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SRC Six Pack versus Bucks IPA

23rd Sept, 3.30pm, Turf City
Score: 9-1 (at Full Time)

Dick of the day: Male Menopause IPA no. 21 for his never ending whinging and complaining the whole day long

Player of the day: Naz and Taufik for having to fast and combining to score a lovely try.

1st half
After the exhilaration of winning the mixed finals, the boys were in high spirits and decided to field our best team by opting to start the game by way of ‘natural selection’. This was a process of gradual elimination by which two balls are being tossed concurrently, with the player throwing one ball straight up in the air and receiving the next ball, passing it off and then chucking the air ball to the next person. And by the gradual process of elimination, our “natural selection” was confident that they had the best handling skills in the squad.

Off to a sluggish start from the six pack ‘natural selection’ as Adam made a turn over by over running the mark. After a high adrenaline and lots of girls supporting mixed finals, the boys were lacking motivation due to the lack of eyes on them. Only barely after a minute, the virtues of selecting by means of ‘natural selection’ was completely tossed out of the window as the IPA team did a quick dump, split right- which sucked in 3 guys, and the quick thinking Bucks player made the pass to the unopposed winger to score. 1-0 to Bucks.

‘Hatchet man’ Adam was furious and decided to resort to his little bag of dirty tricks as he made Bucks moved off their tryline by slowing the play down as dummy half which gave us the penalty- you sneaky bugger you. And from a simple dump and split, Alan scored and showed us how truly awful looking he is up close and personal to the camera. In the actual words of one of the recording personnel “that was quite... scary”. Hence to all unsuspecting potential SPGs… be warned by this simple reminder- Beer Goggles. 1-1!

And once the ‘natural selection’ got out, Six pack started to play some proper touch with David bursting through on a two on one situation to make the score at 2-1. Come on, did you really expected David “Sell Fish” Teo to make the pass?

Things are starting to get rowdy now as ‘Keyman’ Yum showed that he was no pushover by shoving away the IPA player who was a head taller than him and point his finger right in his face with his typical “eh don’t F*@K with wo ah! You know I from Chao Yang one k!”

That infuriated the same IPA player (no 12) with Lee low standard of English by resorting to taking out THE smallest player on the team- Jie Lun with a vicious knee to his mid section. Actually thank goodness it was Jie Lun or else it will be anyone else’s groin…. Haha short joke.

Back to some touch and Taufik breaks through as a dummyhalf on the 9th minute for Naz to score showing all those useless slackers how its done, when both of them are fasting! RESPECT!
Score now at 3-1

IPA now trying to slow the game by reverting to their simple tactic of changing this into a contact game by a shoulder charge on Kenny on the 10th minute for him to lose the ball. Btw guys do you know that Kenny is none other than the President of the Republic Poly Rugby team…. Wwwaaaaahhhhhh.

12th minute and off a series of quick dumps, Gideon spots the Bucks defence in disarray and sucks in his defender as a dummy half and releases a perfectly weighted pass for Adam to burst through the half gap to score. 4-1. Well done Gideon!! Good on you mate!! You’re a freaking legend!! Yum Hwa says “Gideon is my hero because he showed me what it was like to recover from an injury and bouncing back into tip top shape, proving actions speaks louder than nonsensical self glorifying blogs…. Sniff sniff I adore you Gideon, you’re my hero!!” To which Gideon aka ‘Touch Legend’ replies “Piss off you gay piece of shit who uses SKII face wash everyday! Stop ogling at me!!”

During the closing moments of the second half, IPA (no 21) proceeds to show the effects of male menopause with his balding head and over aggression by trying to confront David after a touch while plays goes on but ends up getting screamed at by his team mates for losing the plot.

2nd Half
The second half saw a magnificent display of the shooting defence done by the 6 pack boys by limiting IPA to gain only 10 metres after 4 touches and to turnover the ball. Once again Gideon ‘Touch Legend’ Loh, shows that hes not all about the razzle dazzle fanciful skills and handling despite his deceptively small stature, he out jumps a 6 foot tall IPA player to intercept the ball for a try saving intercept, proving once and for all that “short man can indeed jump”.

The game slows to a grinding halt for the next ten minutes where nothing exciting was happening until Tamil tiger own elite chain smoking, bottle downing renegade- Amila, decided to take matters into his own hands and got himself sent off in order to give the IPA a fighting chance and to make the game more exciting. 6 IPA players vs 5 Six pack.

Alas the one man lead was not to be as Jit Wei gets a tug on his shirt and politely request to the Bucks player “Could you watch the shirt/shoulder PLEASE” with a hand held out in friendly gesture. Not satisfied with such impeccable manners, the Bucks players proceed to shove Jit ‘One Shoulder’ Wei and got sent off as a result. As voted the moment of the game, with both captains being called in by the referee, ‘Mad Englishman’ Alan Lowton, decides to take a lovely sunbath by lying down on the ball hence soaking in the fine Singapore weather. Blimey! Good on you mate!

And after being recharged by that break, the Wigan man answers back by receiving a long pass from Kenny and executing a delicate sidestep to make the score 5-1.

David ‘I wish I was Chinese’ Teo almost made the contention for being the dick of the day by attempting to fake an injury by holding his ribs in agony after the positive touch, but of course Wendy the ref was less than convinced. After some horrible acting, he decides to smile for the camera and sprints immediately after that. I reckon he is probably a Man Utd or Chelsea supporter.

And as usual Amila receives the ball and sidesteps the whole Bucks team to offload a floating ball for Naz to score the last video recorded try. 6-1

Due to some technical error, the rest of the match report is unable to be completed but final score line stands at 9 (I think) to SRC Six pack and 1 to Bucks IPA. With the prelimaries finally over, up next would be Bedok Kings in the semi finals en route to the final goal…. Our dream is almost within reach... what will be the final outcome?

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1)Goto http://www.avi-converter.net/avi_mpeg_rm_wmv_splitter.html
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3)Installation and running the shareware should be pretty straight forward.
4)Once the program is started, click on the open button to open the video that you want to cut from.
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Please send your clips to me by 31 Oct 2006! Really need everyone's help cos this will help to speed up the production process.

Fruits of our labour

Six Pack National Touch League Champions 2006
Shake and bake........

Mixed Finals:SRC Mixed vs Wanderers

23rd Sept, 2.40pm, Turf City

Mixed Finals Match:

Score: 3-3 (at Full Time)

Player of the day: David for finally not being selfish when it came to the crucial game

Hatchet man of the day: The original hatchet man himself- Adam

Dick of the day: No dicks, you were all awesome!!

Finally!! The long awaited match up between the undefeated champions of the local touch scene- The Wanderers versus the young upstarts and the latest talk of the town- Singapore Recreation Club. The long build up to the finals saw SRC defeating the Wanderers by a narrow one try during the preliminaries and the experienced reigning champs looks eager to avenge their loss. As the crowd builds up on the sideline on a slightly overcast day, little did they know that they were about to witness history in the making.

1st Half
SRC wearing blue and yellow gets the kick-off and within the first minute, Adam breaks through as a dummy half and makes a pass at the try line but Leander and Mali collides in a vain attempt to score. Wanderers in red and black, hits back immediately by making slick passes and good hands, showing a hint of things to come. In defiance, ‘Hatchet Man’ Adam, started to impose his authority on the game, by taking it out on an opponent, the revealing his simple but brutal tactic.

Wanderers draws first blood in the 4th minute with the French player no. 16, did a quick step, jinxed and made a dive from the 5 metre line to score between Alan and Angela. A lovely individual show of talent from the opposing no. 16 who will certainly trouble the SRC team in this match. Meanwhile, the opposition shooting defence appears to be troubling the SRC players as they found it hard to get into their usual flowing and aggressive dumping pattern.

The SRC girls executed a ‘teapot’ play with Boo, Mingli and Wendy almost broke through the Reds defence but Wendy was just caught from the back. On the other wing, our boys did the same trademark move again but were just let down by the final pass from David. (we have to say we were shocked by his sissy dive pass)

Frenchie scores once again on the 13th minute with Sujan showing that he needs to lose some weight off his ass as he almost made the touch but still got skinned on the wing. Score now stands at 2-nil to the Wanderers, as SRC players were just starting to look a little out of the game.

And at last! The Rojaks answered back with a try on the 16th min after a DJ from Leander and Amila, a quick dump, a missed touch and a lovely pass from the boys’ captain set up Ming Li for our first try. With spirits uplifted again from the team in blue, you know that a crucial game was on when you see Amila diving to make touches, good on you mate!

The first half ends at the score of 2 to 1 to the Wanderers and halftime was a critical moment for Coach Carmel to whip up the team and instil the fighting spirit into the Rojaks. Having said that, team heckler Gideon added the extra motivation of promising a beer for every try scored for the try scorer and the boys were alive once again.

2nd Half
The second period saw a renewed SRC team with Leander breaking through the defence from a DJ and David almost scored a slam dunk try only to get touch at the last moment. ‘Hatchet man’ Adam smelt blood and furious with rage, he vents it out on the Wanderers team as he takes out one of the poor girls and almost chops off her legs.

On the 3rd minute, after 4 sets of touches on the Wanderers try line, the constant pressure from SRC finally cracks the defence off the selfless running and dumping from Boo, allowing David to break through and he passes to ‘The Stallion’ to equal the score, Try! And the score stands now at two all.
In one of the fan worthy moments of the game saw Angel coming to attention in the 5th minute and raising her hands like one of her eager students in her class to signal a touch. The game soon comes to a grinding stalemate for the next 10 minutes as both teams start to probe at the other defence, waiting for a mistake to be made. And it was the team in red almost scored with one of the girls breaking through the Rojaks but thankfully, Adam made the touch on the five metre line, yelling “NOT IN MY YARD BIATCH!!”
As the clock ticks down and the players starting to tired, SRC struck on the 17th minute off a dump and split and a flop pass from David to the Sri Lankan warrior, Amila!, to score. 3-2! Finally after all the selfish plays from the self proclaimed ‘The Great One’, he made it up with those two fine assist. However, was that going to be enough to take the championship, the Rojaks wondered?
Alas it was not to be as Wanderers answered back immediately on the 18th minutes off a defensive error that has been worked on for the LAST 6 MONTHS!! And the Reds level the score to make it 3-3 as the game draws to the end of normal time.
Sudden death
The SRC Rojaks had to regain composure quickly as they knew that the game was almost in the bag and now they had to claw it back for the sake of the fans, the team and most importantly to secure toilet facilities for next season!

Its sudden death and each team having drop a player to make it 5 on 5 with SRC perform the kickoff. Wanderers gain possession, drives up the field and out of nowhere, one of the Reds broke on the wing as Angela and David chases down the player who managed to release a pass to one of his teammates. As everyone was about to cringe in view of the impending try, our ‘Ang Moh’, made a Lontong special and sprint to make the try saving touch! Thank you, you beautiful white boy you!

Having possession, SRC started off with a drive to get out of their half and as the Reds expected a usual punch up, ‘The Stallion’ thought otherwise. Leander gets the ball and he checks to look up and as quick as a flash, sidesteps the opposite player rushing up and sprints to the wings, he draws in the opposing winger and releases an inch perfect pass to David for SRC to be crowned the new Mixed Touch Champions!
As the sidelines erupted in ecstatic euphoria, history was made as the reigning champions were finally defeated and a new touch champions emerged. Will this be the start of many more trophies to come? Will this be the dawn of a brand new era for SRC to dominate the touch scene? Question remains but only time will tell….

5 more days

We're beginning our countdown to the final this saturday between defending champions The Wanderers and favourites 6pack of Pussy Burners...

We all know confidence is riding high in the 6pack camp as the team has been undeafeated all season long. But it has also been noted that the 6pack team has sometimes underestimated teams and been made to pay for it.

So to highlight that fact the 6packian Times wants all 6pack players to read a past article(read the last 2 paragraphs). To prevent the Mother of all Fuck ups in a final.

http://6ppb.blogspot.com/2006/06/blacks-fun-touch-06-report.html

Don't be over-confident.

Round 5: 6-pack vs Wanderers Men

9th Sept, 1.00pm, Turf City

Round 5 Match:

Score: 16-3

Playa of the Day: TaufiQ, for his teamplay involvements

Dick of the Day: Wanderers for turning up with 7 players

This is the game which totally changed everything. It injects a lot of self-confidence in 6-pack (apparent in Bedok's trashing 19-1), changed the rankings of the table for the 1st time in NTL and rewrites NTL history to be the 1st local team to trash Wanderers' Mens (16-3).

The message could not be delivered any clearer to the key players of Wanderers, who opted to play Frisbee instead of roughing it out against the Real Men like 6-pack. It could very well be a pyschological tactic which Wanderers adopted to instill some overconfidence & complacency,... hoping to hinder 6-pack from getting motivated to improve (or going down for more trainings). Instead it just backfires as 6-packians are a bunch of intelligent ruggers with insatiable thirst for perfection. NTL domination is just a tiny part of the plan as the bigger picture will be painted cometh January 2007 in World Cup South Africa. Furthermore, 16-3 scoreline was something that Wanderers Men's have to take back home and lose sleep over.

More of that later....

The game itself started at furious pace...the quick dump by Adam & scoop by David topped with a Backdoor by Leander created a favourable 3 vs 2 situation with Yum supporting at the wing ....plus a quick hands at a pace which would put Asafa Powell proud ....it seemed inevitable that the 1st Try will be scored... Alas!! ... A miss-pass

There is no denying the 1st Try though as it came on the 1st minute & 15th second after a quick thinking & scoop by Adam....creating another 3 vs 2 situation .... a pass to Alan simplified it to 2 v 1 ... and with Xiangjunn sprinting and screaming down the Touch line... the grounding of the ball gave the crowd something to scream about

Not wanting to be outdone, the Amila-Sujan-Jitwei-Taufiq-Hadi-Jielun pack showed a dizzying and brilliant display of hands as they weaved and moved the ball around from the half-way line, wrecking Wanderers' defence in the process and risking it a bit close to a "Touch pass" at times....The final pass from Jit sent Amila diving at the Try-line for the 2nd try (@ 4th minute). If i had a boombox at that point of time, a befitting soundtrack song would be "Mas que Nada" ala Brazil Nike Team ad. Beatifully crafted Try

Reputation and pride hanging by a thread, Wanderers did attempt to make a comeback....their familiar free-flowing dumping play, multiple options off the Dump and confusing backdoors + overlaps gave 6-pack a hard time at Defence. Their trademark shooting defence did trouble us however it did not stop us for scoring, it merely delayed it.

Wanderers did snatch a Try back in the 4th minute 51 secs after an unnecessary backchatting by David "emotional" Teo, the penalty allowed them to take a quick tap and dived at the line to keep their hopes alive (2-1)

Yum & Xiangjunn then answered right back at the 6th minute 10 secs with a quick-thinking by Yum at the 5-metre split, skipping the pass straight to perfectly positioned Xiangjunn at the wing for his 2nd try and 6-pack's 3rd.

At this point of time, Wanderers' spirit to fight was slowly diminishing as they let themselves down with countless of errors....drop balls, off-the-mark, drop balls, fumble dumps and more drop balls. It did not helped as well that they only have 1 substitution at their disposal. A rough day indeed....if we can see their thinking bubbles at that time...it would read as "damn those frisbee guys"

6-pack's 4th try: Amila directed Hadi to dump. Amila then did his trademark quick scoop to confuse the defender creating a 3 vs 1 situation and which was converted by Jielun (7th mins 49 secs). Taufiq seemed happy as he was screaming away "Awesome !! Awesome!!"

Is this no. 5 ??

No...It was forward-pass....Such was 6-pack play sometimes....Plenty of opportunities but disappointing finish at times

No. 5 comes from a Quick-dump by Jitwei, a scoop by Taufiq and a backdoor by Amila.... Taufiq passed to Jit ...but Jit "lobang" it to Amila who plucked it off the air and scored it (@ 11th mins & 2nd secs)

No. 6: From an open play, Taufiq beautifully noticed the extra man (Yum) at the wing, he drew the defence in and timed his pass to perfection. Yum dived at the tryline which by now we intimately called "Home" (14th mins & 20 secs)....Brutal...brutal....

No 7: From an open play again, His deceptive burst and occasional boost from his fart helped The Longtong to cut through between 2 defenders and gassed a poor Wanderers till he passed out (17th mins 21 secs)... Perhaps at this moment, the soundtrack has changed to Michael Bubble's "I wanna go Hooomeee" ...literally for Wanderers and metaphorically for 6-pack...

No 8: Quick Dump by Sujan...Quick Scoop and a long run across by Taufiq to draw the Defence sideways to the right....A switch with Hadi to change the direction of running left... The Defence (just like SRC training venue) was all over the place and a gap in Wanderers' defence allowed Hadi through with ease(20th minute)

*Half-time whistle*

Recharged and Refreshed, Wanderers made another attempt at the line... sending their Jap player a Kamikaze dive at 6-pack's tryline....Luckily, the collaboration between Alan and Yum kept the Tries at bay. However, such collaboration between Alan & any guy players on the field usually resulted in an intimate moments (pls see Mixed Finals report)...

No 9: It's the Usual familiar sight. A loop by Xiangjunn to shift the Defence. A sick sidestep from "Stud"...an unfavourable situation for Wanderers....A gap....An exploitation.... The inevitable...(21st mins 19th secs)

From then...6-pack showed a brilliant display of defending with bodies flying all over the field. Sri-Lankan airborne 11 leading the pack....

soon...Taufiq follow suit....

...and Kenny too...(the dive was not as glam as the rest)

No 10: The Gideon's......a Quick Dump by Jielun...a Quick Scoop by Adam...a very very long sprint by him as Dummy Half towards the Try-line....eliminating the slow Defenders one-by-one by natural selection of fitness & speed...Unfortunately, It was at this time 6-pack incurred its first casuality as Gideon was taken out by a desperate Wanderers Hatchet man (24th mins 06 secs)

No 11: The Original Scooper.....a Quick Dump by Alan...a Quick Scoop by Amila...beating his opposite marker as Dummy Half .... finding an open Taufiq (25th mins 24th secs)

Hadi brooke through as Dummy Half and just need to find an open man to score the Try....Guess who came supporting him?
If a picture paints a thousand words... then those were a lot of hints ....Good support though...

No 12: Kenny's rare sprint...from an open play, Kenny beat the Wanderers Defender one on one... it was a rare sight to see Kenny switched on his "NOS" as u can see from the picture (mind you the dust was not added, his burst was real) (28th mins 20th secs)

No 13: Wanderers are super shacked out...they really do not have any gas left in their tank...as we drove up the field...by the time we reached their tryline, they were left with 4 defenders against the 6 of us...a simple split right between Alan & Taufiq chalked the 13th try (30th mins 29th secs). There was a slight argy-bargy going on while Taufiq was scoring the 13th Try. Warning: Some pictures below may be disturbing. May not be suitable for immature readers.

No 14: Generous Adam... from an open play... Adam just sprinted through to the Try-line.. None of the Wanderers bothered anymore ..it does not make any difference... Adam generously distributed the ball to David to add to his collections (34th mins 28th secs)

Something to think about our Defence...Many of times, we were caught off-guard because of our teammate's bad calls. We were told to mark the wrong defenders and thus the opponents have extra man to score. Below is a perfect example where Taufiq was told to "touch" the wrong attacker and there is an extra man beside Taufiq....The Defence was too lazy to help Taufiq out as well...Taufiq's immediate defending teammates beside him were miles away..... so please remember to compact the Defence and only help when necessary (note: The big guy scored at 35th mins & 13th secs)

No 15: Merciless 6-pack...it's an answer straight from tap-off....Quick dump by Xiangjunn ...Quick scoop by Alan... Back to Xiangjunn....15th of the match.. cruel indeed(35th mins 56th secs)

No 16: By this time, It was getting boooring...same thing..same moves...Dump by David...Scoop by Adam...Support in numbers ...Amila brought home no. 16 ...Good play & support though, guys!(37th mins 28 secs)

Another Defensive lapses.... at other times, our teammate's calls are right but we just don't listen. For example, Jielun below kept calling to Yum that the ball carrier (which is also the Dummy Half) is his man. Yum ignored Jielun's call/trust and decided to help him instead by leaving his winger a bit of space. Big mistake..the big guy took the pass and converted it to Wanderers' try no. 3. It was another simple simple defending mistakes on 6-pack's part.

If you got bored from reading this report, pls blame ourselves coz there is not much variations in our moves & attack throughout the game. Almost all of our tries came in from a very simple play of dump & scoop or playa decided to run off themselves in the open play. If we do not keep on adding our attacking arsenals (the moves, etc) and be complacent with our dump & scoop, Wanderers will be waiting for us to turn it over when we play them. (as a matter of fact, we do not even have to wait till 14th Oct. Bucks already tested us when we decided to play as an individual, not a team)

Let's see less of the defending mistakes and more of the attacking brilliance come 14th October.
Less nerves and more calm yet deadly Team 6-pack's plays

Nevertheless....

16-3

...still an awesome result