A message from Webby.
Sorry to have to tell you this boys, but I think you all knew it was coming. I'm returning to the Whanau up north and wont be hanging around dodgy pubs in christchurch (or Prebbleton) anymore. My travel plans mean I probably wont be able to be at the Keith Dinner so I'm inviting you all to the Celtic Arms on Selwyn Street for a beer or two (1-00pm) or (2-30pm) in the Tui Stand at Lancaster Park to watch the mighty Taniwha crush Canterbury in the Ranfurly Shield Challange this Saturday 26th September.
Sorry for the late notice, but that's just how it is.
Webby.
The Keiths, combined with the Bollocks, are sending a Team to the
World Golden Oldies Tournament in Sydney in Sept/Oct 2010.
To kick off our fundraising effort there is a quiz evening at the Bealey Speights Ale House. For a guaranteed $900 we must enter at least five teams in the quiz. So please, bring your partners and flatmates and brainy friends and have a good time and raise some much needed cash.
Date: Sunday, 11th October 2009. Time 1-00pm.
If you are thinking about coming along to the Golden Oldies Tournament, please contact Phil or Trout from the Keiths or Richard Van der Plas from the Linwood Bollocks.
The Annual Keith Sportsman of the Year Awards and Dinner is soon to be held. All Keiths, past and present are most welcome.
Date: Friday, 9th October 2009
Time: 6.30pm for pre dinner drinks. 7-30pm for seated dinner.
Venue: Bealeys Speights Ale House
Cost: $40 per person. This includes 3 course meal, beer and wine on the table.
There will be live music giving you the opportunity to embarrass youself on the dance floor.
Tired I am, Sleep I must. But, there's stuff to be got out there and things to mentioned and photos to be shown. So here they are.
A stunningly beautiful weekend for a trip to Kokatahi. Unfortunately, there were only seven of us at the start and six of us at the finish as we lost one along the way. Possibly from diptheria caused by drinking out of a horse trough, but we'll never know for sure. Anyway here's a rule for every traveller, never let someone over 50 use a digital camera to take a team shot. At least he got our feet in focus, but that's about all he managed to get.
Keasty as always was there to send us on our way with a couple or ten cans of speights which we diligently drank; often out of glasses purloined from the Springfield Hotel, but never fear, they were all returned safely on the way back.
After nearly nine hours of Trouty getting his monkey brains out, we arrived to the open arms of Lance and Heather and immediately fought for rooms without snorers in them. I think Trout and Unit will have issues with each other for years to
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come over this issue. And then we started to imbibe a few ales and vodkas and whatever else Heather could slip into our beer. Not that we minded that much. Young Scott decided he wanted to learn how to play spoof, so we taught him, unfortunately someone from the team couldn't grasp the meaning of the game and decided retreat was the better part of valour and we never saw Isaac again.
Saturday started with a huge and well needed breakfast followed by some well needed beer and later on in the afternoon, a well needed court session. For some reason hitherto unexplained, Johnno was severely punished but is since glad he pissed in
Trouts drink on the way over.
Some of us spent a quiet night in watching the rugby and the league and swaping back and forth between the two before heading to bed to wake up on Sunday ready to start it all again.
Since for the first time ever, the holder(s) of the Ashes did not travel with us, and there were only a total of six players (three teams), ammended rules were put in play of a best of three round robin and then a final.
Johnno had terrible luck trying to sink the black, but always managed to sink the white instead. Maybe he needs new spectacles?
So with the ammended rules, Unit and Trout became the 20th Holders of the Ashes.
Congratulations to them both. Click here for a
list of Ash Holders.
From there we went straight to another court session and the Keith of the Year voting.
Surprisingly, a one week old calf called Caramel got some votes, but Unit, being the only eligable Keith left took away the honour of being named the
25th Keith of the Year. And well done to him. Fully deserved.
A quick goodbye to Heather and Lance and we were on our way punctuated only by stops for piss and stops to have a drink.
Huge thanks to Lars who drove us all over safely and to Unit who drove most of us back.
Photographs can be found here.
http://207.191.227.90/~keithpic/2009/20090904/
Usual keith rugby username and password applies for those pictures with nudity.
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Just a reminder for those going to the Coast this year, meeting at Keasty's at midday this Friday for a beer and a chat and payment of the money and allocation of the tour shirts and whatnot and then a leisurely beerfueled trip across the coast courtesey of Lars.
Any last minute additions to the numbers going over, tell Lars IMMEDIATELY so a shirt can be arranged.
It's been a funny old year this season, so to all those travelling to the Coast, thanks for making it a fitting end to the playing year, and to those not travelling, well, you're going to be missing out on some good honest fun. Even though there maybe some cheating and false accusations happening along the way.
There'll be an update on who won what (Ashes and Keith of the Year) once everyone returns but unfortunately, there'll be no photographs or videos as I suffered yet another burglary while I was at Keasty's on Thursday when amongst other things, my trusty camera was purloined.
Don't forget lads, there's a compulsory drinking/training session at Keastys tonight 6-00pm at the Bush Inn.
And this is your last and final final final chance to confirm that you're joining us in Kokatahi.
Details are:
Friday 4th Sept - Sunday 6th Sept.
Leaving Keastys 1-00pm Friday
Arriving home after dinner on Sunday
Upon arrival at Keastys you shall have:-
- $100 cash for accomodation costs and tour shirt
- 2 dozen CANS of beer for the trip across and back
- The Ashes, either as the current holder, or the person who has stolen them
