Old Colleague News July 2014
Old Colleagues Day Saturday 19th July.
Old Colleagues to assemble at headquarters for the games against Knox Old Boys. All games are critical for Club Championship points and all games look to be hotly contested. The Club’s players are always highly appreciative of the support on the sidelines from Old Colleagues and a big crowd of Old Colleagues really promotes a home ground advantage.
Its also 30 years since the 1984 Kentwell and Burke Cup teams were victorious in their Grand Finals at Concord Oval. What better way to toast these great victories other than Old Colleagues Day.
“OLD COLLEAGUES DAY”
The Old Colleagues gathered, eighty years of stories to tell,
Of blood and beer and bravery that made the home crowd yell.
They came from near and far, with one reason all the same,
To remember that great club where they played the running game.
There was Jackson and Murchison from nineteen thirty three,
Then Storch and Barraclough in the early days they had the key.
Corlis, Noice and Harriden the club sings their reign,
and Anderson and Edwards in the eighties,
they made the Colleagues name.
They assembled to watch the battle, the Kentwell Cup at stake,
Young and old together a tradition there’s to make.
The sky blue of the Colleagues, against the colours of the round,
It was young and old together no backward step to be found.
And when the final whistle blows the curtain on the day,
When dust and dirt and referee has had the final say,
The Colleagues stand there tall having given to the core,
And then and there together “old and new would count the score”.
And later in the clubhouse when the air is running hot
And the opposition captain cries “Colleagues have got the lot”
An Old Colleague will tell the tale of the one that got away.
Cause its possible they say to beat the Colleagues at their game,
but with old and new together be certain;
“The spirit remains the same”
N.S.W. Suburban Rep Game Vs QLD Subbies.
John (Wal) Corlis and John Noice (Noicey) were both invited by subbies to hand out the Jerseys before the above fixture the curtain raiser to the Wallabies Vs France game at the S.F.S. Both Wal and Noicey are both former coaches of the subbies rep team, with Wal being the first ever coach of that team in 1966 which Noicey actually played in ! They must have done the trick as N.S.W. Captained by Colleagues Captain Dan Kelly romped home with an ten try defeat of QLD, 60-19. It was a all Colleague affair with N.S.W retaining the Barraclough Shield.
Go the Colleagues
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