22.8.06

Grand final fever - 6 Rangers teams compete!

On Sat 19th / Sun 20th August - 4 of our teams contested in Finals games for the chance to progress to next weekends Grand Final games. All 4 of them were successful!
U9/4's Won 3-0 v Winston Hills
Senior 4's Won 5-3 v Baulkham Hills
Senior 8's Won ?-? v Winston Hills White (score not yet up on GDSFA website - check with JH or GW tonight)
U16Girls Won 0-0 (3-2 on penalties) v Castle Hill RSL
Holroyd Rangers for 2006: 16 competitive teams, 7 into the semi's, and 6 of those in Grand Final games next weekend!
Grand Final times and venues as follows:
Sat 26th Aug U9/4's 8:40 kickoff v Lidcombe Waratah at Harry Gapes Reserve, Lavinia St, South Granville
Sat 26th Aug U10/5's 10:40 k.o. v Granville Kewpie at Ray Marshall Reserve No.2, Erie St, South Granville
Sat 26th Aug O35/5's 12:40 k.o. v Wenty Waratah at Ray Marshall Reserve No.2, Erie St, South Granville
Sat 26th Aug Sen/8's 14:40 k.o. v Pendle Hill at Ray Marshall Reserve No.2, Erie St, South Granville
Sat 26th Aug Sen/4's 14:50 k.o. v Greystanes at Commercial Rd No.2, Rouse Hill
Sun 27th Aug U16Girls 10:45 k.o. v Lidcombe Waratah at Eric Mobbs Res, Excelsior & Ferguson Ave, Castle Hill

15.8.06

Results from the semis

Results from HR semi-finals:

U9/4's Loss 1-0 v Lidcombe,
U10/5's Won 2-0 v Castle Hill United,
U11/4's Loss 5-1 v Lidcombe,
Senior 4's Won 5-0 v Granville Kewpie,
Senior 8's Loss 1-0 v Pendle Hill,
O35/5's Won 2-1 v Greystanes,
U16/Girls Won 2-1 v Winston Hills,

The U10's and O35's have won straight through to the Grand Final to be played on Sat 26th August.
The U9's, Senior 4's, Senior 8's and U16 Girls will all play in Finals matches next weekend.

8.8.06

Support our teams in semi finals


Quite a few of our Holroyd Rangers teams have reached semi-finals. If you have some spare time why not get along to their games and cheer them on. They will appreciate the support. Details of the games follow:



* Sat 12th August *
U/9 - 9:00am - King Park, Merrylands,
U/10 – 8:45am – Binalong Oval, Binalong Rd Toongabbie,
U/11 – 10:40am – Binalong Oval, Binalong Rd Toongabbie ,
Snr 4 - 2:45pm - Progress Park, Auburn ,
Snr 8 - 12:40pm - Francesco Cres. Oval, Bella Vista,
35/5 - 12:40pm - Rydalmere Park, Rydalmere
* Sun 13th August *
U/16G - 10:20am - Bathurst St Park Greystanes

29.7.06

40th anniversary function

2006 End of Season Celebration

Seniors' Presentation Night

Holroyd Function Centre

Miller St Merrylands

Saturday 16th September at 7pm

Dinner and entertainment provided

Cost : $50 per person


Special guests include:

Trevor Smith, George Garland and John and Greta Holland

Bookings essential.

Contact John Higgins 0404 829 159 or Tracey Hopper 0432 802 084

Proudly sponsored by
AVS Security * Bluestone Mortgages * Telstra * Printworks Australia


28.7.06

Team photos

Team photos will take place at Guildford West Sports Ground on the following days:

Girls/ladies teams - Round 17 - Sunday 30th July,
Boys/Mens teams - Round 18 - Saturday 5th August.

Your coach will let you know your alloted photo time.

Celebration dinner for our 40th anniversary

To celebrate our 40 years the club has organised a dinner to be held on Saturday 16th September. The function will be held at the Holroyd Centre Merrylands. Tickets cost $50 per head and will include dinner and entertainment.

We will soon be selling tickets to the function. If you are interested in attending please contact John Higgins, Greg Wyatt or John Nash at the club.

Presentation day - Juniors


The club will hold a presentation day for all junior teams on Sunday 22nd October. More details will be forthcoming when the agenda is finalised.

Team results

Click here to go straight to the results page of the GDSFA website and then select your team to view their latest results.

Club history


Over the years, Holroyd Rangers has undergone three name changes, four home grounds, four different uniforms, one season with a different association, and survived two near collapses and destruction of the clubhouse to emerge in 2006 stronger than ever.

In 1966 the club was formed through the local Scout movement under the name “Guildford Cubs.” Playing at the Granville

& Districts Soccer Football Association’s grounds at Auburn the club had two teams – under 10 and under 11. The new club’s uniform was based on the scout movement’s colours of green and gold, and consisted of a yellow t-shirt with a green stripe down one side, green shorts and white socks.

In 1967 the club grew to five teams after a constitutional change opened membership to people from outside the scout movement, and Ray Marshall Reserve at South Granville became the home ground.

A year later the club registered it’s first senior team. This initiated a name change, as the seniors were reluctant to play under the name “Cubs.” So Cubs made way for the more senior “Rangers,” maintaining the link with the scout movement but giving the seniors a moniker they could live with. The first uniform change also happened this year with a move to green shirts, white shorts and green socks.

1969 saw another home ground change with a move to a park on Pitt Street at Merrylands. This was a temporary home whilst the club’s new grounds were being built at Foray Street Guildford West. The park on Pitt Street had no lights so training was held at Tom Uren Park at Guildford West, now home to Greystanes Churches Soccer Club. .

The club’s new home, known as West Guildford Sports Ground, was opened in 1970 and that year saw another name change. Ready to enter a team in the “Federation” competition the club had to choose another name as there was already a Guildford side playing in the comp – Guildford County. The name Holroyd was chosen with the “Rangers” title maintained and the club became known as Holroyd Rangers Soccer and Recreation Club, reflecting the club’s involvement in other sports, particularly netball and cricket, which began at this time.

Throughout the remainder of the seventies the club continued to grow and achieve mixed success. Like all small clubs it was difficult to field teams in the higher divisions and so the better players would leave for greener pastures with clubs who could offer first division sides. The senior squads remained strong however with many players returning to play their adult years with their childhood club.

By the mid eighties however the club’s numbers had started to decline and in 1986 the club reached a crisis when it couldn’t field enough sides to continue it’s affiliation with Granville Association. The committee instead of seeking special consideration from GDSFA decided to affiliate with the Southern Districts Association and the move away from Granville nearly finished the club. Fortunately they re-affiliated with Granville the following year and the club started a period of rebuilding.

Throughout the eighties and early nineties the club had persisted with uniforms that were variations of the green shirt/white shorts combination but in 1995 a new committee decided a new look was in order and a uniform with a predominantly white shirt and green shorts/white socks was adopted.

The next few years were particularly unstable for the club, with a constantly changing committee, the departure in 1996 of founding President, Trevor South, and the near collapse of the club at the end of 1998 when almost the entire committee moved on.

Amid rumour of the clubs demise at the start of the 1999 season, life member and club legend, John Holland, along with some of the coaches from the previous year got together and ensured the Rangers would continue.

In a show of great faith in this new, young committee, John and his wife Greta made the decision to retire from their beloved club and move to the Central Coast at the end of the ’99 season. They were deservedly recognised for their outstanding contribution to football with the Association’s club person of the year award in 1999.

In 2001 the club enjoyed arguably its best season ever. With more teams than ever before, (16)including a ladies squad, a new modern uniform that still managed to respect the club’s traditional green and gold colours, and a committee determined to make the club a leading force in local football

In December 2002, after repeated vandalism, the club facilities were burned down. This began a difficult period for the club trying to maintain a viable soccer club while operating from temporary buildings.

In 2004 the first girls team (under 12’s) was formed. This grew to include anunder 14’s girls team in 2005.May 2005 saw the long awaited completion of the clubs facilities.

In 2005 with 17 teams and new club facilities the club continued to move forward.

……..To be continued