By DAMIEN MULHOLLAND
THE mighty Noosa Pirates would like to welcome all our sponsors and supporters, new and old to what is building to be a very exciting season.
A huge thank you to local and State governments for the funding to complete our state-of-the-art field lights during the off-season. They light Pirate Park up like a Christmas tree – as this season’s competition games are now being played on Saturday nights.
The club has assigned Anthony Zipf (“Zippy”) as A Grade and club coach. Zippy is one of our juniors who has acquired a wealth of knowledge as an under-20s Bronco’s premiership player, Q Cup and three-time Noosa Pirate A Grade premierships.
Zippy has hit the ground running with the boys training hard since early January.
We’ve welcomed some new signings and are confident of some young talent coming through the ranks.
Zippy will be assisted by our Reggies coach Scott Christenson, another Pirate junior and premiership player, who has some great training techniques in store for the boys.
Our A Grade has merged with the Gympie Devils this year. Together, the teams have come up with a new nickname, which is the “Northern Outlaws”.
During the pre-season, Zippy took the boys to Oakey for a trial match against Burleigh Heads, which we won 16-6.
After the game Zippy said he couldn’t be happier with the effort and the ways the boys came together over the weekend.
The following week, the boys played in the Sunshine Coast 9s, where we made it to the finals and beat the final victors during the day.
This coming weekend (Saturday 21 March), we are hosting our annual Sam Richtor Memorial Tribute game. Sam’s under-20s premiership team are getting back together to play Phil Anderson’s (ex-Pirate premiership player) Cooran Cutters in what should be an absolute cracker. I am sure there will be a lot of friendships left on the sidelines during this one.
After this game we host Gympie versus Maroochydore for the Reggies.
Then our boys, the Northern Outlaws, play Maroochydore in a battle of the heavyweights. Kick off times are 2.10pm, 4pm and 6pm. So, come on down to Pirate Park for some great footy and plenty of yarns.
We would like to thank our sponsor Noosa Tewantin RSL for their continued sponsorship.
Training will be at Pirate Park tonight from 6pm. Anyone interested in dusting off their boots – come on down. The season officially starts on Saturday 18 April. The Pirate family look forward to seeing you all … Arghh!
