Mackay Cutters capped off their final home game of the 2021 Intrust Super Cup season in style, downing the Ipswich Jets 36-26 at BB Print Stadium.
Ipswich’s short kicking and trick plays were a factor all evening, counteracted by Mackay’s power-orientated brand of football, with the hosts able to prevail in the end.
With nothing but pride to play for, both teams played an unshackled and expansive brand of football, chancing their arm and scoring almost at will in the first half in a highly entertaining contest.
The Jets’ short kicking game would bring them success throughout the first half, the boot of Rhys Jacks first finding a flying Gerome Burns, a lucky bounce favouring Zac Hetherington, before Denzel Burns would strike on another pinpoint grubber kick, Ben White also adding his name to the scores sheet in the opening half for the visitors.
But it would be Mackay’s power game that would hold them in better stead; Laitia Moceidreke bagging a double down the right edge in the first half, with Blake Atherton, Brandon Finnegan and halfback Adam Cook crossing the stripe to give the hosts a 26-18 half-time lead.
