Notes
on the 4 November 2004
WSRFC
Team Meeting
We met in the famous
Fairfax Reds Room of the Firehouse Grill, newly equipped with cheap black vinyl
sofas and equally cheap glass-topped tables. The following Suburbans were
present (in no order): Bushy, McNair, Murray, Brigham, Bunch, Coddy, Elvis,
Steve Lough, Borell, Jungle Jim, Gardner, Ryan Findley, Kermit, Darryl Biddle,
Mike Briscoe, Jeff Hall, Matt Hill, Steve Busch, Kelly Watkins, Cruz, Jon
Carter, O.D., Benoit, Jesse, The Good Neil, Kevin Bradley, Pablo, Jason Berg,
Art Steffen, Siltanen, Ian, Bothwell, Corry, Charles Chen. 35 total. The
meeting started at 7:30 PM.
Grace Torgerson,
Jesse’s baby girl, was born 20 October. (I have requested photos.) Mother and
child are well. Couldn’t tell about Jesse – as usual, he wasn’t saying a lot. With
the arrival of Baby Grace, Jesse starts on a mostly unknown adventure. Crying,
teething, diapers, Back to School nights, boyfriends, braces, college… nothing he
has ever done in rugby prepares him for this. But I’m sure he’ll do great! (I did.)
Kermit gave a
tentative report about what’s on for the Spring 2005 season, which starts on
the 26th of February. Here’s what we have dates for. Check the
website schedule in about a month or two for updates.
Saturday 26
February: Practice begins
19/20 March:
Savannah Tournament
19 April:
Scrimmage with JMU
30 April or 7 May:
Alumni Match
14/15 May
(tentative): PRU Division II High School Tournament (we host)
About Savannah:
Kermit enjoined all who are interested to start making flight and hotel arrangements
NOW.
Kelly Watkins will
soon get storage space for club equipment. If you have tackle bags, ruck pads, padded
vests, (rugby) balls, etc. please get in contact with him. There will now be a
place for it other than your living room floor. His address is beowulf33@aol.com
WE HAVE BEEN WARNED BY LOUDOUN COUNTY: EVIDENCE OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION HAS BEEN FOUND AT CLAUDE MOORE PARK AND WE ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING THIS PITCH. ONE MORE OFFENSE AND WE’RE OUT. NO ALCOHOL MEANS NO ALCOHOL. DON’T SCREW THIS UP FOR US.
The Banquet will
be held 20 November at Kilroy’s in Springfield. The cost will be $30 per
person. This includes beer and food (but this is not a sit-down dinner type of
thing). Please get in touch with Yorkie
immediately: findley7979@hotmail.com
At this point in
the meeting we talked about Guinness sponsorship and somebody helpfully
declared, “Guinness is cool!”
Kelly Watkins
talked about stair training. From his flyer:
Monday, December 6th
We start at
6:30 PM
If you have any
questions, contact Kelly at beowulf33@aol.com
Directions: 11350
Random Hills Road. Route 50 to Waples Mill Road. Turn right on Random Hills
Road. The building is on the right hand side. If you are coming from Fairfax on
Rt. 50, Waples Mill will be a left hand turn. If you are coming from Chantilly/Centreville
on Rt. 50, Waples Mill will be a right hand turn.
Training is for 2 ¼
months for a February race. Monday, Wednesday, Fridays for 45 minutes. Kelly
wishes me to pass on to you that if you throw up – you clean it up. Yes,
it’s that kind of physical endeavor. It is no fun – but boy, will you be in
shape for the coming season.
While we’re on the
subject of off-season fitness, Jeff “Rocko” Gardner issued a FITNESS
CHALLENGE. I am uncertain of the parameters of this, but it sounds like he’ll
be bringing fat index measuring devices, etc. to future activities. (What a
pest.) The idea is to competitively lose weight over the winter. Or something
like that. I shall await an announcement from him to appear on the website
bulletin board. If interested, contact him at Jeff1824@aol.com
Around this time,
according to my notes, Kelly mentioned that a past friend of the club, barmaid
Smiley, now has a couple of kids. (He also hastened to say that he was not the
father.)
Bryan “Sam Adams” Siltanen
passed around a prototype promotional license plate frame which says, “My kid
beats up your kid in Western Suburbs Rugby.” Okay, it doesn’t say that at all.
It says, “Western Suburbs Rugby, rugbyfootball.com.” Looks like a good thing.
Contact him at bsiltanen@msn.com if interested.
Then we lurched
into elections.
David “Coddy” Codd
was sustained as the Head Coach for another year. A motion to table elections
for captains, assistant coaches and selectors was passed, so we moved on.
President: Ryan “Yorkie”
Findley was acclaimed (well, okay, tolerated) and remains president.
Kelly “Weanie Boy”
Watkins asked if anyone wanted his position, nobody stood up, so he remains our
Vice-President. For the record, he has no connection to Halliburton.
Jesse “Verbal”
Torgerson stepped down as treasurer and “Jungle” Jim Joseph took his place.
I stood down as
secretary, and, via Elvis’ speaker cell phone link, Mike “Princess” Clark accepted
the position of secretary. He attempted to make a garbled speech, which was
hard to hear. It sounded like, “Aakkkk Enterprise this is gaakkkk Kobayashi
Maru in sector aakkkkkk losing life support gaakkkk…”
Chris “Kermit”
Cahill is still the match-secretary.
Yorkie announced a
new position of Club Development Officer, which has among its duties promotion
of the club, activities that will lead the club into a better position in
regards to numbers and heavy drinking. Elvis accepted that challenge.
Yorkie announced an
entity to be known as the Council Of Elders and I think Steve McNair was made
the Head Chief of that, despite the fact that Jim Borell was running around
displaying his AARP card for all to see. I certainly hope I don’t have to look
at McNair wearing a loincloth and an Indian feathered headdress.
I guess we forgot
to do the Superlatives. Coddy announced some classifications, but they never
made their way onto the floor for voting.
We closed the
meeting at 8:52 PM. When I got home my wife took one sniff at me and asked, “Geez,
who was smoking the cigar?” (T’was Watkins.)
Respectfully
submitted,
Wes “Brigham”
Clark
Outgoing WSRFC
Secretary
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