Christmas Drinks

Thursday, 15 December 2011 Time 18:30 until 21:30, at the Clubrooms Launch of Season 2012, to introduce our coaching and management panel for next season, to talk about pre-season training, to let you know our plans and expectations in 2012

Announcements about the 75th Anniversary Celebrations!

... and afterwards, Christmas drinks, nibbles and carols

 

Liam Gill drinking from the Super 15 Trophy

 

Cairns Old Crocs

 

AGM 2011

The Club's Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 1st December in the clubrooms.
- Cyril Campion was made a Life Member!
- New Honour Boards and the 75th Anniversary plans unveiled, as well as some other exciting developments
- The 2011 Committee was returned with only a few exceptions.

Simon Allport retires as Registrar (but remains on the Committee). Elena Casciano retires from Newsletter Editor, and she and Jane Wright both retire from the Committee (but will continue to contribute in other ways), while Richard Waddicor and Paul Reynolds join the Committee as Registrar and Assistant Secretary respectively. And Danni Di Girolamo is our new Social Director!

 

Joondalup Brothers

The First and Second teams of the Joondalup Brothers are Minor Premiers this year 2011 and both won their respective Preliminary Finals putting them in the Major Finals.
Sadly it was following these games and after the post match celebrations that one of their First team players, Tamati Timoko (T as he is fondly known) was viciously and cowardly attacked by a gang who savagely beat him and put him in a coma. The assault was so severe that it is not known if he will recover the sight of his left eye.
The assault made news headlines with articles televised and published in the press. Tamati is 27 and is due to be married in November; he's got a six month old daughter and is one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet. It is not in T's nature to look for trouble and it was an unprovoked attack as he walked home. The club formed a fund raising committee and hosted a fundraiser for T on September 25th.
It consisted of a family fun day involving both junior and senior players with the highlight of the day being a Maori Brothers XV v Rest of the World Brothers XV. The senior players donated money to secure a place in the team and each player was presented with a shirt that had been kindly donated by Rugby Clubs from around the world. Collegians donated a shirt which was worn by the player in the picture below.

 

From Old Collegians to a new super force

by: Warren Partland
From: The Advertiser September 24, 2011 12:30AM

TRIUMPHANT Queensland Reds flanker Liam Gill has defended Wallabies captain James Horwill.

Horwill's leadership during Australia's shock loss to Ireland in the World Cup in New Zealand was criticised.

Gill described Horwill, who led the Reds to Super glory in July, as a great captain and said the criticism was a "bit unfair".
"It is a hard ask stepping in for the World Cup and having such expectations on your shoulders," said Gill, who began his rugby career with Old Collegians and was in Adelaide yesterday to show off the Super trophy.

"James was the link for all things rugby - he deals with the board, the players association. I cannot speak highly enough of what he has done for the Reds."
Gill said it was "hard" watching the match against Ireland and the loss of injured flanker David Pocock on the eve of the game was a massive blow.
A former member of the national sevens team, Gill said the defeat had made life difficult for the Wallabies but he was still confident they could claim a third world title. "Having South Africa in the quarter-finals followed by NZ is a tri-nations set-up and the Wallabies do that every year," Gill said yesterday.

The emergence of Gill as a sevens international and now a Super representative with the Reds is evidence players can use South Australia as a platform to build a successful career. And watching his Reds team-mates perform on rugby's biggest stage has fuelled his confidence. "Going back to Old Collegians, watching the SA team train and letting them know that is where my career began - it shows it can be a building block and you can make it from here," Gill said.

 

U20s

The South Australia U20 Junior Falcons State Team was announced today. Congratulations to the 7 Old Colls' lads who made the squad:
Ben Blackall, George Bretag-Norris, Bernie Van Altena, Alex McCloud, Soshi Eto, Jack Darby, Chris Bartlett.
The Junior Falcons will be headed to Melbourne on 6th October for a two-match tour against Endeavour Hills RFC and Box Hill RFC.

 

Eamon Lambert & Oliver Horne

 

Kiwi in Melbourne

A kiwi in Melbourne during the RWC held in New Zealand .......... click here
SA may face NZ but only in the QFs .....

 

Saturday 24 September 2011
1.00pm: State U20s Trial Match
2.30pm: Friendly OC Match (all welcome)
3.30pm: England v Romania on big screen
6.00pm: New Zealand v France on big screen

Also:
Oktoberfest munchies (German sausages, pretzels etc) Strong Arm competition and other games
Steins with the club logo
Beer specials

WATCH SATURDAY NIGHT RWC GAMES AT THE CLUB!

THIS SATURDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER Australia v Ireland From 6.00pm, including BBQ and drink specials

 

Saturday 23 Sept:
England v Romania at 3.30pm

Saturday 23 Sept: New Zealand v France at 6.00pm

Saturday 1 Oct: England v Scotland at 6.00pm

Join us at the Robin Hood Hotel to watch all other fixtures!

 

Joyce Spry

Joyce Spry, life member of Collegians and longstanding club stalwart, especially of her Juniors, is engaged. To Max. Max lives in the same complex as Joyce in Dulwich and is a widower. Lots of congratulations to Joyce.

Next year is also Joyce's 80th birthday and a party will be organised. More on that at a later date.

 

Lunch with Liam Gill

 

Presentations

PRESENTATIONS!
Friday night (2 Sept) is Junior Presentation Night. Come up to the club from 6pm to congratulate and applaud our talented youngsters!
Friday 9th Sept is Senior Presentation Night - BUY YOUR TICKETS BY SUNDAY. No tickets at the door!

 

SA Women's Team

The SA women's team comes home from Nationals 5th July. They defeated NT 31 - 22, and drew against Vic and ASRU (10 all, both games) but lost the final against ASRU for the Div 2 title, 24-3. The squad included our own Eloise Birch, Tara Naige, Danni DiGirolomo and Kim Evans - not to mention d'Arcy Sadler who was named as one of the stand out players of the whole tournament.

 

BLACK FALCONS 2011

The Black Falcons squad will be travelling to Darwin from 7 - 11 July 2011 to compete in a three way tournament with the Darwin Mosquitoes and Queensland Country. A squad of 23 players has been selected to travel

Based on observations from Bill Millard, Carl Jones, Andrew Fenton and Andrew Brown over the past few weeks. Carl Jones will be coach, Andy Fenton will be assisting and Jimmy Jones is managing.

Congrats to OC's Brad McDonald & Will Sadler who were selected.

 

Alex Rokobaro

Ben & Merridy Rokobaro, July 16th, say "We enjoyed catching up with Brock, Libby and little Cooper James at Brighton on July 9th.
Our son is following Brock's lead in France and has signed with Stade Francais. Go to their home page and see Alex training in pink!

 

Joyce Spry

Joyce Spry, longstanding stalwart of the club, has been ill with pneumonia. She's in the Wakefield & expecting to be home on Monday 6th June. No visitors though, please, but phone calls welcome.
Get well soon, Joyce.

 

SAT 28 MAY: YUPPIE DERBY DAY

1991 & 2001 PREMIERSHIP REUNIONS

plus...

MISS COLLEGE

DON'T MISS THIS ONE!

Get ready for the Eastern Suburbs Cup next week between OC and Burnside. Come along and support your lads!

We'll be selling premium wine and a gourmet buffet,

with a FREE DRINK on arrival for every Life Member and

financial Social Member!

 

THURSDAY NIGHT DINNERS

Cheap meals will be available after training on Thursday Nights. Stay back and have a meal.

 

NEXT HOME GAME: 21 MAY

Stay after the home games against Adelaide Uni.

There will be Super 15 games on the TV and a cheap meal.

"Wizards and Witches" theme: dress up if you want drink specials!

 

Curry Cook-Off

18 June - Taking registrations now!

Enquiries to kim@oldcollegiansrugby.org.au

 

Ms College 2011

30th July - Taking registrations now!

Enquiries to kim@oldcollegiansrugby.org.au

 

Draws & Results

For the past six years I've been extracting the results & league tables for each week and putting them into a spreadsheet, week by week, for the results & the league tables, and also posting the results and the league tables for the week onto their respective webpages. It took some time each week because the SARU format isn't an easy one to get around.
For one year I had the league tables & results on the front page, but no-one much liked that.
It also seems that no-one refers to the results' or league tables' spreadsheet or webpages, but instead goes to the SARU results on the SARU website. So this year I decided not to do it each week and see if anyone complained. No-one has. But if you had been using it, and miss it, let me know. Otherwise refer to the SARU website.

 

Cairns Old Crocs

Hello All

The Cairns Old Crocs would like to advise that the GO festival we had planned to have in June has been postponed.

We will have a bigger and brighter event in 2012 - about the same time - June. More information later

Gail Russell

Secretary

Cairns Old Crocs RUC Inc.

 

Henry Nutt

From: Tim Austin
Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Hey Guys
Saw this in the Fiji Times last week.
Noticed the ground immediately before even knowing what was going on. The following day was a cartoon.
Henry Nutt will love it !
The Fijians love the Aussies, especially their style of play

Tim Austin

Henry goes Nutts
Jo Makaba Thursday, March 31, 2011 Fijian Times.

Henry Nutts, with baseball cap, ready to pack down a scrum.

HENRY Nutts could not believe it when Digicel Fiji team manager asked him to join them in a training run at the Old Collegians ground yesterday. The Old Collegians First XV captain was at the ground with few of his mates for a run when Waqa called him to join up and make the numbers.

Nutts said he was a bit surprised but tried his best. "I did not even believe I would be given an opportunity to have a run with the Fijian sevens team," Nutts revealed to Times Sport.
"I tried to do everything right as I didnt want to let them down even though they were just having a run."
"I loved every minute of it and I will always remember this."

Nutts said he wished the team well in this weekend's tournament and will be there to cheer for them.
"I'm a rugby development officer here in Adelaide and I will be at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday to cheer the Fiji boys on. I hope they do well this weekend."
Digicel Fiji sevens coach Iliesa Tanivula later told Nutts that they had a Fiji shirt which they would give him as a token of thanks.

Old Collegians Rugby Club has a proud association with Fiji rugby as it was where former Fiji Under-20 rep to the 2010 Junior World Championship, Alex Rokobaro started his rugby.

 

Jack & Billy Macklin ... letters

 

State Training Squad

Selected for the state training squad:

Soshi Eto

Matt Bautz

Stewart Nutt

Chris Steel

 

Subscriptions

SUBS DUE NOW!

We've got our affiliation bill from SA Rugby so we need to collect pronto! Pay your subs over the bar as soon as you can - by the first game on 8 April at the latest.

 

Coaching courses

COACHING COURSES

The club will pay for any Old Collegian who would like to undertake one of these courses. If you are interested, please let us know - sthewlis1@bigpond.com

Wed 16 March: Refereeing Kids, 6pm at SA Rugby

Sun 1 May: Foundation Course, 9am - 5pm at SA Rugby

Mon 9 May: Level 1 Touch Judge Course, 6pm at SARU

 

Elizabeth Sevens Results

Men

Old Collegians 17 v Onkaparinga 15

Old Collegians 46 v Elizabeth 0

Old Collegians 0 v Souths 29

Semi Final: Old Collegians 7 v Souths 21

Women

Old Collegians 15 v Onkaparinga 17

Old Collegians 10 v Souths 15

Old Collegians 12 v Burnside 17

Under 18s

Old Collegians 0 v Onkaparinga 34

Old Collegians 27 v NEDs 12

Old Collegians 12 v Souths 45

Congratulations to the day's ultimate winners: Onkaparinga who defeated Souths in the Men's Division, Burnside who defeated Onkaparinga in the Women's, and Souths who defeated Onkaparinga in the U18s.

 

John Brown

John is a on Old Collegians player from 1960 to 1971.
There is an email trail relating to John .... here
And one team photo of him here for the 'B' Grade Preliminary Finalists 1967

 

Alan Wright

Old Collegians were saddened to hear of the death of Alan Wright from Onkaparinga RC. A long time rugby opponent & friend of the likes of Ian Hackett & Denzil Church & others, none of whom had heard of his death or funeral or would have been there to show their respects for a fine man who will be missed.

 

New Wall -1st working bee

More hanging space at the club. From the first working bee. Welcome back Denzil.

 

Juniors' Registration & Training

Registration Day and Sausage sizzle is Sunday 20th February 2011 2-4pm with the first training night on Wednesday 23rd February 2011 6-7.30pm

The fees for 2011 season are now posted

We are also running a Free Club Polo Top promotion this year.
If a player introduces 2 new players to the club, who register and are fully paid up the player receives a free Club Polo top.

 

Elizabeth Sevens

Saturday 5 March 2011

If you are interested in playing, let Danny McCartan know. The level of interest will determine what teams we enter - competitions available for men, women's, U18s and Over 35s

 

Bartercard Cup, 11 March to 26 March 2011

Friday 11 March @ Dry Creek

6.10pm: Div 2, OC v Burnside

7.30pm: Div 1, OC v Burnside

Come out and support the boys in their first outing of 2011, (and maybe take some photos and enter the photo comp!)

SA Rugby will be holding the Bartercard Cup again, in March due to the earlier start to the home and away season on account of the World Cup. It is intended to run a Premier and Lower Grade competition depending on the entries. Round matches will probably be Friday evenings (11th and 18th) with the finals on Saturday 26th depending on facilities available.

 

Adelaide Sevens

2 - 3 April, 2011

Tickets on sale now: www.ticketek.com.au or call 32 849.

Business Lunch: 1 April 2011 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Tickets available soon - let us know if you're interested in being on an OC table.

 

Want a Locker?

If we get enough interest we'll be buying lockers for the changerooms where you can secure your valuables etc, If you're interested in hiring a locker for 2011 ($45, provide your own padlock) let us know ASAP - kim@oldcollegiansrugby.org.au

 

Working Bee (Part 2)

Saturday 19 Feb

Still plenty of painting and cleaning to be done to make us ready for Season 2011 - all hands on deck!

 

Social night at the Queen's Head

There is to be a function on Friday 18th February starting at 6.30pm at the Queens Head pub in Kermode Street North Adelaide with the theme of "Old Collegians Reunite" given this is the 75th anniversary year of the club. This coincides with night of the first Super 15 game involving the Rebels and Tahs.
A portion of the pub will be booked out for the club, the game will be on the pub's television and we expect, as a a fundamental prerequisite, that all those turning up will wear club colours to get in. There will be a charge of $10 a head to go to the club to improve general club infrastructure.

"OLD COLL's REUNITE"

Friday 18 Feb, 2011 from 6.30pm

Join us at the Queen's Head in North Adelaide

to kick off the 2011 season.

$10 entry, private room

Waratahs v Rebels on the TV from 7pm.

WEAR YOUR CLUB COLOURS

Everyone welcome!

Please contact Michael Barrett or Kim Evans with any questions for what promises to be a good night

 

Luke Mooney

I know of a place in Richmond in Melbourne where I can buy some Zema & some Wirra Wirra, being patriotic to South Australia. The guy at the shop knows his wine, we get to talking, he says he played Rugby when he lived in Adelaide
'ah, who for?'
'Old Collegians
'ah, small world then'.

Luke played in 1997. He's lived in Melbourne for 8 years and is moving back to the North Coast of NSW the day after I spoke to him.

ph ... 6th January 2011

 

SENIOR PRE-SEASON TRAINING

Tuesday 8th February 2011

Training starts for all senior teams in a little less than two months. All players are expected to attend regularly. Attendance, attitude and payment of subs will be a precondition to playing in 2011.

 

WORKING BEE

Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th January 2011

We're repainting the club, plus doing lots of cleaning and maintenance work - ALL HANDS ON DECK!!!

 

Ins & Outs 2011

Births

To Imogen Hume & Ben Suttell, Anna, on 17th(?) December 2010

Emma Dalitz (Curran) isn't pregnant again (5th February 2011)- it's a new pet dog they've got. Just to set the record straight.

To Lusia Raikiwasa, Saturday 4th June 2011, a daughter

June 2011: To Maxine & Greg Moran & big brother Callum, a son, Ewan.

November 2011: Congratulations to Zoe Woodstock and Richard Czeglik who recently welcomed Zander Henry to the world, 10 days early on 2nd November at 6:15am. Weighing 8lbs 8ozs and 53cm long. Zander arrived on his Pop's 60th Bday, a little brother for Azalie and Zack.

Welcome Zander

Zoe Woodstock and Richard Czeglik welcomed Zander Henry Czeglik 10 days early on 2nd November 2011. Zander arrived on his Pop's 60th birthday; a healthy, hearty brother for Azalie and Zach.

Ewan Moran

Maxine and Greg Moran welcomed son number two, Ewan Bruce, to the world earlier in 2011. He is doing very well and his big brother Callum is so happy that he got a br other!

Isla Sophie Angove

Dez Angove writes to us "Finally the Angove hoodoo is over! Can you let everyone at the club know that my four boys Leo, Brock, Ewan and Oscar now have a little sister who may one day play fo r the women's team. Isla Sophie Angove, born on 28 Dec 11 at 0020 am, weighing 6lb 14oz (3130g) at the Townsville Hospital

Little Scarlett

Bec Manson and Ryan Nielsen have produced a lovely sister for young Angus, to be known to the world as Scarlett Catherine Nielsen. She was born on the 20th December 2011, weighing in at 3.76kg

Baby Talei

Lusia Raikiwasa and Doug Corpus welcomed their first child together into the world in May 2011. Named Talei Rigieta Josie Corpus, she is already a very happy, bright little girl.

Sienna Elder

The club's Vice President Justin Elder and his wife Marnie welcomed Sienna Caroline Elder into the world, 29th November 2011, 7 pound 14 ounces

Marriages & Pre-Marriages

The club's much loved Life Member and Junior Patron Joyce Spry, married Max Koehne on 19th October 2011.

Ben Hamer & Cat Dunnett get engaged - 11th May 2011
Ben & Cat are living in Croydon near London

Andrew & Neroli

In April, Andrew McDougall's married Neroli in her native NZ (New Plymouth). She is a dedicated rugby chick and a one eyed 'Canes/All Black supporter, which makes for an interesting household. They have been living in Melbourne for the past four years. Andrew (Macka to his mates) played fullback for our 1st XV in the early 2000s and also for the Black Falcons.
Andrew is an industrial designer with a Tier 1 supplier of injection moulded parts to Toyota and GMH and Neroli is a training manager with KPMG.

Tom Farrah, son of club legend Tim Farrah, married Sarah Gardner in 2011 (during a World Cup semi-final, for shame)

Imogen Hume & Ben Suttell get engaged - December 2010

Comings & Goings

June 2011 - Living in England - Ben Hamer, Andre Brummer, Charlie Shepperd