It has been two weeks since the boys’ teams were in action and over a month for the girls, so all players will be keen to get back into the orange and blue.

For the first time this year, NCF is at home in the competition having played the first six rounds away (five matches and one bye).

NCF is using the Woolgoolga High Street fields as its home turf this year, so this Sunday Woolgoolga will come alive as our best junior players welcome bus loads of players from Newcastle.

The Newcastle squads are generally regarded as the best in the competition, although the NCF teams are not prepared to concede that title to them just yet.

However, Newcastle does sit at the top of the ladder in all four competitions, so this weekend’s fixture, in which the first full cycle of the draw is complete, is very important – for bragging rights if for nothing else.

13-years boys

The big improvers this season are the 13 boys, no question about it. The youngest of the rep teams struggled in the early rounds of the Youth League but have most recently put in three solid performances in a row - a draw, a win and a draw.

This puts the NCF 13’s right amongst it in 5th spot & one point out of the four. The problem this weekend is NCF faces the no. 1 team by a mile. Newcastle has not even looked like being beaten this season. In fact they have not even conceded a goal in five matches (the only team in all four competitions to boast such a record), so there is a mountain to climb, but NCF is up for the challenge.

Kick off 11.30am.

14-years boys

NCF and Newcastle are the only two teams in the 14’s to remain undefeated after six rounds and nothing separates them on goal difference. NCF has only dropped points by being held to two draws while Newcastle has only had the one draw.

So just two points on the ladder between them and both undefeated makes this the match of the day on Sunday.