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Tuesday, 24 June, 2008

PRE-SEASON TRAINING FOR 2008
Training will now start on Sunday (20th July) at The War Memorial Reserve May Rd Mt Roskill from 10.00am to 11.30am.
For new comers there is a map of the grounds location in our downloads section.

Afterwards we will christen the new BBQ and put on a few drinks.

The purpose of this Sunday is to welcome our new recruits to the club, kick off a few cobwebs and have a bit of a discussion about the upcoming season. It is important that all players from last year attend even if you are unable to train (i.e. Falcons squad members or those playing other winter sports).

NEW RECRUITS FOR SEASON 2008
The club has had several enquiries from new recruits in our off-season. These include up to 4 or 5 experience players, which is just what the club needs after losing quite a bit of experience over the past two seasons.
We have also had enquiries from several first time players, which is why we need to have as many training sessions as possible prior to the season commencing.
Amongst our new players for season 2008 are: Michael Johnson, Rob Rogers, Josh Rogers, Anthony Coates, John Wall, Jason Highland and Simon Scott. The club would like to warmly welcome our all new recruits for the upcoming season. We look forward to having you all on board and hope you enjoy your footy with The Saints.
There is also a whisper going the rounds that a couple of seasoned ex-Saints may be donning the boots this season and making comebacks. Come to training and find out whom.
As I mentioned above it is really important that all current players make the effort to get to training to show the new guys that we are a strong committed unit ready to improve on our 2007 efforts.
All club officials are also expected to attend this Sunday.

SEASON 2008 FIXTURE
Due to the 2008 International Cup being held this year and not being completed until the 7th of September the 2008 AAFL season will not be commencing until around the 14th of September. The season looks like finishing on the 7th December and at this stage we look like playing the Labor Day long weekend in October.
I will confirm all this information and post it on our web site when the fixtures for this season have been finalized.

2008 FUND RAISER - THE SAINTS ANNUAL QUIZ NIGHT
- Friday August 22nd 6.30pm at The Alexandra Park Function Centre Level 3, Rutherford Room Greenlane Auckland

This season the club will be jointly holding our quiz night with The New Zealand Falcons. Proceeds from this fund raiser will be split between the club and The Falcons depending on the amount of tables sold.
As per previous seasons it is $10 per head or $100 for a table of 10. This is our major fund raiser for the year, a chance to also help raise funds for our national team and a great fun evening. Please make sure you pencil in the date early and book your table of ten ASAP. Also if you are able to help out with donating prizes for the evening please contact myself, Peter Boyce or Jason Snashall.

A flyer detailing more information on this event is located in the downloads section of our web site.

SAINTS PLAYERS IN THE NEW ZEALAND FALCONS SQUAD
The Saints currently have six players in the Falcons squad for The International Cup. This does not include our ruckman Mike Tagg who unfortunately injured a knee whilst training with the team and looks likely to miss the 2008 season. Mike is hugely disappointed on missing out on the team and was an important part of the squad. Our commiserations go out to Mike. Still in the team are locally based players Lewis Hurst, Marcus Jones, Liam Ackland and Mike Boyce. Marcus and Lew are members of our leadership group and are going great guns. What is also great to see from a club perspective is young Mike and Liam still apart of the squad and both good chances of going to Melbourne. Both of these players were part of the under 18 team that were to play against Canberra Marist, when this game was cancelled both kept training with the senior team. It is a credit to both players dedication and commitment that they are still with the squad. The Falcon coaching staff should also be commended for showing faith in and being prepared to develop young players such as Liam and Mike.
Two Australian based Saints players are also in the Falcons squad. Matt Callaghan who is playing for the South Fremantle club in Western Australian and Morgan Jones who is playing for the University Club in Queensland. Both players are doing extremely well with their Aussie Clubs and are also looking good for Melbourne.

NEW ZEALAND FALCONS VERSUS MAFFRA AFC
at Mountfort Park Manurewa - Saturday August 2nd 2.00pm
There is rare chance to watch our national AFL team on the 2nd of August when the Falcons take on the very strong and successful Victoria country team, Maffra. Please make the effort to get along to support the team on the day. All the Saints lads will there, including I believe Matt and Morgs who will be flying back from Aussie for the game.
There will be an after match function starting at 5.30pm for further details please go to the NZAFL web site.

A complete Falcons Itinerary starting from the Maffra game and going through to the end of the International cup can be found on the NZAFL web site. A link to this web site is on the Saints home page.

Regards

Greg Cairns
Club President