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THE GORMEN A pre-season friendly against Wanderers saw goals scored by
Jim McCaig, Mike Liddle, George Sunnex and Phil Bullivant for a 4-3
Neil and Charlie Gorman featured exclusively in the goal-
win.
scoring in the Northern opening match against Turangi as Another pre-season match resulted in Melville 2nd
Narra won 3-0. Division winning 3-1 over our 1st Division (goal by Glen Solomon)
Chas netted his (a back-pass interception) and then had to and the Melville 1st Division winning 2-0 (Pepe Veidema & Tom
leave the field with what was diagnosed as a spiral fracture of the Finnegan) over our Northern League squad.
ankle.
That same weekend the 3rd Division took to the field with
eight of the team being experienced goalkeepers! - White, RONNIE JOHNSON MEMORIAL TROPHY
Prendergast, Bell, Henckel, Hill, Duffull, Riches and Wright. Our Pre-season Ronnie Johnson Memorial 3rd Division
Tournament was a success for us. On the first weekend of play the
SUBS
results were:
The 1978 subs were set at $10 adult, $4 student and $1.50 Junior. On the second weekend play continued. Semi­finals: Te

Aroha 1, Unicol 1 (Te Aroha 5-4 pen.) Ngaruawahia 2, Hillcrest 1.
PLAYER SHORTAGE
It is well known that teams tend to play better when In the finals Ngaruawahia blew Te Aroha away 11-1, even
down on numbers. This was proved so in one of our Waikato 3rd lending them our keeper Sean Finn for the second half! Team and goal
Division matches against Cambridge. Rodney Hill celebrated scorers were Grant Prendergast, Staf Magee, Ben Henckel,
his birthday by flattening a striker and getting sent off. This was Trevor McLaughlan (1), Jeff McLauglan (3), Steve Buchanan, Jim
after we had made both of our substitutes! Paul McLennan was McCaig, Maurie Frankhouser, Glen Solomon (1), Andy Bell, William
soon injured off and we were down to 9 men. Harding, Dean Haggie (4), Bruce McIntosh (1) & Ken Murray (1).
With the halftime score at 3-2 to Cambridge the
old proverbial finger was pulled out and Staf Magee netted a hat- Group 1 W D L Pts
trick followed by a penalty from Ben Henckel. Ngaruawahia 1 2 0 4
The first half scorers were Ricky Duffull and Trevor
McLaughlan. Final score 6-3 to Narra. Te Aroha 2 0 1 4
Tokoroa 1 1 1 3
CHARLIE'S ANGEL Fraser 0 1 2 1

A very young player was asked if he played for Mr Gorman's Group 2
team and was heard to reply "Na! I play for an old man called University 2 1 0 5
Charlie!" Hillcrest 2 0 1 4
Cambridge 1 1 1 3
ON LEAVE
Morrinsville 0 0 3 0
A club member's wife was asked how long the
clubhouse had been under construction and her reply was "Well, STAF MAGEE
I think it's about two years now. That was the last time my This was the season that Staf Magee really became famous
husband was home on leave!" for his pie-eating exploits and was at one stage thinking of
challenging the world pie-eating record of 19 in 30 minutes!
NEW BOOTS
George Sunnex and Steve Williams received their new
CLUBHOUSE
football boots from England but suffered complaints from their

wives Janet and Maxine. The wives claim their boots messed up the
sheets at night By early March the mezzanine floor of the clubhouse had
been poured under the direction of Wal Williamson, with the
exception of the terrace area.
PIG HUNTING

The Southern Hemisphere's largest pig-hunting ALAN COTTER WINS INTERNATIONAL MEDALS
competition, hosted by Narra, got underway again on August 6th with Alan Cotter, a past Club member, won a bronze medal as
prizes for Biggest Boar $150, Biggest Saw $50, Best Tusks $25 and cox for the New Zealand Rowing Eight this year. The World Rowing
Longest Tusks $25. Championships was held at Lake Karapiro, near Cambridge, New
The competition is in its 6th year, having been started in Zealand. The squad was third behind East Germany and West
1973 by AFFCo Rangers used to raise funds for their fire-razed Germany. Of the 14 events this year, this was New Zealand’s only
clubrooms. rowing medal.
The current record was - Boar: D Bradbury 93kg. Sow - Alan made six appearances for our Northern League side
W Schubert 56kg. in 1977, and was also prominent as a diminutive striker for the
CAMBRIDGE PRE SEASON Club’s Waikato sides as well as the local Ngaruawahia High School
Narra finished as runners-up to Ellerslie in the Cambridge in previous years. He was also (obviously) involved in the
pre-season Tournament, winning $150.00. Ngaruawahia Rowing Club as a cox.
In the following year (1979) Alan coxed the New Zealand
PRE SEASON rowing eight to a silver medal behind East Germany in Yugoslavia.
In 2008 he was appointed as High Performance Director
Early-season training for berths in the senior side saw the
following turn up: Sean Finn, Mike Liddle, Jason Cargo, Ken Murray, for Rowing New Zealand, resigning in 2018.
Malcolm Burt, Steve Williams, Phillip Bullivant, Eddie Carrigan,
George Sunnex, Charlie Gorman, Jeff McLaughlan, Ray Guy, Rene
Noorland, Tim Coyne, Mark Snowden, Alan Rose, Jim McCaig and
Mike Heappey.

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