Committee

Ringer-Upper -
Brent Clements
Ph.(06) 845 3884

Water Boy -
Peter Bainbridge
Ph.(06) 844 4574

'Some of the Likely Lads'  - 
Brent Clements,
Paul Teddy,
Trevor Lilly,
Gus Chittenden,
Mike Smith,
John McCarthy,
Jay Campbell,
Terry Gittings,
AJ,
Bill Halpin,
Craig Hankins,
Gary Exeter,
Jason Leach,
Robbie Morrison,
Crunchie,
Kerry Rich,
Guy Morrison,
Tony O’Connor,
Herb Hamilton,
Howard Teki,
Nigel Hoare,
Greg Dick,
Maurie King,
Tony Patterson,
Doug Nevison,
Craig Davis,
Emmet Lynch,
Troy Sissons,
Rob Guildford,
Roger Aranui
 

Golden Oldies 

Shamrocks vs Czech Prague Old Boys XV  (6pm 27th Sept 2011)
Last Wednesday evening was to be a big night for our Golden Oldies as we hosted Prague Old Boys from the Czech Republic. They had a touring party of 55 aged late 40's to early 70's!   Not many of them spoke English but it didn't seem to effect communication in the clubrooms afterwards, as there was a fair bit of swapping of gear and bits and pieces!!   It was to be a very good night for the club with the International visitors consuming a good amount of red wine.  The visit was all a bit too short unfortunately as the touring party had to hit the road soon after to ensure that they were in Auckland by 8am to catch their plane !
NOBM oldies got a great response from past players and we managed to front up with around 40.  It was good to have some of our Marist veterans from the 80’s on the paddock again, the likes of  Pat Benson, AJ, Roger Aranui, Herb Hamilton, Gary Exeter and Todd Donaldson are names that come to mind.  Plus Soccer converts Nigel Hoare and Darren (Alfie) Goodall showing that they haven’t forgotten to use their hands!!  Pat also bought along a Canadian couple to have a run. The lady was awesome, tackling hard and even scoring a try !  And our thanks to Pat for ‘shouting’ the changing rooms drinks (wine & beers) afterwards.
Current board members Mike Smith, Terry Gittings, Bill Halpin and our Prem coach Mike (Whitebait) Warren were also prominent in showing their stuff out on the track.   Even our club members referee’s provided some players with Brent Clements, Paul Teddy and Waka Petera who reffed the game and made some good tackles!!
The game itself was full of running with our local team managing to score seven tries to Prague OB’s three resulting in a 35-15 win for Old Boys Marist.  Fortunately there were no injuries that we were aware of but local Masseur, Peter (Bam Bam) Bainbridge was full of energy patching people up.  Must have been his new Smurf outfit!!!

New Players are always Welcome to have run with our Shamrocks team - If YOU are interested in pulling on the colours or you know of someone who maybe, then get in touch with Brent Clements  - brentclements@xtra.co.nz

Latest Dribble

vs Ebb Tide RFC (Canada)

6pm Thursday 16th April 2009 (Bond Field 2)

The Canadians arrived early, trained hard and readied themselves for their hardest game of the tour.
They wanted to have full-on scrums, lineout lifting, rucking & full-on tackles.

The Shamrocks arrived 5 minutes before the game & wandered on the field.

After the first hit, the Shamrocks adjusted to this new version of Golden Oldie rugby and ended up winning by about 5 or 6 tries, with the Cougar pulled up for running too far & fast. (Last time he ran that fast was in the colts grade).
Herbie did some good hit-ups to show the oppposition that he has been playing full contact rugby since leaving the Marist shores 19 years ago.
Young Shamrock Pricey did the same, in his comeback game after stints in Edinburgh & Auckland.
Tiptoeing Alfie nearly messed a hair up on his head, while Gazza (who had hair in the last game he played) pretended he still had pace by going round a 60 year old.
Our leader, Pisshead, got player of the day, & showed later why he doesn't go into many boat races.
A good feed, a few drinks, & the meeting of new friends & old friends
And the talk of a Golden Oldie trip to Canada in 2011, kept the bar open till the beer got cold.