Oriental-Rongotai Football Club, over a number of years has formed a strong alliance with the local secondary school, Rongotai College. The club has supported the school by providing a large number of resources and coaching personnel and in return Rongotai has supplied 2 recent sensations, All Black Ma’a Nonu and New Zealand Sevens, Highlanders and Waikato representative Roy Kinikinilau. The importance of this alliance is best illustrated by the well performed Colts team and the large number of Rongotai old boys playing in this team. Club teams are littered with players from the local ‘Coutts St Learning Academy’. Testimony to this is the 11 - 13 old boys that take the field for the club’s Premier team each Saturday.

The appointment of former Manu Samoa and All Black representative, Stephen Bachop as club coaching co-ordinator has provided the club with more profile in the areas’ other local colleges, Scots, St Catherine’s and Wellington East.

The Ories Sevens side that travels regularly to Singapore to contest their local tournament has always provided 1 or 2 places to members of the Rongotai College 1st XV.

Ories has top class facilities with a state of the art weights gymnasium, ‘poly turf’ indoor training facility and 2 floodlit training grounds.

Ories is very proud of the environment that it has created within its player and supporter base. Along with its forward thinking and motivated committee, Ories invites all school leavers and prospective personnel to make contact with the listed club representative. Ories looks forward to you becoming part of our club and Ories becoming a part of you.

“Once an Orie always an Orie”