The below message is from the HKRU
As we head into a busy weekend of senior premiership season start, youth matches and mini rugby training please remind all coaches, players and parents of the below guidelines.
Social Distancing and Max Numbers on Pitches
As a sport we are beginning to accumulate complaints at LCSD grounds (Happy Valley and Aberdeen Astro Pitch) from members of the public, should LCSD continue to receive complaints the escalation will be our right to book any pitches within these districts will be taken away.
The bigger picture is if we continue to ignore the social distancing rules we will be in jeopardy of being shut down by the government.
Fines
Police plus Food and Hygiene Officers are patrolling public LCSD venues and will not hesitate to give out fixed penalty fines to anyone not adhering to the below.
With the above restrictions in mind, the following training schedule has been worked out.
Sunday 22nd November
9:00am - 10:15 am,
- U6 and U7 on the grass pitch in front of the grandstand
- U8 mixed U9 boys on the Astro pitch
10:30 to noon
U9-U12 girls on the grass and U10-U12 boys on the Astro
The following buses will run this Sunday for Minis
- Depart TPM 0840, return 1040
- Depart TPM 1010, return 1220
For youth this weekend:- please refer to your Team Manager
Registration and Payment facilities will NOT be available this Sunday morning at EdUHK
To avoid spreading the virus through using the shared Laptop in the classroom at EdUHK. please follow the link here to register and pay online. This is the 21st century and I believe this should not be a problem to most.
We prefer payments to be made by internet transfer, credit card and PayPal.. As a trial we will accept payment by ATM but you MUST WhatsApp me (at 98002547) a copy of the payment slip AND the child's name when making the payment. If this is not done, we have no idea who the payment is from.
The Flying Kukris HSBC Account number is 074-050428-001
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Kit collection MAY be available this Sunday (TBC)- but you must have registered and paid by midday on Saturday to give us time to prepare the paid members list.
Finally, please tell your friends etc, that we are looking for new members - remind them we welcome boys and girls from 4 to 18 years old.
The Flying Kukris (virtual) AGM was held on Saturday 30th May 2020.
The Committee would like to welcome James Soutar who has kindly volunteered for the position of Head of Minis and Joe Stanion who is taking over the role of First Aid Coordinator. Many thanks to Amanda Crow and Chi Lai for their contributions to the Committee and Club activities as Head of Minis and Membership Secretary respectively.
Charles Cheung, who many will know has been managing the HK Scottish Coaches for the Youth groups and has been our Head Coach, will be taking over as Head of Youth – again, many thanks to Tim Woodward for looking after the role so well previously.
The members of the Committee can be seen here on the Flying Kukris website Committee page.
We are still looking for a volunteer/volunteers for Membership. If you would like to help out, especially on a Sunday morning, please contact Nigel on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or WhatsApp 98002547.
The proposal for no increase of fees for 2020-21 season was passed at the AGM. In addition, due to the disruption in the 2019-20 season, the committee proposed that, for the 2020-21 season only, there will be a HK$200 discount per playing member in the membership fees for members who sign up for the new season by October 2020. If you register and pay early the full season fee will be HK$750 for the first player and HK$600 for each additional player.
For those who missed it here is a link to the Minis video presentation - nice music!
Online Registration has now opened for the 2020 - 21 Season. Click here for details.
Remember the Bake Sale at the FK Festivals? Click here for info on the donation made
Some great results from the recent DB All Girls Beach Tournament
FK U12G were Tier 2 cup winners
FK U9/10G won Tier C Cup
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Our U10G Sharmaine won the Most Valued Player, and also she won the Mini Player of the Festival.
U14G Team 1 Tier 1 Cup Winners
U14G Team 2 Tier 2 Cup runners up
And MVP Emily Wade
SingLife Girls Rugby TRC Cup 2019
Flying Kukris Sponsorship of Davao Durians
Flying Kukris raised money for the second year running through bake sales at the contact and non-contact festivals. Huge thank you to everyone who baked or helped sell cakes at the stalls. The sales exceeded all expectations as over $23,000 was raised!
Twelve girls plus the coach and one additional adult joined from Davao Rugby, known as the Davao Durians. Most of the girls were on their first trip outside the Philippines. Logistically the most time-consuming and difficult part is to arrange for the girls to get passports. Most of the girls are either orphans or have parents who are no longer with them. Getting birth documentation and authorized signatories to sponsor obtaining a passport is difficult. Most of the girls this year did not join the tournament last year. The last girl to join only obtained her passport on Monday before flying four days later to Singapore!
The girls were spread across u14 and u16 age groups. As Flying Kukris did not have enough girls at u16 we teamed up with them throughout the tournament. The team became known as the “Flying Durians”, a name which in itself ought to be enough to inspire fear in any opponent.
We arrived at the beautiful Turf City grounds at around 9am – four luxuriant grass pitches! The girls quickly organized themselves with warm up drills and scrum and line-out practices. Fortunately many of the girls speak some English and so language was not a major barrier. We soon found out that that Georgia knew more tagalog than anyone had thought as well.
The girls won their pool games against Titans and the Komodo Dragons. We were really impressed by the Durians speed and passing skills and the team worked amazingly well together. Unfortunately, in the last game were beaten by Valkryies in the last game. They knew what they had to do in the final as Valkryies were opponents again but despite scoring some memorable tries were unable to overcome the sheer size and physical strength of the Valkryie girls.
In the evening the girls joined up again for songs, including a rap performance which went down well.
The following morning the Davao Durians were back at the pitch for joint games with u14s and u18s. We split all the girls into two groups, mixing up all the squads. We played ‘capture the flag’ on one pitch and ‘twins rugby’ on the other pitch. Lots of fun, smiles and laughter.
There was time for lunch near the hotel and for the Kukri girls to join back with the Durians before saying goodbyes and heading for the airport.
Hong Kong Scottish Kukris
On Saturday 16th March the Hong Kong Scottish Kukris played City in a relegation / promotion match to decide who would play in the Women's Premiership next season. Kukris have already won the WNL1 League title and narrowly missed out on the Grand Championship as well, but this match was a step up. Played to Premiership rules, with forty minute halves and no rolling substitutions, the match was very different from what the ladies have been used to. It did not start well as City scored a converted try, while early injuries forced a reshuffling of the Kukris lineup. But a try against the run of play at halftime keep them in the game, trailing 5/7 at the break. In the second half it was City who tired first, with Kukris soon dominating. Two more tries followed with the final score 15/7.
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