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Monday, 3 September, 2007

SAINTS QUIZ NIGHT
Last Friday evening over 150 participants attended The Saints second annual, fund raising quiz night at the Rutherford Room Alexandra Park.
The attendance and funds raised both matched our highly successful first attempt, which was a great effort from all involved.

A special thanks our quizmaster Jason Snashall and master of ceremonies Peter Boyce. As well as being the driving forces behind the event Peter and Jason both donated fantastic prizes. Jason is also our new club Vice President, a valuable new addition to the club’s administrative team. The quiz night was Peter’s idea and has proved to be an enjoyable method of raising much needed funs for the club. With Jarrad Wallace again doing an awesome job running the laptop scoring system we were able to put on a very professional job for all the punters in attendance.

Our gallery section will shortly have photos of the winners with their prizes as well as a few other snaps of the night.

Congratulations the main raffle prizewinner Marcus Jones who won the stocked Bar Fridge donated by Peter Boyce. Angela Lam from Ian Francis' table won the awesome door prize of two gig tickets. Congratulations also to Mike Tagg’s table who won the quiz with each team member taking home over $70 worth of prizes.

The club would like to thank Chrissie Boyce and the team at Alexandra Park for allowing us to use the Rutherford Room for this event as well as the bar staff and catering people.

We also would like to thank our generous sponsors R.S Components (via Steve Fairweather) and Kenny’s Bar & Grill for their fantastic prize donations and continued support of the club.

As well as our sponsors, many other individuals and companies donated prizes for the event. These included Lion Breweries (thanks to Tineke Fairweather), Brendan Hines, Mitre 10 Onehunga, Glenfield and Browns Bay (thanks to Jason Snashall’s father in law), Sara Snashall (for all the Porsche gear) and once again Peter Boyce who donated the stocked Bar Fridge for our raffle.

In fact the prize donations were so plentiful that we have a few left over to run a raffle or two at our grand final function. This brings us along to our next major social event for the season, the AFL Grand Final. This will be the ninth year in a row we have held our gathering at Kenny’s Bar & Grill and each year it gets bigger a bigger.

THE AFL GRAND FINAL IS ON SATURDAY 29th SEPTEMBER.
We again look forward to a big turn out. So whether you are a current, ex or future Saint, a family member, friend of a Saint, an AFL fan or just looking for a great afternoons entertainment get along to Kenny’s (the address is in the sponsors section of our home page) from 2pm (or at opening time as some keen punters have been known to do) on Saturday 29th September.

ALL AFL FINALS ARE LIVE OR ON DELAYED COVERAGE ON SKY
Over the next four weeks we will have up to four games of AFL on Sky TV. A dedicated group of Saints have been getting along to watch the AFL coverage at Kenny’s on Saturday afternoon and over the next couple of weeks they (and we) will be spoiled for choice. We will attempt to post game times on this web site, as they become available. Check Sky TV for further information.

SAINTS ROUND 2 RESULTS
The Saints lost their round 2 game against University in both grades. After being only a couple of goals down and kicking with the wind in the last quarter the team fell away to go down by six goals. We will look to improve over the coming weeks as hopefully we get a few injured players back, fitness improves and we try to entice a one or two experienced players back to the club.

Refer to our results section for further information. For all the weekends results go the Auckland AFL web site, a link can be found on our home page. . It looks to be a really close competition this season with all games having close score-lines. Unlike last season we cannot expect any easy games.

SAINTS ROUND 3 GAME/TRAINING THIS WEEK
This Sunday (Rd 3 9th Sept) we host the Manurewa Raiders at the War Memorial Reserve May Rd
All players are to be at the ground at 12pm. See Steve Fairweather for the roster of duties.

AAFL 1907-1908 TEAM PHOTOS
As per the previous posting we have photos of a couple of AAFL premiership teams in our gallery section. Ex NZAFL CEO, AAFL President and Life Member, as well as champion Waitakeri Reserves player (he particularly likes that part mentioned) Will McKenzie has done further research via the New Zealand Herald and found the match report for that game. At that time AFL was in a par with the rugby codes in terms of media coverage. The game petered out with the advent of World War One and The Great Depression.

The Auckland Rugby Union actually helped fund the local AFL team on their trip to Australia. Maybe The New Zealand Falcons should hit them up again for the next International Cup.

To follow is that game report. A real gem of an article:
NZ Herald 27 July 1908
AUSTRALIAN GAME EDEN v. NEWTON
EDEN WIN PREMIERSHIP
Notwithstanding the inclement state of the weather a large number of spectators put in an appearance at Victoria Park to see this match, and although the ground was very greasy some very fast play was shown; in fact, it was the best match of the season, both teams showing good, clean football right through the game, and an entire absence of roughness. Both clubs are to be congratulated on their display. Had Newton won this match it would have put Austral in the running for the premiership honours, but by Eden winning the game they have secured the premiership honours.

Clayton led Eden and Marshall Newton. Mr. Rhoden was the central umpire, Newton led off from the bounce and were not long in raising the two flags, mainly through the efforts of S. Wain, Wilson, and Roberts. Off again and Eden worked the sphere along the gasworks wing, where Cole put in a nice piece of play. He passed Fletcher, who sent on to Frith and Inkster snapped Edens first goal.

On changing ends Eden Changed the ruck, Ernie George taking a hand, and the change made a wonderful difference. Eden soon had Newton in difficulties, the ball hovering round their goal posts for some time, Eden scoring two goals. Newton at last took the oval away, and Roberts from a fine place kick scored a goal.

After half-time Newton got to work with a will and "potted" three goals in quick succession. Frith make a couple of fine marks, scoring a good goal for Eden. Williams from a splendid rush punted the ball through, but for some reason the ball was brought back by the umpire, and Williams given a free kick, and he again raised the two flags. This quarter was the most exciting of the day. Eden had very much the better of the game the last spell. The final result was:
Eden 9 goals 9 behinds (63 points)
Newton 9 goals 4 behinds (58 points)

George and Fletcher were the best players on the winning side, and were ably assisted by Clayton, Frith, Nagle, Cole, Welch, and Cairns, while those who did their utmost to avoid defeat were Marshall, Roberts, S. Wain, D. Smith, and Wilson.

3rd August 1908
THE AUSTRALIAN GAME
AUCKLAND ASSOCIATION'S DINNER
There was a large an representative gathering in the Federal Club rooms on Saturday evening when the Auckland Australian Football Association's annual dinner was held. The Mayor, Mr. A. M. Myers presided, being supported by the president of the association, Dr. Inglis, and Mr. Donald McDonald, of Melbourne. There were also present the Auckland provincial members of the New Zealand League team, who leave to-day by the s.s, Moana for Melbourne, via Sydney, to take part in the jubilee celebrations of the game.

During the evening the Mayor made reference to the approaching visit of a New Zealand team to Victoria, and wished the members a pleasant voyage and a safe return. He also referred to the fact that there was plenty of room for the three different games of football now played in New Zealand.

A lengthy toast list was honoured, and many kindly wishes were extended for the team's success in Victoria. A musical programme was also rendered, the following contributing items:-- Messers. A. J. Black, Bob Lloyd, Vaude and Varns, R. Eagleton, W. Smith and G. James.

During the evening a number of presentations were made, the principal being the handing over of the premiership shield for 1908 season to the winners, the Eden Club.

Mention was made of the officers of the Auckland Australian Football Association to the generous assistance given by the Auckland Rugby Union towards the cost of the tour to Melbourne.

The Southern portion of the New Zealand Australian League football team arrived from the South yesterday, via the East Coast, in the s.s. Moana, and will proceed in the same vessel to Sydney.