TRIAL v MERRYLANDS CANCELLED

Due to the terrible summer and ordinary start to Autumn the golden west is experiencing, we regret to inform you that the trial match v Merrylands for lower grades has been cancelled.

Clean up day will proceed as planned from 9am Saturday March 3rd.

Our men's and women's teams performed well in hot and humid conditions in today's Kiama 7s.

You can view some photos here.  Check back soon for some more photos and maybe a short video or two.

PreSeason training is continuing at Merrylands RSL Rugby Park each Tuesday and Thursday with some promising attendance rates. 

You can find some photos from tonight's session here.

ROYAL WOLF SUPER 15 TIPPING COMP

Two Blues Gold Sponsor - Royal Wolf are running a Super 15 Tipping Competition. For your chance to share in over $8500 in prizes click here to enter.

TWO BLUES GIRLS WIN CRESCENT HEAD 7s

The Parramatta Two Blues Women's team have returned to the club after 2 seasons away. In a fantastic reintroduction to the club, the girls have taken out the Crescent Heads 7s tournament held on February 18 2012.

The girls went through the tournament undefeated. When it came to the final, against Newcastle Wanderers, the girls were clearly a class above their opposition. Taking out the final by 25 points to nil.

Congratulations to all involved.

The Men's team were nearly as successful. They opened the tournament with a 42-0 victory over Yamba. Most impressively, the boys smacked the much fancied Avoca Beach in the quarter final by 62-0. A strong victory over Merewether took the boys to their first 7s final against tournament favourites Manly. Parra scored first however conceded 3 tries to be down 17-5 with 3 minutes remaining. The Parra boys rallied and at fulltime the scores were locked at 17-17. After what felt like an eternity, halting the roll Parra were on, the tournament organisers and the referee deliberated on the format and decided extra time was going to be played. Parra conceded another try early in extra time to be down 17-24.  Another unexpected lengthy half time break ensued. Some words of wisdom from coach Christini gathered the thoughts of the young Parra side and with 90 seconds remaining Parra scored through new recruit Tomu Mataika to draw level at 24-24. All Parra needed to do was hold on for the next 90 seconds, and as first try scorers, we would have been declared the victors. However, the rugby gods were not with us, and with less than 40 seconds remaining, Manly scored for the final score to be Manly 29 - Parra 24.

It was a tremendous match, enjoyed by the capacity crowd on hand and both sides were congratulated in the spirit in which the game was played and for the skill all players showed.

Both our 7s squads travel to Kiama this weekend to have a crack at the unofficial Australian Sevens Championship.

2012 Season Draw

In 2012 a new competition format will operate. The first 11 rounds will see all teams play each other once. The teams will then split into 2 pools according to their position on the Club Championship table with the top 6 teams playing each other once and the lower 6 teams playing each other once also. This makes 16 rounds in total for the season.

The Finals series will involve 8 teams over 4 weeks. The top 4 teams will have qualifying semis whereas the teams in positions 5 – 8 will enter elimination semis.

The first round for the new competition will be on Saturday 14th April.

The Grand Final (Grade) is scheduled for Saturday 15th September while Colts Grand Final is scheduled for Saturday September 8th.

Click here to download the draw.

PRE SEASON TRAINING

Pre-season training begins for our 7s Squad on Thursday January 12 at Merrylands RSL Rugby Park from 6:30pm sharp. (Montrose Avenue, Merrylands)

The remainder of the High Performance Group and Colts begin pre-season training on Tuesday January 17 also at Merrylands RSL Rugby Park from 6:30pm sharp.

With the later start to the season, the lower grades resume on Tuesday February 7 again at Merrylands RSL Rugby Park from 6:30pm sharp.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone back and working hard to continue our progress up the ladder.

More photos in the media gallery.

CORPORATE HOSPITALITY FROM WARATAHS

The HSBC Waratahs have a fantastic offer available to supporters of club rugby wishing to experience the luxury of a corporate box to any of the 2012 home matches. Purchase a full season of all 8 games or pick the games you want. The corporate box seats 12, is a great way to entertain clients or staff, or perhaps just get a group of your mates together to watch our state team do battle in style.

For more information click here to download the flyer.