First J1 match..... coolness....

woah.... i really feel great about today.... i started my first match as the official scrumhalf.....

i played two and a half games out of the three.... i played the full match against YJ.... half a game against CJ... and a full game against MI..... we won the first game and lost the next two....

hrm... the first match against YJ was really cool.... we were just very fluid altho there were some fuck ups in among me and the forwards....the forwards were abit of the pace in clearing out the rucks and i was pretty slow sending it out and that prob gave the YJ backs a chance to realign and mark our backs..... but the try that fawwaz scored was really quite cool... the dummy that he gave them was good.... even i didn't expect him to come back in thru the channel.... haha....

but the CJ match was pretty fucked up.... guo feng started the game and he really played an excellent game.... he even surprised me and he prob surprised himself.... but  i always knew he had it in him.... he didn't get some of the balls to the backs properly but he made a really cool run down the blind side.... pity that he couldn't offload in time to danny otherwise it would have been a confirmed try.... haha.... when i came on i made a few errors too... i came in too early during a scrum to tackle the opposite SH... gave away the penalty.... luckily they didn't score frm it.... but it was a really stupid error..... somemore right in front of jamal cuz he was refereeing the match... damn nit... haha.... i tried to make up for it after that and i got a swollen eye, a few long scratches and a sore neck for it... haha.... most of my injuries on the day came frm the CJ match and i only played half of the match... haha.....

the match against MI was by far the best of the three.... we played 80% of the match in their 22.... and we had two clear try oppotunities..... its a pity that we weren't able to convert those oppotunities.... haha... when MI saw the pressure that they were under they brought on edward.... the damn big no.8... they managed to score thru him on the last play... haha.... but i don't mind losing to a team like MI or a person like edward.... he is really good at what he does and he isn't a "sore winner"... he doesnt' rub it into your face that he beat you..... he still will come over and shake hands n stuff.... damn gentleman.... but that still doesn't mean that we shd give he so much respect on the field....

i didn't manage to accomplish what i had set out to do... that is to send out all balls perfectly and to score a try.... but i still feel a sense of accomplishment cuz as a team we managed to hold a team like MI to a stalemate and at times dominate them until edward came on.... and we managed to win a game and even when we lost a game it was by one try and we made our opponents work for it.... all this was accomplished in the first ever comp that we have played in as a J1 team.... hrm... kinda impressive isn't it... haha....

the next round of matches that we'll be playing in is a 10-a-side triagular at nanyang field... wah... damn shiok... i hope that i'll be starting... cuz it'll be my first game on home turf.... then shortly after that will be the testi match against the J2s.... haha... i think that we'll be able to do the impossible and defeat a J2 team.... something that no J1 team in history has done.... i'll be training to that aim.... one step at a time....

heard that the touch rug testi also went quite okay.... they played two matches, lost the first one and drew the second one.... not bad for the J1 team.... congrats to them as well.... haha.... hopefully the rugby culture will be able to grow stronger in NY.... and that we'll be able to get the support of the student population....

i'll drink to that.... NANYANG RULEZ!!!