newsletter september 2013
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Millwall Rugby Club newsletter September 2013TRANSCRIPT
MILLWALL RFC
“I love this! (newsletter)”
“Thanks so much for put-
ting this together (and
even including my article!)
It makes it easy to keep in
touch with what’s going on
with the club rather than
having to subscribe the the
different subject emails,
many of which aren’t rele-
vant to someone who is
not local. Keep it up!”
- Matt Shorrock
Former Chairman
In This Issue
•Chair’s update
• TGIS
• 20th Anniversary
•t|The Committee
•Urban Bar Nite
• Fixtures
Getting warmed up at Dagenham
Chair’s Message
The season is well and truly under way. We have had many new member s join
both the playing and social side, which is fantastic. A big warm welcome to all new
members.
As there are new members and there have been a number of changes within the
committee we have included a photo board so you know who is doing what. Feel
free to contact any member of the management team. We are open to construc-
tive criticism, praise and suggestions!
The New Season has begun
Turn out for training is steadily increasing and its great to see so many new faces. It looked amazing on Wednesday with all the floodlights lit.
Some players have experienced a few ‘friendlies’ and run outs at Dagenham and Bancroft which are already showing off players with great promise for the coming season.
We would also like to say a big ‘WELCOME’ to our new volunteer Physios (from King’s) who have already caused quite a stir among the players, judging by the twitter and FB activity!
Sarah
MRFC Newsletter September 2013
YOUR CLUB, YOUR STORIES
Last month we heard all about the global Millwall family and how they enjoyed the
Lions tour.
We would love to hear from anyone past and present. Tell us what your up to.
Send us a message. Send me a quote. Anything you would like to say.
Pitch Update! A pitch inspection took place with Stephen
Murray (Head of parks and events for
LBTH), Rick Bruin and Neil Sweeney (RFU)
myself and Mike Beech representing Millwall
at Millwall Park.
It was a positive meeting. There are clearly
some misguided messages within LBTH
with regards to the historic use of Victoria
Park and Millwall Park being seen as the
‘priority pitch’. He was put firmly straight on
these issues.
The outcome is everyone is in agreement
that the pitch is unacceptable and a clear
renovation and maintenance programme
needs to be put in place. The RFU has of-
fered financial support and equipment to
supplement the borough’s resources.
Stephen Murray will meet with the grounds-
man and send us and the RFU the agreed
schedule of works.
Slow progress but it’s a step in the right di-
rection.
We take your views seriously!
SOME OF THE MILLWALL FAMILY….mmmmmmm!
You said….
‘With the recent bar price increases some
of the bottled beer is more expensive than
the Thai’
We say…
After some lengthy research of the local
hostelry's we have concluded that...
We are still cheaper!
Feel free to prove us wrong!
It’s Your club…have your say
The Club along with our very own Rugby Development Officer Neil
Sweeney (now fully paid up social member) from the RFU, will be run-
ning a ‘Club Development Workshop’.
It is really important that as many members as possible attend.
It will be held at the clubhouse on Saturday 21st October when we have
3 HOME games, from 10am till 12pm.
We will provide you with breakfast and a warm welcome.
There will also be a survey coming your way at the end of the month.
Please take the time to complete it.
We face many challenges, as do other clubs and it is important that we
work together to meet them, ‘head on’.
WE NEED YOU!!
Millwall Past and Present
I’m sure looking at the photo above has brought back fond memo-ries for some of you and raised a few questions for others.
Millwall Rugby Club is moving very quickly towards celebrating its 20th Anniversary. Yes! This monumental milestone will be met in June 2015. (I think there might be something else rugby related happening at the same time—might be able to link in?)
Memories and Stories
In preparation for this event we would like to begin to collect tales, stories (tall or otherwise), memories and maybe even a few facts from the club’s history.
No matter how small, we would like you to let us know what you remember or ‘think’ you remember. The idea is to collate all this information alongside our substantial newspaper clip collection to create a ‘History of the club’.
We need your Help
What form this will take is yet to be decided. Book, DVD who knows... Hollywood!
Please send your stories etc. to [email protected]
If you are a budding historian, archivist or someone who would be interested in piecing together the club’s history forever drop me an email. The more the merrier.
The Founding Fathers! How many can you name?
Our boys at the Bancroft
10’s Tournament
FUNDRAISING
After the success of the
Millwall Calendar a
couple of years ago we
are planning to make
another one.
IDEAS
We are thinking a
‘cheeky’ version obvi-
ously maintaining a ru-
by theme. Maybe along
the lines of Calander
girls. A boys one and a
girls one?
INTERTESTED?
What do you think?
Want to be in it? Ideas
for poses/scenes?
(keep it relatively clean
please!)
We would welcome
contributions from our
global family.
CMC will have the final
say but we would hope
to have it ready by the
end of November.
Just in time for
Christmas stocking fill-
ers!
Interested please email
Gareth or Sarah at the
usual , blah, blah,
blah...
Mission motorsport. Fundraising partner—an awesome track day for the McCabes
Woo Hoo! Some positions have been filled...a Huge
thank you to Mr Beech taking over fixtures, Paul Fisher
for taking on player registration and merchandise, Ed
taking care of safeguarding and a huge welcome back
to Antoinette who will be cooking all the home teams
food.
BUT we still need more help...
Could you help us with…
• Be a key person for touch rugby
• Supporting the youth section
• Collecting ‘funny /interesting stories’ from players/
members past and present
• Collate ‘ruck and maul’ programmes into a book
• Planning how to celebrate our 20th anniversary
(June 2015) and the 10th anniversary of the
youth (Nov 2013)
Members
old and new
enjoying the
atmosphere
of the
clubhouse
Interested?
Contact our volunteer coordinator, Paul Fisher or email
secretary@millwall rugby.com
Urban Bar @ MIllwall
Sunday 25th August 2013 by Sophie
Your Sex is on fire, It's raining men, Bye Bye Miss American Pie,
rugby balls, other balls, Jaeger Bombs, Skittle Bombs and first day
post match. Put them all together and you get 5 Bells at Millwall
Rugby for one night only on Sunday 25th August. And what a night
it was!
‘Sex Is On Fire’
Mark left nothing behind and brought his crew, his tunes and his
special tricks to us – how very affable of him.
Needless to say, the night was a great one with Mark setting his
‘sex’ on fire on the bar of the club while everyone around him was
clamouring for Jaeger bombs and Skittle bombs, wearing sequined
cowboy hats, grinning like fools and hitting the dance floor like they
were possessed. It was a vision of beauty, people covered in glit-
ter and green and orange paint.
A Vision of Beauty
A huge thank you to all of you who turned up to support Mark – I’m
sure you’ll all agree we are looking forward to the next one.
Special thanks need to be given to Gareth and Ryan for driving the event AND of course Mark!
Sponsorship
Sponsership is an important
part of funding the Rugby
Club.
1st XV
Chattels of London ( a local
estate agentcy) have signed
as our first team sponsers.
They are committed to
providing new shirts and
water balls for the team and
on-going publicity.
Any Contacts?
We are always on the look
out for further sposors for
our second and third teams.
Do you know a local busi-
ness that might be interest-
ed?
Email: sophie Mor-
Continued sponsorship from two local restaurants
141 Manchester Road, Isle of Dogs, London
E14 3DN. Telephone : 020 7538 9826 and
020 7538 0393 Email :
12.5% discount to all Millwall Members
(eat in only)
41 Millharbour, London, Greater Lon-don E14 9NB
Phone:
020 7538 4882
10% Discount for all Millwall Mem-bers
Carrying on with the momentum that was achieved with last years TGIF (Thank God It’s Fri-
day) this highly successful event has been moved to Saturdays so that we can get as many
people down to the club as possible.
The first one of the new season will be held on:
21st of September
From 7pm onwards
The aim is to encourage friends, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, housemates etc. to join in the
‘fun’ that the clubhouse has to offer as well encouraging the players to stay and ‘chill out’ after
a hard game.
Venus and social members are encouraged to come down as well to party all together right
through the night and for those with extra stamina on to the Urban Bar for glitter, hats and
fire!.
This month your very own Social Secretary, Jo will be the DM ably supported by Venus bar-
maids.
There will be one each month from September onwards. Trying to have a fun theme each
time. Feel free to email [email protected] with your ideas.
This month’s theme will be rubix cube.
You come dressed head to toe in all the colours from the rubix cube and the idea is that by
the end of the night you are wearing clothing that represents one colour of the cube!
Keep an eye out for more details on Millwall Facebook page.
TGIS (Thank God It’s Saturday)
Contact Us
Send us an email for
more information about
Millwallwall Rugby Club
Manchester rd
Isle of Dogs
London,
info@millwallrugbycom
Visit us on the web at
www.millwallrugby.com
Millwall RFC brings you grassroots rugby.
Oktoberfest on Millwall Park
Update:
We are still waiting to hear if the Beer Festival will gain Licensing Permis-
sion. However more importantly I can confirm IF it does go ahead Mill-
wall’s Rugby pitch will not be affected.
Games will go ahead as normal on the Saturday and Sunday.
As usual we welcome as many of you as possible to come and be specta-
tors and support your team.