Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word WESTS
WESTS
Definitions of WESTS
- inflection of west
- plural of West.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using WESTS in a Sentence
- Other families who acquired land and settled in the surrounding area were the Bascoms, Stewarts, Wests, Harringtons, Williams, Cochrans, Motts, Kimballs, Darbees, Sherwoods, Woodards, Barnharts, and Joselyns.
- The Wests Tigers play home games at two grounds: Leichhardt Oval (the home ground of Balmain) and Campbelltown Stadium (the home ground of Western Suburbs).
- After the departure of Aaron Woods, Reynolds was named as one of 5 co-captains at Wests Tigers, alongside Benji Marshall, Chris Lawrence, Russell Packer and Elijah Taylor.
- Since 2014, The NRL have held the Easter Monday match (NRL) between the Parramatta Eels and Wests Tigers match at Stadium Australia.
- During the lead-up, unseasonal snow fell on 28 May 2000, during a match between the Raiders and the Wests Tigers, the only such occasion in National Rugby League history, with the snow causing frost damage to the turf intended for the Olympic soccer tournament.
- A notable incident that occurred during 2004 was the 18-game suspension of Danny Williams following a king-hit on Wests Tigers' player Mark O'Neill.
- A week later, the Warriors' first match in Christchurch since 1996 was a flop, as the Warriors were destroyed by the Wests Tigers 4–50.
- For visitors passing through Ashfield along Parramatta Road, Liverpool Road or the railway line, the three main landmarks that stand out are the tower of the old Peek Frean Biscuit factory (now Bunnings Warehouse) on Parramatta Road, Wests Leagues Club on Liverpool Road next to the railway line and the Ashfield water reservoir in Holden Street to the south of the town centre.
- Despite these pressures, the Knights managed to avoid a second wooden spoon in three years – offloading the dreaded piece of 'silverware' to the Penrith Panthers with a last round victory over the Wests Tigers.
- the home of the Balmain Tigers, who are now represented in a joint venture by Wests Tigers, after Balmain formed a 50/50 joint venture with the Wests Magpies.
- Joel Caine (former St George, Balmain, Wests Tigers, London Broncos and Salford player, 'Around the Grounds' reporter and Saturday night commentator).
- One of Wests leading players during this time was future SANFL legend Fos Williams who played 54 games for the club between 1946 and 1949 before moving on to captain-coach Port Adelaide in 1950, a move that would haunt West Adelaide for the next thirteen seasons as Wests would lose five Grand Finals, all by less than three goals, to the Williams-coached Port Adelaide between 1954 and 1962.
- Wests also produce milkshake and slushy syrups, as well as postmix concentrates and soda syrup refills in a large variety of flavours.
- In 2006 the Wests Tigers on advice from Tim Sheens pushed the notion that the NRL side would be better served with a single NSW Cup side.
- Shaun McRae was involved in bringing in a number of new signings for the 2012 season, including; Andy Lynch (Bradford Bulls), Brett Seymour (New Zealand Warriors), Wade McKinnon (Wests Tigers), Aaron Heremaia (New Zealand Warriors), Eamon O'Carroll (Wigan Warriors), Martin Aspinwall (Castleford Tigers), Tony Martin (Crusaders) and Jamie Ellis (Leigh Centurions).
- However, after the turn of the century Wests were struggling financially, and following a disastrous year in 2003 when the club lost all 22 games of the season, including a club record 78–0 loss to Norths at Bishop Park, the club decided to depart the Qld Cup competition, deciding to instead guarantee their survival by participating in lower grades only, and planning to re-enter the Qld Cup competition at a later date.
- At Wentworth Park in Sydney's Glebe, Easts beat Newtown before Glebe triumphed over Newcastle while at Birchgrove Oval in Balmain, South Sydney beat North Sydney and Balmain beat Wests.
- When district football was introduced in the 1930s, Brothers clearly defied the idea as, unlike their competition counterparts Valleys, Norths, Souths, Easts and Wests, they were not a location in Brisbane.
- Leichhardt Park, which includes the Leichhardt Park Aquatic Centre is in Lilyfield, as is Leichhardt Oval in Mary Street, the homeground of the Wests Tigers.
- At 19:00 AEST, Tim Mander, officiating his second grand final, blew time on and the Wests Tigers kicked off.
- Melbourne Storm came from 0–22 down after 20 minutes to win 36–32 against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks on 16 March 2003 at Toyota Stadium
Parramatta Eels came from 0–22 down at halftime to win 34–28 against the Penrith Panthers on 17 July 2010 at CUA Stadium
North Queensland Cowboys came from 0–22 down after 30 minutes to win 40–24 against the Canberra Raiders on 5 June 2011 at GIO Stadium Canberra
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks came from 0–22 down after 53 minutes to win 24–22 against the Brisbane Broncos on 28 June 2014 at Suncorp Stadium
Canberra Raiders came from 0–22 down after 28 minutes to win 30–22 against the Wests Tigers on 19 April 2015 at Leichhardt Oval
Canberra Raiders came from 0–22 down after 39 minutes to win 29–25 against the Newcastle Knights on 3 July 2016 at GIO Stadium Canberra
Penrith Panthers came from 6–28 down after 46 minutes to win 36–28 against the New Zealand Warriors on 13 May 2017 at Pepper Stadium
Brisbane Broncos came from 0–22 down after 18 minutes to win 36–28 against the Gold Coast Titans on 30 April 2021 at Suncorp Stadium
Canberra Raiders came from 0–22 down after 39 minutes to win 24–22 against Gold Coast Titans on 26 March 2022 at GIO Stadium Canberra. - Former Berala Bears players include Brisbane Broncos forward Terry Matterson, Sydney Roosters winger Daniel Tupou, former Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Wests Tigers winger Matt Utai, South Sydney Rabbitohs half Jeremy Smith, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles forward Anthony Watmough, South Sydney Rabbitohs hooker Apisai Koroisau and Sydney Roosters utility player Samisoni Langi, Melbourne Storm winger Isaac Lumelume.
- The largest crowd at Langlands Park was just over 8,000 for a game between Wests and Easts in 1977, however 5,000 people attended the ground on 11 September 2004 to watch Easts defeat the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls to make the 2004 Queensland Cup Grand Final.
- Manly, captained by Max Whitehead and featuring others such as Johnny Bliss and Mackie Campbell (the grandfather of Manly's all-time leading try scorer Steve Menzies), played well against their more fancied opponents in that historic first match at Brookvale scoring three tries to one but narrowly losing the match 15–13 courtesy of a string of scrum penalties from referee Aub Oxford that allowed Wests fullback Bill Keato to kick six goals.
- Lyon made his NRL début coming off the bench in the Eels' round 21 clash against the newly merged Wests Tigers on 25 June 2000 becoming the 622nd first grader for Parramatta in the process.
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