This Weekends Programme

Chairpersons Update

Club Prize Giving

Our Club Prize Giving will be held next Saturday 24 July 2021

6pm - Happy hour  

7pm - Guest Speaker

7.10pm - Award Presentation

7.30pm - Finger Food 

Special guest DJs for entertainment

All players and supporters are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Our Champion Winning Under 13 Team will also be joining us.

Working Bee

Calling all hands on deck Saturday at 9.30am 24 July 2021

Greenie and Scotty Builders and helpers to set up reo and bolts in holes for light towers

Darren Sparkies and helpers to put dux in for wires and pre-wire new lights onto cross arms

Kernal Others paint walls in Ashs bar before new carpet tiles go down

Your Chairperson Scott Siffleet Blue and White for Life - "Oh That Chicken"

Chairpersons Update

Well, here we are the last week of the second round and we need a big turnout from our supporters to get our boys over the line. The Premiers need a win to lock in the home semi-final and our Div 1 boys need a bonus-point win to lock down a semi-final spot.
Our Colts and Div 2 boys want to finish their season with a win and move into the night's celebration at full strength.

If you can't make it to the game this weekend you can watch it live on the Tukapa facebook page: https://fb.me/e/1Xi9vUePk

You can also check out the game day programme on our website: https://www.tukapa.co.nz/programme/

End of Regular Season Party

Be sure to get a late pass because we are throwing a massive party to celebrate the end of the regular season. Get your budgie smugglers on and bikini out and join us for our Mid Winter Beach party.

Thanks to our Volunteers

Saturday I also want to celebrate our volunteers, they keep our club running from the Friday night bar crew to our Saturday field prep and everything in between. Our coaches and managers give up a lot of time and also come under the volunteer flag. So when you see a volunteer or management, shake their hand and say thank you.

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The Lighting Project

This has been a project that has been on the books for Tukapa for at least 10 years and in the last 18 months, we have finally been able to get underway. The cables went in the ground before the season started to field 1 and 2 and there have been 6 new poles sitting at the Lifestyle Building workshop for the last 3 months. All. We are now just waiting for the lights to turn up from overseas.
All of the above would not have been possible without the good Tukapa fans who have come on board and helped us out with their services and expertise. From Tool Hire Taranaki lending trenches and diggers, Utility Scan GPS set out and marked the existing cables, Red Jacket the footing design, Ultimate Concrete supplying the reinforcing steel and we also have Line Power donating their skills and machinery to install the poles and lights when we are ready.
On top of all these sponsors, we have had a 40k grant from the TOI Foundation and a 20K grant from the Lion Foundation, and some long-time supporters of Tukapa also making donations to our project.
We are hoping to have all three fields ready before the start of the 2022 season but to make this happen we are still in need of more funds and services.
We anticipate this project will really change the way we see Rugby from kids being able to play mid-week games and free up Mum and Dad on the weekend to Friday night senior games. If you talk to any senior player they will tell you how hard it is to train in the current Non-lights.
Within Tukapa have a bunch of can-do people and this project to me is not too hard, but more of a, think outside the square and make it happen. Thank you to our sponsors and volunteers above for getting us this far and now let’s rally together and get it done.

Tukapa Social Membership Lunch

Tukapa Social Members are invited to:
LUNCH at The Good Home (21 Ariki Street, New Plymouth)
THURSDAY 8th July at 12 Midday.
Please RSVP by Tuesday 6th to either Kevin Curd curd.kevin51@gmail.com (7533692) or Peter Coles pjcoles@xtra.co.nz (027 4427621) if you are able to attend.

Your Chairperson Scott Siffleet Blue and White for Life

This weeks news update

Chooks weekly newsletter

Chairpersons Update

Queen’s Birthday and taking Tuesday off has made this an extremely short week so I'm running a bit late with the weekly update.

This week our Premiers, Div 1 and Colts all head to Tikorangi looking to help their case on the points table and move up a few spots.

Our Div 2 boys are off to Corbett Park to take on the mighty Kaitake in a game our fellas have been looking forward to all season. As I said on Saturday I grew up running the sand bucket and sleeping under bar leaners at Kaitake and now is probably the reason I love rugby so much. I still would love to see our boys get the win at the River mouth.

Last week I wrote about our Colts and there camaraderie, this week I have a similar moment that happened with our Div 1 boys. The team was really short at prop, Crighton put is hand up and said "I will give it a crack. I have never played prop but I can do it." The 3rd scrum of the day was a tight head and our Tukapa pack held their own for the whole 80 mins. Now our Premier coaches are saying maybe Crighton is a good player to develop into a solid Prop. It’s the can do attitude of our players and volunteers that make Tukapa stand out from the crowd and lead the way in club rugby. Its moments like these that other players from around Taranaki think to themselves there is something a little different at Tukapa in a good way.

We are away at Tikorangi this weekend and internet or cell coverage is not good so suggest you sort a car load and get out to watch the game because chances of a live stream could be slim and why not make the most of a sunny Saturday and watch some Rugby. At the same time our Div 1 and Colts play Clifton, they also have the women’s final on number 1 between Clifton and Southern which will be worth watching.

As most people know having a Tukapa women’s team is on our bucket list.

A couple of dates to look forward to in the near future:

Pomare’s 150th game 19th June against Inglewood

3rd July Netball/Rugby Mid-Winter Beach night with mechanical surf board

Last chance to register as a social member below.

Tukapa has signed up to the CommUnity initiative. Register as a CommUnity Member and every time you shop at a participating CommUnity Merchant, paying for your purchases directly from your bank account or by using any of your eftpos, debit or credit cards, a percentage of each transaction will be passed onto our Club. Current Merchants in New Plymouth are Kingsway, Good Home, Crowded House, Stumble Inn, King & Queen. Keen to know more, click on this link: How Does it Work and/or sign up to become a CommUnity Member. The more club members who sign up and support the current merchants the more money our club gets.

Your Chairperson Scott Siffleet, Blue and White for life.

Chairpersons Update

Oh how the tables can change after a wet day of rugby in Stratford last Saturday. With our loss in the Premier game to Stratford/Eltham this now sees us sitting in third place on 19 points with Inglewood and NPOB equal on top on 21 points, meaning a win over Old Boys this week will help our case.

In the Colts grade, I watched all 80 mins of the game against Stratford/Elham and was impressed with our never-give-up attitude and also the team spirit that was shown by our boys. A young man called Connor who is new to rugby came on to the field with 15 mins to go and the way our boys cheered him onto the field and supported him when he made a tackle and carried well, it was just awesome and made me proud to call myself the Chairman of the Tukapa Rugby Club. It's moments like these that make our club different from any other club and why I love doing what I do. So thank you to the Colts for being good buggers. It doesn’t matter win or lose we are brothers for life. 

With our Div 1 and Div 2 teams both missing out in the weekend by 1 point they will be putting the extra work in this weekend to try and get the win. Our Div 1 boys are at home to NPOB who are top of the table but we sit only 2 points out of the top 4 and a win could see us break inside to a semi-final spot. The Div 2 boys get on the bus again and head down to Rahotu to play a very good Div2 team on their Jubilee weekend. We wish them luck and hope they get a win. They have put in extra work at Ash’s bar so they are well prepared going into the trip.

This last Saturday we had a very quiet night over the bar so are going to ramp things up after the NPOB game with Nathan back on the Guitar and he will be set upstairs to keep the younger crowd entertained while the after game breakdown can go on downstairs. Be sure to hang around and join in the fun at the club house. Paul will be doing meals in the upstairs kitchen and Monday is a holiday anyway.

A couple of dates to look forward to in the near future:

Pomare’s 150th game 19th June against Inglewood

3rd July Netball/Rugby Mid-Winter Beach night with mechanical surf board

Hot off the press - our Tukapa Beanies have arrived and are available through Dan Johanson. If you haven't already ordered one, see Dan at the clubrooms before they are all sold out.

We have had a really good up take on our social memberships this year and would like to keep building numbers. If you are not a paid up member of the club please click the membership button below and join up. Without financial support from our social members, we can’t do what we do as a club.

Tukapa has signed up to the CommUnity initiative. Register as a CommUnity Member and every time you shop at a participating CommUnity Merchant, paying for your purchases directly from your bank account or by using any of your eftpos, debit or credit cards, a percentage of each transaction will be passed onto our Club. Current Merchants in New Plymouth are Kingsway, Good Home, Crowded House, Stumble Inn, King & Queen. Keen to know more, click on this link: How Does it Work and/or sign up to become a CommUnity Member. The more club members who sign up and support the current merchants the more money our club gets.

Live stream info for this weekends game.

Go to the Tukapa Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/tukaparugbyclub

2.35pm - Pre-game buildup and Analysis

2.45pm - Kick Off Tukapa vs N.P.O.B.

With only 5 games and hopefully semi and finals left be sure to get up to the chook house and show your support to your teams and club.

Your Chairperson Scott Siffleet, Blue and White for life.