← Week 8 0 1 … 7 8 9 10 11 … 15 16 Week 10 → July 1, 2026 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm AEST Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM 7:00PM 7:50PM 8:40PM

August 19, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST ← Week 15 0 1 … 14 15 16 This week is grand finals and friendlies.  In finals there is no extra time so in the event of a draw the team placed higher on the ladder (listed first) is declared the premiers. Importantly teams missing out on grand finals still playoff for final position, so all teams are playing this week. We will deploy a temporary 4th field to eliminate the late time slot. This is is allow everyone to be there for the presentations and end of season drink which will be held at the Great Northern Hotel, so all members should try to keep it free (its a great night). Noting if you are playing in a grand final you are expected to be there (win or lose) as we present to both team and the referees. Everyone else is highly encouraged. Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM 7:00PM 7:50PM 8:40PM

August 12, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST ← Week 14 0 1 … 13 14 15 16 Week 16 → This week is semi finals and friendlies For semi finals finals eligibility applies. So if a team wishes to field a player not on the team list or who’s not played enough games during the season they need permission from the committee. There is no extra time so in the event of a draw the team placed higher on the ladder goes through. Importantly PPT is about participation. Therefore teams missing out on finals still playoff for positions, so if your team misses finals you are still playing this week and next week. Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM 7:00PM 7:50PM 8:40PM

August 5, 2026 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm AEST ← Week 13 0 1 … 12 13 14 15 16 Week 15 → Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM 7:00PM 7:50PM 8:40PM

July 29, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST ← Week 12 0 1 … 11 12 13 14 15 16 Week 14 → Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM 7:00PM 7:50PM 8:40PM

July 22, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST ← Week 11 0 1 … 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Week 13 → Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM 7:00PM 7:50PM 8:40PM

July 15, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST ← Week 10 0 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 … 15 16 Week 12 → Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM 7:00PM 7:50PM 8:40PM

July 8, 2026 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm AEST ← Week 9 0 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 … 15 16 Week 11 → Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:00PM 6:50PM 7:40PM

← Week 7 0 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 … 15 16 Week 9 → June 24, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM 7:00PM 7:50PM 8:40PM

← Week 6 0 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 15 16 Week 8 → June 17, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST As this a state of origin night we will run an abbreviated night with three time slots and extra teams having the bye. Those playing in the first two time slots can catch the entire game, and those playing in the third will miss the first 20 minutes. For mixed teams notes the high number of byes is almost over, after week 7 the only other byes for any team will be week 10 with 6 of 24 teams having a bye for origin 3. So most teams will be playing for 9 or 10 straight weeks. Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:00PM 6:50PM 7:40PM

← Week 5 0 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 15 16 Week 7 → June 10, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST This is the final week for men’s teams. All men’s teams will play at 7PM and at the conclusion of the games there will be drinks and presentations in the pavilion. All men should be attending the presentation and drinks so keep it free. For mixed teams notes the high number of byes is almost over, after week 7 there will be no byes for any team with the exception of week 10 with 6 of 24 teams having a bye for origin 3. Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM 7:00PM 7:50PM 8:40PM

← Week 4 0 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 15 16 Week 6 → June 3, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST The number of teams with byes is still high, but is reducing. Next week the mens competition finishes. and after that with the exception of state of origin nights no teams will have ANY byes. Like last season most teams will get 13 games which is the longest season in Melbourne. Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM Regular Season Mixed Touched Up Vs Hoonies Regular Season Mixed Look but don’t touch Vs iPod Touch Semi Final Mens BLAP 📷 Vs Phurtles 📷 7:00PM Regular Season Mixed Dunneworthy Vs Slightly Touched Regular Season Mixed Whitlams Angels Vs Easy Touchy Tigers Friendly Mens Expendables 📷 Vs Greens 📷 7:25PM Friendly Mens Funny Ruckers 📷 Vs Expendables 7:50PM Regular Season Mixed D.T.M.C.I.C.T.T.E. Vs Sugar Gliders Regular Season Mixed K.M.T. Vs Angels of Jed Friendly Mens Greens Vs Funny Ruckers 8:15PM Semi Final Mens Patchwork 📷 Vs Fast Benny’s 📷 8:40PM Regular Season Mixed Pretty Astrid Vs Charlie’s Angels Regular Season Mixed LUV of Touch Vs Electric Mayhem 📷 Teams having their formal photo taken Bye: No Rucks to Give, Untouchables, Tryz and Beerz, KP Phantoms, Squirtles, The Runouts, Only Phans and Tuggeranong Hyperdome

← Week 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 15 16 Week 5 → May 27, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST On live rubber state of origin nights we run an abbreviated night with three time slots and extra teams having the bye. Those playing in the first two time slots can catch the entire game, and those playing in the third will miss the first 20 minutes. Noting the men’s game on field 3 at 8 pm is 30 minutes touch down turn around. This is the last week were we shall have a large number of teams with byes with the exception of origin 2 ( and origin 3 if it is a live rubber) as our women’s competition has finished. Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:00PM Regular Season Mixed # Touched Up 4 lost to Tuggeranong Hyperdome13 Regular Season Mixed # Tryz and Beerz 3 drew with Runouts3 Regular Season Mens # Funny Ruckers 4 drew with Fast Benny’s4 6:25PM Regular Season Mens # Fast Benny’s 4 defeated Expendables1 6:50PM Regular Season Mixed # Dunneworthy 11 defeated Pretty Astrid1 Regular Season Mixed # Untouchables 5 defeated Only Phans3 Regular Season Mens # Expendables 2 lost to Funny Ruckers3 7:15PM Regular Season Mens # Phurtles 6 lost to BLAP7 7:40PM Regular Season Mixed # KP Phantoms 4 defeated Look but don’t touch3 Regular Season Mixed # No Rucks to Give 8 defeated Squirtles1 8:00PM Regular Season Mens # Patchwork 9 defeated Greens0 Bye: The Angels of Jed, The Greens, Phurtles, Brian Lima Appreciation Society, Slightly Touched, Whitlams Angels, Easy Touchy Tigers, Koori Mixed Touch, Electric Mayhem, Charlie’s Angels, Don’t touch me coz I’m close to the edge, Hoonies, iPod Touch, Sugar Gliders and LUV of Touch

← Week 2 0 1 2 3 4 5 … 15 16 Week 4 → May 20, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST Mixed regular season round 1 Women’s round 4 Men’s round 3 Week 3 is the beginning of mixed teams playing 1 full length game per night for competition points. It is the last week of women’s and there will be a presentation ceremony and drinks in the clubhouse to celebrate the occasion. Mens games 7:50, 8:15, and 8:40 are half length such that each team will have the equivalent of one full game. Note the large number of byes will begin to decrease as this is the last week of women’s. Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM Regular Season Mixed # LUV of Touch 6 drew with Sugar Gliders6 Regular Season Mixed # Squirtles 4 lost to iPod Touch5 Regular Season Mens # Phurtles 8 defeated Funny Ruckers6 7:00PM Grand Final Mixed # Pink Panthers 🍻📷 5 defeated Swirley Girls 🍻📷4 Friendly Mixed # Boss Ladies 🍻📷 6 lost to Jedda’s Angels 🍻📷7 Regular Season Mens # Greens 🍻 7 defeated Expendables 🍻6 7:50PM Regular Season Mixed # Hoonies 5 defeated D.T.M.C.I.C.T.T.E.3 Regular Season Mixed # Charlie’s Angels 5 defeated Electric Mayhem4 Regular Season Mens # Fast Benny’s 3 lost to BLAP4 8:15PM Regular Season Mens # Fast Benny’s 3 lost to Patchwork5 8:40PM Regular Season Mixed # K.M.T. 1 lost to Easy Touchy Tigers9 Regular Season Mixed # Whitlams Angels 6 lost to Slightly Touched7 Regular Season Mens # Patchwork 3 defeated BLAP1 📷 Teams having their formal photo taken 🍻 Teams invited to presidents drinks Bye: The Angels of Jed, Look but don’t touch, The Greens, The Funny Ruckers, Tryz and Beerz, Tuggeranong Hyperdome, Untouchables, No Rucks to Give, The Runouts, Only Phans, KP Phantoms, Pretty Astrid, Touched Up and Dunneworthy

← Week 1 0 1 2 3 4 … 15 16 Week 3 → May 13, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST Week 2 will be a mixed grading round comprising two half length games (equal to one full length game) for all mixed teams. Grading games are used to assess the level of play for teams, they do not count for premiership points, being grading there can be mismatches but it helps us better match teams for the rest of the season. Women’s matches are all full length matches for competition points. Men’s matches at 6:10 PM and 8:15 PM are full length matches. Men’s matches at 7:00PM, 7:25PM, and 7:50PM are half length matches (those teams will play two matches). All men’s games are fully competitive matches. More info on our season structure is available here. Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM Grading Mixed # Runouts 6 defeated No Rucks to Give3 Grading Mixed # KP Phantoms 3 lost to Tryz and Beerz4 Regular Season Mens # Greens 2 lost to Fast Benny’s5 6:35PM Grading Mixed # Runouts 4 defeated Tryz and Beerz3 Grading Mixed # KP Phantoms 4 defeated No Rucks to Give2 7:00PM Regular Season Womens # Boss Ladies 3 lost to Swirley Girls6 Regular Season Womens # Jedda’s Angels 1 lost to Pink Panthers7 Regular Season Mens # Phurtles 1 lost to Patchwork3 7:25PM Regular Season Mens # Phurtles 4 defeated Expendables3 7:50PM Grading Mixed # Dunneworthy 4 defeated Pretty Astrid3 Grading Mixed # Touched Up 4 drew with Only Phans4 Regular Season Mens # Patchwork 6 defeated Expendables0 8:15PM Grading Mixed # Dunneworthy 3 defeated Only Phans1 Grading Womens # Touched Up 4 defeated Pretty Astrid3 Regular Season Mens # BLAP 7 defeated Funny Ruckers3 8:40PM Grading Mixed # iPod Touch 1 lost to D.T.M.C.I.C.T.T.E.6 Grading Mixed # Tuggeranong Hyperdome 11 defeated Untouchables4 Bye: The Angels of Jed, Squirtles, Look but don’t touch, Easy Touchy Tigers, Koori Mixed Touch, LUV of Touch, Charlie’s Angels, Electric Mayhem, Slightly Touched, Sugar Gliders, Hoonies and Whitlams Angels

← Week 0 0 1 2 3 … 15 16 Week 2 → May 6, 2026 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm AEST Week 1 will be a mixed grading round comprising two half length games (equal to one full length game) for all mixed teams. Grading games are used to assess the level of play for teams, they do not count for premiership points, being grading there can be mismatches but it helps us better match teams for the rest of the season. Women’s and men’s matches are all full length matches for competition points. Note mixed teams have high number of byes, but this will diminish each week until week 6, after which there will be no further byes and mixed teams will play every week through until the end of the season. More info on our season structure is available here. Time Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 6:10PM Grading Mixed # Only Phans 5 defeated Runouts0 Grading Mixed # Hoonies 2 lost to Sugar Gliders6 Regular Season Mens # Phurtles 6 defeated Fast Benny’s2 6:35PM Grading Mixed # Only Phans 4 defeated Hoonies1 7:00PM Regular Season Womens # Pink Panthers 7 defeated Boss Ladies1 Regular Season Womens # Swirley Girls 1 drew with Jedda’s Angels1 8:00PM Grading Mixed # LUV of Touch 2 lost to Charlie’s Angels10 Regular Season Mens # Greens 4 lost to BLAP12 Regular Season Mens # Patchwork 4 drew with Funny Ruckers4 8:50PM Grading Mixed # Whitlams Angels 5 defeated Tuggeranong Hyperdome2 Grading Mixed # K.M.T. 6 defeated Easy Touchy Tigers5 Grading Mixed # Slightly Touched 2 defeated Electric Mayhem1 9:15PM Grading Mixed # Whitlams Angels 6 defeated K.M.T.3 Grading Mixed # Easy Touchy Tigers 7 defeated K.M.T.6 Bye: The Angels of Jed, Squirtles, Look but don’t touch, Don’t touch me coz I’m close to the edge, The Expendables, Pretty Astrid, Tryz and Beerz, iPod Touch, KP Phantoms, No Rucks to Give, Touched Up, Untouchables and Dunneworthy

Summer 2025-26

All in all a great season, here are the things I want to touch on.

Membership

This season we embraced membership legally and I think it was largely it was a success. 629 people spent 5 minutes to understand what we are about and agree to support that. That is a little short of the 700 odd regular players over Summer but nevertheless huge and given its once per lifetime most of the main is behind us.

That being said the process need to change to become less boring and more straight forward. My startup will work on that and like everything it is a work in progress where feedback helps.

Growth

Was our largest every season and combined with Winter 2025 we are now comfortable the largest touch organisation in the state. 10 years ago we were the 04th biggest. This fills me with both joy, sadness, and worry.

Joy because we’ve almost tripled in size in 10 years. From around 23 teams playing only in Summer to over 60 in Summer and depending on how you count it 24 or 32 in our last Winter season. Being the biggest was a long term aim and we’ve achieved it.

Sadness because at the same time adult touch in this state (outside of PPT) has been shrinking and in some cases dramatically. There are many reasons for this but two I’ll touch on are that the the governing body has had huge staff turnover and secondly has not prioritised participation amongst adults outside of the higher levels.

Worry because PPT has always attracted players from elsewhere are we have a much better culture and environment. This however will not happen as much if people are not playing at all

Culture

This is for me the most important aspect. And the aspect we may have gone backwards this season. As you hopefully appreciate our aims are not touch. For us touch is the tool for fun and friendship. Yet this season I did get an inkling for many the emphasis was more on touch. This was not based on much beyond a general vibe and the fact that mixed team numbers were down (men’s were well up) But it is a slight concern

I’d really be interested on your thoughts on this, what can we change or do better?

Photos

I have not publicised them as much this season (my bad), but we captured every team formally and informally as is our tradition. To summarise this I have created galleries of each night and the team images link through to an archive of all the teams photos. These archives go back many years for some of the longer standing teams.

Wednesdays are here:

https://princesparktouch.com/2026/03/25/formal-photos-of-all-wednesday-teams-2025-26/

Thursday mens are here:

https://princesparktouch.com/2026/03/25/formal-photos-of-all-thursday-mens-teams-2025-26/

and Thursday mixed are here:

https://princesparktouch.com/2026/03/25/formal-photos-of-all-thursday-mixed-teams-2025-26/

Anyway thanks for being part of our Summer season, as someone who organises a team I know it can be challenging but rewarding. There were some issue with field markings and not everyone understood the expectations of membership but overall a success I think

But there is no point blowing smoke up our own backside. So if there is anything that you or your teammates think we can improve upon or any feedback we REALLY want to know. Email or call is fine or call or you anonymous feedback form here:

We are a competition that is run for and by its members (which includes the current players and referees) so please pass it on to your teammates. At the start of the season you all agreed to provide 5 minutes feedback but my startup has not completed the technical side on this. But I’d strongly urge you/anyone on your team to let us know and we are going to incentivise this a bottle of sparkling for every team that has someone provide feedback

I am a huge believer in constructive criticism so don’t hold back.

Now onto the future:

SWITCH Autumn 2026

The second module of our women’s program SWITCH starts on Wednesday the 15th of April. The free program teaches basic fitness, ball skills and an introduction to game play with the emphasis on having fun in what we believe is the best game. We supply everything, all participants need to bring is their boots. More info and rego here:

Please circulate to the women in your team or the women in your life as it is an amazing program.

Winter 2026

Rego’s are open for our Winter season, all the details are on the website:
https://princesparktouch.com

Three important things though

If you have not yet registered, start rallying troops. Best not to leave this to the last moment. If you are not entering a team but have players who are still keen to stay involved please put them in touch with me and I´ll find them a home. This is important as we are a touch community here in the inner north.If you are considering entering a team and need extra players let me know and I’ll send some through (I have a long list already).

Regardless hopefully see you over Summer as we fire up the BBQ in Summer back in Princes Park.

Pete