January Newsletter - Mt Roskill Saints Auckland AFL FC

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Monday, 22 January, 2007

SAINTS TAKE DELIVERY OF NEW TRAILER
The Mt Roskill Saints recently took delivery of their new storage and transportation trailer. Go to our gallery section on this web site for photographs.

The trailer will be a valuable asset to the club enabling us to store all of our equipment in one safe and secure location whilst ensuring all our gear (goal post pads, score board, playing strip, BBQ, canopy, playing gear etc) arrives at each game.

The club would like to sincerely thank the Scottwood Trust for providing funding for this acquisition.

We also plan to use the trailer as a travelling advertisement for the club, the game and our sponsors. Over the coming months Mt Roskill Panel Beaters, located at Carr Rd Mt Roskill and owed by ex Saints player Brent Buckmaster, will be painting the trailer in club colors. We plan to have the club’s and Scottwood Trust’s logos as well as our web site address displayed prominently on the trailer.

The club is seeking sponsor’s to help cover our painting, sign writing and on going insurance costs for the trailer. If you are able to help and would like your companies logo on our trailer please contact Greg Cairns (refer to the contacts section of this web site.

SAINTS IN THE NEWS
In other news Saint and NZ Falcon Matt Callaghan has settled into his new hometown of Perth and is looking forward to playing in one of the local AFL competitions.

Lewis Hurst and fiancée Cindy Hart are to be married on February 12th. Good luck from all of us at The Saints.

Dr Ben 'BJ' Jansen and wife Sara are also back in town, they were married on the 7th Jan and will be in Auckland for most of the year. Congratulations from us all. BJ is making a brief comeback and is captain of our 10 a side team. We need more players however (see below).

Also back in town after a two year OE is Marcus Jones. Marcus will be a welcome addition to the team this season and is playing in the 10 a side comp.
We are also likely to have Kerry Wilkinson back from overseas later this year, another welcome addition. Both Kerry & Marcus are ex New Zealand rep players who will add experience and depth to our squad.

On a sadder note in March we bid farewell to Gareth and Tamara Rattray who are heading back to Aussie. Gareth was a star in our successful 2005 premiership season and although injuries and work commitments meant he wasn’t as effective this year he still had a few good games up forward for the Saints.

To acknowledge these occasions we have drinks on this Friday (26th Jan) at Kenny's Bar & Grill. It's Australia Day also so the Aussie lads at the club should be looking forward to getting together for a beer.

OTHER NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Our off-season is also our recruiting season. Given the departures of Matt and Gareth already along with the probable retirements of three or four senior players we all need to be out there, on the look out for new recruits.
We need one or two experienced senior players at least as well as many young, enthusiastic and committed new players as possible. We saw what happened last season when complacency set in. Lets not let it happen again.

An email was sent out recently regarding the Manurewa 10 a side comp. This is a great way to introduce new players to the game in a safe and friendly environment. The rules of the competition are in the downloads section of this web site. So far we have not had enough responses to enable us to field a team. We need a squad of at least 15 to ensure we field a team each week. So far we have about half that. Please email me if you are keen. Players confirmed for the team are B.J., Eddy, Aran Percy, Bush Newlove, Wes Allen, Zane, Christian Alexander (new recuit), Marcus and James Simons (maybe).

Also just around the corner are the club’s AGM and golf day in March. More information on these is to events to follow.

I hope you’ve all had a great Christmas break and are into recruiting mode for the up coming season.

Regards
GC