Chairpersons Update

WE ARE HERE … only 24 hours to go until we kick-off for the 2022 season of CMK club rugby. Our Squads have all been training hard and we have a really great bunch of lads. This year we have gone with the saying of #ONECLUB and we are living by that by being a close group of members no matter if you are a Senior player, Junior player or supporter - we want you all to feel welcome. If there is someone in the club you don’t know, be sure to introduce yourself and shake their hand, so by the end of the season, we all know each other.

One thing you will notice and may have read online, is we are very short of referees this year so Tukapa is rolling out some Tukapa referees to help with the shortage. If you are keen to be involved please let me know. Also on the point of referees, we as a club, need to be better with our sideline behaviour. Referees do get the calls wrong or don’t always see things, just the same as you do in your job from time to time, so if this happens yelling at them is not going to help and it just means there is a chance we lose another referee from our game. You will see all our coaches and management will be staying on their benches and will not be approaching referees so please do the same. If you feel like yelling abuse, you are not welcome to stay.

This Weeks Games

This weekend we have our Gardiner Plumbing Colts & NZ Sparky Division 1 kicking off at Vogeltown Park at 1pm followed by our Egmont Seeds Premiers at 2.45pm. Our Lion Brown Senior 3rds are at Corbett Park against Kaitake at 1pm. Please get out and support all our teams.

Tukapa Clubrooms will be open from 2pm with the live stream playing and will stay open until 11.30pm so be sure to come see us at home … we miss you.

This Season Format

With this season working a little different, here is a brief rundown of the 1st three rounds. There are two pools with Spotswood United, Coastal, and NPOB in ours - we play them in Premiers, Division 1, and Colts, and per game you get 3 points for a win, 2 points for a draw, and 1 point for a loss. If you default you get 0. All the points go on one points table so if we win the three games against NPOB we pick up 9 points or if we lose all three we get 3 points.
The club with the most points after three rounds wins the pool and $1,000 for the club. If we have the most points overall out of both pools the club wins another $3,000 and the rights to host club finals.
Following these three weeks, points are zeroed then all teams play one full round in their own competitions for the silverware. Also, we have decided to play for all the club vs club silverware in this round as well.

Division 2 will play one full round across all teams, then semi-finals and finals.

We have a few nights planned for after-game activities and will give more information in the weeks to come. There will be a return of Crab Racing this year as well as a few other nights.

We have all but filled our sponsorship spots and over the coming week, we will be publishing our sponsors so you can all support them. We do have a couple of 1st 15 spots open if you are keen to jump on board at $800+gst a year for 3 years. If you are keen I will come and pay you a visit and have a chat.

Also, our Corporate box is available for some home games at $700 a game which includes a full fridge and food at halftime. If you are keen also get in contact with me.

Sorry for the lack of newsletters over the past few months, we will now be bringing you all the news each Friday with our weekly newsletter and team announcements. See you on the sidelines.

Your Chairperson Scott Siffleet. Blue and White for life

Chairpersons Update

As we start to get the wheels turning for hopefully a season of rugby without any Covid disruptions, Tukapa is looking in great shape across all teams. I would like to welcome our new and old coaches back and thank you for the time you give up.

Premiers	Ben Siffleet, Nathan Lawrence
Div 1	Bailey Walsh, Kris Moller
Colts	Zinny Sinclair, Jared Werder
Div 2	Daniel Green, Reece Hannam

Without these guys doing what they do and giving our players the best opportunity to develop we would not have rugby teams to support.

As well as our coaches, I also what to thank my Executive committee for all the work behind the scenes you guys do 12 months of the year.

Chairperson	Scott Siffleet
Club Administrator	Jan Holdt
Club Captain	Daniel Green
Treasurer	Tom O’Connor
Board members	Reece Hannam
	Darryn Jones (Junior Convenor)
	Jack Deluca
	Dan Johanson
President	Dave Fuller
Vice President	Lindsay Thomson
Patron	Peter Coles
RDO	Ben Siffleet

On top of all these people there are also a lot of other volunteers that keep our great club going, thank you guys you are great.

I have been up at pre-season this year and I am very impressed that all our teams are training as one and helping each other out - with over 30 at every training session, this is great. Our motto for the season is ONE CLUB and for me this means we don’t leave anyone behind, we look after our mates and everyone is included no matter where you are from or who you are. Life is too short not to enjoy our time at Tukapa and it has taken till now when we lost Rangi to realise that everyone takes something different from Tukapa but at the end of the day we all love the place and our Family there.

Lighting Project

An update on our lighting project, we are only a matter of weeks before we can flick the switch on Stage 2 and have lights for field 1 to join our already completed field 2.  You will see that our lights are now all in place on field 1 thanks to Daniel Green, Ben Siffleet, Darryn Jones, Liam Bernet, Mason Porteous, Talor Owen, Pete Siffleet and myself. Also big thanks to Hirepool and Chris Bell for the lend of a scissor lift and digger.

While we had the scissor at the club we have also managed to get four lights back working on field 3 using bits off the other field’s old lights.  Hopefully, in the near future, we will have funding to also upgrade this field.

At this stage, Rugby will start on the 9th of April against NPOB for all teams with our Premier’s and Division 1’s kicking off over at the Whitehouse at 1pm and 2.45pm and our Colts and Division 2 at the chook house at 1pm. The following weekend being Easter we are looking at Premiers, Division 1 and Colts all playing under lights on the Thursday night to free up Easter weekend. But with all this said, who knows where we will be at with the mighty Covid.

I have talked about all our volunteers and the other most important part of running our club is our Sponsors without them we would not have the funds to keep our club alive. I have started working through the list of Sponsors and if you are a sponsor I will be in contact over the next couple of weeks. For our members I also need a hand with sponsors, I need you to help me and be sure to shop with our sponsors, use the trades that sponsor us and be sure to tell them the reason you are using them is because they support Tukapa. When I meet with sponsors this is the biggest thing they want to see is that our own members support them as they support us. So please get behind our sponsors and back our own people.

This year we have a change in RDO (rugby development officer) which is a paid roll through the TRFU and funded by the Taranaki Farm Trust. This trust is a real asset to Taranaki rugby and the envy of all other unions through NZ.  This year Ben Siffleet is our man for Tukapa and has already brought some fresh ideas to the roles with “Give It a Go” days for our Juniors running on a Thursday to try and get more kids involved in rugby.  Ben will be a real asset to Tukapa and is more than happy to help out with any coaches that need a hand. He has also started sessions in Primary Schools today with St John Bosco, St Joesphs, Frankley and Westown all in the 1^st term program as well as working closely with Francis Douglas. 

An update on a memorial for our mate Rangi.  We have been looking at the 3^rd of April for this but with the way the world is at the moment we don’t want to run this in the current bubble set up so will put this on hold until we can do it properly.

Pre Season  So we have booked in two teams to go to Wellington and defend the Zemba Cup, this is a tradition we have brought back alive over the last few years and will again play this year, the date for this is 26^th March.

We also have a new game this year that we hope everyone can get in behind and support as our season launch we will be playing Chooks All Stars Vs College Old boys which will be an in-house game on the 19^th March. We are still working through details with more info to come.

In the next few days you will get another email on how to join as a player and/or Social member for 2022

In line with New Zealand Rugby advice, Tukapa Rugby & Sports Club will require ALL club members to hold a Vaccine Certificate to participate in training and game day activities as well as entering the club’s premises.  The club premises are defined as the clubrooms, deck and concreted area around the building, changing rooms and on-field areas.

Spectator areas will be defined as “uncontrolled areas” and will be the personal responsibility of individuals to follow the appropriate public health guidelines.

This year we are introducing digital membership cards through the Sporty website:

• This will manage the mandatory uploading of My Vaccine Passes (MVP) when registering as a player or social member
• Members must register individually (ie. partners of members no longer register together as MVP’s are required for each person)
• Players and members will have the ability to manage their digital cards on their phones
• This is more cost effective for the club

Members and players from the 2021 season will receive an email with a link to the website as well as instructions on how to save your digital card to your phone.  A reminder that all registrations will require the uploading of your MVP to finalise the process.

If you have any issues with this please talk to me.

Alternatively, here is a link to the forms:

Social Members                  https://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/189131

Senior Players                     https://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/171695

A message from the Premier Management

2022 season at Tukapa is looking exciting. Pre-season for the club has started well and we have some great keen players putting their hand up early.

Our new prop Tom Edwards from Canterbury is here and looking strong.  Tom is a builder that can play both sides of the scrum, we welcome Tom and his partner to the club. We also have Keahn Tipu joining us from the Gold Coast.  Keahn is a 10 / 15 and we are excited to have him and his partner joining us at Tukapa. Our third player coming into the Squad is Campbell Woodmass who is a halfback that has been playing for the Wellington Lions and a good mate of an ex Tukapa man Scott Waldrom.  Again we welcome Campbell and partner to our Tukapa Family.

Along with the new blood both Lukas Halls and Chris Jollands are looking fit after missing last club season and with the return of some old heads such as Scott Mellow, Leighton Price and Pomare Samupo, the 2022 prem squad is shaping up nicely.

We are now in full swing with pre-season training so get along and get into Rugby.

Ben Siffleet, Co Coach Tukapa Premiers

A message from our Club Captain

The Tukapa season didn’t all go to plan but we are already looking forward to the 2022 season. With a few pres-eason trainings already taking place getting rid of the holiday food bubble, it’s good to see people are keen. There are already a few new faces appearing which is a good sign, but we will always welcome more.

The Senior 3rds haven’t started their recruitment drive yet so don’t be surprised if some of you get a message. The majority of the lads will be back so no doubt the social environment will still be in fine form, but in saying that, we would all like to improve on the footy field as well.

With the season starting with a trip to Poneke and new lights to play under, there’s certainly plenty to look forward to in the season ahead.

Lastly thank you to all the volunteers for the endless help throughout the season. It certainly doesn’t go unnoticed.

I look forward to seeing you all again this year.

Daniel Green

I really just cannot wait to get into the season and see some great rugby played by our Blue and White Hoops.  See you at the chookhouse.

Blue and White for life, your chairperson Scott Siffleet

Chairpersons Update

The passing of Leslie Allan Scherp

It is with great sadness we report the passing of Leslie Allan Scherp (Allan). The club extends condolences to Allan's wife Betty and his extended family.

NZ Barbarians U85 Club Cup Final

Don't miss Bantams vs Bushies going head to head Saturday at TET Stadium Inglewood, 4.30pm kick-off and live on Sky sport.

The clubhouse is open from 2pm for the Curtin raiser of Taranaki vs Otago and then the main event Bantams vs Bushies. Sausage sizzle on deck run by Curly Boulton and the bar will be open.

Blue & White Luncheon

A final get-together for the year for all Blue & Whites.

Luncheon to be held at the Good Home (x Royal Hotel) on Thurs 2nd Dec. Meet from 11:45am  Eat 12:30pm.

A summary of the past season and what the club is looking to accomplish next year.

R S V P before 30th Nov to:

Brian Hunger 7586560.   Peter Coles  7521313.  

Kevin Curd. 7533692 or. curd.kevin51@gmail.com

Your Chairperson Scott Siffleet Blue and White for Life - "Oh That Chicken"

Chairpersons Update

Lighting project update

Stage one "lighting up field number two" is complete, we have flicked the switch and these lights are great. They light up all of field two and half of field one. I am very happy with the result on field two and when we have the funds we will go for the same setup on field one and three.

We will now push on with Stage two, which is to finish the install of 4 new poles (already purchased) and control boxes for Field one. On top of the four new poles, we will be installing lights that we have sourced from the TRC which came from Yarrows Stadium. These lights are still in really good condition and will do a great job until we can afford Led lights for field one. All the work carried out with the poles and cables can be used for the new setup down the track.

Part of stage two is to under bore from the clubhouse to the 1st pole on all three fields so we have more control and even power to all lights. We have set the date 1 Feb 2022 to have this work complete. We are also talking with engineers regarding the location of the poles on field three, we are taking counsel on the bank on the side of the field and also what could be buried below the surface of field 3. Our first meeting with the Council will be to request the removal of some of the trees to make room for the new light poles and then analyse the subsurface of the ground.

We are fortunate that we have so many good people and companies involved with Tukapa, without them we would not be as far through our lighting project as we are to date.

Xmas functions and bookings at Tukapa

Remember guys, our club is there to be used and the more the club is used will benefit us as a club with more funds. If you are keen to host your work function or any other party, drop me a line or give me a call, oh we can also now sort catering as well. More details on https://www.tukapa.co.nz/venue/

Summer Touch Series

We are again running our social series from 27 October to 2 February for our Mixed Social touch and this year we have added a Rippa Rugby grade. See the link to the rules and link to enter your teams below:

NZ Forests Tukapa Bantams Under 85kg

WOW these games have been great to watch and have really shown some skills and great running rugby. Our Bantams are still alive in the National Under 85kg knock competition but this has turned into more of a Hunger Games now with Covid, and will be the last team standing or able to play. They have now removed the Auckland teams which means the Bantams are down to the final 5 teams by the weekend. Our game in Hamilton has moved one week to 16th October at this stage, still in Hamilton. I will keep you updated on Facebook if there are any more changes.

AGM

Keep an eye on the paper but here is our AGM notice for this year.

Tukapa Rugby & Sports Club (Inc)
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Thursday 11 November 2021 at 7.00pm
In the Tukapa Clubrooms, Sanders Park
All Welcome

Order of Business

• Chairman's Report
• Financial Report
• Election of Officers
• Life Membership Nomination
• General Business

Rangi

Once we get to level one we have a memorial planned at Tukapa to celebrate the life of our Legend. As Rangi would have wanted, there will be a Hangi, a band and 440ml cans so be sure to keep an eye out once we hit level 1 (one day soon).

A massive thank you to the guys that have helped to clear out Rangi’s flat and other jobs while I am out of action with shoulder surgery. Cheers Fellas

Cleaner

We have again lost our cleaner to fulltime work so are on the look out for another one. It involves:

• checking the clubhouse and toilets during the off season and cleaning what is need once a week (around 1 hour a week)
• during season it needs to be cleaned though out once a week including toilets, full vacuum and mop, Kitchen and wipe all tables (6 hours a week)

Also from time to time there will be functions that we need to clean before and after them.

For more information get a hold of me

Coaches

At this stage, we are calling for the interest of coaches for our Division one team or Snr B’s as they are known. Ideally keen to pick from an ex Tukapa player or coach of Juniors but would like to hear from anyone that is keen, this job is voluntary but will be a stepping stone possibly leading to coaching our Premiers in coming years. Our Premiers work very closely with our Division one team so you will get a lot of support from the Premier coaching team. This role would suit an up-and-coming coach or someone who is keen to take the next step. If you are interested we can meet for a coffee and discuss.

Sponsor opportunity

We are in the process of ordering new jerseys for all our teams. This gives the opportunity for company logos to be placed on team gear for the next 3 years. The gear needs to be ordered in early November so if you are looking for a very visual sponsorship opportunity drop me a line or give me a call.

Your Chairperson Scott Siffleet Blue and White for Life - "Oh That Chicken"

Tomorrow's Games at Home.

Make sure you get along to support our boys.

All facilities open from 12 .30pm

Your Chairperson Scott Siffleet.

This Weekends Programme

Chairpersons Update

Club Prize Giving

Our Club Prize Giving will be held next Saturday 24 July 2021

6pm - Happy hour  

7pm - Guest Speaker

7.10pm - Award Presentation

7.30pm - Finger Food 

Special guest DJs for entertainment

All players and supporters are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Our Champion Winning Under 13 Team will also be joining us.

Working Bee

Calling all hands on deck Saturday at 9.30am 24 July 2021

Greenie and Scotty Builders and helpers to set up reo and bolts in holes for light towers

Darren Sparkies and helpers to put dux in for wires and pre-wire new lights onto cross arms

Kernal Others paint walls in Ashs bar before new carpet tiles go down

Your Chairperson Scott Siffleet Blue and White for Life - "Oh That Chicken"