Yet another brilliant day for London Wolves thanks to Roy and Ruth Eagles; Roy probably arranged the Marlon King o.g. to give us three points while, at half time Roy made a presentation to Wolves Women, our sposored players. Helped by #6 Jody Craddock Roy pesented the cheque to Anna Perks and Amber Quick
Players old and new, a double winning Wolves Captain (Anna Perks), our 12-16 coach, a promotion winning manager who was also a fan and played for Wolves - the lovely Graham Hawkins, a surprise visit by our former player of the year Matt Murray, our supporters’ liason office Paul Richards and our favourite all time winger and now hall-of-famer Waggy
At the Christmas Lunch it was announced that London Wolves will be sponsoring the Wolves Ladies’ team this year. Following our sponsorship of Amber Quick last season, the AGM suggested that we should extend our sponsorship to the whole team. We were delighted to welcome Amber, and team captain Anna Perks (the only League and Cup double winning Wolves Captain!) as well as Chairperson Jenny Wilkes and committee member Pete Myatt to the Christmas lunch. Jenny and Peter “credited” John Richards for their contributions to the growth of the team. Our sympathy went to Amber’s boyfriend whose birthday it was, but he been taken ill. After an athlete’s meal of Bangers and Mash (a City Bar speciality) perhaps it’s just as well that the game the following day at Sheffield was called off! Our thanks also to Eileen Burrell of the Wolves Community Trust for making the arrangements for the presentation and for the sponsorship arrangements.
What superlatives can you think of for Roy Eagles’ brilliant organisation of our annual Christmas Lunch. Again he surpassed himself with a carefully planned spectrum of the total Wolves Community – Wolves-Aye-We. Representing the club, Paul Richards, the fans’ liaison officer, told us how morale is still very high at the club; while youth team coach Darren Ryan told us how he’d been delighted to join the club and help develop the young players from 12-16. In support of the sponsorship chairperson Jenny Wilkes gave a wonderful talk about how and when the wolves women were formed and how they have progressed over the years. Hall of famer Dave Waggy Wagstaffe and Val were our guests of honour and we were delighted by a surprise visit by our one-time player of the season Matt Murray. Roy also thanked Lawson and his staff for making it such a great afternoon.
Some pictures from the lunch are on the Facebook page. Click here to see additional pictures of speaker and the raffle winners click here.
Arrivals
Let’s get down to it
Guests / speakers
Our star speaker was Graham Hawkins - with a unique Wolves record - a terraces fan, then a player, then manager (gaining promotion when Doog was chairman). Following Graham Hawkins expose of the Wolves team he wasn’t allowed to buy (including Peter Shilton) Paul Richards Wolves Supporter Liaison Officer told us about his role looking after fan relations and the need to visit Brazil! Paul had very kindly made arrangements for one or Wolves’ most popular player ever and London Wolves player of the season 2006-7 to join us before he went off to do the commentary on the Blues match. Darren Ryan 12-16 Coach at Compton talked about his career and why he is so happy to be teaching these age groups for Wolves. He was followed by Jenny Wilkes, Chairperson of Wolves Ladies and Girsls, who blamed our President, John Richards, for everything, in giving us the story of the ladies’ teams and their success last season under captain Anna Perks
Winners
The raffle proceeds of £140 went to Graham Hawkins Fund
Raffle item. (Donated By)
1st prize Signed wolves shirt 08/09 (London Wolves) won by Peter Woodifield
2nd prize Signed De Vries shirt (London Wolves) won by Matt Cleverly
3rd prize Red wine & Cheese set (Roy & Ruth) won by Bob Goddard
4th prize bottle wine won by Jeff Castro (ha ha!!)
5th prize bottle of white wine won by Sean Brennan
6th prize club shop voucher £10.00 won by Gwyn Evans
7th prize club shop voucher £ 10.00 won by Darren Ryan
8th prize The Wanderers Years Book Robin Prickett won by Trevor Read
9th prize Signed Wolves Ball (Darren Ryan WWFC Guest) won by Jon Wyatt
10th prize Signed Wolves Women Shirt (WW Women) won by George Babb
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