Royal Park touch is a social touch football competition located in Parkville. To learn more about our competition, and its advantages visit about RPT.

Team Entry

Due to a large number of entries received on the 29th of September 2011 we have currently reached our official capacity of 30 teams. We asked council for an additional field to accommodate extra teams. All team entries after the 29th of September will subject to the Melbourne City Council’s allocation of an additional field or an existing team pulling out.

Update 11/10/2011. We are still waiting on MCC and have ben told that a decision should made shortly. No reason has been given by MCC for the delay in making a decision.

Further details of team entry are below:

To enter a team please download and complete the following Team Registration Form
and email it through to royalparktouch@gmail.com. If you have not collected all your players details do not worry (additional names can be added later), please ensure the following are details are recorded:

• Team name
• Captains details (phone number and email)
• Preferred grade, B-D2 (note we have two weeks of grading rounds so this is indicative only).

The total cost per team is $A1,140 for the season (all inclusive), deposit is $450 (this is required before the first game).

Individual players
RPT will try to place individual players into team right up to the commencment of the season. If you are an individual player wishing to be placed in an existing team visit Individual Players and follow the instructions.

Or for any other enquiries please contact us on:

• Peter Shaw (Mob) 0414 315 957
  E-mail: royalparktouch@gmail.com
• Toby Cooper (Mob) 0418 180 293
  E-mail: royalparktouch@gmail.com

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

The grading rounds are now complete. From now on all games are for competition points. I have finalised our two lowest grades (D1 and D2),I intend to do one more week (round 6) of running B & C grades togther.

A draw will then be published for the remainder of the regular season (rounds 7 – 12) but not including our final two weeks (rounds 13 and 14) which are finals/playoff rounds (teams not playing finals, playoff for positions 5-8).

A draw for the season is available here:

http://www.royalparktouch.com/season-draw/

If you are after some additional players I have quite a few individual males, females, and some couples looking for a game at Royal Park, please let me know if you are after some additional players and I will put you in touch. We always try to get everyone a game at RPT.

Any questions please let me know. I look forward to seeing you all on the field.

Individual players

Every year RPT places lots of individual players in teams. If you are an individual player wishing to be placed in a team visit Individual Players and follow the instructions.

If you are an individual player who has already contacted us we will be in contact with you shortly.

Uniforms penalties begin next week.

We have received some questions about uniforms and what constitutes a uniform at RPT. For the first five rounds the only requirement is that a team is clothed in tops (t-shirt, polo, etc) of a similar colour. The tops do not need to be the same nor of exactly the same colour but they do need to be close enough that the referee can tell they are the same team.

After round four teams may be penalised for players not in uniform. The penalty will be in the form of tries per player not clothed in matching top awarded to the non offending team (up to a maximum of 3 tries).

After round five the same policy to unique numbers on the back, numbers can be in taped on but they must be legible to the referee.

Weather

Several people have asked me what our policies are with respect to weather. At RPT we only cancel or postpone games if we consider conditions dangerous for our players. The two primary examples of this are:

•  Lightning in the imminent area such that it may strike competitors (this will generally be judged on the night)
• Extreme heat,  which we interpret as temperatures above 38 degrees

If the temperature is above 30 degrees we may also vary the game length or breaks on the night for player comfort. Games are not generally cancelled if it is simply wet or windy.