Old Colleagues

June 2020 Season Update

June 25, 2020    ·    Tim Booth    ·    Old Colleagues, Weekly news

Season Update April 2020

April 22, 2020    ·    Tim Booth    ·    Old Colleagues, Weekly news

Fellow Colleagues and Supporters,

The past few weeks have been challenging for everyone and our thoughts are with each and every one of you as you navigate these unchartered waters.

Season Update

An update on the rugby front for you. Like every sporting organisation around the world, Subbies rugby is watching the developments of COVID-19 very closely with the intention of getting us all back on the field as quickly as possible whilst maintaining our health and safety as the primary objective. We have had a phone hook up with Subbies management who outlined a draft plan to play half of the 2020 season, commencing in July, and culminating in one day of Finals in mid September. As you can imagine, this is nothing more than a concept at this stage given the great uncertainty around how long we are going to be restricted to semi-isolation.

As a club, we are drafting plans to carry out a second pre-season which will be conducted remotely/online. Watch this space for more details as this gets finalised. Every week, we will be hosting a discussion forum (drinks) at 6:30pm on Thursdays for anyone who wants to sign into the zoom call. The link will be sent around on the Players Portal. If you are not on that and would like to participate, please contact me.

I will keep you closely updated on the developments for the 2020 season and a new date for the Long Lunch as soon as we get the all clear!!

As always, if you have any questions or comments or just want to chat, please don’t hesitate calling.

Stay safe and keep your distance!!

Best regards,

Cam Ireland

Season 2020 Update

March 25, 2020    ·    Tim Booth    ·    Old Colleagues, Weekly news

To all Colleagues,

We find ourselves in a really horrible and difficult situation as our society struggles with adapting to working from home, minimal social interaction and no organised sport.

To anyone who finds themselves out of work, our thoughts are with you. I am not sure what we can do to help in the short term but we are open to all ideas. To our sponsors who are suffering as a result, we assure you, we will be there to support you on the other side of this. If there is anything we can do in the meantime, please reach out to me.

We ask all of you to please be sensible and act responsibly with your social interactions, and equally as important, stay in touch with your mates.

Unless you’re in isolation, get outside and go for a run or go for a ride. Macca will be sending through some programs players can do from home and others you can do at different locations close to home.

Whilst I would love to say let’s all catch up for a beer, this isn’t what we need to be doing right now! We will make up for it when the coast clears!

Stay healthy, be sensible and I look forward to having a game of footy and a beer with everyone as soon as possible!!

Regards,

Cam Ireland

Season 2020 News

March 19, 2020    ·    Tim Booth    ·    Old Colleagues, Weekly news

All Colleagues I would firstly like to take this opportunity to thank all of our returning sponsors and financial supporters for 2020. The support of the Bellevue / Oak Hotels, Qube Logistics, Sharp IT, Fortius Funds Management, Escala Partners, Kemosabe Capital, Belle Property Surry Hills, Ryans Bar, Gordon Brothers, Verandah Bar, Mad Hatters, Jan Logan, SV Partners, QGS, Woodstock Resources and new sponsor Flagon Dry Productions allows our rugby club to function week in week and out provide an opportunity for everyone to have a game of footy. We had a great trial against Bowral last weekend with over 40 blokes having a hit out, a great result for the first trial with over 4 weeks until the regular season was due to start…With incredible numbers of new players, returning colts and grade players alike turning up to pre-season, 2020 is shaping up to be a cracking year for the Blue Giants!! With one hiccup….. As you will all have seen by now, the ARU has postponed the commencement of all community rugby until early May. This includes tournaments, training and scheduled matches. The ARU and their in house health professionals are obviously watching the developing situation closely and will keep all clubs closely advised. At this stage, we are also planning to postpone our annual Long Lunch which was scheduled to be held on Friday 8th May and Old Colleagues Day, Saturday 9th May. Please watch this space closely as we will lock in a new date as soon as we are 100% confident we can provide a safe environment for everyone to enjoy themselves and shake hands with their mates! With a disrupted season, we strong urge everyone to get behind the lunch, when we know the date, as we will need all your support!! As Colleagues, we are unfortunately not able to sanction any training events until further notice. Our upcoming charity Bondi Tens tournament and trial games have had to be cancelled. Our fitness coach is currently putting together individual programs for those interested (please contact Matt directly) and will also issue a general club fitness plan that we encourage everyone to partake in, good for players and those retired alike!! Players, please keep an eye on team group chats and social notices for further updates. As always, please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any feedback, questions or comments. Stay safe, stay healthy and we look forward to welcoming you down to Blue Giant Stadium soon!! All the best, Cam Ireland 0418 246 460 You’re receiving this because you have subscribed to the Colleagues newsletter Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Colleagues Long Lunch and Old Colleagues Day

March 10, 2019    ·    Tim Cullen    ·    Old Colleagues, Weekly news

Good afternoon Everyone,

I hope you are having a great Friday and have some great plans for the weekend.

Hopefully by now you have all locked away Friday 3rd May for the long lunch!! Doltone House, Elizabeth Street. 1230 kick off! 

Colleagues legend Toby Lawson will be carrying out a Q and A with Wallabies legends Justin Harrison and Owen Finnegan with David Croft and Stephen Hoiles TBC. There will be other special guests in the crowd as well.

To purchase tickets, please click here //www.trybooking.com/BBJXX

If you want to pay into Colleagues account, please let me know.

Please pass this around and drum up some support. It is going to be a cracking day. 

Please let us know if you can organise a table or two.

If you can’t absolutely no stress, purchase your ticket and we will get you on a table with 9 other super good people!!

We will be holding Old Colleagues Day the following day, Saturday 4th May, Colleagues host Mosman at home. There will be a heavily discounted food and drinks package available for old boys, as well as a jumping castle for the little ones. No excuse not to come, bring the kids down and get them picked up at 5pm when Mum finishes shopping and Dad can hang around for a few more tins. More details to come.

Follow the club on Instagram wcrufc Woollahra Colleagues for up to date information.

I look forward to catching up on 3rd May.

Regards, Cam Ireland

cameroni@agrow.com.au

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