Old Colleagues News – Semi Finals

September is here and the Colleagues boys have just finished the regular season winning the Halligan Cup premiership for 2014 and also taking out 3 minor premierships in Whiddon, Judd (undefeated) and Sutherland Cups.

This weekend sees Colleagues with 5 teams in the Semi Finals at David Phillips Field, with only Kentwell missing out, running a very close 5th. The club also came second to St Patricks in the Club Championship.

Congratulations to all the teams this year, who have put in some very had work and again produced some excellent rugby.

Details of each of the games at David Phillips Field this Saturday 6/9 are as follows:

• Burke at 1:45pm: Colleagues[2] vs St Pats[1]
• Barbour (Colts) at 12:20pm: Colleagues[4] vs Knox[3]
• Whiddon at 11:05am: Colleagues[1] vs St Patricks[2]
• Judd at 10:00am: Colleagues[1] vs St Patricks[2]
• Sutherland 9:00am: Colleagues[1] vs Old Ignations[2]

​The Preliminary Finals on 13/9 are at David Phillips Field, with the Grand Finals on 20/9 at TG Millner.

Please make an effort to get to some of the games during the finals campaign, as the boys really need our support.

We need your help ! The club has lost contact details of more than 70% of the 1400 people who have played or coached at the club over the last 40 years.

The club has invested in improving the website, outbound email and now needs your help to find the “missing Colleagues”.

To make it really easy, we have created a web page with the list of the Colleagues players organised by decade and whether we have their email contact details.

All we need you to do is review your decade(s) of players and click on the name and enter the email address of any contacts you may have. A welcoming email will be sent to them and they can unsubscribe if they prefer.

Please set yourself a target of finding and reconnecting 5 missing Blue Giants.

Click here to see and update member details

 

The Sydney Convicts have retained the Bingham Cup – the gay and inclusive rugby World Cup for the fourth time – in a 31-0 grand final thrashing of the Brisbane Hustlers.

Held for the first time in the southern hemisphere since it began in 2002, the bi-annual competition was contested by 24 teams from 15 countries.

Congratulations to the Convicts and all the volunteers who made the tournament a great success.

A special well done and thank you to Goochie and Hitcho and their helpers for operating the club house and running the bar and food through out the tournament.

Go the Blue Giants ! ! !

Old Colleagues Committee – Tim Cullen