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Tuesday, 26 August, 2008

TRAINING
Apologies to the guys that turned up to training Sunday to find it had been cancelled.
The council phoned that morning to say the ground was closed.
We will have a back up indoor facility for this Sunday in case the same happens. Thanks the Andrew Kowanijko.

There are showers forecast for today and tomorrow so there is every chance that the ground will also be closed on Wednesday. If this is the case we will go for a run. Please bring along your runners on Wednesday.
The council advises on ground closures at 2pm that day. Unfortunately once the ground is closed we cannot turn on the lights

THIRD ANNUAL SAINTS QUIZ NIGHT
The Quiz night was a great success despite numbers from our club being down on previous years. The fact that we have been hardly able to train and the season is starting two weeks later then normal may have been factors.
We were able to raise around $1600 for our club and another $1600 for The New Zealand Falcons International Cup team, which was a great effort.
Peter Boyce and Jason Snashall put in a huge effort into making the night the success. Everyone at the club should be grateful we have guys like Pete and Jase around and prepared to put in that sort of effort. Thanks to both of them as well as Michael Boyce who was also a huge help in organizing the event and on the night.

There were some awesome prizes available on the night and we would like to thank all of our sponsors and donors for their generosity.

Our sponsors/prize donors on the night were:

VIVIANNE SUKU who donated the major raffle prize as well as a Swans Guernsey and some NPC rugby tickets. - An awesome effort from one person.

COWLEY REFRIDGERATION (and Pete Boyce) who again donated a bar fridge for our raffle

MIKE AND PETER BOYCE who organized the EPSON PRINTER SCANNER as well as the Underwater Camera

BUNNINGS WAREHOUSE (and Aaron Shields) who donated huge amounts of individual prizes including power tools, portable lights and tool boxes.

GROVE MITRE 10 AND MITRE 10 MEGA ON THE NORTH SHORE (and David Grove – Jason Snashall’s Father in Law) who for the third year running also donated generously to our prize pool.

LION NATHAN (and Henry Carracher) who donated 10 lots of caps and T-shirts

RS COMPONENTS our generous major club sponsor who donated some remote control cars and many other prizes.

DR DAVID KAY AND FAMILY DYNAMIC FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC

NZAFL and Liam Ackland who were able to source various items of sporting memorabilia, which was auctioned on the night.

MATUA VALLEY Wines who supplied some great wines for us at good prices thanks to Sarah Heywood

SARAH SNASHALL for all the Porsche Gear

FAREWELL TO STEVE AND HENRY
With baby number two on the way and growing commitments in other areas Steve Fairweather has decided to pull the pin for season 2008. Steve has given 10 years valuable service to club. Thanks Steve for all your help around the club over the years. Steve was captain of our 2005 premiership team and played for New Zealand at under 18 level.
Good luck to you and Teneke with the new baby. Best wishes from all of us and we will hopefully see you back at the club next season.
Henry Carracher has just accepted a job offer in South Australia. It was an opportunity too good for him to pass up and the club wishes Henry all the best with his move. Henry and fiancée Sarah are also getting married in October. Best wishes from all of us at club for a happy future together. These guys have a hectic few months ahead with the wedding, selling of the house, moving and starting news jobs on the horizon

CLUB RECUITS FOR SEASON 2008
With Steve and Henrys Carracher departures The Saints have lost two more experienced members of the team. This is in addition to losing Mike Tagg through injury, Pete Boyce to retirement, Sam McKenzie to Otago for study and another two of our local talents Pete Jensen and Morgan Jones to Australia. With key defender big Alex Van Son off the Dubai that makes nine of our top players from last years Grand Final team that will be missing this season. This will leave huge gaps to fill from last seasons team.

We have some handy recruits coming into the team but could do with a few more so please be on the lookout for new players.

THE CLUB NEEDS MORE NEW RECRUITS.

If we don’t get a few more players we will be struggling for numbers in our reserve grade and under-17 teams.

It is also time for everyone to be getting to training regularly. Those of you that haven’t made an appearance yet need to get along. There is only two more Sunday training sessions before our first game. We play Waitakeri first game at May Rd. Word has it that they will be a strong team again this season with several handy new players.