Suburbs Rugby Club Auckland: 1918 can rightly be called year one in the history of Suburbs. For it was in this year, at an “annual meeting” in a Mr. Tierney’s Avondale barber shop, that the name Suburbs was adopted. But why the name Suburbs? Tommy Atkins recalled the choice mainly because players were coming from Avondale, Point Chevalier, Mount Albert and Epsom to play for the Club, and boys from New Lynn, at that stage, made up only a small percentage of the players. It was at this meeting that the club colours were set down as red and blue jersey pattern to be 4″ hoops in alternate colours. (These jerseys, however, proved unprocurable at the time and the newly formed club did in fact play in yellow and black jerseys for their first two seasons).