For those who are not aware, playing with Quins Amateurs makes you eligible to join Harlequin Players Association (HPA). This is an organisation run by ex players and for ex players from professional and amateur days as wells the Amateurs with the aim of arranging events to enable current and former players to meet up and yarn about the old days and old Laws.

Myles Woodley (myles.woodley@gmail.com 07778 407989) is our club representative and can be contacted with any questions.

To join you just need to fill in the attached form and send to Graeme Roberts. This is Free for current players and £10 per annum if you are not playing any more. The benefits are belonging to a group that may enable you to meet up with your fellow ex players or meeting some older and wiser ex players from days gone by.

Forthcoming events before Xmas are as follows:

HPA lunch Friday 1st November at the RAC Club Pall Mall. Cost is £70 so if you are interested in joining a few of us please email myles.woodley@gmail.com. It's formal suits and ties and starts at 12.30. Will Skinner will be hosting a Question and Answer session with a number of the current squad.

HPA/Club/Vets social night Saturday 30th November. This is an old fashion drink up along Teddington High Street 's many hostelries starting at 6.30. Always a good turn out of old and new and there is a free pint to anyone bringing their HPA card.

The HPA Autumn golf meeting will be held at The Richmond golf club. The probable date for this is Thursday November 7th. Rhys will be contacting those who have played before or previously registered their interest in HPA golf, but also will be pleased to have a message from anyone else who is interested in playing who hasn’t received such info before. Rhys can be contacted on Rhys@ckeservice.ltd.uk or 07770890510.

Benefits:

• The HPA card gets you entry to the Ember Star at Quins to avoid the masses in the Kings Stand.
• Email newsletter about events and news (births, deaths and not many marriages).
• Trustees suite in the Eithiad stand at the Stoop has been made available for Founder and HPA members. This is a wonderful and new facility. There is a cash bar, good views of the pitch and comfortable seating. To start with, there will be no food available. However, if as the season progresses there is sufficient demand, this will be reviewed. Access is limited because of capacity constraints. This is done on a match by match and first come first served basis. As your HPA membership card will not get you into the suite, you will need to register on loungeaccess@quins.co.uk This should ideally be done two weeks before each home match. You will then be sent a confirmation email 1 week prior to each fixture. You will be able to collect your ticket for the lounge from the Eithiad reception. This will only gain you access to the lounge once you are in the Stoop - you still need a match ticket or membership card to gain access to the Stoop, however there are limited number of free tickets for the game in the box (currently about 20) and these can be applied for via the loungeaccess@quins.co.uk. email. The aim is to give as many Founder/HPA members the opportunity to use the suite. We really want to make this a meeting point in the ground for ex players of all decades to meet and mingle.

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Myles