2008 Regional Championships. 7-8 June, 2008 Wagga Wagga. Information Guide

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1 2008 Regional Championships 7-8 June, 2008 Wagga Wagga Information Guide

2 AFL (NSW/ACT) Regional Championships The 2008 AFL (NSW/ACT) Regional Championships are being held on the June long weekend. This will see 12 Leagues across NSW and ACT converge on Wagga Wagga to play representative football at the highest level. The community is highly anticipating this event also marks 150 Years of Australian Football and these Championships will be the perfect platform to celebrate grass roots football across NSW and the ACT. Index Participating Leagues contact details 2 Accommodation/Host Clubs 3 Uniform orders 5 Food/Beverages 4 Squad/team numbers 5 Umpires 5 Function 5 Competition format 5 Grounds 7 Fixture 6 Sponsors 9 Action list 11 AFL (NSW/ACT) contact details 11 1

3 Participating League Contact Details Black Diamond AFL Contact: Scott Ledwidge Ph: Canberra and District FL Contact: David Wark Ph: Central West AFL Contact: Geoff Day Ph: (02) Farrer Football League Contact: Shane Buchanan Ph: Hume Football League Contact: Barry Malone Ph: AFL North Coast Contact: Jim Woodlock Ph: Northern Riverina Football League Contact: Pat Daniher Ph: (02) Riverina Football League Contact: Shane Buchanan Ph: Sapphire Coast Football League Contact: Peter Lavender Ph: (02) South Coast AFL Contact: Tess Pretty Ph: AFL Sydney First Division Contact: Garry Burkinshaw Ph: Tamworth AFL Contact: Darrell Benfield Ph:

4 Accommodation/Host Clubs Each league has been assigned accommodation and a host club below. It is up to each league to contact their assigned host club and accommodation to work out particulars. Leagues have been provided accommodation for 30 people with breakfast included: Host clubs from the Riverina and Farrer Football clubs have kindly donated their services to leagues traveling to the Championships. Clubs will provide training facilities for your team, a meal for you on the Friday night (cost to be negotiated between league and club), ice for all games, laundry to wash your guernseys and trainers and water runners for all games. Sapphire Coast AFL Best Western 82 Tarcutta St Wagga Wagga Contact: Jamie Pascoe or Host Club: Eastern Hawks Contact: Mark Mullen Ph/ /nmmullen@optusnet.com.au Black Diamond FL Country Comfort Cnr Morgan and Tarcutta St Wagga Wagga Contact: Brooke McCormack Host Club: North Wagga Contact: Peter Keating Ph/ /lexie.keating@westnet.com.au Sydney AFL First Division Country Comfort Cnr Morgan and Tarcutta St Wagga Wagga Contact: Brooke McCormack Host Club: RivColl Contact: Michael Irons Ph/ /michael.irons21@bigpond.com Canberra and District FL Country Comfort Cnr Morgan and Tarcutta St Wagga Wagga Contact: Brooke McCormack Host Club: Collingullie Ashmont Kapooka Contact: Scott Lewington Ph/ /kymarney@bigpond.com Northern Riverina FL Garden City Motor Inn 2 Day Street Wagga Wagga Contact: Leanne Turner Host Club: Northern Jets Contact: Neil Wykes Ph/ / Inmtwykes@bigpond.com.au 3

5 AFL North Coast Garden City Motor Inn 2 Day Street Wagga Wagga Contact: Leanne Turner Host Clubs: Wagga Tigers Contact: Doug Priest Ph/ / doug@alatalobros.com.au Tamworth AFL Ambassador Inn 315 Edward Street Wagga Wagga Contact: Tina Host Club: Coolamon Contact: Neil Munro Ph/ / marieholm@bigpond.com.au Central West FL Allonville Motel 3691 Sturt Highway Gumly Gumly Contact: Steven Taylor Host Club: Marrar Contact: Gavin Hulm Ph/ / gavin_hulm@hotmail.com Hume FL Saturday night only Allonville Motel 3691 Sturt Highway Gumly Gumly Contact: Steven Taylor Host Club: The Rock Contact: John Driscoll Ph/ / mbmazzocchi@activ8.net.au South Coast AFL Burringa Motel 39 Plumpton Rd Wagga Wagga Contact: Warren Host Club: Turvey Park Contact: Garry Mattingly Ph/ / jmatt01@netspace.net.au Riverina FL Saturday night only City Park Motel 1 Tarcutta St Wagga Wagga Contact: Tony or Lou

6 Uniform Orders As part of AFL NSW/ACT s agreement with Platinum Sponsor, Cougar Sportswear, it has been agreed that all leagues attending will receive a free set of guernseys, shorts and socks. All guernseys will have the 150 years of football logo displayed on them. Please send through images of your uniform, including your league s logo and sizes through to Chris Mintern (via - chris.mintern@aflnswact.com.au) by 30 th April. Once they are all received, a bulk order will be sent to Cougar Sportswear. As Cougar are actively supporting us in providing your league s playing strip, I encourage you to contact them to order your off-field clothing also. Food/Beverages On the Friday evening your host club will provide you with a meal for a pre-arranged cost at their clubrooms. Through our Sponsorship arrangement with Subway(see below), we will be providing all squads(including coaching staff) with subway rolls and drinks on Saturday and Sunday. In the evening on Saturday night an awards function will be held where finger food will be provided and drinks will be at bar prices. All other meal times other that the ones previously mentioned will be up to the league or individual to purchase. Squad/Team Numbers All leagues will be asked to provide a list of 30 players two weeks prior to the commencement of the Championships. This list will be used for Football Record. A final squad of 24 players will need to be named prior to the team taking the field for the first game. This squad will be unable to be changed once the team has commenced playing it s first game. All squad members are able to participate with 18 on the field and 6 on the bench. Umpires All leagues are asked to provide one accredited field umpire in their party of 30 people attending the weekend. Goal Umpires and Boundary will be organised by the Riverina and Farrer Leagues. Function On Saturday 7 th June, commencing at 6:30pm a function will be held at the Rules Club which is located next door to Maher Oval(see map). Awards will be presented at this function and finger food will be provided. It is anticipated that all players and coaching staff are to be in attendance. Competition Format All league have been assigned into pools against other leagues of competitive nature, please see below where your league has been assigned. Pool A Pool B Pool C Black Diamond Sydney AFL 1 st Div. Northern River. Hume FL Canberra and District FL Tamworth AFL Farrer FL Sapphire Coast FL South Coast Riverina FL AFL North Coast Central West 5

7 Fixture DRAFT Day 1 Saturday, 7 June 2008 POOL A - MAHER OVAL 10.00am Riverina FL Black Diamond AFL 11.00am Hume FL Farrer FL 12.30pm Black Diamond AFL Hume FL 1.30pm Riverina FL Farrer FL 3.00pm Black Diamond AFL Farrer FL 4.00pm Riverina FL Hume FL POOL B - ROBERTSON OVAL 10.00am AFL North Coast Canberra and District 11.00am Sapphire Coast AFL Sydney 12.30pm Canberra and District Sapphire Coast 1.30pm AFL Sydney 1 st Div North Coast 3.00pm AFL Sydney 1 st Div Canberra and District 4.00pm AFL North Coast Sapphire Coast POOL C - MCPHERSON OVAL 10.00am Tamworth FL South Coast 11.00am Northern Riverina Central West 12.30pm South Coast Northern Riverina 1.30pm Tamworth FL Central West 3.00pm South Coast Central West 4.00pm Tamworth FL Northern Riverina Day 2 Sunday, 8 June 2008 POOL A - MAHER OVAL 11.00am TBC 1.00pm TBC 3.00pm 1 st Pool A 2 nd Pool B 10.00am 12.00pm POOL B - ROBERTSON OVAL TBC TBC POOL C - MCPHERSON OVAL 10.00am 3 rd Pool C 4 th Pool C Times and venues for games on Sunday will be advised on Saturday night once the fixture has been completed. Preference for the early games will be given to those leagues that are traveling home on Sunday night 6

8 Grounds The Championships will be held at 3 grounds within Wagga Wagga. Please see below for locations. Robertson Oval Fitzhardinge St, Wagga Wagga Maher Oval Cnr Fernleigh and Glenfield Rd, Wagga Wagga 7

9 McPherson Oval Cnr William St and Frederick St, Wagga Wagga 8

10 Sponsors Please have a look over the sponsors of the 2008 Regional Championships; these businesses have kindly provided us with cash, services or their own products, so where possible please support them. Platinum Sponsor Cougar Sportswear Although relatively new to the football apparel markets (incorporated in 1996) Cougar Sportswear has made a significant impact throughout football league and club markets Australia wide over the past 10 years. Cougar Sportswear currently utilizes state of the art digital printers to sublimate jumpers, shorts, training singlets, training tops and the majority of polo s, together with all inserts used on shorts. Silver Sponsors National Australia Bank National Australia Bank is an international financial services group providing a comprehensive range of banking and financial services in its core markets of Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Asia. Founded in the Australian State of Victoria in 1858, The National Bank of Australasia as it was originally known - quickly became renowned as one of the more prudent banking institutions in the country. Australian Rail Track Corporation ARTC currently has responsibility for the management of over 10,000 route kilometres of standard gauge interstate track, in South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia, and New South Wales. ARTC also manages the Hunter Valley Coal Rail network in New South Wales (311 km) and other regional rail links in New South Wales (651 km). Daily Advertiser The Daily Advertiser (Mon-Fri) and the Weekend Advertiser (Sat) are the key regional daily papers serving Wagga Wagga and surrounding districts. The two papers cover a broad geographical region which incorporates Wagga Wagga, Hay, West Wyalong, Young, Gundagai, Holbrook and Deniliquin. 9

11 Bronze Sponsors Subway With more than 28,000 locations in 86 countries, the SUBWAY brand is the world s largest submarine sandwich franchise, and has become a leader in the international development of the quick service restaurant industry. Rules Club- Wagga The Riverina Australian Football Club contains Maher Oval Sporting Complex, two full size bowling greens, numerous indoor sporting & leisure facilities. Hartwigs The largest regional car and truck dealership in Australia. Owned and operated by the Hartwig family ever since, the business is now headed by Robert Hartwig a third generation family member, and Tim Hartwig representing the fourth generation of the family. Hartwigs has seven company owned locations servicing country New South Wales, The ACT and Victoria. Qantaslink Qantas is widely regarded as the world's leading long distance airline and one of the strongest brands in Australia. Qantas continues to provide outstanding service to its customers and is at the forefront of the international civil aviation industry. Regional Events Live Regional Events Live was launched in September 2006 by events organiser and 2004 NSW Tourism Finalist, Natalie Bramble. With a vision to facilitate the coordinated and cooperative marketing of events in Regional Australia, Natalie has incorporated the latest technology in the Regional Events Live website and aims to help everyone from volunteer-based organistations, businesses, government departments and individuals to promote their event. 10

12 Action List Items to action from this document: Contact Host club to organise Friday night dinner and other particulars Uniform requirements; to Chris Mintern by 30 th April squad list (30 players) to Garry Burkinshaw by 16 th May name of Field Umpire to Garry Burkinshaw by 16 th May AFL (NSW/ACT) Contact Details Chris Mintern Club Development Manager (Sydney & Northern NSW) Ph: Ben MacCormack Club Development Manager (ACT & Southern NSW) Ph: Garry Burkinshaw Senior Football Operations Ph: