Blue Rally

[andrewM]

Hi Guys

With the Own the Force share offer closing next week, I thought I'd better give you a picture of our current finances;

We have $1,676 in the bank. This includes sales from Force games, Britannia plus Pally, some Perth-Bayswater and UWA club sales
All bills are paid bar the last one for $264 I think (I haven't got the invoice in front of me).

I have asked the 14 other clubs (including Refs via Ecky) if they can transfer whatever funds they have raised to date. Using a conservative estimate of 10 sales per club, that is a further $700. Hopefully it will be more - we need to sell 16 per club to break even.

I am hoping we can raise a further $200 at the game next week, but again, I'm hoping it will be more.

If you want to see the full breakdown of accounts please send me a PM and I will send you the Google drive link.

[Alison]

Great work Andrew!

[Alison]

Hertryk's nephew in England is proudly displaying a sticker on his car!

[andrewM]

That ones definitely going in the Montage!

[Tonkar]

Hertryk's nephew in England is proudly displaying a sticker on his car!

Love the car brings back so many memories..

[SNOB]

Love the car brings back so many memories..

Not much room in the back of the old Moggy!

[andrewM]

OK, I bit the bullet and purchased a medium Hodgo Celebration Jersey as they were the only size left. Emailed RugbyWA Commercial Team but waiting for their response.

[blueandblack]

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/tue...ugby-news-187/

"FORCE CAN BE SUPEREST

Western Force coach Dave Wessels reckons that if his team can stay in Super Rugby, they, uh, can win the thing next year.

No, really.

“It will be quite an emotional week [with Matt Hodgson leaving] for the club, there’s not many players who got to exit stage left on their own terms and Hodgo deserves it,” Wessels told the Daily Telegraph.

“My challenge will be to keep those emotions in check so we can actually get a performance up.”

We’ll get to the title talk soon, but as these things go, Wessels was asked about the Force’s situation.

“Just the way the Western Australian community has rallied behind the team has been special,” he said.

“We started out a few months ago feeling pretty disconnected from the community, but since all this has happened we’ve come to realise that people really care about this team, we actually mean something.

“In many ways the staff situation keeps me up a fair bit, because I know the challenges facing them. If things don’t fall our way, the other teams have staff in place. The players will be absorbed in other teams but there are only a certain amount of rugby jobs in this country.

“I have three senior staff members who have had babies in the last three months, that is stuff to worry about. The players have taken a lot from the staff. The staff have acted magnificently in tough circumstances and the players have followed their lead.”"

Some more to read at the link, too.

[BLR]

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/tue...ugby-news-187/
Western Force coach Dave Wessels reckons that if his team can stay in Super Rugby, they, uh, can win the thing next year.

No, really.

What a arrogant dickhead.

[jono]

Yeah, it's hartman though

[hertryk]

That ones definitely going in the Montage!

I have to thank Alison for putting the photo's on the site..I am hopeless at this stuff. I have sent a few more for good nephew to sell at Worcester Warriors, but advised they are free if they send photo's of said stickers on their cars.. LOL!! (Yes I paid for them )

[Alison]

I'm surprised they felt disconnected from the community. I've always regarded the sea of blue as the most connected of all the fan bases and I thought they did too.

[blueandblack]

I'm surprised they felt disconnected from the community. I've always regarded the sea of blue as the most connected of all the fan bases and I thought they did too.

Dave may mean the wider rugby community in WA rather than just the Sea of Blue. I think the Members Evenings have helped too.

[andrewM]

Just transferred money for the first Own the Force share to RugbyWA Juniors

[andrewM]

And some more good news..

Western Force have agreed to sign the jersey we purchased AND Val has donated her talent once again with her pretty amazing painting (and it's not even finished yet!) of Matt Hodgson, which Matt will sign as well!