PIONEER Rugby Football Club

Featherston

Rugby

Contacts

Featherston will again be ÿ elding numerous junior teams, including: Rippa, under 9s, under 11s and under 13s. For the Featherston Rugby Club, now in its 144th year, 2022 is a continuation of last year’s great work on developing our junior teams. Our club has a great focus on juniors, who are the future of the club and future of rugby in our region.

Our focus is on providing our players to build on their skills, but also their conÿ dence and social skills.

Beginners are most welcome, as is parental participation.

Lack of numbers mean there will no senior team in 2022. Having recently replaced our old rugby posts and installed a new score board, there is no better time for our community and players past and new, to help build the senior team for the 2023 season. In exciting news, the club has been asked to host inter-regional sports tournaments and games from rugby to cricket to rugby league, netball and football. These groups will utilise the Rugby Club’s facilities through the Property Brokers Featherston Sports Hub. One of our latest initiative has been super popular with whanau – the sports reading corner. A library of 100-plus sports books where kids and big kids can learn and practice their reading skills on a topic they love – sport.

Our committee continues to work hard on upgrading our facilities and training equipment. We are currently looking for new (or upcycled) tackle bags, rugby balls.

In the bigger picture, over the next 18 months we aim to upgrade our ˛ ood lights and install a wheelchair ramp for disability access.

Talk to us if you are willing to donate or keen to help us raise the funds required for these projects.

Want to know more? Check us out on Facebook – Featherston Rugby Club or Sporty.

Marc Van de Loo [President]

P 021 544 545

E featherstonrugby@ gmail.com

Ritchie Wards [Secretary]

P 027 408 7704

E secretary. featherstonrugby@gmail. com

Russell De Ritter [Reserves Coach]

P 021 043 0060

E russell.deritter@gmail. com

Joey St Clair [Reserves Coach]

P 022 630 4728

E sjoe2263@gmail.com

Pa’i Smith [Reserves Manager]

P 022 187 9891

E pai.smith@hegroup.nz

PIONEER rugby football club

Contacts

Richard Carroll [President]

P 027 506 7014

E richard@carrollsjoinery. co.nz

Blue Hansen [Vice President]

P 021 189 3701

E mrsblue@xtra.co.nz

Cynthia Du˜ y [Secretary]

P 022 375 8117

E paehou@hotmail.com

Dan Te Tau [Treasurer]

P 027 313 3372

E dan-pioneer@outlook.com

Mana Apiata [Club Captain]

P 021 286 1355

E isaacapiata@gmail.com

Victor Thompson [Premier Coach]

P 027 800 8565

E vic@goldendrop.co.nz rugby football club

Last year the Pioneer Premier Side grew as a team and our leaders stepped up. We got ourselves into most games, with the opportunity to win some times falling a little short, but ÿ nished with kick to win our ÿ nal game on full time. It was an amazing game by both sides on the day.

The team this season is looking pretty strong, with most players back on deckready, ÿ t and looking forward to another year.

The main strength of this team is that they have been together now for three years and have grown into a pretty tight group, so we are expecting them to do really well.

We have a few new faces that will also add to the mix, with good coaching to keep them grounded.

Pioneer is a community-based club. Our members are very passionate about the club, and can make playing at home a hard job for visiting teams, with our Jean Street faithful.

We also run a variety of other sports, with a real focus on our kids playing as much sport as they can.

We believe that the cost of playing shouldn’t stop anyone from playing with their friends or whanau, mixed in with great coaches to support and grow them for the future.

We have a very strong and passionate committee that works really hard to create opportunities from our little ones to our senior teams and komatua, because we are a community that looks out for each other.

Check our Facebook page “Pioneer Sports Club Masterton” for all information regarding the club’s events.

Marist are looking forward to the 2022 season.

This year the Premier team will again be coached by Gerald Lologa and Joe Nuku with Mark Brown as manager and Joe Potongaroa as trainer.

Most of last year’s Premier team are back but they have also gained several promising new players.

The Senior Reserves will be coached by Namu Lopa and Dave Maugatai with Andrew Graham as manager.

Marist JAB are the largest in the JAB in the competition and will be run by Blair Gardner, a stalwart of the club who retired from playing in 2020.

Marist wish all the other clubs a very successful season and looks forward to hosting them at their headquarters in 2022.

Contacts

Michelle Beaver [President]

P 027 581 2179

E michellebeaver@xtra.co.nz

Martinborough Rugby Club is looking forward to the 2022 season. Once again we have two Senior teams. Both have been training and numbers are looking good.

MARIST rugby football club

Terry O’Brien [Chairman]

P 027 451 0678

E info@wairarapascrap.co.nz

Kylie Milligan [Secretary]

P 027 480 4003

E keenmilligan@xtra.co.nz

Tony Beech [Treasurer]

P 027 270 9998

E tony@lala.co.nz

[Premier Coaches]

Gerald Laloga

P 021 106 4060

Joe Nuku P 022 040 1760 [Reserves Coaches]

Namu Lopa P 022 385 6227

Dave Maugatai P 027 242 0509

Gerald Ford [Reserves Manager]

P 021 080 66437

E Gerald4ord@gmail.com

Blair Gardner [JAB]

P 027 346 0468

E gardner.blair@gmail.com co.nz

With the season starting later than expected, everyone is ready to actually get out there and play some rugby!

Our recent JAB Muster showed good numbers with lots of excited young players looking forward to kicking o˜ . It’s never too late to register if you are keen to play. The link for registrations is www.sporty.

All our supporters are welcome to pop into our clubrooms for home games. We will have hot food available to keep you warm on the sideline.

The bar will be open to members and their guests. If you are interested in a supporters membership, just ask one of our friendly bar sta˜ .

As always, thanks to all our sponsors, volunteers and committee members who devote their precious time to keep the teams on the ÿ eld and the Club alive.

You can keep up to date via our website, Facebook & Instagram pages, as well as by subscribing to our newsletters.

MARTINBOROUGH

Contacts

Rachel Colton [President]

P 027 693 29601

E benview@xtra.co.nz

Louise Henderson [Secretary]

P 027 230 4925

E admin@martinborough rugbyclub.co.nz

Ana-May Gudsell [JAB Delegate]

P 027 4526504

E ana@bellst.co.nz

James Bruce [Premier Coach]

P 027 277 2962

E jamesbruce@xtra.co.nz

Pip Sutherland [Premier Manager]

P 06 306 9192

E pipsuesutherland@xtra. co.nz

Ayden Lambert [Premier Reserves Coach]

P 027 6425656

E lambertayden@gmail. com

Michael Lambert [Premier Reserves Manager]

E lamberts˛ ooringltd@ gmail.com