July/August 2012 - Pakuranga United Rugby Club

SIDELINE NEWSLETTER JULY/AUGUST EDITIONTAIESE AND DICKISON REACH BLAZER GAMESTwo more players earned their Blazers at the end of the Premierseason. Big mobile prop Mausia Taiese and utility back Mark Dickisonboth reached this important milestone. To achieve a Blazer you mustplay 40 Premier games so this is a huge feat for these boys. Congratulationsto the boys on reaching this milestone and the Club ishoping we get to see them running out for the Premiers for manyyears to come!BELL PARK AND GROUND RENOVATIONSOne of the most talked about items at the Club is the current state of Bell Park and thetraining fields. Unfortunately for the Club the Council (who manages the ground) madesome bad decisions during the year which virtually wiped out the turf cover on theseareas.The Club has had several meeting with Council in a bid to return both Bell Park and the“Sand Pit” (well named this year) to top condition for 2013 season. At the conclusion ofthe current season Bell Park is to be closed until 2013 to allow a full recovery of the turf.While the “Sand Pit” will be reseeded and closed for the summer period. The Councilwill now work a lot closer with the Club to ensure the maintenance of Bell Park is ofoptimum standard so every grade in 2013 will have the chance of playing on it.Next year will see more fields at Pakuranga sand slit like Lloyd Elsmore Park 5 and 6.Lloyd Elsmore Park 2 and 3 are to be done at the conclusion of the touch seasonwhilst Lloyd Elsmore Park 1 will have stage one drain pipes installed. The Club isextremely grateful for the work being done by the Howick Local Board to make ourgrounds a lot more playable for us all to enjoy.Thank you all very much for keeping off our playing grounds when asked in 2012 andby carefully looking after the grounds we have managed to play rugby every Saturdaywith only one grade cancellation throughout the whole year.SENIOR AND JUNIOR PRIZEGIVINGSSENIOR PRIZEGIVINGDATE: FRIDAY, 21st SEPTEMBER 7PMVENUE: PAKURANGA CLUBROOMSTICKET COST: $25DRESS CODE: CLUB SHIRT/POLOS TO BE WORNNURSERY (U5s & U6s) PRIZEGIVINGDATE: FRIDAY 31st AUGUSTVENUE: PAKURANGA CLUBRROMSTIME: 6.15PMJUNIOR AND INTERMEDIATE PRIZEGIVINGDATE: 1st SEPTEMBERVENUE: PAKURANGA CLUBROOMSTIME: U7s-U10s 9.00AM AND U11s-U13s 11AMCOME DOWN AND CELEBRATE THE 2012 RUGBY SEASON