
Prizes include 1st NSWRL signed Jersey and opportunity for club’s nominated team to attend the Westpac NSW Blues Captain’s Run, 2nd $1000 Steeden voucher and 3rd $500 adidas voucher.
WE HOPE CLUBS TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP A STRONG FRAMEWORK WHICH WILL DELIVER AN EVEN STRONGER CULTURE AT YOUR CLUB. THIS WILL IN TURN ALLOW US, AS A GAME, TO PROVIDE A BETTER GAME-DAY EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OUR PARTICIPANTS.
WE ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO PARTICIPATION IN THE #RESPECT ROUND GAME-DAY PROTOCOLS WHICH WILL REINFORCE OUR MESSAGE OF #RESPECT FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE GAME.
Volunteer Expression of Interest
CJRL are looking for any interested people to help us out at major events in 2025.
If you are interested please click on the link below and complete the EOI form.
REGISTRATION LINK FOR VOLUNTEERS
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U13 – Open Age Southern Conference / Corridor Competitions
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Thanks to Noel and his team for their continued support of Cronulla JRL
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This weeks Match of the Round is Gymea v Joeys from Corea Rd with match commentary from BarTV.
All open age gold competition matches on Saturday will be live streamed, along with other senior games at that venue.
Head to https://www.cronullajrl.com.au/game-day to view live streamed games.
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Power Waste Management Cup Player of the Year
Player of the Year update brought to you by
De La Salle v Joeys Lachan Scarpelli (Joeys)
Lumafalue Laula (DLS) Max Demeio (Joeys)
Bosco v Como-Jannali Jye Bowen (Bos) Ryan Barden (Bos) Cooper Hanney (Bos)
Engadine v Gymea Corey Willis (Gym) Matthew Bird (Gym) Brooklyn Berry (Gym)
Player of the Week
Thanks to the great support of Sharks Kareela, our “Player of the Week” award is from the Power Waste Management Open Gold De La Salle v Joeys match, Joeys #13 Lachlan Scarpelli.
Lachlan will receive a $25 voucher to spend on food and beverages at Sharks Kareela and a $25 merchandise voucher to spend on Sharks merchandise.
Congratulations Lachlan!
Club News
At Captain Cook Oval on Saturday, a bumper crowd saw De La Salle go down narrowly to the current back-to-back reigning premiers in the Power Waste Management Cup, Joeys. The game was a thriller, with De La Salle leading at half-time before finally going down 24-16.
The game saw the debut of Andrew Fifita with De La Salle, and he appeared to revel in the attention from the Joeys pack. Fifita played the full 80 minutes for De La Salle, completing a big day which began with him coaching his Sharks Tarsha Gale Cup squad against the Wests Tigers, coached by his brother David. The Tigers edged the Sharks out by 2 points, but the Sharks live to fight another day after finishing the season in 8th position and scraping into finals.
(Photos: Adam Wrightson)
Andrew Fifita in charge of the Sharks Tarsha Gale Cup squad early in the day (above) then rumbling through the Joeys defence at Captain Cook Oval later in the day.
Club News
(Photos:
Fifita gives a defender a “don’t argue” (above) and De La Salle celebrate a try in front of their home crowd.
Adam Wrightson)
Team of the Week
Taren Point Titans U11 leaguetag team are our first team of the week for 2025. They are a new team and enjoyed a great start winning 36-16 over Engadine.
(Photo: Taren Point Titans Facebook)
Team Liaison Officer
Each team must provide a “Team Liaison Officer” (TLO) who will act as a contact point for the Ground Manager during fixtures at CJRL venues. Should supporters /spectators from either club behave in a manner that would previously been dealt with by the Ground Manager, from this point the Ground Manager will engage the relevant Team Liaison Officer to address this issue with the spectators involved.
The Ground Manager at each venue will hold two Hi-Vis Pink vests that each Team Liaison Officer will be required to wear during the course of the match so they can be easily identified. The TLO is to make themselves known to the Ground Manager prior to the start of the match, and names of each TLO recorded on match sheets.
The Team Liaison Officer will be required to remain near the bench area for his or her team during the match, but remain outside the roped/fenced playing area.
Ground Managers and Team Liaison Officers shall not be permitted to drink alcohol prior to or whilst acting in these roles.
The Team Liaison Officer will be required to assist in resolving any situation that may occur relating to their teams’ spectators/supporters. ie: trying to calm the situation down before it escalates.
The Team Liaison Officer will work with and assist the Ground Manager. The Ground Manager still has the responsibility of maintaining control of spectators, interchange bench areas, and liaising with match officials, this is not the role of the Team Liaison Officer.
At the end of the match the Hi-Vis Pink vest is to be handed back to the Ground Manager (not left on the interchange bench or on the ground).
The Team Liaison Officer (as per the Ground Manager) should be a person capable of maintaining a calm demeanour and be a minimum of 18 years of age. Ideally the TLO would be someone closely aligned with the team but cannot be carrying out an accredited match day role (coach, trainer etc).
WITHOUT EACH TEAM LIAISON OFFICER BEING IN PLACE ALONG WITH THE GROUND MANAGER, THE MATCH OFFICIAL MAY REQUEST THE GROUND MANAGER ADDRESS THIS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE MATCH COMMENCES
