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Thursday, 16 October, 2008

Two great wins for our senior and reserve grade teams against the Manurewa Raiders last weekend.
Our young reserve grade team had a fantastic come from behind win against an equally youthful Raiders outfit. It was pleasing for all concerned to watch so many under-age players participating for both clubs. Ten of the sixteen players taking the field will be eligible for the proposed national under 20 tournament to be held in Christchurch next year. With another four players aged eighteen and under playing in the seniors The Saints should hopefully be well represented in the Auckland squad (assuming it all goes ahead).
The seniors had an equally impressive win scoring a massive 216 points against an undermanned Raiders side. Matt Kemp kicked 8 and Liam Ackland kicked 5 but the most pleasing aspect was the all round team performance.
Scores, best players and goal kickers are in the results
section.

For all the AAFL results and league ladder for both grades go to the AAFL web site. A link is on our home page.

After a couple of easy wins against the bottom teams the acid test for both grades will come over the next three rounds when we face The Magpies (home), The Tigers (away - on Labour Day Weekend) followed by The Blues (home). It will be a real measuring stick on how far the team has progressed since the first round.

THIS SUNDAY (ROUND 6) WE ARE AGAIN PLAYING AT HOME AGAINST THE MAGPIES.
USUAL START TIMES.
DON'T FORGET YOUR MOUTH GUARDS.

NOTE THAT DUE TO THE INTERNATIONAL CLUB AND CONDENSED SEASON WE WILL BE PLAYING OUR ROUND 7 GAME ON LABOUR DAY THIS YEAR.

Our round seven game against The Tigers will be played on Labour Day weekend. Please adjust your holiday plans or notify the coaches ASAP if you cannot play.

Whilst we have had a couple of good wins and were able to field two fairly strong squads we are still missing quite a few players each Sunday. We need to be filling two full squads from now on so please get to the games on time every week. Last week we had over ten players missing, mainly from reserve grade, which resulted in four having to come up and sit on the bench for seniors.
Not good enough!

VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED
With Clare, Jason, Steve and Chris departing or vacating their posts for various reasons we have been caught short for volunteers lately. Home games especially. This week we will be further stretched with Junior being away.

The following roles need to be filled:
· Reserves team manager.
· Time keeper – reserves and seniors (especially this week)
· Goal Umpires – both grades. Thanks to Kevin for helping out last round. He came along to watch his first local game and goal umpired seniors and reserves. Great stuff!
· Club Delegate – to attend monthly AAFL meetings. I have done my share for this season thank you very much!
· We will also be asking for one or two volunteers each week from now on to prepare a small match report for both grades for our web site.

On a positive, note thanks to everyone for helping out with putting up and taking down of our side lines canopy. Thanks also for the guys volunteering for runner water for both grades and especially to Bede McCarthy for running the scoreboard.

Last Sunday we welcomed back a few of old faces as well as three first gamers to our reserve grade team.
Jared Klaver, Brandon Motion and Chris Hilder had their first game of Aussie Rules last Sunday. All are very good prospects and did extremely well in their first hit out. Welcome to the club boys.
Alyse Cameron, our club physiotherapist, was a welcome addition to our sidelines team on the weekend after finishing her stint with the North Harbour Netball team. Please make sure you get any niggles, injuries or strapping attended to properly now that Allyse is back.
Reserves Best and Fairest James Simons played his first game of the season last game and provided quite a bit of run through the middle.
And finally 2002 to 2004 player, Dave Kuss, returned to the Saints after a year in Christchurch and a couple of years in Canada. Having big Dave up forward certainly straightened the team up against the Raiders.

2009 UNDER 20 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS.
The NZAFL is proposing to run an under 20 championship in Christchurch in March next year. Given the large number of eligible players we have at the club we (volunteers and players) should get right behind this proposed tournament. I would like to hear from all players that are keen to participate. Just as importantly I would like to hear from volunteers to help coach or manage the team. I would like these volunteers to come from outside of the group that are currently involved at club level. Please let me know if you can help out. It is a great opportunity for our young squad to really improve their football.