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2020 AGM NOTICE

The Management Committee invites all members to attend the Annual General Meeting to be held on Thursday 10th December at 7.00pm at the clubhouse.

Please be advised that the election of office bearers is to be conducted at the Annual General Meeting as per notice. Nominations are invited for the following positions.

President
Honorary Secretary
Honorary Treasurer
Office Bearers (4)

All members are encouraged to nominate for positions. Nominations will close at 5.00pm on Thursday 26th November 2020. All nominations are to be with the secretary by this time. Nomination forms are available here.

Please note that only members and life members are entitled to vote at an AGM. Members under the age of 18 are not entitled to vote but may be represented by an adult with a maximum of one representative and vote per family.

Nomination Forms must reach the Secretary by 5:00pm on Thursday 26th of November, 2020

By Mail: The Secretary, GPS Rugby Club Inc., PO Box 371, Ashgrove, QLD 4060
In Person: Ashgrove Sports Ground, Yoku Road, Ashgrove – during business hours
By Email: lizamhammond@gmail.com

Liza Hammond
Honorary Secretary

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Welcome Shane Arnold!

GPS Rugby Club is excited to announce the appointment of Shane Arnold as the Head Coach of 1st Grade for 2021!

Shane returns to GPS in the head coach role, having last been involved at the club in 2014. He then coached at NRC level with Brisbane City, Australian U20’s Assistant Coach and Queensland Reds Assistant in 2016 and 2017.

The club is looking forward to having Shane on board again, and no doubt the extended GPS community are excited to have the GPS old boy back too!

The club hopes to confirm Shanes assistants for the 2021 season in the coming days

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Welcome Steve Meehan!

GPS Rugby Club is excited to announce the appointment of Steve Meehan as the Director of Rugby.

Steve has an abundance of coaching experience over the past 25 years – which started as our Colts 1 coach in 1995. He then went on to coach at Stade Francais and Toulon in France, Kintetsu Liners in Japan, was Head Coach at Bath in England where they won the won the European Challenge Cup in 2008, and has coached at the Queensland Reds and Western Force in the Super Rugby competition. He is currently Director of Rugby and Brisbane Boys College and will continue in this role.

Steve will now work with the club to appoint a team of coaches, including the 1st Grade Head Coach role, to fill the vacancy left by the departure of Elwee Prinsloo, who has given the club 4 years of service as the Director of Rugby, Assistant Coach of the Premiership winning 1st Grade side in 2018, and Head Coach the last two years.

We thank Elwee for his service and we welcome Steve for the next era of success at GPS Rugby Club.

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Presidents Message - 15th July

It is pleasing to see all Senior and Junior teams returning to full-contact training under the approved Stage 3 Field Sort Industry Plan this week. It is also good to see that we will also be allowed to host spectators back at the Ashgrove Sports Ground under approved social distancing of one person per 4m2 and maintaining attendance record keeping.  On coming down to the grounds you will see our staff have been busy with signage and hygiene points around the club.

Both Elwee and Matt have been busy with Coaches and Managers ensuring all are aware of the COVID-19 Plan in place for Ashgrove Sports Ground. If you have any queries at all here please contact the club on Ph 3366 1266.

The club with this year more than ever will need assistance from volunteers. Procedures in place for COVID-19 are labour intensive so if you have some time to assist with ground set up, canteen, merchandise please contact the club. 

Our Under 6 to 9s Round 1 is on July 18 with our Under 10 to 16s having their first game on August 2nd. The last game of the Junior Season will be on the 12th of September.

Our Senior Draw was only finalized last week with our games as follows:

 
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Some other dates to pencil in:

Friday 21st August
Sports Lunch @ Caxton Street – Jim Tucker and Michael Blucher Guest speakers

Friday 18th September –
Golf Day @ Keperra Golf Club

Friday 25th September
Sports Lunch @ Caxton Hotel – Ian Healy Guest Speaker

Friday 23rd October      
Sports Lunch @ Caxton Hotel – Trevor Gillmeister Guest speaker

Friday 27th November
Sports Lunch @ Caxton Hotel – Guest Speaker TBA

Ashgrove Sports Ground Covid 19 Mandatory

Please note that under the Sports Industry Plan it is mandatory for us to maintain a ground attendance record. To make this easier for all, we (along with many other BJRU clubs) are implementing a QR code check-in process through EVA Check-In. Feel free to click on that link for more information.

There will be QR codes, and steps on how to do it upon entry.

I would especially like to thank all our exceptional Sponsors and Members who have been tremendous in their ongoing support in these difficult times. I would again encourage all families to join our membership program where possible and support our sponsors, many of whom are also planning their own roadmap to recovery. 

I look forward to seeing you all again soon down at the Club.

Kind Regards
Michael Taylor
GPS Rugby Club President

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