Seagulls in touch with top after Jets victory

IT HAS been a rollercoaster month for Tweed but they are doing enough to put themselves on track for a return to Intrust Super Cup finals footy.

The Seagulls continued their win-loss-win-loss trend by bouncing back from a poor defeat at the hands of Redcliffe to account for Ipswich 32-24 at Piggabeen Sports Complex yesterday afternoon.

The play-offs have been extended to eight teams this year and Tweed’s reasonable start has them placed in seventh at the conclusion of Round 8.

“It was a pretty big game in relation to the ladder,” coach Ben Woolf said.

“Ipswich are just below us and by winning, it gives us a three-win buffer on ninth, which is handy to have at this time of the year.”

Tweed cleaned up their discipline after penalties cost them last week and they did well to halt the Jets’ momentum when the visitors surged ahead 22-18 early in the second half.

Liam Hampson, Jack Mackin and Stuart Mason all made their Seagulls ISC debuts.

Hampson, a 20-year-old who used to catch the train down from Brisbane to attend Keebra Park State High, was a late call-up after Titans half Ryley Jacks was rested.

“Liam is a really good little runner and I think he really troubled them a bit when he came onto the field, which was good,” Woolf said.