Welcome to the final newsletter of the season. It is only appropriate for me to open this month's edition by saying thank you to each and every one of you for your support this year.

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The team have had an amazing season, finishing second in the Premier League thus qualifying for the group stages of the Champions League, accumulating a record points haul and finishing above Arsenal for the first time in 22 years in the process.

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We have also had an amazing year. With a record number of members, some huge turnouts at the Auckland headquarters over the course of the season and successfully hosting our second major legends night with Graham Roberts in April. That event raised almost $5,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand, and almost $2,000 for Graham's charity, Centre Algarve. A remarkable achievement. Thank you.

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Next year however, we would like to go a little further and (re)establish a network across the country, in order to ensure that we do not become too Auckland centric. Initial discussions will be had over staging a third legends event in the upcoming season, which we will explore hosting in two locations, while also re-establishing the 'National' in either Wellington or Queenstown in the Summer.

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We would also like to thank AIA New Zealand for supporting our legends night. Without AIA's support, we simply could not have brought Graham Roberts to New Zealand. You will have seen that today, Tottenham Hotspur and AIA have agreed to extend their partnership until 2021/22, and we sincerely hope that we can continue to work with them, to support more events like ours in the future.

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Finally, Hamish Girvan and James Warren have been doing a cracking job with posting interesting updates on our social media pages (interspersed with some of my own holiday snaps from WHL of course!), so thanks to those fellas! Keep up the good work.

 

Stay safe over the winter, and keep an eye out for an e-mail coming your way in the coming weeks for membership renewals.

 

Cheers,

Paul 

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