Welcome to the 2020 season everyone,
 
Firstly, I would like to acknowledge our Richmond Rovers RLFC loyal sponsors for their on-going support of our beloved club. A huge thank you goes out to Mickey B’s Gym, Steve Glucina of L.J. Hooker Ponsonby, Divesh of the Waterview Laundromat, Tony Murray of Electrical Inspections, Grant Tullet of the Grey Lynn Tavern, the team at the Surrey Crescent Hotel, Diamonds on Richmond Road & Peter Fell Ltd. A big thank you also to our Richmond Foundation club members.
 
The 2020 Richmond Rovers season is certainly underway with our Fox Memorial Premier team into their fourth week of Preseason under our coaching staff and management from 2019. The turnout thus far has been great considering this time of the year. We have not recruited many new players this year, we are certainly hoping to maintain most of last year’s squad and then try and fill in the gaps as we work towards the start of the season but first we have to play our first 3 preseason trial games scheduled starting with Pt Chev Pirates this Saturday at Grey Lynn Park.
 
We are really looking forward to seeing how we go this season, gauging by the turnout at training with their current attitude things are looking great already for both the Premiers and the Premier 1st.
 
The Richmond Roses (women) have maintained the same coaching staff as last year, with Teasha Marra taking over the Head coaching role with Bronson Harden and Tammy Wilson as both assistants along with Luisa Avaiki joining the group as their mentor. Squad wise, we are looking to maintain mostly the same squad as last year with a few new ladies joining. Their Pre-season has also kicked off in late January 2020 with much to do before season start.
 
Things to look forward to this season include the continued growth of Richmond Junior grade teams led by Junior Convenor Tala Tuisila and the team comprising of Secretary Rangi Fiu, Treasurer Amy Bernard and Merchandise Manager Rose Iefata. All Richmond programs will continue as per normal including Richmond Athletics for young juniors held at Grey Lynn Park every Wednesday from 3.30-4.30pm, the Richmond Community Playgroup for children up to 5-year olds every Tuesday and Thursday and the popular Richmond Homework Centre which kicks off shortly.
 
With the excitement of last year and the growth of the number of teams in our junior ranks, we are certainly looking at capitalizing on that for the 2020 season.
 
We are also looking forward to finalizing our lease from the Auckland City Council, so we can begin with our 2020 Richmond club renovations. This include the Council to begin with the construction of our new changing rooms and shower facilities as promised.
 
The Richmond club overall is in good spirits and is in a healthy state financially, with some great people from the Richmond Junior committee through to the Richmond Board of directors. We all look forward to working in tandem together for the benefit of our club long term.
 
Of course, we still need more juniors, seniors, social members and volunteers to join our club so we will continue to ask and reach out to our members to put their hands up and help in any way they can.
 
Finally, on behalf of the Richmond club we would like to wish all our teams competing this year the very best for the season. Go Richmond! Play hard but play fair whilst having fun with your mates.
 
Gus Fepuleai
RRRLFC - Chairman

Firstly we would like to acknowledge Richmond Rovers RLFC loyal sponsors for their on-going support of our beloved club. A huge thank you goes out to Mickey B’s Gym, L.J. Hooker Ponsonby, Divesh of the Waterview Laundromat, Tony Murray of Electrical Inspections, Grant Tullet of the Grey Lynn Tavern, the team at Surrey Crescent Hotel, Diamonds on Richmond Road & Peter Fell Ltd.
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The 2018 Richmond Rovers season is certainly underway with our Fox Premier team into their fourth game of the new season, and with a whole new team this year it’s taking a little while for the Steve Buckingham coached team to get used to each other’s play. We have recruited a few new players to fill in the gaps from last year’s team and we are positive that they will put it together in the coming weeks for their first win. They have so far showed very encouraging signs of becoming a great team once they get used to each other’s play and style. There is a long way to go and I’m sure they will come right and start playing some really exciting championship footy.

The Richmond Rovers Juniors also started their season last week and we have witnessed a lot of people and supporters getting down to a well-kept and looked after Grey Lynn park especially the number two field which looks in great order.
The senior ladies Richmond Roses team also kicked off their season last week against the newly formed Mt Albert ladies team, this team is also a fairly new team all-round with a whole new appointed Coaching staff of John Sekene and management team. We are all looking forward to their progress through this year with some new players joining the rank as well. We wish them all the very best for the coming season!

Some major achievements from our Club this year already has been the appointment of our Reserve coach Junior Fiu to the Warriors ISP Cup team  as an assistant coach, also the exciting appointment of our own Luisa Avaiki as the first lady Coach for the Warriors NRL ladies team for this year, A huge congratulations to both of them, our club are very proud of their achievements, also another club legend Nigel Vagana has joined us this year helping out where ever he can, we really appreciate it very much
From the club’s point of view, the Richmond Club began very well this year with the Richmond Junior Academy kicking off our year with a huge turnout of 50-60 kids per session, thanks to all the volunteer co-ordinators, trainers and also some of the parents lending a hand for the kids games and drills.

A big thank you also goes out to the on-going support from our old boy and sponsor Peter Fell Ltd of the last five years. The Play group for 0-5 year olds has also started under the guidance of our very own Anna Lundon and also under way is our Home Work Center for the girls and boys to do their studies before training. We as a club are very proud of this program which has been promoted via the Auckland Rugby League to other league clubs with our very own Liz Ah Kuoi as the main facilitator. We as a Club are all very proud of her commitment and hard work to enhance and improve our kid’s education.
We returned for yet another year the Richmond Athletics Academy which was another Richmond club initiative under the leadership of Gerhard Sunborn and Carol Redman. 

We look forward to your loyal support each week and your involvement in the community. As a club we are always striving to be the greatest club of all!

See you around the club sometime soon!

Best Regards
 
Gus Fepuleai
RRRLFC Chairman
Mobile: 02108538047

Hi all,
 
On behalf of our Richmond Rovers Rugby League & Sports Club Inc. board I would like to say a big thank you to Graeme Atmore & Liz Ah Kuoi as well as all volunteers involved with the organizing such a brilliant end of year senior prize-giving awards night for our beloved Richmond Club.
 
On Saturday 23 September we had a fantastic evening celebrating our 2017 season club, team and individual achievements. A big thank you to our loyal and valued sponsors, special guests on the night, Henry Solomona for a brilliant job as event MC and Ojay Guttenbeil for the awesome sounds on the night. A special thanks also to Anna Lundon and her assistant with the helping hand on the night.
 
 
From the amazing Ellerslie Race course venue to the delicious food, it was certainly a first class event as club legend and former Kiwi/Captain Fred Ah Kuoi indicated to all attendees with his final speech. It was certainly a memorable-finish to another great 2017 year for our growing club. Finally, you must all agree in joining me in saluting the efforts and dedication of Liz Ah Kuoi Atmore in not only sorting and organizing the trophies but making sure the event ran as smoothly as possible.
 
Thank you to all our team coaches, management and support team, friends and family and most important our members for a great finish to the 2017 season. I look forward to the break and seeing you all again at Grey Lynn Park in 2018.
 
Thanks a million! You are all wonderful people that I cherish working hard for.
 
RICH 4 LIFE
 
Gus Fepuleai
RRRLFC – Club Chairman
M: 02108538047
E: chairperson@richmondroversrugbyleague.com

Hello all,

With the 2017 Season coming to a close, we should be all very proud of our Richmond Premier Coach Steve Buckingham, his Assistant Coaches (Henri Nicholas Anthony Murray & Trainers Daniel Mcgregor, Team manager Liz Ah Kuoi Atmore and the entire Richmond Premier and Premier 1st team squad for a huge 2017 effort. With our young but motivated squad this year we are all very proud of their efforts. It certainly wasn’t an easy season but the spirit of each player who battled and competed was phenomenal effort. No doubt each individual gained experience and learnt at the same time for the 2018 season. Well done team and especially to the partners, kids, friends and family who continued to support our Premier grade senior men teams! 

​Both the Richmond Under 15s & Under 17’s ladies’ teams made it to their respective grand finals which was a fantastic achievement! A huge credit goes to Tasha Davies and their respective team coaches and Managers for being with those young Rosebuds all year round. And to top off the great efforts the Richmond Under 17’s won their grand final! Well done. An unlucky loss for the Richmond Under 15’s but a huge congratulations from our club and Richmond Board for making it to the grand final in its first year of operation, better luck next year girls!

Big ups go to Allan Ettles & Tonu Tuiali’is Richmond Under 17’s side for also making it to their grand finals. They were very unlucky to go down by only two points to neighbours Mt Albert Lions. Great effort none the less, the Richmond club are very fortunate to have some very talented boys in this team for the future of our club and awesome coaches to support the development. 

Both Richmond Premier 2nd teams will fight out the prestigious grand final with the Richmond Uso’s playin the Richmond Tokes.  It will be a mouth-watering battle for supremacy between these two teams. May the best team win! We applaud our three senior men grade teams and know that we can celebrate a Richmond winner will be announced at the end of 80 minutes.

This weekend is also very important for our Richmond senior ladies’ team (our Richmond Roses) who are playing their major semi-final against Papakura Sea Eagles. The winner will play Manurewa Marlins in the women’s grand final. So, all the very best to our girls this weekend! I’m positive that they will account for Papakura then face Manurewa in the Grand Final in two weeks’ time.

Some major achievements by our Richmond club teams to finish off another successful season, another great year for the whole Richmond club in NZ and abroad as we remain in the first division (Fox Memorial Shield competition) for another season which makes it the third year in a row for remaining in the Fox Memorial Shield competition. This is a major achievement for growth and stability within our club ranks. Congratulations to everyone and thank you for your loyal support of our Richmond club

#GORICHMONDGO!

Gus Fepuleai
RRRLFC – Club Chairman
M: 02108538047
E: chairperson@richmondroversrugbyleague.com

Hi all,
 
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all members of our Richmond Board and the whole Richmond club and community that worked so hard in making Saturday’s event a very special day for our Club. From the car parks to the bar and kitchen, everyone did their part.
 
Despite the weather conditions we managed to carry on. Apart from our footy result (unlucky boy’s better luck this week!) the whole day was a huge success. I received so much positive feedback from members of the 1977 Auckland Representative team and their partners about how they enjoyed the beautiful lunch and everything else planned on the day.
 
Finally at the end Auckland Rugby League chairman and Richmond Old Boy Cameron McGregor commented positively on how well the day went and thanked our Richmond Club for a job well done. Thanks to Troy and Talei as well as the entire Auckland Rugby league team who did an outstanding job in planning and supporting the event.
 
Once again thanks and “Great Richmond Team Work”.
 
Regards
 
Gus Fepuleai
RRRLFC - Chairman

Hi all,
 
Richmond Old Boys Association is up and running full steam ahead!
 
Before the 2016 season kicked off members of Richmond’s Old Boys Association (RROBA) met and spent time socialising with the 2016 Richmond Premier squad. It was at this event that the RROBA started discussion and financial support of the Richmond Rovers rugby league and sports club.
 
On Wednesday 20 April a RROBA luncheon meeting was held at the Northcote Tavern where an account is now formally open. Details are as follows

RICHMOND ROVERS OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION
12-3019-0012187-00 - ASB - Ponsonby

For those wanting to be part of the Richmond Old Boys Association please click on the below button to download a donation form. It is important to put your name down beside the donation amount you are making. You will be issued a receipt from the RROBA for tax rebate purposes. All relevant information can be found on the application form including coordinators and purpose. Please pass onto any other Richmond Old Boys you come in contact with.

If you have any questions regarding the RROBA then please contact myself or send an email to any of the following:
Gus Fepuleai: chairperson@richmondroversrugbyleague.com
Bruce Pert: brucepert@gmail.com
Clive Hill: nzchiropractic@gmail.com 
Brian Martin: brianbrm@xtra.co.nz

This Saturday is our third game in the Fox Memorial Shield competition against Howick Hornets at Grey Lynn Park, 2.30pm kick off. We have not started the season off as well as we had hoped but the signs are there that we are competing and are improving with every training and game.
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Thanks again

Gus Fepuleai
RRRLFC - Chairman

29th August 2014
To all our Club Members, Supporters and Old Boys

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,

Our 2014 rugby league season has certainly come to an end with a few highs and lows, Our Richmond Premier team unfortunately have ended back down to the second division or the Sharman Cup for the 2015 season. It wasn’t from the lack of commitment or effort on our coaching staff and players. The Fox Memorial Competition is unfortunately all about the clubs with the most money. Our Richmond Board made submissions to the Auckland Rugby League in support of a points system to restrict clubs from buying their players from other club. The ARL Board has listened and will trial a points system in 2015 and implement it in 2016. The year Richmond will bounce back in to the Fox Memorial shield competition! Nonetheless, congratulations to Premier players Karl Simeti and Siliga Kepaoa on making the Akarana Representative men's team and Ley Vano, Chedyn Mani and Jonah Sofele on making the Auckland Vulcans Development Under 21s Representative team. Damon Niko was also selected but unable to attend trainings.

The Richmond Board of Directors have re–appointed Bernie Perenara as the Premier Coach for the next two years. Bernie has shown that the boys have great respect for him and his ideas, so we are certainly hoping that we could start re-building some stability through all the seniors teams and juniors coming through for the future of the Richmond club. Bernie has shown interest as well in the Richmond Academy training for this coming summer to align all teams with the club strategy.

2014 season was also a great time to start looking at the rebuilding stages of our club, beginning with recent discussions on our new Richmond club building. There has been two meetings at the Richmond club in the last three months with the Auckland City Council who are looking at future plans for a new location of the new Richmond Club rooms. At the moment the Richmond Club has indicated where we would like the club rooms built, so we will await their response. There will be lots of planning from our Board on how to raise funds in coming months as we all know there is no pot of gold at the end of the Grey Lynn rainbow. we have noted success stories with multi-sports clubs sharing facilities but under the rugby league banner (e.g. Manurewa Marlins sports club). In no way is Grey Lynn park going to be a soccer/football club simply for the saturation of other clubs in surrounding inner city Auckland. Good thing to note is that the council know of our intentions for a new building. We simply need this and as a community sports club we definitely deserve it -just ask any of our 600+ strong club members!

As trialled in 2014 was the alcohol free club policy where the Richmond club became the only Fox Memorial club in 2014 to operate without a single sale of alcohol. We have had great response from various organizations and certain community minded people this year. It has been a successful year with no complaints at all from the local residents and surrounding communities. We have taken feedback as a Board from our club members and have found that there is one element missing from our club -the social aspect of joining your mates, members and supporters in our club house for a beverage or two. So as a Board we have agreed to controlled bar opening hours from 4.00pm until 9.00pm in 2015. It has been a worthwhile trial as we encourage all club members, supporters and players to take more responsibility with alcohol when at our club room. So to re-confirm we will be opening our club bar in the 2015 season ONLY on Saturdays from 4.00pm to 9.00pm. If you are interested in knowing more about becoming apart of the Richmond club as the bar manager then please contact us.

I would like to thank all our 2014 major sponsors: LJ Hooker Ponsonby (Steve Glucina), Waterview Laundromat (Divesh Kumar), Giltrap Prestige BMW (Tony Coutinho), Shamrock Reroofing (Brendan McLoughlin), Grey Lynn Tavern (Grant Tulloch) and Peter Fell Concrete (Peter Fell). The great support we have had from the Waitemata Local Board, Grey Lynn Business Association and local businesses such as The Surrey Hotel, Kwik N Ezy Canopy and Mr Whippy has been outstanding. Without your support in 2014 we would not have been in a position to cater to and cater for our Richmond Premier grade team, Richmond Academy and overall club. If you would like more information on 2015 sponsorship then please contact us. Thank you!

Lastly, our Richmond Senior Prize Giving is on this Saturday 27th September at Mahurehure Cultural Marae, 73 Premier St Pt Chevalier. Please contact us if you require tickets or players please see your team manager.

All the best for the remaining year! Go the mighty Richmond Rovers!

This Sunday 29th of June our Richmond Roses play Bay Roskill. Do come along and farewell Roses member Luisa Avaiki who plays her last game on our beloved home ground- Grey Lynn Park at 2pm for the Richmond Roses as she leaves us after 20+ years with the club as a player, coach, mentor and friend. 

Lui is our most successful Kiwi Ferns Captain winning two World Cups and having played in all three World Cups. Come and celebrate with the Richmond club to farewell our sister/friends successful journey to date as she embarks on another journey.

Come watch Luisa Avaiki play her final league game as she takes on her new role in Melbourne. See you all there!

Richmond Rovers RLFC is currently looking for 3 volunteers to form a Saturday Club Prize giving sub-committee, with a focus on running family oriented events late Saturday afternoons. This could include activities such as karaoke, talent quests, pot luck dinners etc.  Let’s get some life back into Saturdays at Richmond now that we are alcohol-free. Richmond Senior Prize Giving will continue to begin at 6pm for all Senior grade teams.  

For more information please contact us