TRC News 28 August 2010

Dear Members

For those who have registered in the last couple of weeks, please find attached my earlier email that set out a lot of background about the coming months.

Training resumes tomorrow for all age groups at 9.30am at Turf City.

I am delighted to inform you that what were previously referred to as the ISA fields are now the TRC fields! With effect from 1 September, we rent the fields, which gives us some certainty for the next 12 months in terms of access to pitches to play on. A huge thanks to the people who have worked hard to secure these pitches and get arrangements in place for maintenance, branding, bookings etc. including Neil Waghorne, Ian Gibbs, Ashley Wright, Andy Williams, Mark Fielding, Brett Cameron and Ghislaine Taylor.

We are still renting the Anza pitches so training will be in the same places for each age group as it was before June. We are currently evaluating the possibility of staggering training on Sunday mornings and will make a decision on this in the coming weeks, depending on how many third party bookings we take. Anybody interested in renting the pitches should contact Andy Williams for more information - andrew.w.williams9@gmail.com.

We will have our own storage shed on the pitches and will be moving the Operations Tent to the TRC fields with effect from tomorrow as it will be positioned next to the shed. We have a lot of new kit and merchandise on sale tomorrow so I would recommend those of you who need kit before training to arrive early – the Operation Tent will be open early at 9am to try and reduce the queues.
1. Playing kit of all sizes;
2. TRC Rugby Balls – Sizes 3, 4, 5 and Touch - $30 each;
3. TRC Umbrellas and Caps; and
4. TRC Car Decals - $10 each, 2 for $15 or 3 for $20.

We have also been given over 200 free Canterbury training shirts with the Barclays and Chartis logos following the Legends Coaching clinic that was held a few months ago. The shirts were promised to those who attended but due to a delivery glitch they only arrived in the holidays. I will be liaising with each age group head coach for the distribution of these shirts to the U9 to U16 contact groups that took part.

I look forward to seeing you all at training tomorrow.

Best Regards

Phillip