Rumbalara Football & Netball Club

Rumba is a community and family orientated club that provides a culturally safe and supportive environment for all community members to chase and achieve their dreams.
“Proud, strong family… that’s Rumba”

• Theme for 2012 "carry the spirit"- 2012 honours the spirit of the Cummeragunja Invincible's, the first Aboriginal football team in the Goulburn Valley , who played from 1898 to 1930. The Invincibles won six back-to-back premierships during the 1920s before they were forced out of the league.  Their great-great-grandchildren are some of Rumbalara’s current football and netball players, and all players, black and white, carry that same spirit of determination to overcome obstacles and disadvantage.

• 2012 Membership Drive - The Rumbalara Football Netball Club needs your support, help us reach our target of 500 social members for 2012. We invite you to renew or open your club membership for 2012. Your membership reaffirms business and friendships, provides education and mentoring support to young people, promotes social inclusion and enables you to watch your family, children and friends participate in two much loved and first-class competitive sports.
  2012 is the Rumbalara Football Netball Club’s 16th season of competition in the Murray Football and Netball League. Over those sixteen years, indicators of Aboriginal social health for our players such as school attendance, Year 10 retention, achievements in higher education, employment and health have all increased.

  As a social member, you enable us to field 13 teams (4 football & 9 netball) ; create a safe, healthy and inclusive social environment for children & families; provide coaching, mentoring and cultural esteem for all children and young adults; help unlock the economic potential a of young and growing Aboriginal population; provide a great place for Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal people to connect over a cuppa and bring reconciliation to life. Simply become a social member for $100 or consider other membership options (inclusive of club merchandise).
  Your membership will gain you entry to every home game, special invitations to formal club events such as Unity Cup, invitations to all club social activities for the season and 10% discount on all club merchandise.

  Stick with Rumba and carry the spirit of the Invincibles!

• Welcome to our our senior coaches - We welcome Dallas Terlich as our Senior football coach. Dallas brings a vast array of experience to the role as well as his strong connections he has built within the community. We also welcome Leonie Dwyer as our A Grade netball coach for 2012. Leonie brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our club this year, we are extremely excited to have her on board and are looking forward to what we hope will be a successful season. We wish all teams success this year!

• Rumba on a roll (Monday 11th April) - Rumba senior football continued its winning season with a good win away to Deniliquin over the weekend. Significant contributions came from Braydon Williams, Ty Parsons, Rex Taylor, Justin Terlich and the wonderful ruck combination of Ben Cox and Travis Morgan. After a slow first quarter that saw us a few goals behind, we dominated most of the remainder of the match to run out 75 point winners. A great start from the reserves saw them post their first win of the year with significant contributions from Corey Walker, John Arnold, Stevie Nixon, Stuart Day, Dallas Terlich, Graham Weston and Neville Bamblett. Reserves will look to build their season from here. Junior footy enjoyed getting to Deni on Fri, helping them to prepare for Saturday, we continue to see good growth in, and commitment from our juniors that will hold them in good stead this year. C Grade again flew the flag high for netball, with a convincing win over a determined Deni. Junior netball is perfomring well and with continued focus on skills development will perform well throughout the year.

• Seniors big win (Monday 4th April) — Round 1 of the 2011 MFL season saw us host reigning premiers Moama. With a very strong 4 or 5 goal breeze against us we went in at quarter time 2 goals down, but turned that around in the second quarter to go in at half time 10 points up. Unfortunately the start of the second quarter saw our fullback Kirwin Moore suffer a badly broken ankle, though we're relieved to report Kirwin is out of hspital and recovering at home, we wish him a speedy recovery. Some early classic shirt fronts from Djaran Whyman and Brad Firebrace let the visitors know they were in for a hard day. And with great work at the back from Des Morgan, Jamie Atkinson, Corey Walker and Josh Atkinson wemade it hard for the visitors to score in the critical third quarter. Wth four majors up front from Eric Edwards, a couple each to Robert Power and Leroy Boland and many other major contributors, all the running was with Rumba in the second half. Some excellent work in the middle from Ty Parsons, Braydon Williams and Jarrod Atkinson gave Rumba the edge and we ran out clear winners, 19/20/134 to Moama's 12/7/79.

• Junior football and netball camps (Monday 28th March) — Our Munarra Youth Futures program recently took our junior footballers and netballers away for the pre-seaon camps. Raelene Nixon and Leanne Sangster took a group of 25 girls to Common Ground for a weekend of fun, activities and team work. From all reports the girsl had a wonderful time with lots of outdoor work, and some wonderful sharing times indoors. Kevin Collie and Daryl Sloan took a group of young men up to Red Gum retreat for a fun weekend of team building and development. In between fishing and bushwalking the young men participated in a range of development activities aimed at bringing them together for the year ahead and building on their capacity to support each other on and off the field.

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