Hi Onka Family,

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year and are keen to get started on the 2026 Season.

This is the President's update for January.

The Committee focus over the last month has been to get the coaching team and season draw finalised. We were excited to announce Rhys Davies joining us as our new A grade coach. Rhys brings a wealth of experience and some new approaches to the game that are making us very excited for the new season. With Liam Smith assisting him and organsing our preseason, we're looking good moving into 2026.

We are still looking for our B grade coach - wanting to finalise our A grade selection first. Our C grade is in good hands with Seb, Daddles and Ollie continuing in their role and Owain and Tony Fitzy will be leading the Women's team for 2026.

All junior coaches have been assigned and we will be working with RUSA to ensure that they are registered and recieve any training they need to support our kids moving forward.

Our touch season continues to be a success, thanks to the leadership of Matt Whitton and Bob Aitken - we've had some great numbers out to games despite the hot weather.

Some of the ongoing tasks we are looking at are updating the gym equipment, replacing the gear shed doors with a roller door that will open up space in that area much more, and looking at replacing the wooden posts on the south end of the field with fencing to be more compliant with RUSA regulations of spacing around the field.

The work on the constitution updates continues, with the committee reviewing the draft. The intent is to put it out to the club for comments and feedback in February and then look at a Special General Meeting to approve or reject it once any comments have been addressed.

With the season draw now locked in, our social events team has finalised the social calendar and we should have a post on that very soon, it should be a good year for socials and we hope to see everyone down the club for some of the exciting events this year.

Overall it has been a busy end of 2025 and exciting start to 2026. We're looking forward to a great year and to welcoming Rhys and his family to the club.

As always, feel free to give me a yell or catch me at the club if there are any questions or issues.