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Presentation Evening Invititation - Old Collegians Rugby Union Club

Junior Presentation Evening

Saturday 11th October 2008

Old Collegians Clubrooms

Arrive 5pm Presentations start 5.30pm

Catering $20 per family (payment in advance is required)

 

Junior Falcons 2008

On 26 September 2008 the Junior Falcons, South Australia's Junior (18-20 years) State Men's Rugby Team, will travel to New Zealand to take on competitive rugby union teams in Wellington and the surrounding regions.

The players have been selected to represent their State and will play in 3 challenging games over 10 days. The Junior Falcons will also further embrace the rugby experience by attending an Air New Zealand Cup game, mentor the South Australian State Under 14 team and visit a Maori Marai.

The young men of Old Collegians have done the Club proud by having the greatest representation of any of the Clubs in SA, mirroring our contribution to the Black Falcons. The following players from Old Collegians have been selected in the Junior Falcons team: Chris Bartlett, Cleve Batten, Xander Evans, Todd Grant, Brad McDonald, Charles Neate, Henry Nutt, Tom Nutt, Will Sadler and Rory Sheppard.

The Junior Falcons are still doing a wine fundraiser and will be selling a sensational BBQ throughout the finals so make sure you stick your hand in your pocket and support the future rugby talent of SA.

 

Don Smith Medal Night

 

Rugby Games - September 13

 

Honour Boards

After literally years of planning we managed to get a couple of great new honour boards up in August. They're still only about 90% correct but at least they're up and we're working on the finer details.

One board is devoted to our illustrious life members. The other records the names of Collegians who have played 15 seasons or more of senior rugby for the club. We're calling these hallowed souls the "Quindecim" (it's Latin for fifteen, pronounced Quinn-DEC-um).

NONE of you responded to our previous calls for nominations for the board so you'll understand if we're cranky about all and sundry coming up with bright ideas now that the board is on the wall! Seriously though, any corrections/suggestions should be emailed to us at kim@oldcollegiansrugby.org.au which will (eventually) be incorporated on the boards.

Thanks to Stewart Douglas for all his hard work in designing and installing the boards.

 

Last training night

The final training night for this season will be held on Wednesday 27th August 2008. (Exception: any teams who are in the finals training will continue as your coaches direct.)
To celebrate the season we invite you to join us in a Sausage Sizzle to be held after training, 7pm for U8s and 7.30pm for all other teams.

Sausages will be $2 each and all proceeds are to support our players who have been selected to represent the state in rugby. We are also holding a raffle tickets, available from 20th August at $2 each or $5 for 3, to contribute to this fundraising initiative. Prizes 1st a signed rugby ball by the Australia 2008 Sevens team and 2nd is a Phillips DECT Windows Live Messenger phone and 3rd a first aid kit.

Please help us to support our players who have this fantastic opportunity to play other talented teams in the state tours.

The evening will be scheduled as last year with the 8s to start off the evening followed by the 10s, 12s, 14s, 16s and last of all the under 18s. This gives the parents of the younger ones the opportunity to not have to stay too long with the younger players although those that choose to stay and enjoy the club atmosphere are more than welcome.

Please come along to the last training session for these mighty 8's and 10's who have had a brilliant season and made massive progress with their individual and team core skills.

 

Quiz Night

9th August. Come back to the Club at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start to test your knowledge and support the OC Juniors.

Form your table of 8 ($120) and RSVP: simonelp@bigpond.com

 

Tom Farrah

Tom Farrah was over from Melbourne on the weekend of the 19th of July and played with the 3rds. Tom Farrah is Tim Farrah's son. Tim left for Melbourne some years back so Tom would have been too young to have played for Collegians, however the Farrah family are extensive and have had a long connection to the club - refer to the page on Dinny Farrah, for instance.
And to some photos of Tom playing in the 3rds.

 

Match details for this Saturday 30th August for the under 8s and 10s.

Parents, Guardians & Players,

Venue Change (NOT BRIGHTON)

All Games at Waite University Grounds

Venue - Adelaide University Rugby Club

Clubs involved - All clubs that have Under 8s and Under 10s will be involved.

• All teams will play two matches each.
• COACHES MUST HAVE THEIR TEAMS READY TO GO ON TO THE FIELD PRIOR TO THE START OF THEIR NEXT GAME.
• A siren will sound to signify the start of the match and the end of the match
• All matches will be 20 minutes long with a five minute break in between each match, if your team is not on the pitch on time they will lose match time, timings will not be altered.
• All coaches/and or managers to meet at the blue pop - up tent at 7:45 am for a briefing and to hand in team sheets, extra copies of the draw will be available here as well.

 

16th August - 70s Night

70s Night!

Graham Raymond got up with the band and belted out a great rendition of Desperado. The typical array of 70's regalia was worn. If anyone has photos of our Punk Treasurer or Disco B-Rad, please email them to paul@oldcollegiansrugby.org.au. Thanks to the Gold House for a great night! And you slackers from Blue House? Thanks for nothin'!

 

Club Olympics

19 July - CLUBROOM OLYMPICS

 

Stay at the Club after our homes games against Uniand Brighton for Old Coll'sversion of the Olympics. It will be House against House in Table Soccer, Pool, Ping Pong, Wheel Barrow Racing andBuck Hunter, but with our own special "drinking rules".

There will be a BBQ dinner and we'll also be showing the Wallabies v South Africa on the big screen.

 

Curry cook-off

July 5th saw a return of the Collegians curry cook-off.
Judges were Jim Jones, Candice, Ian Walker, stewie and Jon Collins, as far as I could work out, unless they were just pretending to be as an excuse to eat and look important while doing so.
After some delay, due to the soporific sense of decisiveness shown by the judges, the winners were Ian Barwick for best curry and Ian Barrie for hottest curry. There are loads of photos of the occasion in the picture gallery for July 5th.

Hottest curry - Ian Barrie

Best curry - Ian Barwick

Real judges? Or imitations?

Judges

 

Linx Computers

Just when Hamish thought he'd forgotten all about his old company, and Collegians solid sponsor from the distant days of Alan Turin, his corporate jackets that have long lingered downstairs, have become fashion-items and were sported on the 5th of July by both Stewart Douglas & Ben Hamer. As Hamish says, pity the company didn't last as long as the jackets. Or was that 'the company didn't last but those jackets did'? Photos

Stewart Douglas

Ben Hamer

 

UNDER 16s & UNDER 18s SET A GREAT EXAMPLE

The club was were delighted to receive an email recently from a referee complimenting us on our U16s & U18s:
"It was an absolute pleasure to referee them as they played the game in the true spirit, their discipline was great throughout the entire game... I did speak to both teams after their games to pass on my thanks for the discipline shown all day but I would like you to let them know that they are a credit to your Club, their Coach & most importantly themselves. I look forward to seeing them continue on thru the coming years where I'm sure they will do the Club proud."

By contrast, we have recently needed to give a formal apology as a result of the conduct of another Old Collegian on the sideline towards a young referee. Please make sure your conduct is the sort we receive compliments about, not the sort we have to apologise for.

<-- Please be civil to all officials, even ones that look like this.

 

Pimp My Barrow
28th June 2008

We had seven barrows entered. Hamish judged them for Best Pimped and the winner went into the final race. The other six teams had to race in heats with the best eventually meeting the Best Pimped in the final.

Teams entered were:

Team Tonka
Gypsy Barrow
Team Redneck
Smurfy Barrow
Blood Barrow
English Barrow
Yellow Brick Barrow

Yellow Brick Barrow won the Best Pimped.

Smurfs won the first race (Smurfs v Rednecks v Gypsies). The Rednecks who missed a chicane had to double-back to finish the course but nevertheless beat the Gypsy Barrow which was pink and comfortable but slow and squeaky.

Blood Barrow won the second race (Blood v Tonka v English). It was close between Blood and Tonka, but the English Barrow broke. Welsh workmanship was blamed.

The Smurfs narrowly beat Blood Barrow in the Semi, and trounced the Yellow Brick Barrow in the final (thank partly to the YBB toppling over at one point in the course).

Photos

 

Mark Pickard

Mark Pickard has accepted an invitation to join the board of the SARU. Mark is involved in rugby and business for many years in Adelaide occasionally putting the boots on in Old Collegians' lower grades. Mark has been very supportive of and generous in developing both the profile of our game and increasing participation levels in Adelaide. Mark will bring passion and drive as well as his wide range of contact and resources to the Board. Mark is a life member of OC.
... Tregenza Times May 2008

 

Alex Rokobaro

Alex Rokobaro, the son of Ben (Bulla) Rokobaro who seemingly inhabits most club team photos from the 1970s and is still playing, and a former Old Collegian having come up through the Juniors, is now playing for the national Fiji team and will be up against Tonga on the 17th of May.
Refer to the separate page on Alex.
We'll be following his career with considerable interest ......

 

New club sign over the bar
May 2008

Courtesy of Stewart Douglas and ? - and it's in blue & red ...

 

Old Collegians Under 16s 7s team undefeated

Just a quick note on the recent successes for the Under 16s squad over the last three weekends including the Sevens gala day last Sunday held at South's Ground. For the last three weekends the u16s have been playing in a series of Sevens matches organised by the SARU culminating in the Sevens gala. Weekend one saw the boys draw against Burnside A, a very entertaining game, and trounce Burnside B with some excellent running rugby even from the forwards! - cracking results given the school holidays and a turn out of only nine players. Weekend two the boys defeated Burnside A 17 to 12, again a close match with the result going to the last minute; superb commitment and excellent defence were clearly the difference. The second game of the weekend saw the boys put on an great display of running rugby against Souths winning 28 to 0 and all concerned now looking forward to the Gala tournament to follow. Sadly we would be missing our two newly enrolled islanders for the Gala day plus an injured Vern Lee, all three not included in the picture below.

Onto the Gala weekend. We posted wins against Souths A, Vikings B and most pleasingly Onka's A. Sadly the boys missed out on the final on a points count-back as there were two other undefeated teams on the day. The most pleasing aspect of the last three weekends has been the courage, support play and resolute defence that all the boys have shown. The coaching staff and parents are immensely proud of the boys and we clearly have a good mix of experience, new boys from the under 14s last year who got stuck in really well and some converts from rugby league which is always pleasing.

We are now working towards the state trial games on Saturday and I am very confident that we will have more than a few of the lads picked to go onto the next stage.

I'd personally like to thank Tony Herve, Guy Barrett and Michael Barrett for their support to date. What a good way to start things off.

Well done boys !!

Yours in Rugby

David Linder-Patton
Coach Under 16's

 

Rugby 7s - U16s

Undefeated U16 7s team 2008
Head coach David Linder-Patton, Manager Michael Barrett. Undefeated in 7s this season.

Congratulations Boys! Undefeated for the sevens comp, sad to miss out on the final on a points count but you showed great spirit and courage.

We have state trials on Saturday 3rd of May at Onkas, so we have to put in a good weeks training, this will be a full team so yet another chance to show how good we can work as a team and hopefully get a good number through to the final trial games on 31st May.

I am extremely proud of your team work, commitment and no small amount of aggression! You should be rightly proud of yourselves and we have a great chance this year.

See you all on Monday and let's make sure we all work for each other.

Yours in Rugby

David Linder-Patton

 

Quiz Night

7:30pm Start

3 Rounds with Bonus rounds in between
Each grade required to field a table of a minimum of 8 people
Most prizes will be alcohol, but with a few Bo Bo prizes
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Women's and Other tables.
Tables can have more than 8 people.

There will be a happy hour when the quiz finishes.

20 questions per round. Each round will have general knowledge, what's that song, etc

 

Saturday 26th April

Saturday 19th April at Old Collegians

HOUSE PARTY

Dress in your H O U S E C O L O U R !

Compete for your house in the boat race and arm-wrestling!

BBQ Dinner

Drink specials

Kangaroo Court

 

Judy Brady's 70th Birthday

Photos: Saturday December 8th 2007

 

Old Mollegians

7pm Saturday 8th December - Old Mollegians go to Motown

$3 Pints, $4 Spirits/Mixers, $4 Jaegerbombs

Prizes for best Mo (Men), Best Fro' (Women) and Best Motown Costume

Mollegians' month of Movember

 

FUNDRAISER - BUY A TILE!

We need to raise funds to pay for the new showers. For $20 you can have your name written on a tile in the new bathroom and secure your place on Collegians' walls. (For $50 we'll even let you choose the position of the tile.). Buy a Tile!

 

Black Falcons

Also refer to state representatives page ...

VODAFONE ADELAIDE BLACK FALCONS

This Friday the Vodafone Adelaide Black Falcons fly to Darwin to commence their ARS campaign. We wish them the best of luck this weekend and for the tournament ahead.

We are proud to announce that the squad this weekend includes the following Old Collegians: Christian Tedge, Jon Collins, Ben Hamer, Ben Suttell, Richard Czeglik and Simon Burmester. Well done, fellas.

Next weekend (10 May), the Falcons play Tasmania at Brighton (6.30pm). Your next chance to cheer on the home town boys is when they play NSW Country on 31 May. More details will be provided in the coming weeks.

As for those of us left at home, as always there will be a bit of a squeeze on us with so many of our 1st XV away. I want to thank all our players in advance for the commitment, courage and determination you routinely show at this time of year when asked to play up a grade or out of position in order to fill the holes the Falcons leave behind. The fact that we can lose half our first grade and still field four competitive senior teams is terrific. I look forward to seeing you all step up.

 

Weddings

Tedgie & Candice got married on the 10th of November with a honeymoon in Hawaii.

Candice with the flower-girls

Candice with the children

Christian & Candice

Christian & Candice

Christian & Ryan

Ryan & Candice

Candice and Charlotte

 

Births

Azalie Hannah Czeglik
Born 9.09am, Monday 16 June
4 kgs, mother and child doing well

And pre-births (at August 2008):

Congratulations to Jon and Emma Collins who are happily expecting their second Collins-Suttell hybrid bundle of joy. Congratulations also to Richie and Esme Jasko and to Belinda Wade and husband Michael Lindo who are also likewise in the family way. Confirmed that there's something in the water.

 

Departures & Returns

4th September 2008:

Ben Hamer & Cat are bolting to Lewes Rugby Club in Sussex (http://www.lewesrfc.org.uk/) on the 4th of September. Good luck to you both.

And Rory Sheppeard has bolted off to England as well.

Saturday 5th July:

Farewells for Philippa "Pip" Shell & James Hayden

Pip is off to the border country of England (for those geographically-challenged, the border between England & Scotland) and James is off to Cheltenham in Gloucester in the west country of England, where he assures me they don't speak with a west-country accent, that is, not like my own rellos, then.
... PH July 8th 2008

(Note: Larger formats of the pictures below can be found on the pages for July5th 2008 ...)

 

Nacho & Angel

The 17th of May also saw the farewell of Nacho & Angel, our two Spanish boys from Seville who have played three or so games with us this season, pictured below with Kim Evans. They're both off travelling, with the Flinders Ranges being the next stop for them as they head home, the slow-way.

Tom Horne has been offered a place at the RMC Duntroon and started in January 2008.

Tom Horne, 14th March, Canberra

Tara Naige is heading off to Tonga to work as an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development doing health promotional work for the next 12 months trying to help with weight (and resulting heart disease and diabetes) problems, running fitness sessions and pool work and so on. A fantastic experience and no doubt Collegians will be contacting her for some brief stays in a tropical paradise. Tara will set up a .mac website up so that we can keep up to date with her blog and photos. Good luck, Tara.