Newsletter April 2008 - Mt Roskill Saints Auckland AFL FC

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Tuesday, 8 April, 2008

SAINTS AGM
The Mt Roskill Saints held their AGM last week at which life member and club stalwart Chris Newlove stepped down from his position as club Secretary. Chris has held multiple roles at the club over many years and luckily for the Saints will be staying on as Club Delegate and Team Manager. All of us at the club would like to thank Chris for the great job he has done as Secretary over many years and are grateful that he is able to continue performing his other duties at the club.
Fortunately we were able to appoint an outstanding replacement in Clare Ponton. Clare was a welcome addition to the club last season providing assistance in many areas and with her experience in P.R. and fund raising the club’s administration team will be looking to further improve our off field efforts this year.
The club as proud to announce that Ian Francis has been re-appointed as senior coach for season 2008. Ian did an outstanding job in developing a new group of young players last season after we had a big turn over of players at the end of 2006.
Assistant coaches will be appointed shortly.
All other office bearers were returned to their respective positions.

SPONSORSHIP
In other great news R.S. Components will again be the major sponsors of the club for this season. Thanks to Steve Fairweather for bring R.S. Components on board and also to R.S. Components and in particular Marketing Manager Piers Constable for their continued support of grass roots sports.
R.S. Components have a web site link on our web site home page. Please check out their web site and if you are able to support the company in any way please do so. The more support we give our sponsors the more likely they will continue to support us.

NZ FALCONS
The Saints currently have five senior players training with the New Zealand Falcons senior squad in preparation for the International Cup to be held in Melbourne later in the year. Captain Lewis Hurst, Marcus Jones and Mike Tagg are training in Auckland. Vice Captain Morgan Jones is well into pre-season training with the Morningside club in Brisbane while Matt Callaghan has just completed pre-season training with South Fremantle in the WAFL. From all reports Matt has been going great guns over in Western Australia after playing a full season for the Thornlie Lions last year hopefully Morgs will be following suit in Queensland.
Michael Boyce and Liam Ackland are training with the Falcons under 18 squad and will hopefully both be in the team to play Canberra Marist later in the year.
We wish all the boys the very best of luck in making their respective squads.
At our recent AGM the Saints committee voted to put aside a minimum of 25% of total funds raised in 2008 to assist the guys with expenses associated with their rep football. Jason Snashall, with help from Peter Boyce and Jarrad Wallace will be organizing these activities. Anyone else that is willing to help please contact myself or Jason (refer the contacts section of the web site).
There are also opportunities for companies and individuals to sponsor the Falcons senior team in its quest to defend the International Cup. I will be emailing out information shortly regarding sponsorship packages. Please also contact me if you know of a company of individual that may be interested.

RECRUITS
We need everyone involved with The Saints to be on the look out for potential recruits. As members or players of the club it most important that we have any many people as possible on the lookout for new players in the off-season. If you come across someone please get their contact details and pass them on to Ian Francis or myself.
With Peter Boyce, Morgan Jones, Pete Jensen and Dave Kay either retired or moving on from last season the club desperately needs at two or three experienced players and as many as possible junior recruits. We plan to field a full under seventeen team from round six and would like as many under seventeen players to play reserve grade between rounds one to five.
We had a great bunch of new players last season that will need to take on additional responsibilities vacated by those players mentioned above. If these guys progress at a similar rate to last season The Saints will be up there again in 2008.

AFL LIVE ON SKY
Sky TV is currently showing one AFL match live each weekend. Times vary so you will need to check you TV guides each week. Kenny’s Bar & Grill are happy to screen the games but also check with new manager Arran beforehand PH 358-2564.