Micros – Sunday 16th September

Hi all

Training is on this week, usual meet time of 1115hrs for a start at 1130hrs.

The club are hosting Lenzie Rugby Club, who may bring some of their micros. This will give us the opportunity to train alongside another club and finish the session with some small sided practice games.

As we are the hosts, if anyone is able to assist in catering (setting up / providing  bake good to sell/ serving /clearing up) it is gratefully appreciated.

As a special treat, we might even have roped in the Club President to help with training….what a sight that will be!

Could I ask those parents who have yet to register their kids with the club to please remember to ask for a form in order to get them signed up.

We would love to see the kids in playing kit, you can pick up a top through the club website or visit PSL Sports in Hillington.

See you all on Sunday

Cam

 

Minis Wednesday 12th and Sunday 16th

Many thanks to all of you who made the rather damp but enjoyable trip through to Helensburgh last week. You will be pleased to hear we’re at home this Sunday.

 Before that, we are training as usual at 7pm on pitch 1 tonight. Remember boots, gumshield and water.

 On Sunday, we host Lenzie with our usual meet time of 11am and aiming for an 11.30 kick off.

 As ever any assistance with catering is greatly appreciated, whether it is cooking, serving, setting up, or cleaning away – there’s plenty of jobs to go round! Any donations of baking that can be sold to keep our catering funds in a healthy state is also a big help.

 Hope to see you tonight and Sunday

 

Craigs News 8th/9th September

Good Afternoon from a bright and breezy West Lodge,

The rugby season starts in earnest with the first home league fixture for the 1st XV in Tennents National League 2, ko 3.00pm. Last Saturday they travelled through to Inverleith to play Stewarts Melville and lost 21 to 27 but gained a useful losing bonus point.

Tomorrow’s opponents are Howe of Fife who always play an exciting brand of fast and open rugby so it could be a high scoring afternoon. Our team selection includes five players making their home 1st XV debuts – Liam Barbour, Aaron Graham, Callum Innes, Michael Owen and Jack Ramage, who have all come through our youth system. Captain Ian Laidlaw is playing his first game of the season after injury and Stuart Henderson is making a fourth return from retirement which I think is more than Frank Sinatra had!

 

The 2nd XV, after a very comfortable victory last Saturday, make the journey to Annan for their next fixture. The under 18s have had a great start to the season with two victories and also travel to the South West of Scotland to play Dumfries, ko 2pm.

The Rhinos are back in action at GHA taking part in a round robin over 35’s tournament. Ourselves , Cartha, GHA and Hillhead/Jordanhill are taking part. More of these events are planned in the future.

On Sunday our opponents in the Galant A conference are Dumfries with two sides playing at home and two away. I am afraid I do not have details of who is playing where. The Minis are away to Helensburgh with an early meeting time of 10.00am at Helensburgh. The Micros are training with a 11.15 registration in the Clubhouse.

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Tomorrow also sees the return of the “Spot of Lunch” Chaps, a welcome boost for the sales of Merlot.
Unfortunately, I have to pass on the sad news that one of our members, Jimmy Loudon passed away last week. Jimmy battled with Parkinson’s Disease for many years but finally succumbed to this horrible disease. Jimmy played for the Club during the Sixties but remained in contact with his many friends when he moved to the North West of England to advance his career in Orthopaedic Surgery. When he retired, he returned to Scotland and eventually moved to Crail. Jimmy was one of the good guys and will be sadly missed by his family and all his many friends. His funeral takes place at the Linn Crematorium on Monday at 12 noon.

Another plea for all players to remove their boots before entering the lounge. It took me 20 minutes on Thursday morning to vacuum the lounge carpet. It would not be allowed at home so the same principle applies to the Club.

 

Hopefully the weather will remain fair for the weekend and good luck to all those pulling on a Whitecraigs shirt this weekend.

C’mon the “Mighty”.

Graeme

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Minis Sunday 2nd September

Minis are away  at Hamilton tomorrow. Please arrive at Hamilton at 10.30 with kick off at 11.00.

Address:

Hamilton Rugby Club

Laigh Bent

121 Bent Road

Hamilton

South Lanarkshire

ML3 6PY

Craigs News 27th August 2018

Good afternoon from West Lodge,

Welcome to the first Craigs News of Season 2018/19.

Today is about some housekeeping items for the start of the Season.

2018-19 Membership Renewal

Further to the recent reminder to renew your membership we wish to reconfirm necessary actions to be taken:

1. Every member MUST complete and return the form to the Honorary Secretary as soon as possible.

2. Please complete ALL personal details on the form, even if they have not changed recently, then sign and date the form to confirm your agreement to allow the Club touse your personal information as detailed in the new Privacy Notice for Members and in accordance with GPDR 2018.

3. Payment Due date is the 1st September and Payment Deadline date is 30th September 2018.

4. Any New Bank Standing Order forms must be returned together with payment for the first month’s subscription rate, either by card, cash or cheque, with the new SO to start in October 2018.

5. All Existing Bank Standing Orders must be amended directly by the member to start in September, 2018 as the Club cannot amend an SO on your behalf.

No Boots in the Clubhouse and especially the Lounge

Yesterday was the first full day of rugby and it was evident by the grass that was left on the lounge carpet no boots were taken off when entering the Clubhouse. This excess of grass takes a lot of time to clean up and increases our cleaning costs together with complaints for Club members. This would not be allowed to happen at home and the same should be applicable at the Rugby Club. Your co-operation would be greatly appreciated.

One of our sponsors is Mearns Castle Golf Academy and they have given us a superb rate of £10 per person for the our Golf Outing on Sunday 30th September. There is a sheet up on the notice board so please add your name. Great to see so many Senior rugby players on the sheet. More information will be available nearer the date.

I am always looking for content for Craigs News so if you have anything you wish to be circulated to the wider Whitecraigs family, please contact me.

Please support our sponsors. It is vital that we support them as they provide much needed financial support to the Club.

Graeme

Minis (P4-P7) – Sunday 19th August

Its registration and we are back to usual training schedule on Sunday at 11am.

See you on Sunday!

Micros Return to Training

After a well earned summer break, the Micros section return to training with our annual registration day on Sunday 19th August 2018.

 

We ask that you come to the big hall for 11am where the team will greet you and take you through the membership and registration process.

 

Thereafter, we will head down to the pitches and get back to the action with some training finishing at approximately 12.30pm.

 

As ever, our sections are run by volunteer coaches and due to a few moving up with their children to P4, we ask that any and all parents in Micros step forward to assist with coaching and managing the boys at this level. The club will assist and put you through your PVG and entry level Rugby Qualifications. All you need to do is ask one of our other volunteers who will direct you (before we start asking you!).

 

Look forward to seeing you all again ahead of another fun and enjoyable season at Whitecraigs.

 

Many Thanks

Craig “Percy” Percival

President

Minis (P4-P7) are back!

On Sunday we are back to rugby with a light training session after helping with the annual Rugby Force day

This Sunday is the Rugby Force day when we  get the club looking as good as possible for the coming season and it starts at 10am.

We’re asking you to come along at 10 to help out with all the little tasks that go together to make West Lodge looks its best. After an hour of helping out, we’ll convene on pitch 3 (with its new floodlights!) and go through a light training session and get the kids back in the rugby mood prior to next week’s registration day.

 There’s a lot of changes this year which should make the games even more enjoyable for the kids.

 

IMPORTANT CAR PARKING 15TH AUGUST TO 20TH AUGUST

PLEASE NOTE THAT FROM WEDNESDAY 15TH AUGUST TO MONDAY 20TH AUGUST THE LEFT AND RIGHT HAND SIDE OUTSIDE CAR PARKS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR USE.

WE ARE HOSTING 35 MOTORHOMES/CARAVANS WHO WILL BE USING OUR SITE DURING THE WORLD PIPE BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS.

WE REALISE THAT THIS MAY CAUSE SOME INCONVENIENCE FOR OUR MEMBERS AND GUESTS DURING THIS PERIOD FOR WHICH WE APOLOGISE.

WE WILL BE RECEIVING APPROXIMTELY £1200 RENT FOR THE USE OF OUR SITE.

THESE VEHICLES WILL BE COMING FROM ALL OVER THE UK AND IRELAND SO PLEASE MAKE SURE OUR VISITORS RECEIVED IN A FRIENDLY FASHION.

GRAEME SCOTT
HON SECRETARY
9TH AUGUST 2018

New Player Management System

New player management system introduced by the SRU.

Scottish Rugby is now using a new player registration system called SCRUMS, having switched from the previous system at the end of the 2017/18 season. SCRUMS has been developed to provide a modern, integrated set-up to record member information for those involved with rugby in Scotland.

ALL PLAYERS (AGED 8 AND OVER) AND CLUB OFFICIALS, ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER WITH SCRUMS OTHERWISE THEY ARE UNABLE TO REPRESENT WHITECRAIGS RUGBY CLUB.

Please click on the following link to begin the registration process.

https://scrums.scottishrugby.org/terms-and-conditions

All the information that you require is contained in the attached documents. However, If you have any questions, please contact Brandon – cdowrc@gmail.com or secretary@whitecraigs.org

 

Email Verification – when a player or parent provides their email address, they will receive an automated message from SCRUMS to confirm that the email address provided is a valid one. This email will request the player / parent to click on a link to verify their email address. Some email servers have been rejecting these automated verification emails and we are working to resolve this. Please do not worry if you or any players / parents / club officials have not received these. If an email address has not been verified in the system it will not prevent a player from being fully registered and we will resend verification emails once the issues have been fixed.