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Tuesday, 31 July, 2007

Plenty of news to catch up on since our last web site update and also lots about to happen with the season due to kick off in less than a month.

PRESEASON TRAINING
Preseason training has been going for over a month now and generally numbers have been good. We have a really good group of new recruits to club made up of experienced players, new comers and a few ex-Sainters returning to the club.
We have started Wednesday night training at 6pm and this Sunday will be our last at 10am before we head into pre-season practice games against other clubs. Our schedule over the next couple of weeks is as follows:

Sun 5th August Inter Club Practice Game – 10.00am War Memorial Reserve May Rd

Sun 12th August – pre-season practice game - time and venue to be confirmed

Sun 19th August – Trial game for Auckland squad – for those not involved a practice game either inter-club or against another AAFL club - time and venue to be confirmed.

Sun 26th August – First game – away verses Nth Shore –

Refer to downloads section for AAFL 2007 Fixture- venues yet to be confirmed

IMPORTANT DATE - 2007 Saints Quiz Night – Friday 31st August At Alexandra Park
Following on from last year’s highly successful fundraiser we will again be holding our quiz night on the 31st August. To ensure that this night is successful we need everyone to get their friends and family involved and enter a team of 10. Otherwise enter a team from within the club. Peter Boyce will again be master of ceremonies and Jason Snashall will be the quizmaster.
We also require some prize donations so if either yourself or your company is able to help out it would be greatly appreciated.

OTHER SAINTS NEWS
CONGRATULATIONS Dave and Sheridan Kay who have become proud first time parents with the healthy and safe arrival of baby Olivier. Jarrad and Nicole Wallace are also due shortly which will make five first time Saints Dads in the past twelve months. CONGRATULATIONS also to Saints sponsor and reserves grade comeback kid Carl Drummond and fiancée’ Rebecca Gould who have just announced they are getting married. Welcome back to ex-Sainters Marcus Jones, Alex Van Son back from their OE and also to Mark Fulcher who has been playing high-level soccer.
Also welcome to all our new recruits to the club, we hope you are all enjoying being apart of The Mt Roskill Saints Footy Club.

FAREWELL to Steve Hughes who is off to the Solomon Islands with his work as a doctor and Brett ‘Buzz’ Burrows who is over in the UK working as a life guard and travelling around Europe.

NZAFL SCHOOLS TOURNAMENT
Saints players Morgan and Marcus Jones are coaching two of our local school teams, St Peters and Western Springs Colleges for the upcoming NZAFL tournament to be held at May Rd on 7th August. I’m sure they would appreciate any assistance to held run training sessions in the lead up and on the day. There are heaps of St Peters boys at the club at the moment so please come forward and help Marcus out and anyone else available please get in touch with Morgan to held him out.

FINALLY CLUB SUBS AND PLAYER REGISTRATION
We have touched briefly on this at training, we require all players to start paying their subs from this Sunday. We will put on a BBQ and a couple of drinks either this Sunday or next (date will be confirmed at training on Wednesday) whilst club secretary Chris Newlove collects subs and starts player registrations. All new players to the club need to fill out an AAFL registration form. Those that played last season need only sign a simpler format form.
Subs for this season are $120 senior, $80 junior/student, which includes your socks and shorts. We are offering a discount on subs for all existing players that wish to forgo a pair of sock and shorts. These have been ordered and will be available on the 12th August (fingers crossed).
I look forward to seeing you all at training, at every session and on time.

Cheers
GC