We hope all our Local Touch members are all doing ok with Covid turning the world upside down over the past few months. It has been a tough time for many, so we are hoping your school communities are recovering ok. So many things in our lives have been impacted, and this includes sport in NZ.

At least two months of Community Sport has been lost this year. As such, there has been considerable collaboration between winter and summer Sport Organisations in consultation with their Local Councils, to explore options around scheduling and competition structures that will share the disruption in equitable fashion. 

As the winter season is running later than usual this year, it means our summer Touch season will be starting later than usual too. We have been informed by Council that fields will not be available until early November, after they’ve had time to do maintenance after the delayed winter season. However, summer sports have been granted access to fields until the end of March 2021.

Please note we are looking at applying for Sunnynook fields now they are operational, for our Tuesday night Seniors (Adults), Monday Juniors (Y3-6) and Thursday Juniors (Y1-6). Our Tuesday Juniors (Y1&2) will stay at Mairangi Bay Park. However no fields will be confirmed until after talks with Council. We will endeavour to let you know our confirmed venue as soon as possible.

Both Senior and Junior entry packs will be sent out to last year's school Touch Coordinators, to Senior team managers, and will be posted on this website towards the end of August 2020.

Proposed Senior Timeline - CLICK HERE (PDF)
Proposed Junior Timeline - CLICK HERE (PDF)

NEW MIXED DRAWS
Div 1,2,3 have now split into A and B sections for a 3 week round robin starting next Tue 22nd Jan.

This will be followed by Semi Finals and Finals games for all teams on Tuesdays - 12th Feb, 19th Feb. 
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CLICK HERE for the new draws.

The Men's carries on as per the draw.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We hope you've all had a good summer break.

Reminder that Touch starts back this Tuesday 8th January. Please CLICK HERE to view draws.

If there are any issues with fielding a team, please let us know as soon as possible. It's not fair to other teams to inform us an hour or two before tap off, or just not showing up.
Remember, you can have as few as 4 players on field - a bit of a work out, but it has been done! For Mixed, you'll need to keep the ratio to maximum of 3 males on field.

If your team defaults, you get 0 points; but if you play, even with few numbers, you'll get at least 1 point. Could be the difference come Semi Finals time.

Tue 8th Jan Draw Change: Please note time change in Mixed Div 1 for Central Realty v Just Touch It to 6:00pm, and Touchstones XX v Chuckas to 6:40pm.

REMAINDER OF SEASON NOTES
There are 7 games left in the season for all teams.
MIXED:

• Finish Round 1 Competition games: Tuesdays - 8th Jan, 15th Jan.
• Div 1,2,3 then split into Top 4, Bottom 4 for a 3 week round robin.
• Mixed Round 2 Competition games: Tuesdays - 23rd Jan, 30th Jan, 5th Feb.
• Semi Finals and Finals game: Tuesdays - 12th Feb, 19th Feb.

MENS:

• Round 2 Competition games: Tuesdays - 8th Jan, 15th Jan, 23rd Jan, 30th Jan, 5th Feb.
• Semi Finals and Finals game: Tuesdays - 12th Feb, 19th Feb.

We expect all teams to stay committed to the competition (and the opposition) until the last week on 19th February. 

Semi Finals & Finals

• ALL TEAMS are included on the draw unless there is a bye.
• The top 4 teams in each section (includes Mens, Mixed Top & Mixed Bottom Sections) at the end of the competition round (which finishes 5th Feb) will be playing off for 1st - 4th place which includes prizemoney. (Bottom 2 Mens teams will also play off for final placings). 
• Please note, we expect ALL TEAMS to play the last two weeks.
• Re top 4 Semi's & Finals: Only players who have played the required 47% of games (eg 6 round robin games out of 13) during grading/competition rounds, will be eligible to take the field for Semis and Finals. Also note:
  • Module Manager - Vicki McLellan, will have a list of qualified players to check, in the next few weeks.
  • Teams playing off for the top 4 places will have their players marked off prior to Semi's and Finals games commencing.
  • Prizemoney is given out to teams who place 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
  • Teams must play in the Semi's and Finals to be eligible for prizemoney.
  • Teams must have completed their player registrations (prior to 11th Dec 2018 cut off).
  • Teams must be in correct uniform to play in the Semi's and Finals.(see notes below)
  • Teams must play the semi-finals in order to be eligible to play finals, be placed, and receive prizemoney.
    
    

UNIFORMS
A reminder that teams must be in correct uniform to avoid points being deducted. The rules state:

• All players must wear IDENTICAL SHIRTS WITH NUMBERS (numbers no less than 10cm high).
• All players must wear the SAME COLOURED SHORTS.
• No player is to play in bare feet. 

Look forward to seeing you all back into Touch this week!

​Unfortunately Becroft Park has flooded from all the rain this morning, so the fields are closed and there is NO Touch tonight.
Please continue to follow the draw as is. If we get a chance, we will try catch up this round depending on date/field availability.

Junior Touch for Tuesday 20th November has been cancelled due to the changeable weather.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

EXTENDED GRADING
Due to the cancelled round two weeks ago, we have decided to push out the competition round start date, and squeeze in a third Grading round this Tuesday. This is so we have a better feel for which grades teams belong in.

Click here for this week's draw

Note1: some Mixed teams have moved between the two grading draws. Please check both Mixed Grading draws carefully.
Note2: Touchstones Jets (young boys team) have moved from Mens into Mixed. We feel they will be better suited to a lower Mixed grade than playing top level Mens Touch.

Please note game times are now 40minutes - 6:00pm, 6:40pm, 7:20pm.

Adjusted Dates:
Grading Round begins: Tue 23rd October 2018
Competition Round begins: Tue 20th November 2018
Last Games before Xmas: Tue 18th December 2018
Restart: Tue 8th January 2019
Final Round Games: Tue 5th February 2019
Semi Finals: Tue 12th February 2019
Finals: Tue 19th February 2019

UNIFORMS
As of this Tue 13th November, teams must all be wearing identical tops (numbered), and the same coloured shorts (i.e. all navy, all black, all royal blue etc).
We want a neat/tidy standard at our Module please.

PLAYER REGISTRATIONS
If Team Managers haven't registered their players yet, please do so this week.
Team Cards will be issued from Tuesday 20th November. If players aren't registered, then they will not appear on the Team Card, and therefore will not have that game counted towards eligibility for Finals.