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19.06.08

 

As a Club we have another "treble" of achievements this season!!!

We have been advised of the Calderdale Volunteer Awards.
Out of 6 awards for the district our Club has 3 winners!!! How good is that!
John Maguire Snr - Volunteer of the Year
Jason MacDonald - Coach of the Year
Megan Stephenson - Young Volunteer of the Year.
These awards are nominated by people within the Community and winners are selcted by officials in the Calderdale area.

 

12.06.08

 

Leeds 10K - the race we have volunteers competing in to raise funds for Hannah - race numbers have now been received.

Hannah recently had the BBC film an interview with her. This is being shown during Sunday Life at 10am on Sunday 15th June. Set your reminders.

 

Also:-

THE CLUBS' ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING IS BEING HELD ON SUNDAY 29TH JUNE. 1.30PM AT BOLTON BROW WORKING MENS CLUB - DOWNSTAIRS - IN A ROOM BEHIND THE BAR. WE NEED MEMBERS TO COME ON BOARD FOR THE NEW SEASON LOOKING TO TAKE ON AN ACTIVE ROLE IN WHAT PROMISES TO BE A VERY EXCITING FUTURE FOR THE CLUB OVER THE FORTHCOMING YEARS.

 

09.06.08

Prize            Winning Number                Name
Water Gun                  0256                Bird family (U13s)
Champneys Gift Set     0067               A Lord (U12s) - CLAIMED
Cleanse Me Gift Set     0360               M Toolin (U15s)
Bulls Family Ticket       0243               R Farnell - CLAIMED
Wilkinsons voucher       0410               Rob (Lisa Amos U10s)
Giants 2 tickets            0015               Josh Cockroft (U12s)
Rhinos 2 tickets           0312               Peter Barker (Ant Doran U13s)
M & S Voucher             0267               Lauren Park (Harry Latham U13s) - CLAIMED
Tin of Quality Street      0014                Hannah Cockroft (U12s)
Bottle of red wine          0028               Jamie Smith (Kiwi U12s) - CLAIMED
Bottle of white wine       0404               Gavin Hayes (Lisa Amos U10s)
Bottle of Port                0288               Bradley Wilson (U13s)
mini Quality Street        0077               Gary Waldron (U12s)
                                   0270               Andrew Latham (Harry) - CLAIMED
                                   0063               Ray Lister ( Dan Hoyle U12s) - CLAIMED
                                   0405               Gavin Hayes (Lisa Amos U10s)
                                   0281                Dan Collier (U13s)
                                   0013                Rachel Cockroft (U12s)
                                   0358               M Toolin (Nial U15s)
                                   0317                Michelle Davies (Corey U13s) - CLAIMED
                                   0011                Graham Cockroft (U12s)
                                   0264               Christine Turner (Liam U13s)
                                   0271                Molly Grady (Callum U13s)
                                   0076                Gary Waldron (U12s) 

 

09.06.08

 

Halifax Irish Junior Rugby League held their end of season presentation awards day at the weekend.

Trophies were given to all players in thanks for their commitment to the Club.

Major award winners for the day were;
Under 8s;
Player of the Year - Ben Sutcliffe
Player's Player - Ben Sutcliffe
Top Tackler - Jude Corcos
Top Try Scorer - Lyndon Sutcliffe
Most Improved Player - Callum Pilling
Coaches Award - Ben Burrows
Under 10s;
Player of the Year - Lewis Amos
Players Player - Bradley Brown
Top Tackler - Connor McAndrew
Top Try Scorer - Tom Fryer
Most Improved Player - Kieran Baxter & Thomas Lovelady (shared award)
Coaches Award - Joshua Stephenson
Under 11s;
Player of the Year - Levi Farnell
Player's Player - Jake Hancock
Top Tackler - Jake Hancock
Top Try Scorer - Ellis Akhurst
Most Improved Player - Ellis Akhurst
Coaches Award - Levi Farnell
Under 12s;
Player of the Year - Joshua Greenwood-MacDonald
Player's Player - Joshua Greenwood-MacDonald
Top Tackler - Joe Waldron
Top Try Scorer - Shohaib Mahmood
Most Improved Player - Daniel Hoyle
Coaches Award - Ryan Sweeney
Under 13s;
Player of the Year - Daniel Collier
Player's Player - Daniel Collier
Top Tackler - James Turner
Top Try Scorer - Connor Farnell
Most Improved Player - Callum Grady
Coaches Award - Harry Latham
Under 15s;
Player of the Year - Adam Lacey
Player's Player - Adam Lacey
Top Tackler - Adam lacey
Top Try Scorer - Kieran Butler
Most Improved Player - Lewis Sutcliffe
Coaches Award - Glyn Gill
 
A gift ws given to Under 11s player Amy Marsden who can no longer play with the team as she has reached the age where she must play for a girls team should she wish to continue. Amy is going to "assist" the coaches whenever necessary.
 
A framed shirt was presented to U15s player Lewis Sutcliffe who broke his neck during a game recently. Thankfully due to surgery and determination, Lewis is now well on the road to recovery. The shirt framed was the one he was wearing when the accident occurred. Lewis would not allow hospital staff to cut it off him for some time. The Club wishes Lewis well.

30.05.08

The end of season presentations for all teams will be held on Sunday 8th June at the Halifax Vandals Clubhouse which has officially been booked for our use.

The Under 8's wll be playing their fixtures in the morning - 10.30 kick off. They should be finished for around noon - ish.
The Under 8's and Under 10's presentations will be held at 2pm, Under 11's & Under 12's at 3.30pm and the Under 13's & Under 15's will be held at 5pm. We have the use of the Vandals until 7pm. All are welcome to come along to support the Under 8's it would be great to have a lot of support for them. Obviously you can arrive earlier than your childs presentation too.
It must be stressed that we cannot encroach on the first team pitch. We will be ensuring this is roped off and signs displayed on the day.
We will be holding a bar-be-cue and selling sweets/pop for drinking outside. Obviously we are going to need help in the running of the bbq. It would be appreciated, now we know the times of each age groups presentations, if parents could volunteer to help in this area. Please let your coach know so we can arrange a rota for the day. Thank you. The more of us that volunteer, the less time we should need to spend. Children will be given a raffle ticket by their coach to enable them to get one item from the BBQ for free. All others will be charged £1.00 per item.
A list of roles to be filled next season will be displayed on the day. Please if you are considering standing to help in the running of the Club, or re-standing, put your name on the list so we know who is interested. Thank you.
There will hopefully be many sponsors around on the day Please be appreciative, without them... we would not be where we are, with kits, tracksuits etc etc the list goes on.
Hopefully the weather will be on our side and a good day will be had by all!

 

23.05.08

 

Richard Mudd, a junior player who has progressed to our Open Age was awarded with the 2nd Team Most Improved Player at the Open Age end of season award giving last week! Well done Richard - a well deserved award given that Richard (Muddy) is now a regular 1st teamer! Muddy has also been selected to play for Ireland U18's! What an achievement - keep it up, we'll all be supporting you.
Graham Charlesworth (Chinny), another open age player has been selected to play for BARLA U23's in the forthcoming tour of Italy. Another fantastic achievement. Well done Graham!
As juniors these 2 players show what can be achieved through the game.
The U12's were fortunate to be invited to the Shay to do a lap of honour at half time during the Halifax v Dewsbury game. The team took their winners cups and a banner detailing them as premier division winners. It was an honour for the team to be allowed to do this. Our thanks have been forwarded to Halifax RLFC, and to Pete Emmett who spoke of the teams success whilst at a meeting at the Shay. The U12's were allowed to do a bucket collection whilst at the Shay and raised just over £250.00 for Club funds. thanks guys!!!

 

11.04.08

Commiserations to the Under 13's on not getting through to the next round of the Halifax Cup.
 

A MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS to our Under 12's on winning the Supplementary Cup Final!

The first silverware for the Jnrs!!! A fantastic result!
Thank you to everyone who made the journey to Emley to support the team.
They really did appreciate it - sure you could tell following the match!
Thank you to all sponsors too, from the team. As the bus was paid for by Goodall Transport, we were still able to charge a small fee per adult travelling, do some football cards and also manage to get all the change turned into £200.00 (not sure there was quite that much!) by Ian at the New Inn. These monies will go towards the Under 12's doing something together during the closed season. A celebration went on at the New Inn for quite a few hours... after the match. Just ask how many of the adults enjoyed the day as much as the team!?? Not sure if Monday morning would have held the same feelings... although guaranteed we are still buzzing about the result!
THANKYOU TO ALL!!!
 
The Under 12's are in the final of the Halifax Cup on 20th April. We hope we have as many - if not more supporters than we had for this one!

 

04.04.08

 

Under 8's will be playing Summer Rugby this summer! This was voted for at this months league meeting held on 2nd April - only 2 votes were against the change. The season for this year's U8's will finish with the festival next weekend, 12th April. It will then restart again with this seasons U8's still playing as U8's in early May until roughly September (may be just before September due to age restrictions). The proposed plans are then for their season to then recommence as U9's next May through to September and so on until U11's. The season then will run May - beg July. Then they will have until September to ready themselves for registering as U12's that September. A meeting is being held later this month to finalise all of the details, as it is new to all and everything needs agreeing/planning. You will all be advised further then. There will be no U9's running this next winter season! There is no alternative! This has been agreed. Should any parent have a query regarding this major change please contact Vicky MacDonald.
 
The league now has over 3000 players registered and new players are still coming through. This has taken over last years numbers.
 
Illingworth Under 10's festival is now to be held on 3rd May not the 4th.
 
Mini-Mod festivals next weekend -
U8's at Greetland on Saturday 12th. To be there at 10am to register. 10.30 start.
U10's at Greetland on Saturday 12th. To be there to register at 1pm. 1.30 start.
U11's at Brighouse on Sunday 13th. To be there to register at 1pm. 1.30 start.
All players will receive a certificate and medal for attending.
 
Raffle tickets for the draw to be held on presentation day have now been ordered and should be ready for 11th April. We are looking for more prizes! If anyone can donate a prize please pass it on to Vicky MacDonald. Thank you. Presentation day has been moved to a week later than originally advised. It is now 8th June.
Raffle tickets will be given to every player in the Club to sell and return the ticket stubs and funds. Plese try to sell the tickets. As a Club we have not done any major fundraising this season at all. We do need to!
 
If anyone would like to reserve a place on the bus the U12's have going to the final on Sunday 6th April please let Vicky MacDonald know asap. £3 per adult. Once numbers for all players and their immediate families are confirmed the bus will hopefully be filled with a list of those interested. The bus will be leaving the New Inn at Mount tabor at 8am or the Irish Centre at 8.15 am. We are expecting to be back at around 1pm. Entry to the final is £2.50.

 

 

20.03.08

We have a mini committee organising the Presentations/Fun day for all. This has been provisionally booked for Sunday 1st June for all teams. Plans for day will be advised but for now I'm forwarding this message on behalf of Julie Marsden - one of the committee. They are wanting to produce programmes to sell detailing events on the day. We NEED your help in selling the advertising space in the programmes. If you are interested in buying a space or know of someone who will be please contact myself or Julie.
Many thanks everyone, it is with the intention of raising funds for our Club!
 
As part of the fund raising for the Fun/Presentation Day, we are organising a programme of which we are hoping to sell before and on the day. For this we need sponsors to agree to advertise in this programme at a cost of £10.00 for an eighth of a page or £20.00 for a quarter.
 
We need as many people as we can to sell as many spaces as they can as this is a really good way of fund raising for our club.
 
All we require from the company is a business card or compliment slip along with their payment, we are hoping to finalise this by the end of April.
 
Your thoughts and suggestions on this idea would be most welcome.

 

 

07.03.08

 

Halifax Irish JARLFC have this season recruited 13 "volunteers" to compete in the Jane Tomlinson Run for All- Leeds 10K on 22nd June. The volunteers - Gary & Alison Waldon, Lee & Michelle Amos, Jason MacDonald, Martin Wolstenholme, Mick Lovelady, Chris Rhodes, Nigel Sutcliffe, Stuart Varley, Pete & Yvonne Richardson and Graham Horner are partaking to raise funds for Hannah Cockroft - a 2012 paralympics contender. Hannah's dad Graham, coaches the Clubs' Under 12's team of which her brother Daniel is a player. Hannah is pictured training at Springhall race track and also trying out the specialised wheelchairs. The Club have agreed to aid Hannah's Olympic bid to raise funds from now until 2012 to help the family with their costs. A new racing chair costs in the region of £3500! Hannah currently has support from Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson who will also be partaking again in this years run for Jane. Anyone who would like to support Hannah's bid should contact Vicky MacDonald, Halifax Irish Junior Secretary on 01422 833923.

 

18.01.08

Under 8's to show the big guys how the game is really played!
Our under 8's have secured a curtain raiser before the Halifax RLFC v Melbourne Storm match on Friday 22nd February!
They will play a match against Brighouse, another local team, kicking off at 7.00PM.
If you are going to the match please show your support and get there early to watch our youngsters.
If you have any Club merchandise, wear it! Let's get ourselves noticed and show the players we are there with them!
Under 8's so far this season are unbeaten and have scored a total of 516 points in just 11 games!!!

 

26.11.07

Under 18's - Unfortunately we have had to take the decision to "fold" this team. This was a difficult decision made by the committee, and not one made lightly. Much time has been spent trying to keep the team up and running but unfortunately the time has come to call it a day. As a committee we would like to thank all those who committed to the team. Players, you are more than welcome to continue with our open age. We do want you to do so! Please contact Vicky MacDonald for further details.

CHRISTMAS PARTY CHANGE OF VENUE - THE PLANNED CHRISTMAS PARTY'S FOR 2ND DECEMBER AND 9TH DECEMBER ARE NOW BEING HELD AT ILLINGWORTH SPORTS CLUB. FURTHER DETAILS WILL BE GIVEN OUT BY THE TEAM COACHES THIS WEEK.

RESPECT CAMPAIGN - IMPORTANT NEWS!! THE RFL HAVE INTRODUCED A "RESPECT" CAMPAIGN. AS A PART OF THIS CAMPAIGN OUR COACHES AND OTHER MATCH OFFICIALS - TEAM MANAGERS/1ST AIDERS - MUST WEAR THE "RESPECT" HIGH VISIBILITY JACKETS. THERE IS A £25.00 FINE FOR OUR NOT WEARING THESE JACKETS. THE CLUB WILL NOT BE PAYING THESE FINES. ANYONE REPORTED TO BE IN THE FIELD OF PLAY WITHOUT ONE OF THESE JACKETS CAN BE LIABLE TO A £200.00 FINE. AGAIN, THE CLUB WILL NOT BE PAYING THESE FINES. PLEASE ENSURE YOU REMAIN BEHIND ANY BARRIERS OR DEFINATELY BEHIND THE TOUCH LINE. AS A CLUB WE WILL BE INTRODUCING BARRIERS TO ALL OF OUR GAMES.

PLEASE HELP US IN THE INTRODUCTION OF THIS CAMPAIGN. IT IS FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME.

 

25.11.07 Illingworth Sports Club 2 Month Trial

At a committee and coaches meeting held 25th November, the decision to take a 2 month trial playing at Illingworth Sports Club was agreed. Please be assured this is not a merger. We are still Halifax Irish JARLFC. We do still have the hire of Roils Head for the season, and may still need to play some games up there during this trial. Please support this move.

 

23.11.07 U12s In Orange

Pictured are our Under 12's who went as a group wearing their new team kit to watch the 1st Great Britain v New Zealand Tri-Nations match at the Galpharm Stadium. The players, wearing distinctive orange wigs, went with the mission of a former player, now living in New Zealand, being able to spot the team. They were holding up KIA-ORA JON to help. Not only did the team appear on Sky Sports, four times, they also appeared on Sky Sports News and on the BBC! The past player did get up at 5.00am to watch the match and was thrilled at the teams efforts to say hello!