The club rested several of its established stars and this gave coach Michael Ryan an opportunity to blood the young Hawks.

Jack Platt, Jackson McMahon, James Foot and Matthew Davies who are all local juniors had a run and showed they all can play at this level.

Both sides entered this game with a definite game plan.

Cardiff was playing on and running at every opportunity and the young Tigers were trying to slow things down, chip the ball around and retain possession.

Using their plan, the Tigers were able to restrict the Cardiff scoring for the early part of each quarter.

However, they were unable to maintain the skill level required and the Hawks powered away as each quarter progressed.

Michael Ryan and Brendan Wold both kicked seven goals and Tim Sheldon was best on ground.

The final score shows a big win to the Hawks but the Gosford players showed that when they are able to execute their game plan for the whole game they can be very competitive.

Last Saturday at Newcastle No 1 Sports Ground, defending premiers Newcastle City their put season back on track with an 89 point thrashing of Killarney Vale.

The match started as a tight contest with the Blues holding a two goal buffer at quarter time.

Newcastle City dominated the second term to take a seven goal lead into halftime. A strong performance from the Blues defensive line supported by ruckman Cameron Keast and midfielder Mitchell Knight ensure their side set up victory.

Killarney Vale fought hard to keep the Blues at bay in the third term but the Blues ran away in the last quarter to take a deserved strong victory, winning 21.17.143 to 8.6.54.

Terrigal Avoca beat Warners Bay 11.10.76 to 10.11.71 and Wyong Lakes won 24.24.168 against Lake Macquarie 8.5.53.

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