Scotch College

Scrum Club - Rugby at Scotch

Welcome to Scrum Club in 2011, the parents support group for promoting Scotch Rugby.

Scrum Club would like to welcome Jon Ryan, new teacher in charge of rugby at Scotch, to the Scotch Rugby family! Although Jon has only been in the role for a few months he has been extremely proactive and has been instrumental, amongst other initiatives, in the appointment of a Specialist Rugby Skills Coach at Scotch, Nigel Henare; we welcome Nigel and wish him success with all the Boys across all the year levels.

AGM - Tuesday 11 October at 6.15pm

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Scrum Club will be held at the Lithgow Centre, Scotch College on Tuesday 11 October 2011 at 6.15pm.

Notice of Meeting
Proxy form

A paid up Member of the Club is entitled to attend and vote at the Annual General Meeting or if the paid up Member is unable to attend in person, the Member has the right to appoint a proxy to attend and vote at the AGM on their behalf.

A proxy accompanies this Notice of annual General Meeting, if a paid up Member is unable to attend they can arrange to complete the attached Proxy indicating which way they wish to vote.

Completed & signed proxies need to be emailed to me on spirosl@stantins.com.au or faxed to my attention on (03) 9818 6244.

2011 Presentation Evening

“The SCOTCH COLLEGE RUGBY PRESENTATION NIGHT will be held on THURSDAY 11th AUGUST 2011 at the GEOFFREY McCOMAS THEATRE. The evening is expected to kick off at 6.15pm with REFRESHMENTS and the START OF PRESENTATIONS will be at 7pm sharp! Please note that DRESS CODE for the BOYS is FULL SCOTCH SCHOOL UNIFORM (TIES AND BLASERS).”

Representative Squads

2011

“This year Scotch was once again well represented in the various 2011 Victorian Representative Squads.

VRU U 14 State Team
Chris Garner
Andreas Livadaras

Garner & Livadaras

VSRU U14
Chris Garner
Andreas Livadaras
Felix Dunphy
Will Bracegirdle

Livadaras, Dunphy, Bracegirdle & Garner

VSRU U16
Harry Millar
Rian Olivier

VSRU U17
Sam Chesbrough
Chris Fry
Shawn Shrivastav
Anders Torcello
Paul Vrazas

VRU Division 2 U18 (VIC2)
Chris Ricketts

Congratulations to all the boys, well done!

Scotchies @ Recent Rebel ‘Coaching Clinic’

2010

Despite narrowly missing out on Finals last year Scotch Rugby had several positive outcomes in 2010. Notably the following Scotch College rugby players were selected in the Victorian Schools' Rugby Union representative squads for 2010:

Under 14	Under 16	Under 17
Benjamin Halstead Wesley Hoe Barnaby Holmes Oliver Holmes Andreas Livadaras Harry Millar Henry Ralston Nicholas Wittner	Charlie Dixon Chris Fry James Watkinson	James Mullaly Chris Ricketts Chris Scott Shawn Shrivastav

The future of Scotch Rugby definitely looks promising with 8 Scotchies making the U14 VSRU side and the Scotch U13 team finishing off the season undefeated!

The Scrum Club had tremendous support from the Scotch Rugby families with membership numbers having increased in 2010. A warm invitation is extended to all Rugby families to join the Scrum Club (Membership Application Form). The annual fee of $50 per family enables the club to support Rugby at Scotch in a wide variety of ways – encouraging boys to achieve their full potential both as players and individuals, raising funds, organising events that unite the Scotch Rugby community, encouraging communication within Rugby organisations and the wider community, and promoting the good image of Rugby within and outside the Scotch community.

We do this by subsidising clinics and tours, facilitating specialist coaching, donating equipment, arranging tickets to international rugby events when possible, producing branded garments and signage, and by providing free sausages and drinks to all Scotch and opposition players after home games.

Finally our beloved game, the one they play in heaven, has a permanent home in Melbourne http://www.melbournerebels.com.au with the arrival of the Melbourne Rebels. Scotch Rugby is fortunate to have Gareth Delve http://www.melbournerebels.com.au/Team/Player/tabid/297/playerid/14/Default.aspx and Lawrie Weeks (Scotch Old Boy) http://www.melbournerebels.com.au/Team/Player/tabid/297/playerid/24/Default.aspx assigned to it.

This is part of the Rebels commitment to “grass roots” rugby in Melbourne and their 5 star Engagement Program http://www.melbournerebels.com.au/Community/5StarEngagementProgram.aspx. If you haven’t joined as a Rebels member for 2011 we encourage you to do so, AAMI is a great stadium and provides an electrifying atmosphere of Rugby on a Friday night.

Regular pre season training has commenced at Scotch for the year 10’s, 11’s & 12’s. Tim Fry recently emailed all the Scotch Rugby Boys, across all year levels, strongly urging them to join a local rugby club and suggesting that they get involved in their pre-season work. Melbourne Rugby Club http://www.melbournerugby.com.au, Boroondara Rugby Club http://www.boroondararugby.com.au, Harlequin Rugby Club http://www.quins.com.au/harlequins and Box Hill Rugby Club http://www.boxhillrugby.rugbynet.com.au are all in our "catchment area". All the clubs have registration days and training has already started.

Photos from Pre-season Rugby Camp and Welcome Function

The Pre Season Camp was a great success with some 80 Boys, 8 coaches, a dozen or so mothers and more sausages than one could get at a ‘Wurst Haus’ Laurie Wicks was also in attendance in the afternoon of the 1st day to spend some time with both groups of Boys.

Unfortunately the ‘heavens opened’on day 2 and the Camp had to be cancelled!