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Once upon a time
Sydney Day Org was a fun place to work. it even had its own Touch Rugby side playing in the local competition. Every Sunday morning the team and band of supporters turned up at the game and not surprisingly, usually won handsomely.
I say not surprisingly as we had some pretty handy rugby players. A couple of us were playing the real game... Rugby Union for the Coogee Rugby Club.
Most teams thought they were going to have an easy day of it... playing the weird church mob with their blue tops with a scn cross plastered across the front but most came and then departed, dejected by another loss.
The Scn team had some big boys to handle the hard yards, David Bloomberg and Steve Stevens from the Tours Org based at Castlereagh St. were both big and yet still had some slinky skills. We even managed a ring in or two... Joe Reiche was a Rugby League player who was always on the verge of breaking into the NRL. He was on lines and drafted straight into the team. Nick Cramey was fast enough once you got the ball into his hands and if he had the space would run around most people. There were others too, Trevor Eade and Peter Crutchfield were another two who could pull out a blinder. Greg Tweedie had a great range of rugby skills so the fast guys always ran off him... and there were others. It was a well balanced team
I remember one game, the other team all arrived to play and most of them wore mouth guards so we guessed it was going to be a brutal affair and we weren't wrong. There was some pretty heavy stuff happening for a game of touch. It got sorted just before half time when some good punches were thrown and someone from both sides got sent off. Everyone enjoyed themselves. We ran out the winners.
Our Sideline supporters included Pat and Harry Bloomberg and the CO FOLO (at the time) Phyll Stevens.
Nothing like it!!!!
Sydney Day Org was a fun place to work. it even had its own Touch Rugby side playing in the local competition. Every Sunday morning the team and band of supporters turned up at the game and not surprisingly, usually won handsomely.
I say not surprisingly as we had some pretty handy rugby players. A couple of us were playing the real game... Rugby Union for the Coogee Rugby Club.
Most teams thought they were going to have an easy day of it... playing the weird church mob with their blue tops with a scn cross plastered across the front but most came and then departed, dejected by another loss.
The Scn team had some big boys to handle the hard yards, David Bloomberg and Steve Stevens from the Tours Org based at Castlereagh St. were both big and yet still had some slinky skills. We even managed a ring in or two... Joe Reiche was a Rugby League player who was always on the verge of breaking into the NRL. He was on lines and drafted straight into the team. Nick Cramey was fast enough once you got the ball into his hands and if he had the space would run around most people. There were others too, Trevor Eade and Peter Crutchfield were another two who could pull out a blinder. Greg Tweedie had a great range of rugby skills so the fast guys always ran off him... and there were others. It was a well balanced team
I remember one game, the other team all arrived to play and most of them wore mouth guards so we guessed it was going to be a brutal affair and we weren't wrong. There was some pretty heavy stuff happening for a game of touch. It got sorted just before half time when some good punches were thrown and someone from both sides got sent off. Everyone enjoyed themselves. We ran out the winners.
Our Sideline supporters included Pat and Harry Bloomberg and the CO FOLO (at the time) Phyll Stevens.
Nothing like it!!!!