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As you are probably aware the Great Northern  Hotel are again offering free drink vouchers to teams this year. They are now also now offer a great new “Royal Park Touch menu”, check it out here. 

If your interested ask the referee or at the desk for a voucher and a copy of the menu and get along to the Great Northern for great food, drink, and atmosphere.

Come join us at the Great Northern Hotel, the perfect spot to while away a summer’s eve. We have a massive beer garden out back serviced by Kipper’s Bar. There’s also a cosy snug area for respite from the sun. We have 16 beers on tap, offering Australia’s finest, including Feral White and Hop Hog IPA, Taxi Pilsner and Mountain Goat Steam Ale.  We also have international highlights including Trumer Pils on tap, and a range of imported boutique bottles, as well as home town heroes like Carlton Draft.

With five big screens playing all sporting codes, The Great Northern is the place to be this summer.

The Great Northern Hotel
644 Rathdowne St, Carlton North
Ph : 9380 9569
Fx : 9381 2476
email: gnh@live.com.au

Referees

This season RPT has grown by 25%. This along with the retirement of some key experienced referees means that we need to expand our referee base. As such we will be initiating a referee bonus system. All teams with a nominated referee will get a bonus point for every game refereed by that player or three bonus points for any player who completes a level 1 referees course.

The bonus points will be capped at three points per team.

There are two free level one referees courses on the 30th of October and 5th of November. Referees are vital to Touch so please spread the word.

Draw

A draw for the first round and a calendar for the various rounds throughout the year has beeen published here: http://www.royalparktouch.com/season-draw/

Like last season the first two weeks of the season will be grading rounds. These rounds along with your team nomination will be used to determine your teams ultimate grade for regular season play. Please note that given our expansion this season there are some new teams so mismatches in grading may occurr. But grading enables us to match teams closely over the remainder of the season.

There is not touch over Winter at royal park touch due to a lack of lights on our grounds. However we will be back in October 2011 raring to go.

For those who wish to continue playing over Winter in the inner north they is an option.  Due to the field renovations taking place at Cordner Oval, Fawkner Park Touch will not run this winter. However MCC have allocated some fields a JJ Holland park to cover.

Details are below:

Kensington Competition

The facility is located at JJ Holland Park in Kensington. It is synthetic surface which is located next to South Kensington Train Station which is only one stop from North Melbourne Station. Parking is also available near the station.

• Monday: 6:15pm – 10:00pm
• Grades: Social Mixed B to E & Social Men’s B to E
• Wednesday: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
• Grades: Social Mixed B to E, Social Men’s B to E and Social Women’s B & C

Places will be limited due to field availability. Contact details are:
Touch Football Australia – Victoria
Sports House
Level 2 375 Albert Road
ALBERT PARK VIC 3206
tel: 03 9206 6755
fax: 03 9206 6766

info@victouch.com.au
www.victouch.com.au

A wrap up of grand final results and general photos from the final round can be found below the fold.

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