100 Games and it’s all about family!

Congratulations to Aleki Morris-Lome on achieving his 100th premier grade game against Taieri at Peter Johnson Park two weeks ago. Aleki was presented with his 100th game blazer at the club last Saturday by club stalwarts Martin Paris & Ken Olsen in front of huge contingent of Aleki’s family and friends. The feature picture is […]

ORFU Presidents – Past & Present

What an honour it was on Saturday to have our very own past ORFU President Bruce Malcolm (1988) along with the current President Bob Perriam at the club for one of our most important games of the year the Bandy Scoles memorial. Bruce was joined by his family who are all in town to celebrate […]

Welcome Aboard

This season we welcome four new sponsors to the club in addition to our very loyal band of existing sponsors. Please support all our sponsors our club wouldn’t survive without them!

Milestone 150th Premier Game

Yes we might be struggling on the paddock with our premier team decimated with injuries but we can still celebrate a massive contribution to our club from one of our favourite sons Solomon Pole! Last Saturday Solomon was presented with a special gift from the club in recognition of his milestone game (Video attached) On […]

Welcome Aboard Lads

We have a second Colts team this season who played their first game for the Hawks last Saturday against Dunedin at Shark Park. The team is made up of first year students from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Blenheim and even one from Brisbane and they arrived at Watson Park by bus on Saturday for their first […]

Life Member

Last Saturday we played our first pre season game against an Eastern Southland Baa Baa’s team featuring one of our own home grown players, a young Ben Hill. But the day wasn’t about Ben it was all about his Mum Peta! We did try to keep the day a surprise but Peta knew something was […]

Thank you Port Otago

Thanks again to Kevin, Jodi and the team at Port Otago for the generous gift of our new storage container which with the help from Peter Densem at Harbour Fabrication also doubles as our new scoreboard. With plenty of additional storage now available we can finally dedicate the old changing room area for the junior […]

It’s almost done!

The renovation of the gymnasium at Ravy is almost complete, just waiting on the new equipment and flooring to arrive and its job done! Special thanks to Bevan Palmer, Trevor Spence and Mario Sloot. Bevan and Trevor leading the enthusiastic team of builders in the club Tony, Waisake, Aleki & Robbie (Greasy & I were […]

Register Now for the 140th Jubilee

Remember what a great weekend we had back in 2017, here is a selection of photo’s from the 125th celebration. Register now on the 140th tab at the top of the page.