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Uni supporters joined the 1st Grade players in the traditional after match club song rendition in the middle of the

pitch on Saturday when 1st Grade broke their finals hoodoo in progressing to our first Grand Final since 1977.

This gesture showed to all 22 players of 1st Grade that the Club is not only behind them but part of them as well.

1st Grade showed what they are capable of all season in defeating Cottesloe 19-18 tin a tense but confidence building

victory. Cottesloe cam into the game on the back of a 14 game winning run and full of confidence. They had just

pipped us for the Club Championship and had great depth. They came off a semi final victory against Associates

whilst we had struggled against Nedlands in the major semi

But the character of this team showed through. Uni dominated territory and possession and held a tight defensive

line. Alan Kingsley’s boot kept us in the battle with several penalty goals but we trailed at half time 8-6. Alan

kicked us ahead and when Andrew Finn crossed we led 16-11.

Cottesloe held their nerve and we held our line until several minutes form the end Cott crashed over under the posts.

With the conversion the game seemed gone at 16-18.

The last play of the day it seemed as Uni kicked off. A penalty at the restart against Cottesloe saw Alan Kingsley

calmly convert the 35 metre shot into the sun and wind to secure a famous victory and march us into a well deserved

Grand Final.

After finishing 2nd on the season ladder and losing narrowly to Nedlands on both encounters during the home and

away season this premiership is there for the taking. The Club encourages all Uni supporters to get to the games on

the weekend—wear your green and gold and cheer the boys to victory!

1ST GRADE INTO GRAND FINAL!

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PAST GRAND FINALISTS SUPPORT 2011 TEAM

The Club has officially invited the Grand Final teams of 1972 and 1977 to assist with jumper presentations to our Grand Finals teams at the Clubrooms Thursday night before the big game. They will also be special guests on the weekend

See Where are They Now? (pg 8) to see who was in those teams

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4TH GRADE SEEKING THREE IN A ROW Three in a row…. Reaching three grand finals in the last three years is something to be proud of stand tall

and pat the guy next to you on the back and say well done old chap (Washy).

The feeling amongst the ranks was one of confidence, not just in themselves performing, but in the whole

group stepping up from what was an average and disappointing performance against Neddies the week

before and getting the job done.

The game pattern was set early with Uni promoting a fast wide attacking style using their pace and skills to

gain inroads into the West's defence. Sometimes haphazard in style and sometimes sublime, led by

Robbie’s impetuous flicks from scrum half, the backs hit their straps early running direct, hard lines and

only through gritty defence and a few missed penalties prevented an early dominance in the scoreline

which would of put the game to bed. Ultimately something had to give and some strong running by Kang

on the right wing and a clever piece of law stretching by the legend Washy, enabled quick ball for a

backline move with Cogsy hitting the line at pace and leaving an easy stroll over for Paddy on the left

wing.

Although continuing to play with confidence, the scoreline stagnated and frustration began as Uni crossed

the line again but was pulled back by the ref for something illegal (it all looked good from the bottom of a

ruck). Then towards the end of the first half West's strung together an excellent passage of play interlinking

in the forwards and running some good direct lines up the guts and in their first attacking move of the half

scored a try and conversion to finish the first half 7-5 up.

The second half was a similar story. Uni started as they had played for the majority of the first half and

focused on building more phases of play. For the first 20 minutes of this half everything went to plan, Uni

continued to dominate the wider encounters and although the backs were making the inroads it took the

forwards to step into the back line to help them finish. Similar to the first try, a phase or two of play from

right to left ended with Mousse crashing it in, supported by Franklyn to set up quick clean ball that

whizzed back to the right hand side where the Uni boys were lining up. For the second game in a row

Waddo stuck his hand up to show his acceleration, pace and guile in beating three players and steam-

rolling over the line for Uni's second try.

Not to be shown up, the backs took a bit of a front to this demonstration of skills by the forwards and

Knuckles decided to produce the mystery ball for Cogs to burst onto and take the West defence by

surprise, not just by the speed and disguise of the move but also by the fact that Cogsy was wearing the ball

as a hat for at least 5 seconds before bringing the ball down and placing it over the line in front of the posts

for Kang to convert.

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17-7 up with 6 minutes to go saw the first drop of intensity by the Uni team all game. The West's team

countered attacked some of our badly placed, and at times unlucky, kicks very effectively and the second

time in the game they attacked our line and managed to interlink with some excellent rugby to get over for

their second converted try of the game. With West's fired up, the last few minutes were intense and a dubi-

ous decision left West's with a penalty 40 metres out to the left and a chance to draw the game… with the

last kick of full time they kicked it through the posts to level and pushed the game into extra time.

Uni began dominating possession and pushing wide for the breakthrough which led to a penalty conversion

by Cogs and then a swift backline move after multiple phases where Johno went over in the corner. An-

other Cogs penalty left Uni 28-17 up with about 5 minutes to play… could it happen again? After Willo

taking a right hook in front of the linesman, not retaliating, then getting sent to the bin you could see why

the players were a bit miffed and lost a bit of concentration. West's got a roll on, drove up through the guts

of the Uni defence to score under the posts in what was their third attack of the game inside with Uni 22.

However, there was no repeat to the full time comeback and with a couple of scrummage collapses to en-

sure some loss of time and another one of the many Fab ball turnovers, the final result ended 28-24 to Uni.

Well done (especially Washy) and well deserved. Good luck to everyone next week.

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U/18 COLTS TO CAP FINE YEAR

The U/18 Colts will meet Wests in the Grand Final that brings to three the number of UWA teams seeking

a premiership. This has been the best team ll year and the Minor Premiership proved that. This was

reinforced by the 33-22 disposal of 2nd placed Perth Bayswater who went don in the final to Wests.

The try and points scoring talent of the backs is built off a hard working tight five led by nuggetty hooker

Adam Negri. The back row is fit, fast to break downs and industrious. The pace out wide of Kurt Penney,

Jono Ashton, Nick Wolman and company brought

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UWA WOMEN

UWA could not make it a fairytale ending as they were defeated by Wanneroo 0-18 in the final. Last

weeks elimination semi final win over Kalamunda of 22-10 was the first finals victory for the womens

team and finished off the most successful season in the girls 10 year history.

UWA supporters are very proud of the fact that no other Club has entered a women’s team every year as

we have.

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1st Grade Sunday 4th Sept 3.50 v Nedlands

U/18 Colts Sunday 4th Sept 11.00 v Wests

4th Grade Black Saturday 3rd Sept 12.50 v Nedlands

Grand Final Arrangements

• UWA Sports Park (McGillivray Oval) is the venue for all grand Finals

• Rugby WA will have the playing area fenced off and will charge an entry fee.

• The area id fully licensed so do not bring alcohol in.

• UWA Rugby will be collecting a Gold Coin donation for parking in support of David Pocock’s

EightyTwenty Vision charity www.eightytwentyvision.org. David is a UWA Rugby Club player and

we are pleased to support his charity. If you would like to know more about this great initiative

please look at the website.

• Dogs are not permitted into the playing arena

• PLEASE wear green clothing so we can make a statement on the hill to support the teams

• Parking will be full so leave plenty of time to get to the games

• Please go into the Clubrooms if you haven't been for a while to enjoy the Clubrooms and all the

improvements made over the years

UWA IN 3 GRAND FINALS

JUNIORS INTO FINALS AS WELL

UWA Juniors finished off their 2011 season in the same style as the Senior Club with 3 of the 4 teams

eligible for finals progressing to do so. Uni Juniors are the largest junior club in the western suburbs with

12 teams, larger that Assoc, Cott, Nedlands and Wests. We are able to field a team in every age group

from Under 6 to Under 16 and this serves as a perfect pathway for our junior players to stay with Uni and

one day play 1st Grade. Results from the lat week of games saw :

U16 v Sth Lions won 12-7 U13 v Joondalup lost 0-41

U15 v Bye won 25-0 U12 v Kwinana lost 10-52

U14 v Kalamunda won 29-26 U11 v Palmyra lost 10-24

Finals matches are only available for our U13, U14, U15 and U16 competitions. Our U/15 team were

crowned Minor Premiers of Swan Division whilst U16 finished 2nd in swan and U/13 were 4th in Swan.

Next Saturday all Club supporters are invited to support our junior team at Brittania Reserve Leederville:

U16 v Sth Lions Field E 11.00am Major Semi

U15 v Palmyra Field E 9.45am Major Semi

U13 v Nedlands Field C 8.30am Minor Semi

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SUPPORT FROM SYDNEY UNIVERSITY

From all of us at Sydney University Sports Federation

congratulations on the achievement. Best wishes for the final

Matthew Phelps

UWA RUGBY ANNUAL CLUB AWARDS

A huge night for the 2011 UWA Rugby Club Awards capped off a great day for the Club with 1st grade

and 4th Grade both progressing through to the Grand Finals. With U/18 Colts already qualifying having

three teams of our 9 in the Club playing for a Premiership added to the joy of the evening.

Awards recipients for this year were:

The highly anticipated announcement of

Turd of the year went to 4th Grade Black’s

Andrew Dopson with 2009 Turd Tony Soldatic

Congratulations to all award recipients.

AWARD RECIPIENT

1st Grade B&F Ray Barkwill

2nd Grade B&F Fabio Otranto

3rd Grade B&F Adrian Scherpenzeel

4th Grade Black B&F Jayden Wallis

4th Grade Blue B&F Alistair Coulthart

U/20 Colts B&F James Wilson

U/ 18 Colts Green B&F Tom Leisk

U/ 18 Colts Gold B&F Adam Negri

Ladies B&F Lynda Leslie

Supporters Award Dominic Lespierre

Andy Finn

Best First Year Richard Hardwick

Most Improved Liam Burke

Nelson Smith

Nevin Mills

Club Person Kathal Spence

Tom Dwyer Rob Young

Highest Points Nick Wolman

Ray Barkwill—1st Grade Best and Fairest

Jayden Wallis—4th Grade Black Best and

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

1972 1ST GRADE TEAM—PREMIERS

NAME FIRST SUBURB STATE OCCUPATION WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

15 TAYLOR Peter MANNING WA Teacher

14 MORTON Alan WEMBLEY WA Professor UWA Sports Science Exercise Health

13 CLARKE John FINGAL BAY NSW Teacher Radio Personality, Fisherman

12 HILL Roger COTTESLOE WA Lawyer Business Director, Vineyard owner Jumiper

11 YOUNG Mike SHENTON PARK WA Accountant Director of Own Firm - BMY

10 LYNCH Rob ABBOTSFORD NSW Professor Education Uni Technology Sydney

9 McPHERSON Neil Teacher Deceased

8 McCURRACH Ken WATERLOO NSW Engineer

7 CHOATE Clive HALLS HEAD WA Teacher Physical Education, Triathlon legend

6 COATES Dave MARGARET RIVER WA

5 CULLEN Jack DUNCRAIG WA Engineer Director Norman Disney Young

4 BURGESS Bill ELIZABETH BAY NSW Lawyer Asia Manager DHL

3 BRAND Brian Consultant Deceased

2 CANDY Russell FREMANTLE WA Consultant

1 ALLBROOK Rolly MT PLEASANT WA Consultant

Res THOMPSON Bill

Res BROOKSBANK Brandon MT PLEASANT WA

Res DE FRANK Rick WEMBLEY DOWNS WA Industrial Relations Owner Global Resource Network

Res WALLEY Alan KARRIDALE WA Doctor

Res CARLYLE CHRIS DUNCRAIG WA Educator

Res O"BRIEN JIM

Res PORTER TOM DALKEITH WA Engineer

Res REID VERN FREMANTLE WA CEO Rugby WA

Res SCOTT JON Finance

Res BRIFFA ART BALDIVIS WA Dentist

NAME SUBURB STATE OCCUPATION WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

1 Jim Cutts NEUTRAL BAY NSW Banking Maquarie Bank

2 Rick Lisle Business owner

3 Sam Hondros CLAREMONT WA Business owner

4 Neil Munro KOORPAROO QLD Dentist

5 Darryl Wilson BROWN HILL VIC Engineer

6 Brian Hopley Physical Education

7 Paul Gauntlett SUBIACO WA Investment Banking Westpac

8 Bruce Crawford

9 Rob Pickard CLAREMONT WA Commerce

10 David Vaux SYDNEY NSW Lawyer Business Director Director Rugby WA

11 Vern Reid FREMANTLE WA CEO Rugby WA

12 Tim Yates SHENTON PARK Teacher

13 Paul Jackson JOONDALUP WA Professor Edith Cowan University

14 Eric Fleahy

15 Tim Davis COTTESLOE WA Professor Rhodes Scholar Fremantle Hospital

Res Bruce Allbrook NEDLANDS WA Plastic Surgeon

Res Brian Brand Deceased Consultant

Res Max Miekle MARMION WA Accountant Banking

Res Rob Viol CLAREMONT WA Judge

Res Mal Washbourne CITY BEACH WA Management Consultant Vineyard Owner Arimia Wines

Res Mark Wilson CLAREMONT WA Engineer CEO Legend Mining

Coach Rob Viol

1977 1ST GRADE TEAM—RUNNERS UP

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