Colts – 2nd March 6pm

Every Tues and Thurs 6.00pm Kettle Park, transport leaves 5.30pm

 City College-> Dundas Dairy->Commerce Building->Cumberland Hall.

                                 Pre-Season Trials:                                                          

Colts – March 6^th, 13^th+20^th – internal trials,

27^th v other clubs (teams named 27 March)

Trials start 1pm assemble 12.00pm(Transport leaves  11.45).

Colts Comp. starts 17 April (Colts train Mon & Wed 6pm)

All Enquires

Hayden Crowley 0274274792 or haydencrowley@hotmail.com

Registration days

New players welcome; the clubhouse is at 12 Moana Rua Road in St Clair, with directions here.

Sunday 7th March 1 – 2pm and Wednesday 10th March 5 -7pm

Coaching

If you’re going to coach this year, please contact Tony Gomez ASAP. All Coaches have to do a Small Blacks coaching course again this year. Three sessions will be held on:

Monday 12/4/10 – 6.30pm Taieri College

Tuesday 13/4/10 – 6.30pm Kings

Wednesday 14/4/2010 – 6.30pm Logan Park Highlanders Training Centre.

First playing day

Saturday 24th April 2010, which is the first Saturday of Term 2

Highlanders open day

Sunday 7th Feb Open day at Carisbrook 12 – 2pm

Pre-season training starts Tuesday 9 February 2010 @ Kettle Park @ 6.00 p.m.

Then every Thursday and Tuesday night @ 6.00 p.m. @ Kettle Park

Premier 1 Pre-season game schedule

Saturday 6 March 2010  -  Middlesex 7s @ North Ground (Alhambra-Union)

Saturday 13 March 2010 – vs Invercargill Marist in Invercargill (bus will leave about 9.00 a.m.)

Saturday 20 March 2010 – vs Pirates @ Hancock Park (Pirates)

Friday 26 March 2010  – vs Lawrence @ Carisbrook for Heartland Cup. Afternoon game that is a curtain-raiser to Highlanders game.

Saturday 3rd April 2010 – Metropolitan Premier Competition commences (NB this game mak be rescheduled to Thursday 1 April 2010)

The Dunedin Rugby Football Club (Inc.)

as a playing member for 2010

“The Dunedin Rugby Club model should be used as a case study by clubs around the country”

Rugby News magazine, 6th August 2009

A very warm invitation is extended to you to join the Dunedin Rugby Club as a playing member for 2010.

The club …

In 2009 won the Premier 1 Grade Championship

Has 5 rugby grounds with 2 floodlit for training.

Won the Premier 2 Grade in five of the last seven years

 Pre-season trials for all grades, followed by ‘pig-on-the-spit barbecues’.

Colts Sundays for all Colts team members; players, coaches and management.

The Premier I Team has contested the finals of the club championship four times in the last five years for two victories; the only club in the competition with such a record. For three of these five years, the Premier II grade side won their grade.

Kettle Park, Dunedin on Tuesday the 24th November 2009 at 7.30pm

 AGENDA

1.  Confirm Minutes of 2008 Annual General Meeting.
2.  Receive and consider 2009 Annual Report, Accounts and Balance Sheet.
3.  Election of Office Bearers 2009.
4.  General Business

Dunedin Makos   3       Southern Magpies 10                

3rd v4th Playoff Colts Division 1

Dunedin Bulls  20         University Blue  38                    

Final  Colts Division 2

Dunedin Tigers   61    Southern Cats  0

The club showed once again its strength in Dunedin Metropolitan rugby competition for the 2009 season by sharing the Ainge Charity Shield with the Southern Rugby Football Club.

 The History of the Ainge Charity Shield

The Ainge Shield was first contested in 1923, for the first 12 years it was contested in a play-off match between the top two teams in the Dunedin premier competition. In 1938 the competition was changed to the overall finishing position of each club’s top five teams.. One point is allocated for the first place, two for second and three for third. The club with the lowest number of points wins the trophy.

Dunedin Makos   v    Southern Magpies                 Bathgate Park 1       2.30pm

3rd v4th Playoff Colts Division 1

Dunedin Bulls      v    University Blue                      Kettle Park 2            12.45pm

Final  Colts Division 2

Dunedin Tigers   v    Southern Cats                       Kettle Park 1             12.45pm

All Dunedin RFC Players,Members and Friends please support these teams

SUNDAY 9th AUGUST 2009 – 12pm

CLUB ROOMS
Food, Drinks, Formal Awards, Light Hearted Awards

SUPER SUNDAY

All  Players, Club Members and Supporters To Attend

GO THE SHARKS!!

• View slideshow

Dunedin won the Speight’s championship shield when it beat Southern 11-10 in a gripping final that was in the balance until the final whistle.

• Video: Dunedin wins club final

It was tense championship rugby and the Dunedin supporters in the crowd of 3000 stood as one and cheered their team when referee Ross Barnett blew for full-time.

The hero for Dunedin was No 8 and captain Scott McKee, who won his second championship banner.

McKee played a key role with his ability to break the advantage line by taking the ball up after the Dunedin scrum had been pushed backward.

He combined with Tim Fraser and Jon Crossan in a fiery loose forward trio that dominated the breakdown and kept the pressure on Southern.

Dunedin dominated possession in the first spell and looked to have the game under control when it led 11-0 at the break, though in the early exchanges, the powerful Southern scrum had pushed the Dunedin eight backwards and threatened to take charge.

The strong Dunedin line-out, headed by lock Michael Gurran, began to starve Southern of ball, which allowed Dunedin to take the upper hand.

Gurran had an outstanding game and won eight clean takes to give his side a three-to-one advantage in the line-outs.

He was also powerful on his marauding runs.

Dunedin nabbed two takes off Southern throws in the first spell, one of which, by Gurran after 23 minutes, led to the first try.

Winger Tumua Ioane and halfback Fraser Lau attacked down the short side and Gurran was up in support to toe the ball over the line for the try.

Lively counter-attacking fullback Robbie Smith added penalty goals after 30 and 35 minutes to give Dunedin an 11-0 advantage at the break.

A rejuvenated Southern team attacked from all quarters in the second spell, getting on the board through a penalty to halfback Joe Burford before closing the gap to just one point after centre Lucky Mulipola scored the best try of the game, on the 54-minute mark.

He beat four defenders on his 55m run to score under the bar.

McKee knew that the game was in the balance and called his team into a huddle while Burford added the extra points.

“I barked out a few orders,” McKee said.

“We had to dig deep on defence and be clinical. We couldn’t afford to miss tackles and give away penalties in our own territory.”

The Dunedin plan had been to move the targets wider with the pick-and-go and drive to keep the bigger Southern pack on the move.

While it executed the plan to perfection in the first spell, when its forwards were in control, it was unable to maintain the accuracy and intensity for the first 25 minutes of the second spell, when Southern took charge.

McKee knew Southern was capable of snatching a last-gasp win if it could gets its hands on the ball and launch an all-out attack in the last five minutes.

“We couldn’t afford to lose our cool or panic at that stage,” McKee said.

“We just had to hang on to the ball and keep it close with the pick-and-go as we worked our way downfield.”

McKee’s words had the desired effect on his team-mates, who defended desperately to deny Southern further opportunity to score.

Another key Dunedin player was Lau, who tested the opposition with his probing kicks over the top and his harassment around the fringes.