Gordon RFC

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Gordon Rugby Football Club
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Full nameGordon Rugby Football Club
Nickname(s)Highlanders, Stags
Founded1936;89 years ago (1936)
Location Chatswood, Sydney
Ground(s) Chatswood Oval (Capacity: 9,000)
Coach(es)Harry Fehily
Captain(s)Milan Basson
League(s) Shute Shield, NSWRU
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Official website
www.gordonrugby.com.au

Gordon Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based on the North Shore of Sydney. The club, known as the Gordon Highlanders, plays out of Chatswood Oval and competes in the New South Wales Rugby Union grade competition.

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Club information

For the 2022 season Gordon has appointed Brian Melrose as 1st Grade Head Coach with Andy Connors as 1st Colts Head Coach.

Current squad

The squad for the 2022 season

2022 Gordon Highlanders Rugby Squad

Props

  • Rhys Brodie
  • Brandon Favaa Eli
  • Flag of New Zealand.svg Tristan Fuli
  • Leigh Hughes

Hookers

  • Flag of New Zealand.svg Will Bremner
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mahe Vailanu

Locks

  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jack Margin
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Brendan Mitchell

Back Row

  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ola Tauelangi
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jordan Goddard (C)
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Lough
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Francis Ieremia
  • Toby Parr (Club Captain)
  • Brett Van Zyl

Scrum-halves

  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Sam Babb
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dylan Dowling

Fly-halves

  • Flag of New Zealand.svg Reece McDonald
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Harrison Goddard
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Darcy Fitzgerald

Centres

  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Dominic Easy
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Fraser Conway
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Connor Fahey
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Aiden Dowling

Wingers

  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mike Pavlakis
  • Flag of New Zealand.svg Alesana Pohla
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Oliver Arcus

Fullbacks

  • Robbie McIntosh
  • Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ben Pollack
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped,

International representatives

Team geographical area

Based on Sydney's North Shore, the club is centred around Ku-ring-gai Council and is headquartered in Lindfield. [1] The club, along with the Gordon Cricket Club in the Summer plays home games out of Chatswood Oval having played its early days at Roseville Chase Oval. [2] The club's junior catchment area takes in the Ku-ring-gai and Lane Cove local government areas, as well as parts of Hornsby Shire and the City of Willoughby. [3] The club's junior program is most notably strong in Ku-ring-gai with every suburb in the area except Gordon, Turramurra and Warrawee a junior club specifically representing the postcode of that suburb. [4] The club has 8 junior teams, in which 5 of the 8 teams are located in Ku-ring-gai council:

Rugby Championships

Gordon D.R.U.F.C Veterans (World War II) KIA

Source: [14]

  • P Braithwaite [15]
  • E A Cameron
  • W Carter
  • A Chowne
  • J E Cunningham
  • D Davidson
  • R V Keirath
  • K Lauder
  • R Lawrence
  • C Lord
  • D Mackerras
  • J J Manners
  • A J McGlynn
  • J McKenzie
  • F Meech
  • J Musgrave
  • C C Pike
  • R Prince
  • J Reedie
  • A Sands
  • L Stenhouse
  • R Upward

Club song

(To the tune of the Scottish folk song of the same name)

A Gordon for Me

1st Verse

I’m Georgie McHugh of the Gordon RU.
I’m fond of a lassie and drappie or two.
One day when out walking I chanced to see
A bonnie wee lass wi’ a glint in her ee.

Says I to the lassie will ye walk for a while.
I’ll buy ye a bonnet and we’ll do it in style,
My kilt is the tartan of the Gordon RU.
She looked at me shyly and said, Is that true?

Chorus

A Gordon for me, a Gordon for me.
If you’re not a Gordon you’re no use to me,
The Eastwoods are braw, the Randwicks an a’
But the cocky wee Gordon's the pride of them all.

2nd Verse

I courted that girl on the Banks of the Dee.
And made up my mind she was fashioned for me,
And soon I was thinking how nice it would be
If she would consent to get married to me.

The day we were wed the grass was so green,
The sun was as bright as the light in her een,
Now we’ve two bonnie lassies who sit on her knee.
While she sings the song that she once sang to me.

Chorus

A Gordon for me, a Gordon for me.
If you’re not a Gordon you’re no use to me,
The Eastwoods are braw, the Randwicks an a’
But the cocky wee Gordon's the pride of them all.

References

  1. "Contact Us". gordonrugby.com.au. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  2. "Club History". gordonrugby.com.au. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  3. "Shute Shield Teams". gordonrugby.com.au. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  4. "Shute Shield Teams". gordonrugby.com.au. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  5. "Chatswood Junior Rugby Club - Rugby Sundays". Chatswood Junior Rugby Club - Rugby Sundays. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  6. "Hornsby Junior Rugby Union Club". Hornsby Junior Rugby Union Club. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  7. "KWP Rugby – Playing Local Rugby Since 1959". www.kwprugby.com. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  8. "Home - Lane Cove Junior Rugby Union". www.lcjru.com.au. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  9. "Home". Junior Rugby Club. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  10. "Home". Roseville Junior Rugby Club. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  11. "Saints Rugby - St Ives Junior Rugby". www.stivesrugby.com.au. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  12. "Home". Wahroonga Rugby. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  13. "Our Story | Gordon Rugby Club".
  14. "Gordon District Rugby Union Football Club Second World War Roll of Honour". 11 April 2012.
  15. "P Braithwaite". 11 April 2012.