Year Of The Rat!

A new year for rugby is about to begin... The girls have been busy with a Walleroos tour to NZ last year, rugby league action, rugby 7's in Darwin and a few other goodies that need to be brought up to date...

Here is the latest from our esteemed coach Bez (Erin), feel free to contact her if you would like to check out any of this information. New players are always welcome - no experience is necessary. We will teach you all you need to know to have a big impact on the field, and a whole lotta fun. Rugby is no longer the mens domain, and remember - this is the year of the RAT!

Thursday February 21st
Pre-season training begins at Rat Park (YES! I can hear you all say). Please be there between 6.30/6.45pm for a 7pm SHARP start.
Training will continue every Thursday from the 21st onwards.
The guys have begun training on both Tuesday and Thursday and all girls are welcome to join. So if you are chomping at the bit to do some fitness get down to Rat Park fom 6.30pm on those days and tag along.

Saturday February 23rd
Western 10s tournament in Dubbo. The tournament organisers are keen to have us and the prize money is rather good.
I have done some costing on accomodation and we can get pretty reasonable hotel rooms in Dubbo for the Friday and Saturday nights for around $40 each a night.
Having never been to Dubbo i'm not sure how far it is but have heard it's between 5-6 hours away. I think car pooling would be best but am open to seggestions.
Games are to be played on the Saturday only with our first game being 10.30am and the women's final at 7pm immediatley before the men's final.
As it's a 10s tournament we would probably need at least 13 players.

Saturday March 1st
There is an Under 20's development day being planned for this day. It is still in the works but early plans include some skills in the morning and possibly some 7s or 10s games in the afternoon.
I would encourage anyone who is interested to let me know and I will pass your name on.
Also for you teachers out there I will be giving your details to the organisers and they will provide further information for you to cascade down to the kids.

Sunday March 9th
Possible date of a Warringah Ratettes "Try Rugby" Day at Rat Park.
I have begun speaking to some people about having a fun introduction to women's rugby day at Rat Park to use as a recruitment tool. This would probably be along the same lines as the U20 development day but open to all ages.
More details will be available soon but I would like everyone to be there if possible to assist.

Saturday March 15th
Possible date of Sevens By the Sea tournament to be held at Rat Park.
This is still to be confirmed and planned.
Anyone who would like to help please let me know.

Saturday April 5th or 12th
Season begins.
This date is to be confirmed at next Wednesday's committee meeting and I will let you know asap the exact details.


So that's the plan kids.

If you could please shoot me back a quick note letting me know if you are interested in playing this season and what you can or can't attend it would be much appreciated. +61411045699

Warringah - 3 Day Party On The Peninsula!

Warringah GRAND FINAL WINNERS 2007

Wednesday 3rd October 2007

Three in a row - woohoo! Bez's first year as coach, and she took us to another Grand Final WIN! Check out the article below from the Manly Daily, seems like there really was reason to celebrate on the Peninsula on the weekend after all!

Warringah Ratettes 30 - Parramatta Two Blues 13

Warringah: Tries to Rachel Byrne, Lisa Fiaola, Sarah Laman, Tui Ormsby and Cheryl Soon. Tui kicked 1 conversion and 1 penalty.

Parramatta: L Todd (try) & M Dunn 1 conversion and 2 penalty goals (great kicking on the day sport).

Thank you so much to all our super sexy water girls, strappers, family, friends, rugby mates - especially ex-Ratettes, the Uni girls and Cheryl's special work 'Mum and Dad' for all your support on the day and during the year. We hope you enjoyed the win as much as we did - it couldn't be done without you. Thanks to Bez's Mum for having us all over to breakfast (a feast fit for champions), MaxiMe for babysitting MiniMe so that I could get back into it too! Oh yes, thanks to Warringah Rugby Club for having us as part of the fold... Why couldn't we keep our winning jumpers though?!?!

I will let the photo's speak for themselves in the following blog - they are of Grand Final Night at Surf Rock Collaroy, No Undies Sunday at Vicky's and Surf Rock again, as well as Mad Monday that started at Manly Skiff Club and ended up at the Steyne in Manly.

Thank you to the Manly Daily for the great article below.

Women's rugby
Ratettes rattle up amazing record

Joe Barton

03Oct07

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Ratettes Cheryl soon, Rachel Byrne, Vicky Burston, Cassandra Williams and Chris Ross with their trophy.
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THREE premierships in three years has confirmed what most followers of Sydney women's rugby have known for a while - Warringah are the best team in the competition's history.

The all-conquering team has lost just six matches on their way to claiming three successive titles since 2005.

Along the way they have scored an incredible 1924 points, while conceded just 191.

After months of playing down their dominance, last weekend's crushing victory over Parramatta has prompted captain Chris Ross and coach Erin Morton to finally admit that a dynasty has been built.

``It was fantastic to win on the weekend, I think it has created a bit of a dynasty kind of thing,'' Ross said.

``It's great because we are establishing a winning culture here.''

Morton, in her first year of coaching, believes that the ``winning culture'' has been built around the Ratettes brilliant defence.

``The most pleasing aspect about the last three years is our defence,'' the coach said. ``We've had five or six tries in about two years scored against us - our defence is fantastic.

``The girls just keep getting up off the ground to keep making tackles.''

And yesterday, with the girls recovering from a ``threepeat'' Mad Monday, all they were talking about was backing up in 2008.

``Hopefully we can be even stronger next year, no one is talking of retiring just yet,'' Morton said.

``Sydney Uni and Parramatta are pretty close to us (skill-wise), but we have a couple of really good players in key positions.

``Next year we definitely need to get some more numbers and get some more girls into the club.''

Wallaroo captain and Ratettes halfback Cheryl Soon backed up her coach.

``It feels great at the moment, the girls are elated and there were a few too many celebrations going on afterwards,'' she said. ``But we've got a bit of work to do for next year, the competition is getting tougher all the time and teams are catching up.

Sydney University remain the only team to have bettered Warringah in the past two seasons, after their last-round 10-7 win this year.

Warringah - Finals Countdown 24hrs!

MicroMe - President of Warringah Ratettes Junior Fan Club

We got a love letter from our coach on Tuesday after training. It started with this: We play our own game... What? You seriously didn't think you'd get more than that did you? It would be like a magician revealing his secrets!

Good news at training on Thursday night; no, it wasn't that Chris turned up in her onsies jammies - jumpsuit for the non Aussies. Tui (above left with Chris), is in the Wallaroo squad to tour New Zealand at the end of October - woohoo! She will be joining Chris, Chez and Barbs in the Green and Gold, on what will be a tough ask on 'Orkland' territory.

So in 24hrs we will be having our last huddle together for the season, and putting it all on the line. No other game matters, what we have done before won't count - this is THE one, all or nothing and we want it! Thank you to everyone who has supported us during the year, whether from afar online, or in person at the games.

Bez, you are a legend! You are the first coach I have had that doesn't have a penis, however, sometimes I swear you have balls (in the nicest possible way). You are a gutsy chick, a fun chick, and champion coach, I hope you are smiling at the end of the game!

Warringah - Farewell To Sydney Uni

Saturday 22nd September 2002

Sydney University 10 - Parramatta Two Blues 12...

The game was fairly slow paced compared to last week, and although they scored first, a win eluded them. They fought off raids from their much larger opponents on several occasions, displaying tenacious scrambling defense. Unfortunately that just wasn't enough on the day.

There were some big hits in the game, especially from the big girls on the Parramatta team. They sure let you know when you have been tackled, and they are pretty hard to stop once they are on a roll.

Parramatta played with more discipline than they have displayed earlier in the season, and today it paid off. They only had one player sin binned for back chatting, and there was only one fight - how civilised... Not.

Near the end of the second half, there was hope when Caroline went over for her 2nd try of the day. Unfortunately the conversion that would have levelled the scores hit the post. It would have been enough to give Uni the win, as they finished 2nd on the table for the season to the Two Blues 3rd placing.

I felt that Uni were taking their sweet time about winning the game and I am still shocked that they lost. They looked suitably down hearted at the end of the game - it was a disappointing way to end a brilliant season, where they only suffered two defeats coming into the finals series.

The best player on the day was definitely Alex Hargreaves. Again she chased that ball as if it was a pot of gold and was everywhere in attack and defense. Alex is always good, however coming up to the Wallaroos tour of New Zealand later this month, she is on fire!

This is Alex pictured with Uni's #10 Rocky - who also had a great game (as usual).

Commiserations ladies, you have played some brilliant rugby this year and you are a credit to the game.

Parramatta - we will see you on the field next week at Rat Park.