Spuds hold out for victory against Glen Innes

Bailey Wilson crashes through the Glen Innes defence late in Sunday’s game
24th Jun 2025

The Super Spuds raced to a big lead against Glen Innes on Sunday before staving off a late comeback to pick up an important 28-18 win at home.
After dominating possession early the Spuds found it hard to score until Corey Torrens kicked wide and found Tahmani Landsborough free on the wing for the try.
Archie Dowden then crashed over from dummy half for the first of his two tries to make it 10-nil.
Robert Sisson was sent to the sin bin but it didn’t worry the Spuds as Dowden scored a carbon copy try to push the lead to 14-nil.
Guyra survived the 10 minutes with 12 men brilliantly thanks to some strong defence and went into halftime in good shape.
Two minutes into the second half and that position improved further when Torrens kicked a 40-20 and Cormack Hume crashed over from close range to make it 20-nil.
Glen finally hit back to cut the margin to 14, but Bailey Wilson proved unstoppable from a penalty tap and his try pushed Guyra back out to 26-6 leaders.
That’s when the Magpies swooped with one try to make it 26-12 and then after Cameron Waters went to the bin they struck again to close the gap to 26-18.
Alarm bells were ringing but Guyra did enough to thwart the comeback in the final minutes.
Both sides lost a man to the bin when Torrens became Guyra’s third dismissal with almost no time on the clock, but the Spuds received the penalty and Ben Vidler landed a penalty goal to complete the scoring.
Club points went to Dowden (3), Garth Walls (2) and Landsborough (1) while the player’s player votes couldn’t separate Dowden and Hume.
Earlier the Spudettes found it much tougher against Glen in the leaguetag.
The Magpies ran in two tries to lead 10-nil at halftime and accelerated in the second half to run out convincing 28-nil winners.
Sophie Mitchell was players’ player while points went to Taneika Dailey (3), Mitchell (2) and Kiarna Landsborough (1).
This Saturday the Guyra teams face an important trip to Warialda to face the Wombats.