Club Day Program - 15 Oct

from the Valley they call Happy

round 3

club day

Our first Club day of the season is upon us this weekend as all 6 of our teams will have home fixtures up at Kings Park.

Our Mens and Womens Premiership teams, the Knights, and the Reds all play against USRC Tigers. While the Maverick’s take on Kowloon and the Griffins will meet Discipline Services.

The Mens Prem will be looking to bag their first win of the season and the Womens Prem will be looking to make up for their defeat at the hands of Gai Wu last weekend. This will also be the Mavericks first game of the season in what has been a very long preseason build up for the men. Lots of new faces to look out for across all our community teams as the coaches efforts with our own Summer Recruitment Courses start to bear fruit.

Valley Gai Wu 13 0

round 2 summary

The women ' s team were handed their first defat of the season, succumbing to a passionate Gai Wu side who proved to be a thorn for Valley that evening. With both teams starting the game strong, Gai Wu edge away at the scoreboard with a couple of early penalty kicks and finished with a try to seal the deal. With a decent amount of territory and possession, the women were not able to capitalise on this and turn it into points With some familiar faces not involved in the game, it gave the opportunity for new players to step up and new positional combinations to be flushed out. Onwards and upwards for the Women as they look to get back to their winning ways

A game lost by Valley rather than won by the opposition is probably an accurate description when summarising the Mens defeat at the hand of Hong Kong Scottish in the first of several Friday evening games planned for the season. Strong flashes of play by our forward pack was not enough for the men that evening as the rapid backline of Hong Kong Scottish proved to overcome Valley's defence Some fine tuning around decisions made at the set pieces and in open play is much needed our players are aware of this and will be making a turn around over the next few weeks

Valley

Mark Fatialofa Head Coach

meet the management

Premiership

Kevin West Head Coach

Tanya Young Manager Matt Rosslee Asst. Coach

Scott Davidson Head Coach

Mens Premiership Doug Fluker Manager Sam Hocking Asst. Coach Roger Ng S&C Coach

Womens Premiership

Knights

Mark Mooney Manager

Francis Waiomio Asst. Coach

Oct

Tigers

the teams

Mens Premiership

Thomas Concu

Dewar

Barend Potgieter

Cunningham

Martin Muller

Sion Bennett

Marks

Van Der Smit

Batcup

May

Steven Tavodi

Elden Schoeman

Fogerty

Steven Tavodi

Shiell

Ken Adrian Encarnacion

Faizal Solomona

Young

Hegglin

Coffin

Fukunaga

Felix Komiti

Farley

Tigers

15, Kings Park 18:00

Womens Premiership

Ka Kei Leung, Claire

Tanya Dhar

Kea Herewini

Jess Knight

Caitlin Spencer (c)

Karen So

Tiffany Fu

Tsz Yan Lam, Duc

Tyler Botha

Wong Yi Tung, Lewis

Wu Rumeng, Aislin

Katrina Roszynski

Adrienne Garvey

Nadia Cuvelier

Smith

Sze Nga,

Scrouther

Deena Ravi Thinakaran

See Ki, Stef

Ella Lynam

Wong Choi Ying, Claudia

So

JES

POSITION YEARS @ VALLEY

Lock/Flank 7 years

WHY THE RED & BLACK

I wanted to try out a new sport straight out of college. So I got in touch with an old school friend, Deena and she introduced me to Valley Rugby! (Thanks Deena!)

WHATS YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL AND WHY?

Has to be a sloth! I’m more active at night and lazy during the day!

WHAT DOES YOUR GAME DAY PREPARATION LOOK LIKE?

Start my day with a full English and jam out to some vibes!!

WHO HAS BEEN YOUR MOST INFLUENTIAL COACH?

Tough question! I’ve had good mentors the past years in rugby. Shout out to both Chris Garvey and Bella Milo, nothing but love and support on and off field from the both of them!

HIELL

WHY THE RED & BLACK

I played with Rob Fogerty back at home in Brighton and he couldn’t speak more highly of the club and I had a call with Fatz whilst making my decision on what team to join and the culture and club ethos that he described sounded perfect to me and it hasn’t disappointed

WHAT IS YOUR SPRIT ANIMAL AND WHY?

I’ll have to say an orangutan for obvious reasons

WHAT DOES YOUR GAME DAY PREPARATION LOOK LIKE?

Ideally it would be to wake up, have a coffee and a stretch then go for a walk along the harbour. However I’m currently teaching on Saturday mornings so it’s a bit more hectic than that

WHO HAS BEEN YOUR MOST INFLUENTIAL COACH?

It would probably be a guy called Mike Ashford whilst at University, his attention to detail and drive to improve everyone was top class and he also helped me develop and mature as a person off the pitch too!

Valley RFC are sad to say farewell to Doug Fluker, Mens Premiership Team Manager and his family, who head back to NZ next week

After a season at Gai Wu, Valley gained an extremely reliable player for their Premiership team in 2014 season. His fearless defence and natural ability to attack ensured him a regular spot on the team. His efforts supported the Prems achieving a few Championship wins during his playing days

After finishing playing, Dougy confidently gave refereeing a crack under the tutelage of his idol, Patrick Kwok The whistle was not for Doug, but quickly he took up the role of the Prems manager where he has excelled. He has been exemplary in his role, and whoever takes over has some big boots to fill.

Doug absence will be felt on many levels at Valley The players and coaches will miss his cool, calm and collected attitude as well as his selfless generosity to help you regardless of the situation

We wish the Fluker clan; Doug, Chanelle, Talia and Conner all the best back in NZ.

We look forward to welcoming them back whenever the time may be.

S

See you soon

Wong Sze Nga, KK Head Coach

meet the management

Jeff Yip Head Coach

Paul Deayton Head Coach

Wong Choi Ying, K Manager Chi Au Wai Asst. Coach

Aaron Stockdale Asst. Coach

Reds

Michael Chui Asst. Coach

Mavericks Griffins

Jeff Ching Manager

Bosco Chan Manager

the teams

Knights v Tigers

15, Kings Park

Rory Young

Adrian Encarnacion

Tsang Kai Cheuk

Lukas Edstron

Ng

Sheldon Coffin

James Honey

Hegglin

Katsuya Fukunaga

Noble

O'Conor

Tristan Von Burg

Felix Komiti

James Williams

Yuan

Francis Waiomio

Chi Meng

Dudok Van Heel

Chris Cheung

Jacobson

Damian Le Roux

Chung Kan John

Davies

v Tigers

15, Kings Park 2 16:30

Reds

Edith Yin Ting Chak

Parveen Arshad

Katie Ka Ki Wan

Deena Ravi Thinkaran

Sabrina Chung

Sarah Wallace

Taryn Yuen Yin Lo

Stef See Ki Tsang

Shuwan Au (c)

Yoanna Leung

Gina Tsz Yan Yueh

Lynam

Silvia Ng

Sofia Ng

Connie Hong Nei Ma

Tamika Wing Tung So

Sze Nga Wong, KK

Anita Vogel

Scott

Senogles

Wai Shan Cheng

Tin Tung Kwong

Mavericks v Kowloon

15, Kings Park 15:00

the teams

Brendan Dunstan Smith

Hodgetts

Ben Campbell

Stuart Brown

Trey Deaver

George Molina

Jeff Tse

Dylan Navra

Paul Wessels

Griffins v Police

15, Kings Park 18:00

Hong Wa Hui

Sam Ngan

Tom Burrows

Ryan Troupe

Brad Way

Kenta Brown

Chun Lok Chu

Thomas Vincent

Casper Siu

Jeff Ching Lukas Lai

Sun

Brandt Human

Sawhney

Li

Chong

Olly McDermott

Peter Yau

Ryan Kwok

Sneath

Rion Yeh

Kwan

Thompson

Kiwa Whatarau

Rustemeyer

Lacarne

Fabien Joseph

Fai Wong

Sunny Leung

Aljon Rae Grose

Callaghan

Yuen

Wai Lun Wong

Raph Fraginal

Terence Wong

Nicolas Cole

Societe Generale Valley RFC would like to acknowledge and express sincere thanks and gratitude to our sponsors and partners

We would not be here if it was not for our Title Sponsor Societe Generale, and our primary sponsors TV5 Monde, Mayer Brown, Bonaqua, Swire Properties, Links Moving, HKEX and the Happy Valley Bar and Grill.

We are also lucky to have the support of ONLY Beverage, Gweilo Beers and Metabev who provide our members with products and discount codes to be used throughout the season.