Backing the Blues

More than 1,500 Blues fans turned up for the rugby club’s local Open Day in February, held at its new training grounds at Alexandra Park

As official community partner, PlaceMakers was on hand to support the event by manning the BBQ and organising a fun rugby activity. Everyone who attended had the chance to meet their favourite players, as well as the rising stars, and the kids even learned a few tricks from the professionals during the ‘skills and drills’ session.

The park’s new purpose-built training facility, which is a world-class building, will now be the Blues HQ.

The standalone facility, built by PlaceMakers customer Canam Construction, includes a high-tech gym near Campbell Crescent and a training field in Alexandra Park’s inner-track. Covering approximately 1800m2, it also has a ‘prehab/rehab’ area, rooms for seminars, medical and physiotherapy treatment, sports science and changing rooms, a cafe and offices for coaching, team management and administration.

The Blues board hopes this new facility will take the franchise to the next level.

Blues head office

“We aspire to be a world-class organisation both on and off the playing field – and we need appropriate facilities for the team and all of our staff,” said Blues chairman Tony Carter. “This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reposition the entire Blues organisation towards achieving our long-term goals.”

The Blues are thankful to have great support from their fans and sponsors such as PlaceMakers.