The Portland Football Tournament is on June 20th starting at 12 noon - more details on accomodation below.  Details on the ground location can be found on the event page.

Hotel

Hotel Monaco is offering King Suites and Double Suites for Friday 19th and or Saturday 20th at $149 per night. The Double suite rooms sleep at least 3 people (2 doubles and a pull out futon).

Please keep in mind there are only 17 double suites left to sell for the night of June 20th. If you would like to move forward with this booking, please contact Megan Pech (details below) and advise her as to how many rooms your group will need, and she can hold these for you. She will need to know as soon as possible, so she can set up the group booking. The rooms are only available for booking at this rate until tomorrow, Friday June 12th - please contact Megan before then.

Megan Pech
Sales Manager
Hotel Monaco Portland
(503)417-3357
506 SW Washington Street
Portland, OR 97204
megan.pech@kimptonhotels.com
www.monaco-portland.com

Functions

We are also working with our Pub sponsor - The Buffalo Gap - to have the following:

Friday night – Pasta Night (7pm to 10pm)
Saturday night – Beers, Pool, Music. (7pm onwards)
Sunday – Breakfast & Hair of the Dog.

We will look to have the Setanta AFL game of the week on TV at the Buffalo Gap.

Please let me know your interest in any of these events at the Buffalo Gap.
www.thebuffalogap.com

Schedule

(all 2 x 20 min halves, with a 10 min half time break)
 
12 - 1pm - Portland vs Seattle
 
1:10 - 2:10pm - Seattle vs Vancouver
 
2:20 - 3:20pm - Vancouver vs Portland
 
Possible skills comp.
 
4 - 5 pm - Final (two top teams)
 

Metro Footy reminder
This Friday 5/15 at Moshier Park in Burien. Our goal is to start the game prior to 8pm, please be dressed by 7:40 pm so we can warm up and get things going. Please sign up on our website if you are planning to attend. Afterwards we will be going to our sponsor pub, the Kangaroo and Kiwi.  You can RSVP here.

San Diego Visit July 11th
San Diego Lions a perennial Division 1 US Footy Club, have expressed interest in playing the Grizzlies in Seattle July 11th. Typically we take July off but this opportunity may be too good to pass up and we have a great field available. Please RSVP if you’re interested--this is a big commitment from the San Diego team-- we need answers quickly so they can book flights if necessary.  You cannot RSVP online for this so please send an email to Andrew at coach@seattlefooty.com

Upcoming Game v Portland at Chehalis Washington Saturday May 30th
Please RSVP for this game as soon as you can—numbers will determine whether we play two teams in a round-robin format or just have one 4 quarter match - You can RSVP here.

US Revolution team
Tryouts are scheduled for August for the US National Australian Rules team. If you are a US national, this is a great opportunity to represent your country and ultimately play in the International Cup in Australia in 2011.  If you are interested in trying out for this team, please get in touch with Andrew Donlen by Tuesday May 19th (206-218-2501) or woosha@mindspring.com

Training
If we are to achieve great results in 2009, then we need to place a greater priority on training. Please attend; on non-Metro footy weeks there are two options, Tuesday and Thursday. Players who have been attending regularly have seen significant improvements in both fitness and skills.

K&K Fundraiser
Turn up to the pub and drink for a great local non-profit organization! Rebuilding Together Seattle (RTS) provides donated repair services for homeowners in need so they can continue to live independently in warmth and safety.

Kangaroo & Kiwi Special Event: “RTS Down Under”

Who: Friends of Rebuilding Together Seattle (RTS) (www.rtseattle.org) and the Kangaroo & Kiwi Pub
What: Social/Fundraiser
When: Saturday, June 27, 2009; 7:00pm – close
Where: Kangaroo & Kiwi Pub (7305 Aurora Ave N, 98103)
Why: Proceeds from this event will help support RTS’s mission to provide donated repair services to homeowners and non-profit facilities in need.

Other details:

• This event is hosted by K&K, along with members of RTS’s Young Professionals Society (http://www.rtseattle.org/yps.php)
• This will be a great business & social networking opportunity!
• There will be food, drink specials, door prizes, and the usual K&K darts and pool.
• There will be a suggested donation of 10.00.  Your 10.00 donation will give you a free drink ticket, chance to win prizes, a free RTS Bracelet, and drink specials!  Proceeds will go to RTS. 

Questions?
Please call RTS at 206.682.1231 or email info@rtseattle.org.  Visit www.rtseattle.org

We hope to see you and your friends on June 27th!

Training Cancelled Tonight - Field is rained out - we'll be training on Thursday at the normal time.

The last time the Tigers met the Saints in MetroFooty Game 3, the Tigers ran out easy winners to earn their first win of the season.  On Friday night they'll be looking to square the ledger with the Saints who currently hold a 2-1 lead in the series.

The weather at the moment is looking great and in past weeks we've had up to 20 spectators enjoying the action.  The game kicks off at 8pm under lights at Moshier Park in Burien - you can get a map link and more details at the following link:
http://www.seattlefooty.com/Events/view.aspx?EventId=8

There is no bleecher seating at the ground so I would recommend you bring a folding/camping chair with you if you are a spectator.

What is MetroFooty?
MetroFooty is an abbreviated version of the 18-a-side game with between 9 and 14 players per team on a smaller field.  All rules remain the same.

Games will be in Langley which is about 34 miles east/south east of Vancouver - for those coming up on the Saturday, the Lynden/Aldergrove Border crossing or the truck crossing would work with Lyden/Aldergrove being a little closer to the grounds - directions on how to get to the ground are located here.

Moose downunder will be hosting both Friday and Saturday night festivities. The address is 830 West pender St, Vancouver. Right in the heart of downtown. Friday is Collingwood Vs Essendon live from Melboourne starting at 8pm. And on Saturday there will be presentation and relaxing over over a few beers.

Our first game is at 11:40am, so it's probably a good idea to leave Seattle at 7:30am or earlier - I'd expect it to take 3 hours to get there with the border crossing time - you'll then have a full hour to get ready for our first game.

The full schedule is as follows:

#1  Cougars Vs Eagles @ 10am-10.45am
#2  Saints Vs Calgary @ 10.50am-11.35am
#3  Eagles Vs Seatlle @ 11.40am-12.25pm
#4  Cougars Vs Calgary @ 12.30pm-1.15pm
#5  Saints Vs Seatlle @ 1.20pm-2.05pm
#6  Eagles Vs Calgary @ 2.10pm-2.55pm
#7  Cougars Vs Seattle @ 3pm-3.45pm
#8  Saints Vs ? @ 3.50pm-4.35pm

For those wanting a hotel I found some on hotwire.com for <$90/night for the Saturday night in Downtown Vancouver - one of them was a 5 star.  You can also use betterbidding.com to see what hotel it "may" be before you use hotwire.

For those wanting to carpool, please RSVP by visiting the event page, logging in and RSVP'ing - on Thursday, I'll send out an email to all those attending and you can "Reply All" to arrange carpools.  Turning up to training on Thursday night is also a great way to organise a carpool.