2018 Central Otago U65s

31/07/2018

TOURNAMANT 3 MOSGIEL
Well what a day! With the Lone Star “Saturday night miracle” setting us up well I thought we might be in for a good day!.
GAME 1 COU65 vs Southwest.
1st Half: 41-0
The whole game was a case of “pressure builds points”. A fantastic tera effort tries coming from forward domination (tight heads) slight of hand, Grace, pure speed (Rota), flowing back moves, (Max), tries coming from turnovers, Thomas needs to thank Hannah!! Even with some white line fever we managed to get another try!! In difficult kicking conditions Xavier nailed a total of 12 points with the boots and a try a game high of 17, not far behind him a hatrcik from Simon….it was a peasure to watch !!
Tries to, Simon Cavanagh (3), Sam McAtamney, Max Simpson, Grace Hastie, Josh Allison,
Conversions: 3 to Xavier Small
2nd half: 36-0
Tries to, Xavier Small, Sam McAtamney, Thomas Hulsman, Rota Lafita, Xavier Liddel, Grace Hastie,
Conversions: 3 to Xavier Small
FINAL SCORE: 77-0
Game 2: COU65 vs Metro Gold
A tougher opponent and an all round tighter game! Metro found some grit and determination as they fought to prevent us from a clean sweep…after a flying start we gave way to some pressure and camoe out behind in the 1st half with work to do in the second.
1st half: 19-14 to Metro
Tries to Raff Love and Xavier Liddel
Cons: 2 to Xavier Small
2nd half: 21-0 to CO.
Tries to Raff Love (2), and Sam McAtamney
Cons: 3 to Xavier Small
FINAL SCORE: 35-19
SEASON STATS:
PLAYED 6 won 6
POINTS FOR: 263, POINTS AGAINST: 76.
SO this will be the last update for 2018, a huge thanks to the athletes who played hard and fair and were a pleasure to be around, parents I know you will let them know how proud you are of every single one of them ….each athletes was a pleasure to be around and get to know. To the parents …thanks for the taxi work and the support ….athletes….make sure you thank your parents! Coaches so much time and effort into the guys and grls the way they played with flair, metal and intelligence was a credit to you both….thanks for all your work. To Jono Love….manager extroidinarire …thanks for the support ad “hands on” get done approach! A big thanks to the Sponsor PLACEMAKERS for the hoodies, and finally a big thanks to the photographers!
Congratulations to the 11 players who were selected to the Otago team,
1. Xavier Small
2. Xavier Liddel
3. Sam McAtamney
4. Tam Dix
5. Raff Love
6. Gustav Legnavsky
7. Grace Hastie
8. Thomas Scurr
9. Matt Attenborough
10. Rotor Lafita
11. Thomas Hulsman
You all deserve the honour, to those of you that didn’t quite make it …you have been part of history making central Otago team, be proud that the 11 players that were selected were only able to do so because you did your job and played with distinction.
CO Junior Rugby is in a great health, and we all look forward to reading and hearing about your ongoing rugby journey.
Kia Ora and Kia kaha, over and out!

17/07/2018

Hi all hope the school holidays are going well? Just a reminder that training this week will be in cromwell tommorrow 18th July at 4pm. Training on Sunday will be At 10.30am a slightly later start as the Otago coaches will be taking the session. There will be a further coaching session on the following wed at 4pm. Please let me know if you are unabated to make any one of the sessions. Cheers

03/07/2018

Hi all sorry for the delay on the updates.
1. Tournament 2: Well what a great day, the weather played into our hands and the players were able to show off all their skills!
Game 1: COU65 vs SW- W 64-0
1st half
5 Ties to: Raff off a Hannah turnover, Matt Attenbourough off a Rota turnover, Max S try after team over and full backline move. Thomas Scurr, try off a tight head (best one of the day 😊)Tama Dix try off a rolling maul.
Cons to Xavier: X 4
1st half score 33-0
2nd half:
5 Tries to: Rota off turnover, Tama, Grace off lineout, Thomas Hulsman, Cooper Gilchrest
Cons to Rota: X3
2nd half score 31-0
Game 2: COU65 vs Metro Blue- W 34-26…a game of 2 halves!!
1st half
4 tries to: Max S off turnover from Grace, Josh Allen off penalty from team pressure. Tama off maul, Rota X2.
Cons to Xavier: X 2
1st half score 29-0
2nd half:
1 Try to: Rota
2nd half score 26 -5 to Metro

Well played to all! So many great team tries and the occasional individual piece of brilliance…CO U65 are so far undefeated and enjoying themselves along the way I think!!
2. Training or final tournament: training will be on the Wed 18th and the 25th at 4pm and Sunday the 22nd at 10am. The Otago coaches will be running the training on the Sunday the 22nd. As always let me know if you cant make any of the dates…..its not an issue of you cant ……just let us know.

3. Dinner on the Saturday prior to the final tournament. Based on feedback and prior experience we will now aim to meet at the Speights Ale house in Dunedin rather than the Lone Star. (last year the food was crap and took an age to serve and was cold when it arrived!!!! The kids went to bed late due to the amount of customers…..we will aim to meet at the ale house at 6pm ….le me know if you are keen and ill book a table to make sure we can eat early and get sorted!

4. Weigh in: their will be a weigh in in Mosgiel. Nay player over can still play but cannot be considered for Otago selection.

5. Please let me know if you do not wish to be selected for the Otago team…it is a big commitment. The programme starts on Sunday 5th Aug and goes through to the October school holidays. The programme training or games every Sunday for that period and will include a week long camp in Dunedin when the athletes are billeted out in Dunedin and attend the local schools for the week with the billets. The final tournament is 3 days and wil be in South Canterbury (either Rolleston or Lincoln).

I believe there will be several player from CO selected and as we did last year the sharing of rides and logistics means that not everyone needs to travel every week…..

6. Finally, can all the athletes please send a report to me rating themselves out of 5 on the achievement of their goals to date where 1= what goals? Through to 5: nailed all of them and cant wait to carry on…obviously 2.5 would be “work inprogress!”
A special thanks to Jono Love for the help and assistance on managing the team at training and game days…much appreciated!!
Photo money is now all in so I’ll order the 21 photos we need and try to get them delivered for the final tournament.
Thanks again to one and all and see you all soon. Good luck to everyone on finals day this Saturday.
Cheers, Ashley

01/07/2018

2nd tournament

28/06/2018

GAMES THIS SUNDAY.

Hi all we have a changing room at the club rooms for us on Sunday. Can we all be there for 9am please.

Its normally wet muddy and cold !! please come prepared with a change of warm clothes!

please give me a call with any questions or with any issues on saturday after club rugby games...injuries etc......a good recovery and a good dose of carbohydrates with low fat protein is a good way to go after playing on sat ....ideally within an hour of playing.

Stay safe, drive safe and see you all on Sunday morning.

cheers

25/06/2018

HI all a reminder that training will be on this Wednesday in Cromwell at 4pm. Weather is supposed to clear somewhat so we will assume its all go unless you hear otherwise.

Please also remember your envelope with $18 for the photo if you wish to receive one. We will need to confirm photo numbers by Sunday.

Also the U48s have booked the upstairs function room at the Lone Star in Dunedin, the saturday evening prior to the final Tournament. There is plenty of room for our team. We would look to start dinner early and finish early too!!

Can you please let me know if you are interested in this event...its an opportunity to celebrate the season for the athletes and wish good luck to anyone selected for the OtagoU65 team as well.

thanks and as always give me a call with any questions 021 454 448.

14/06/2018

Hi all

as you know the team photos were taken on Sunday.

If you wish to purchase an official photo(s) they are $18 dollars each.

1. Please see the attachment of names on this email.
2. if your name is correct then DO NOT RESPOND
3. If your name is incorrect please respond to me with the preferred/correct name.
4. Please bring 18 dollars in EXACT $$ to training in an envelope with your name on the outside of the envelope.

Please note i wont have change and will not be giving any change! any $2 will be pooled and used to buy drinks (powerade etc) for the team at the last tournament.

Check: Sam McAtamney you had 2 tt’s, only one t last year; Thomas Hulsman last year is this the same guy; you have Rotor Fifelie last year he was Rota Lafita, is he the same guy?; Matt Attenbrough last year he was Matthew Attenborough; ?

Back Row: George Crotty, Xavier Small, Casey Brown, Tomas Hulmsmen, Matt Attenbrough.
Middle Row: Steve Lithgow (Coach), Riley Allan, Josh Allison, Tama Dix, Simon Cavanagh, Sam McAtamney, Rafferty Love, W***y Scurr (Coach).
Front Row: Loren Edwards, Grace Hastie, Xavier Liddell, Rotor Fifelie (Captain), Gustav Legnavsky, Thomas Scurr, Cooper Gilchrist, Hannah Lithgow

11/06/2018

Great team effort everyone, and two wins to top off some enjoyable rugby!
We came together like we had been playing together since the start of the year. Beaver and I were very happy with how you played, your team work and sportsmanship.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game,
that we are only as a good as our opponents,
and whether we win or lose,
to always give 100 percent.

Great to see positive sideline behaviour and attitudes from all players and Central Otago supporters. We want people to know how awesome we are, so keep it up!

11/06/2018

11/06/2018

Great performances yesterday leaving your coaches very happy indeed! From what ive heard the team work was fantastic.
CO vs Metro Blue= W 24-12
CO vs Metro Gold = W 29-19

there are over 70 pictures of the games and the day on the team page...thanks to all for posting your shots!
Also a BIG thank you to PLACEMAKERS for the hoodies, i know there's one spelling mistake...let me know if there are any other issues ...other then sizing ...the kids called the sizes!!

thanks to the brilliant Jono and Shane for managing and sorting the kit .....AWESOME work !

Next training is this Sunday 17th at 10am in Cromwell.

NO TRAINING ON THE 24th as its test weekend and several families are away in Dunedin for the ABs test.

There will be training on Wednesday 27th 4pm as the final training before the Tapanui tournament.

If you are looking at staying near the Tapnui venue the night before the "Heartland Hotel Croydon in Gore , (100 Waimea Street, tel : 03 208 9029, [email protected]) is a popular spot ...i know many of the other teams are staying there.

I'm not booking accommodation for the team ...its up to you!!

As always any questions give me a call

10/06/2018

Metro Blue defeated
and Metro Gold defeated as well