Round 16 – Training, Wrap and Ball

Club Training is on tonight  at Trumper Oval, Glenmore Road, Paddington 6:30pm. Three games to go until finals so we really need to be working hard over the next few weeks to make sure we hit peak fitness at the start of finals.

A Blue Rinse requested, a Blue Rinse delivered. It’s always difficult to win away from home and Saturday showed exactly why the blue giants are a force to be reckoned with come September. Perhaps the state of the field, being similar to our own meant that we felt like it was a home game…

Suthos and Judd were as always, ruthless in their wins against Petersham and Judd put together a definite contender for try of the year to close out their match, it was outstanding to watch.

Whiddo’s had a tougher match but nonetheless, came away with a bonus point win to put them on top of the ladder with a game in hand over second placed St Pats. Colties are conitnuing their return from holidays with a very sound second half performance to deliver another bonus point victory.

Burkies were extremely impressive in their demolition of a pretty solid Petersham Burke cup side and showed a real hunger to put through 5 tries, great effort boys. Kentwell were slow out of the blocks but then put in a very solid ‘rest-of-the-first-half’ to lead 24-5 at half time. Then continued the worrying recent trend of switching off to allow Petersham back into the game before kicking away again to lead by 21 with 10 to go. Unfortunately, the boys completely gave up at that point and leaked 3 tries but only 2 conversions to narrowly escape 38-36. A win’s a win but we will need to be far better in the next few weeks.

This week we have our make-up game against Drummoyne from way back in Round 9. The dirty reds are a strong club so it will take some big efforts this week and weekend to roll them. Make sure you get to training tonight as there is a lot of work to be done.

Games this weekend are at McKay oval in Centennial park so make sure you don’t turn up to BGS. Further details to follow later in the week regarding game times.

After the games, the Blue Giants Room at the Woollahra Hotel has been booked so we can head up for a few speeches, $5 Carltons and half priced meals before watching the first Bledisloe. Doesn’t get much better than that!

The Annual Colleagues Ball is Woollahra Colleagues night of nights. This is all about the glamour of colleagues and a chance to step out in your finest kit with the trophy girl by your side. Not only is this a chance to thank the better half for putting up with all your late Thursday nights and drunken Saturday nights, it is also a chance to introduce her to your team mates’ mrs so that she has a buddy to hang out with on grand final weekend. Don’t miss out on this fantastic evening, for those that haven’t been before, it really is the best night of the year. Couples are strongly encouraged and if you can, groups of single girls are even more strongly encouraged.

Details:
Date:               23rd August, 7:00pm (NEXT WEEKEND!)
Cost:              $100 per ticket (Dinner and drinks all included – this is an absolute steal)
Theme:           Black tie masquerade
Venue:           The Bucket List, Bondi
Pre drinks:     Wallabies vs All Blacks in Auckland 5:30pm – venue TBA

Payment details:
Woollahra Colleagues RUFC
BSB: 032004
ACCT. No: 990001
Reference: **NAME** Ball

Alternatively, there are further details on the facebook page or you can simply click this link to pay by credit card. Get in now, before it’s too late.

Physio extraordinaire Pete Sweeney’s running club is doing a fundraiser at the Bledisloe Cup this weekend at ANZ. In exchange for handing out a mercandise – Try signs, big fingers and the like, Pete’s club is offering a free ticket to the game.

For further details, please contact Pete: padgessweeny@yahoo.co.uk

After the tailgating success of the Gold Brigade during the June test series, the Gold Brigade is back to cheer home the Wallabies in what is sure to be an enormous Bledisloe cup match on August 16th at ANZ stadium.
There will be a party before and after the match, now known as the ‘BLEDISLOE B&S’. There are 3000 Gold Brigade tickets so make sure you dont miss out. The bigger the group, the better, you can book up to groups of 20 by the following link: //bit.ly/1pDfeKP
Get behind the wallabies, it’s time to get the Bledisloe Back.

Will Davies (a sometimes Juddies & sometimes Burkies player) started the peer-to-peer car sharing platform Car Next Door about 2 years ago and they now have shit loads of cars all over the eastern suburbs. – see where: //www.carnextdoor.com.au/find-a-car/.    He wanted to give all Colleagues a free day’s car rental on the house. To get the free day, just quote COLLEAGUES14 when you join up.  This will give you $35 off your first trip, which for most trips is the full cost.  (Cars start from $5/hour or $25/day, plus 33c a kilometre which covers fuel).

Also keen to speak to people who have a car they don’t use much and want to earn $2-6k per year from it.

To find out more or to join, check out www.carnextdoor.com.au.