Te Atatu Roosters
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| Club information | |
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| Full name | Te Atatu Rugby League and Sports Club |
| Nickname(s) | Roosters/Tat |
| Short name | Te Atatu Roosters |
| Website | http://www.foxsportspulse.com/club_info.cgi?c=0-4975-69502-0-0 |
| Colours | Red, white and blue |
| Founded | 1955 |
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| Coach | Revell Neal |
| Manager | Garry Howard |
| Competition | Auckland Rugby League |
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| Premierships | 1988 |
| Runners-up | 1986, 1990, 1993 |
| Minor premiership | 1986 |
| National Club Champions | 1986, 1988 |
| Roope Rooster | 2007 |
| Sharman Cup | 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1978, 2016 |
| Phelan Shield | 2015, 2016 |
The Te Atatu Roosters is a rugby league club based in Te Atatu. The club currently has 37 teams spread across schoolboy, junior and senior grades. The Roosters senior most team has won promotion to the Fox Memorial for the 2017 season Auckland Rugby League.
The Roosters play at the council owned Jack Colvin Park located in Te Atatu Peninsula, next to the North Western Motorway. Junior teams play at Te Atatu Park, and at Gloria Park both also on the peninsula.
The club was founded in 1955 after the opening of the North-Western motorway led to suburban growth in the area. The first team was a 7-aside team formed to represent Te Atatu North and South. They wore Glenora jerseys and their first ever game was against Wesley at Fowlds Park. Their first training area was in a cow paddock on Edmonton Rd before later moving to Ramlea Park.
By 1961 they won their first schoolboy championship and were wearing Te Atatu colours. In 1960-61 Te Atatu Park was developed at Neil Avenue and in 1965 they fielded their first senior side (Senior B).
In the late 1960s work began on the current club rooms on Toru Avenue. It was built on Crown land arranged with Waitemata Mayor Jack Colvin after 3 club members were elected to the WCC Parks Committee. However, before the club rooms could be built the land needed to be prepared first. The land was in such poor condition that no other clubs had bothered applying for it, and life member Ken Pitman described the task of preparing it thus: "What a mess, over six acres of swamp, gorse and pine trees, five feet thick. Well we were all enthusiastic and silly enough to attempts the impossible. We chopped, scrounged, swore, drank and burned our way through the lot". The council also helped by putting a culvert under the motorway and realigned the creek which ran through the park. Eventually the playing fields were established and work could begin on the club rooms.
The club rooms took over 6 years to complete with the foundation stone being laid on December 17, 1962, and the official opening on April 19, 1969 by MP Martin Finlay. Just as the land was prepared solely by club members, so to was the clubroom built completely by members including Ken Pitman, Tom Hetherington, Ted Quedely, Eric Draper, Ernie Rainbow, Morrie Ramsey, Peter and Bis Pitman, Buddy Jones, Harry McWilliams, Jim Denyer, Gordon McCarten, Pat Fairweather, Don McMeekin, Murray Hill and Ian Pattulo.
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