DeA Tigers RFC

Dear Members

I have just received the following information:

L1 iRB REFEREES COURSE
Please see following, information on the upcoming iRB course:-
WHAT:     iRB foundation course for rugby referees
WHERE:   HKRFU, 2nd Floor, Olympic House, So Kon Po, Causeway Bay (located next to HK stadium)
WHEN:     7:30pm to 10:30pm each night
                 PART A:  Tuesday, 13 January 2009
                 PART B:  Thursday, 15 January 2009
                 PART C:  Monday, 19 January 2009
COST:      HK$300 (includes all course materials)
DRESS:    Casual training gear

                                    Contact: Bernard Fienberg  (852) 60767241

This week is a make up week before the Christmas break but we still have three games of rugby planned for DeA teams at Kings Park including our division 1 team at an earlier time to make it easier to bring the family down!

Div 1 DeA Tigers vs HKCC Kings Park 4:30pm

Also some great potential players in a very young womens team this year so come down and cheer them on.

Womens 15s DeA Tigers vs Valley KP 3:00pm
Womens 10s DeA Tigers vs Causeway Bay KP 2:00pm

The image galleries continue to be expanded with our first batch of photos from the Youth Division as well.   All albums are available from the Image gallery menu or you can go to the Youth one directly by clicking here

Pleae keep the photos coming in  to what is hopefully a wonderful showcase of the club.  If passing me a disc please sort according to age group (U14, U16 etc) and season ( 2008-09, 2009-10 etc).

Ralph Barnes
Media, Youth

Proposed schedule from the Flying Kukris attached...highlighted with DeA team games and referee positions.  Coaches and managers please print versions for the day.

First Friday night games of the year tonight when our Division 1 team take on Valley in what the union are calling a "Friday night thriller".  Be sure to get down to King's Park and watch the guys show Valley how to play Rugby

5/12 Div 1 DeA Tigers vs Valley KP 7:30pm TONIGHT!!!

The DeA Women and Div 5 guys both have a rest tomorrow with with the other guys down at KP with

Div 3 : DeA mcDeA vs Macau KP 4:30pm
Div 6: DeA Dev vs Tai Po Dragons 3:00pm

Lots of good DeA Tiger Rugby this weekend so come down and cheer the guys on, and, as an added bonus there is also an international being played in KP on Sunday when a visiting Singapore team will make their way to King's Park.

9:00 Peninsula U12 vs Singapore U12s
10:00 DeA U11/U12s vs Singapore U11s

So make sure you make some time for that....

Three of DeAs senior teams back at KP this weekend with DeA McDeA having a bye this week we'll have:

Division 1: DeA  Tigers vs Kowloon 18:00
Division 5: DeA Tigers III vs University II 15:00
Division 6: DeA Tigers Dev vs City II 13:30

We're starting to get a group of people coming down to the games on a regular basis, please make the effort and come down and cheer our seniors on.  After two pretty close games for our Division I team over the last two weeks having a lot of supporters is bound to be the spark that gets their season back on track so join club chairman, Brian Ashcroft, and the rest of the committee cheering them on as they take on Kowloon.

DeA Women head over to Sandy Bay with a 15s game followed by a 10s

DeA Tigers vs Valley/City 14:30 (15s)
DeA Tigers vs Causeway Bay 16:00 (10s)

If you have any questions, please contact martin.kibble@hkrugby.com

Another great weekend of rugby after a narrow loss by our division I guys last weekend at Kings Park to football club, all of DeA mens teams are back in Kings park this weekend.  There is usually a group of DeA minis and youth members down at Kings Park so come down, wear your kit and make yourself known.  Peter is usually good for a beer and with DeA playing from 1:30pm until 7:30pm there's bound to be a suitable time to bring the kids down.

Division 1: DeA Tigers v Manulife CWB Rams KP 6.00pm
Division 3: DeA II v CBRE Club IV KP 4.30pm
Division 5:  DeA III v Tradition Valley Griffins KP 3.00pm
Division 6:  DeA Dev v Gai Wu B KP 1.30pm

Women are over at Happy Valley
Women: DeA v CWB HV 3.00pm

Message from Robbie McRobbie on behalf of the HKRFU:

We now have the tickets ready for the Joel Dunn fundraising event on Saturday 29th November at Grappas in Central - $480 for open bar, food, live music, great entertainment, all proceeds to the Joel Dunn Fund.

 We're really hoping the clubs can help us to sell the tickets to your members, collect the money, and deposit with the Fund - to get your tickets please contact Community Kibbler on martin.kibbler@hkrugby.com and he will arrange to get the tickets to you.

 For more info have a look at
http://www.hkrugby.com/hkrugby/the-joel-dunn-page/the-joel-dunn-page_home.cfm

With thanks to Patrick Lam and Colin Durbridge amongst others we now have a huge collection of minis photos on line including some going all the way back to 1997 (who had digital camera's then?).  Keep them coming - disks to Peter or myself on any Sunday are welcome. We officially have unlimited space on the server so size is no issue.  It would be helpful to sort them into seasons and age groups so U7 2008-09 so I don't have to do a sort before uploading them.