New O2 Touch Ambassadors sought

I've decided to step down as the club's "O2 Touch Ambassador" and leave the role to someone else with some more time than I have at the moment.

Each O2 Touch club is supposed to have at least one "Ambassador", so we're looking for AT LEAST one person to do this (three would be ideal).  Basically you need to manage social media communication (which is a core part of our obligation to O2 Touch).

You'll need to tell players when touch is happening, make sure organisers tell people if they cancel a session, respond to enquiries over social media and post regular selfies and playing shots on instagram, Twitter and the club's public Facebook page using the hashtag #o2touch.

Here's a link to the job description for the role that the O2 Touch office have sent through to me.

If you're interested, please let Matt Bovaird (chairman@millwallrugby.com) or me know, or comment below... whatever you prefer.

Best wishes
Andrew
(andrew@millwallrugby.com)



NB, we're also looking for a new O2 Touch Lead Coordinator.

New O2 Touch Lead Organiser Sought

We're looking for a new Lead Organiser for O2 Touch rugby at Millwall.

The main purpose of the role is

1. to organise a rota of organisers who will turn up with a ball and cones for each session and welcome new members (note, you don't actually need to actually be the session organiser, but it probably does help if you run a few sessions yourself)
2. to liase with the RFU O2 Touch office from time to time.

If you're interested, please contact the club committee by email (via chairman@millwalrugby.com).

We're also looking for new O2 Touch Rugby Ambassadors.

Regards
Andrew

Touch rugby roles - your views?

Hello all,

We posted recently about the idea of creating touch rugby positions on the management and playing committees.

Whether or not we actually have volunteers this year to fill them is not necessarily relevant, because we will find a way of managing by other committee members and helpers stepping in. But this is about making sure we have the right "ideal" structure for managing touch rugby at the club going forward.

But I am interested to know in advance of the AGM whether or not you think it's a good idea to create formal committee roles for touch or not.... Please drop me an email or speak to Matt or Nigel about it if you prefer, as there is no point trying to change things if this is not a popular idea.

Andrew
Communications Officer, Touch Rugby Ambassador (...& long term club member!)
andrew@millwallrugby.com

Competitive Touch Rugby Teamsheets

It's great to see how popular our club touch rugby tournaments are becoming!

So we've decided to create an online team sheet for our touch rugby competitions, just like the club's men's rugby works.

When you tell us you're available (by emailing touch@millwallrugby.com), we'll collate names and then publish the team sheet, announcing that it is published via the blog

You can always find the new touch rugby team sheet by visiting the touch rugby section of our website and looking on the left hand side, for "Team Sheet".

More touch news here.

Nigel, Andrew, Darryl, Scott & Mike
Touch Rugby Committee

Over 50s Touch Rugby Tournament

There will be a touch rugby tournament for over 50s held at Allianz Park on 29th April.

If you would like to play please email touch@millwallrugby.com.

Posted by Millwall Rugby Club on Monday, 25 January 2016

No Regular Touch Rugby 31 Jan, 28 Feb and 13 Mar

Just a reminder that we will be playing our regular touch rugby every Sunday, with the exception of

• Sun 31st January
• Sun 28th Feburary
• Sun 13th March

This is because we are playing in a tournament on a nearby date instead.

Read more about the tournament here.

Touch Rugby Tournament

We will be entering a touch rugby competition on the following dates:

• Friday 29th January 2016 at 7pm at Allianz Park  (no regular touch on Sun 31st Jan)
• Saturday 13th February 2016 at 12 noon on Millwall Park (no regular touch on Sun 14th Feb)
• Saturday 12th March 2016 at 10am at Allianz Park (no regular touch on Sun 13th Feb)

Everyone is welcome to take part. Please email touch@millwallrugby.com if you would like to play.

Posted by Millwall Rugby Club on Monday, 18 January 2016

Posted by Millwall Rugby Club on Monday, 18 January 2016

Posted by Millwall Rugby Club on Monday, 18 January 2016

Touch Rugby Refereering Course 13 Feb - POSTPONED TO ANOTHER DATE

There will be a Touch Rugby Refereeing Course at Millwall Rugby Club on 13th February 2016 at 9am.

If you would like to attend, to register, please sign up here: Sign Up Form

For more information please email Nigel Webb at touch@millwallrugby.com.

Posted by Millwall Rugby Club on Monday, 18 January 2016

Changes to our #O2Touch Rugby Sessions

Changes to timings

Our Thursday touch rugby sessions have now stopped for the summer in order to let you all focus on main club training.  We've noticed numbers dropping off, so decided it's time to stop.  The Sunday sessions however will continue, as always, throughout the winter.

We're changing the time of Sunday sessions to bring it half an hour earlier to help organisers who run other sessions in the morning.  The new time will be 12.30pm until 2.30pm.  This is effective from this coming Sunday 15th August.

Changes to session fees

Effective immediately: in the interests of encouraging participation in our Millwall Park sessions we've decided to abolish the £3 fee for non-members to play.  This means that, like all our club training, all Millwall Park sessions are now free of charge.  We will still be taking a register however, as this is a requirement of our O2Touch sponsorship.

Effective from January 2016: recognising the costs of entry into the competitions (which can be upwards of £350), as well as the fact that we now provide shiny kit for you to wear, we've decided to bring our competition/league-sessions in line with the rest of the club.

• This means that you must be a fully paid up and current member of the club to be selected to play and you'll need to pay match day subs to contribute... unless you're a life member. 
• Rather than being £10 as with our full-contact rugby, the subs for touch rugby will be a reduced £5 (unemployed the same).  
• As is usual, regular club volunteers benefit from 50% off what they would otherwise have to pay.
• The same trial rules apply for people who have never been members before (one game with no match subs to pay, and no membership requirement until just prior to third game)

If you've got any questions, please email one of us on the touch rugby committee (Nigel, Darryl, Scott, Mike, Andrew)

touch@millwallrugby.com

www.millwallrugby.com/touch

O2 Touch Survey - Tell us what you think about Touch Rugby at Millwall

Hello!

Your O2Touch organising committee (Nigel, Darryl, Mike, Andrew & Scott) got together last week to work out what we can do to improve O2 Touch for everyone.

We'd like to know what you think so we have created an online survey to ask you:

Please take a moment to tell us what you think about touch rugby at Millwall.  This includes our Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Wednesday League sessions.

Go to the survey now.

Regards
Andrew, Nigel, Darryl, Scott & Mike

Touch Rugby Tournament Tomorrow (Sun 16th Nov)

Just a note to let you know that we now have enough people registered to play tomorrow, so it will definitely be happening.  We would still like more of you to register, and indeed we definitely need some more women to register so we can play proper mixed touch rugby.

Please register here.

Just a few points of admin:

1. No metal studs allowed - you need plastic studded/bladed football- or rugby- or touch-boots. If you don't have boots, trainers are fine, but be aware the ground is muddy and slippery.
2. Bring water to drink. Bring a plastic bin bag to keep your bag dry if it rains (rain will not stop play!).  Bring a warm, dry change of clothes for afterwards in case you get muddy.
3. It's competitive but its about having fun and Flex reserve's the right to mix up the teams a bit to make sure this happens.
4. If you haven't registered please do so. It really helps us plan the teams. Please register here.
5. Registered players need to arrive at 12.30pm so we can warm up and issue instructions for a prompt 1pm start.  The tournament will end at 3pm, so that the quiz can begin at 3.15/3.30pm for a 4pm latest start.
6. If you don't register it's OK to come along still, but please arrive a little earlier at 12.15 to allow us to adjust the teams to accommodate.
7. If you haven't ever played touch rugby before, please arrive at 12.15pm and tell us you're new and that you need to be taught how to play.  (It will be much harder to give you proper tuition if you arrive after 12.30pm).
8. It's free of charge to play this week
9. Bring £2 to enter the puz quiz afterwards
10. Have fun.

If you have any questions, contact touch@millwallrugby.com or phone Flex on 07734 103610.

Register now for Sunday's Touch Rugby Tournament (16th Nov)

This Sunday (16th November) Nigel Webb (Flex) will be organising a touch rugby tournament on behalf of the club on Millwall Park.

To help him plan we'd like you to register your details here:

Click to register to play here

Here are the brief details:

• It's free of charge to play
• Players must wear plastic blades/studs/moulded boots, astro-shoes or trainers. Metal studs/blades won't be allowed. T
• Arrive between 12.15 and 12.30 (no later than 12.30 please) to allow us to warm up at 12.30pm and finalise the teams and give you instructions
• Tournament play starts 1pm
• Tournament ends 3pm
• Cash prizes
• Clubhouse open for pub quiz (please arrive 3.15pm for a 4pm quiz start) - Please click here for the Facebook invitation . Quiz costs £10 per team to enter (5 people)

Even if you're a "maybe" to play at the moment, please still register so we have an idea of numbers: register to play here