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The Official Magazine of Oratia United AFC Issue 2: June 2014 IN THIS ISSUE Chairman’s Report A Word from the DOF Why I’m an NRFL fan Head Coach Update The Side Line Eye Oratia Vintage Oratia Women’s 1st Team Oratia Forrest Wanderers ASFA Women’s Social Oratia Diva’s Under 19’s Oratia Warriors Oratia Cricket Oratia United AFC Executive Board 2014 Parrs Park Cnr West Coast Road & Parrs Cross Road Club Chairman & Head of Junior Oratia Peter Goodburn P: 021 977 427 PO Box 20-195 E: [email protected] Glen Eden Waitakere City Head of Senior Anthony Sutton (Sutts) P: 818 2320 P: 027 491 5067 E: [email protected] Treasurer & Cricket Representative Chris Stevens P: 021 115 5039 E: [email protected] Secretary Ian Parris P: 027 706 5771 E: [email protected] Junior Representative Jacqui Barcley P: 027 202 8017 E: [email protected] Junior Representative Colin Dietschin P: 021 899 663 E: [email protected] Dave Taylor P: 027 466 3086 E: [email protected] Mike Hayes P: 021 926 258 E: [email protected] Chairman’sChairman’s MessageMessage pared for the members to review by end of July. Last Saturday we held our first junior disco for the year and even though I was not able to at- tend I have heard nothing but good reviews from everyone so to Jacqui and her team of helpers well done and look forward to the next club event. To all of our sponsors and especially our major sponsor Fresh Choice Glen Eden a big thank you From the Chairman from the club for coming on board yet again. Peter Goodburn A reminder to everyone especially our supporters and parents of junior players foul and abusive behavior will not be tolerated by the club so Hi everyone and welcome to the 2 nd edition of please ensure this does not happen. the senior magazine and a real big thank you to Jo Ghent for the amazing work which she has Peter Goodburn been doing for all of the club magazines. Chairmen Oratia United AFC. We continue to work with the council and the Parr’s Park users group on the future develop- ment of facilities at Parr’s Park and led the presentation of the initial plan to the Waitakere local board on Thursday 22 nd May. Oratia UAFC will take the lead role to seek grant funding for a full facility study involving all the user groups to be completed this year with the grant application been lodged by the end of June and below is a brief about the group. What is the Parr’s Park User Group. Is a group of primarily sports groups that all have a vested interest in Parr’s park and its fu- ture development. In late October 2013 Auckland Council initiated a meeting at Parr’s Park for all of the clubs that reside there. The aim of this initial meeting was to explore development and collaboration oppor- tunities, because individually they had all taken part in discussions around growth. This group was formed in response to this; there are currently 7 key user groups (including the current sports clubs and Hoani Waititi Marae) Proud to that are working with Sport Waitakere and Coun- Support cil to gain support and source funding to conduct a feasibility study and assess options around fu- Oratia United ture buildings on the park to support the in- creased community need. 142 West Coast Road, Glen Eden If you wish to know more about the above group P: 818 2526 then talk to either me, Chris Stevens, Kevin Gea- ney or a board member. We are also continuing with the revamp of the constitution and hope to have a draft copy pre- www.oratiaunited.co.nz • Oratia united AFC • @oratiaunited AA wordword fromfrom thethe DOFDOF Director of Football Steve Cain Approaching a third of the way through the sea- son our senior teams are well into their work. We are generally very competitive across the board but as with every season some teams are enjoy- ing more success than others. Our coaches and management staff put in a lot of time and effort to make things work and as a club we are always mindful of this. These efforts are sometimes re- warded with results, sometimes not; such is the nature of football at all levels of the game. Our senior men’s reserves have had a positive month as have the Vintage and the Rovers while it is a mixed bag for the rest. We have an outstanding facility here at Parrs Park with good pitches that will remain in top condition throughout the winter months. Our clubrooms are vibrant and busy. This latter has attracted a lot of positive comment from visiting teams. In all a lot of positives and much still to achieve, both on and off the field. www.oratiaunited.co.nz • Oratia united AFC • @oratiaunited WhyWhy I’mI’m anan NRFLNRFL fanfan Of course not – you’d just be happy to be 136 By Enzo Giordani years old… But my point is – you ARE at North Road right now, at least in spirit. On my first trip to Italy in 2007 I wanted a taste of The great thing about New Zealand and Auck- Italian grassroots or ‘lower league’ football. So I land in particular is there are at least ten Newton decided to go to a lowly local game in the nearest Heaths that I can think of off the top of my head town to where I was staying with some of my fami- all within a 10km radius of my home in Swan- ly members who live over there. When I told a foot- son, West Auckland. Three or four of them are ball loving Italian cousin that I wanted to watch a within walking distance, depending on how fit club called Latina play in Eccellenza (the sixth tier you feel on any given day. of Italian football) he looked at me like I was insane and literally remarked that he would rather chew The NRFL is football stripped right back to its his own arm off than go to a game such as this. I purest form. This is how the game is meant to ignored his derision, went along and thoroughly en- be enjoyed. The experience you are having right joyed myself at the largely uneventful 0-0 draw now is football the way it was invented to be. that unfolded that day. That’s why I love NRFL. 7 years later, as you read this Latina are now third [You can follow Enzo’s adventures as an NRFL in the Serie B standings, guaranteed a playoff fan on his blog – www.in-the-back-of-the.net] place, and with one regular season game to go they are still in with a chance of automatic promotion to the top tier of the Italian game where the famous names of AC Milan, Juventus and Roma await them. On my cousin’s Facebook page, I note with some amusement that he’s now “a Latina fan”. I’ve never been much of a natural sportsman. As much as I love watching football, I gave up playing it when I was about 10 years old quite simply be- cause I was woeful at it. It’s probably for that rea- son that what interests me about the game isn’t so much the technical or tactical side of the game, but more the sociological and cultural aspects. I’m a fan of football culture as much as the game itself. What makes a fan tick is as interesting, if not more inter- esting, to me as what makes a good player or team. I’m not going be able to feel the righteous satisfac- tion of following Oratia United all the way to Serie A anytime soon, but my reasons for loving grassroots New Zealand football as much as I did that Eccel- lenza experience are based on the same principles. All big things started off in life as smaller things. Before Manchester United was a global brand val- ued in the billions with all the associated glitz, glamour and clingers on, it was Newton Heath and played on a dodgy pitch in front of a few hundred people. The same is true of just about every other club in England. Wouldn’t you feel pretty smug if you were able to say you were there at North Road, Manchester, before all the hype and all the money? www.oratiaunited.co.nz • Oratia united AFC • @oratiaunited HeadHead CoachCoach UpdateUpdate The goal for this season was to gain promotion to NRFL Division 1 so we have a bit of work to do after losing that string of games. We have some momentum now though and the boys are really starting to gel so if we can string a few victories together over the next three or four weeks we’ll get ourselves back in the mix and if we can consistently play at the level we did last week then I believe we can beat anyone in our division. 1st Team Coach Lee Gosshawk After hosting Lynn Avon this weekend we will be half way through the season. It’s been an up and down start to the season. We started well and won our first three games fairly comfortably but then had a bad run of injuries so struggled to maintain those standards and lost five games on the trot which dropped us down the table.