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The Warkworth senior A 1981 team, winners of the Chairman’s Cup.
by sheep.
A group of players from the former Warkworth Rugby Club are holding an old boys’ reunion on September 25 for all past senior players.
The Warkworth club was disbanded in 1988 to form the Mahurangi Club in partnership with the Omaha and Kaipara Flats clubs.
“We felt it was time we held a reunion to muster players who once donned the blue and black hoops to come together for a day and evening of reminiscing,” organiser Bernie Kose says.
Kose says many of those senior players helped to build the present-day Mahurangi clubrooms in 1973 and will be enthused to see the modern sport grounds Council have built around it since then.
He says already some long-past players have “risen out of the muddy fields” and RSVPd to the event, including 93-year-old Colin Copestake. The club ran from 1883 to 1988.
The committee is planning a social get together, dinner and dance at the Mahurangi Rugby Club for the event, and a Facebook page “Warkworth Rugby Reunion 2021” has been set up.
There are also commemorative polo shirts for sale for $35 with the club’s Kowhai flower logo. For more information and to RSVP contact Bernie Kose at bernie@bkdesign.co.nz or 021 118 3462.
