A gloomy Saturday afternoon with showers expected in many areas of Singapore.
Our e-rugby correspondents were despatch to cover all 3 Bedok King matches played in Yio Chu Kang Stadium. We finally managed to catch our first kick-off of the season, but this time from the carpark outside the stadium. (Our correspondents were once again late due the heavy rain.)


The first match featuring our own NTU player, Adam "Mat Solo" Chan was a Division 2 fixture clash between Bedok Kings and Northern Knights.With both sides fielding most of their clubs' youth, it was a pretty even competition. Adam was seen trying to dazzled his way through the opposition defence which at some point looked as though he ran up, "handed off" the opponent and then rolled the ball backwards through his legs. Was he confuse or was that his natural instinct?? He was moved back to his original Flyhalf position where he displayed a series AWESOME territorial kicks, trying to lead his team back in contention. The match ended with Knights walking away with a 4-2 tries win over a disppointed Kings team.

The second match of the day saw 3 NTU players getting the nod to start, Arjun "Show It" Pandey, AWESOME Kiat and Undroppable Qing. The Kings were looking to snatch a victory over rivals SCC. With the Kings pinned in their own half for most of the game, there was not much to cover. The only highlights were NTU almost lost AWESOME Kiat after he was give a hospital pass from a fellow fullback which saw him receive 2 flying tackles at the same time. Another highlight was Arjun "Show It" Pandey showed it again! His jumps in the lineouts were unstoppable, winning every single one of them. When interviewed by our correspondents, he replied
"I won 99.9% of our lineouts whenever i jumped"
That left the reporters in puzzlement wondering where did the other 0.1% go...

Lastly the highlight of the day,the Premier League clash between Bedok Kings and SCC. The NTU players involved were Daniel "Potato" Thiam and Superman Li Rencong. Thiam started the match as in-center, but was unable to bang his way through a resilient SCC defence. He was then moved back to Flyhalf position where he displayed a record number of "birdy" (hokkien: niao niao) kicks. Could it be the presence of the NTU selectors that affected his performance? (Yes! They were there too) It was surprisingly effective against the opponent's fullback. Then Potato Thiam once again showed his oscars winning performance by going down in "pain" after a late tackle. Late in the game, Thiam taunted the opposition with a "woooohoooo" after every sidestep he took. The good impression did not last long as he made a pass, sending his blind winger into 3 waiting tacklers.

Superman on the other hand was unable to help his team pass the excellent backline defense. Due to some poor passing in his team, he was unable to 'take flight'.

"It was a good game... thiam should be fortunate that he didnt run straight into me...haha.. well... can't talk for long... gotta go chionging now... " said Li

The overall performance by the NTU boys pleased the NTU selectors and coach. But was it pure coincidence or a hot competition in the making that all 3 matches played started with NTU players as the inside center?

When approached, Coach Tan's only comment was "The positions are still very much open, nothing is confirmed yet, besides, i might make a couple more new signings before the transfer market closes..."

But what's more worrying to the NTU selectors was that former NTU captain, star flyhalf/center, Daniel "Potato" Thiam was caught in what seems to be like a skimpy white dress and flaunting it in front of new signing, Rebel Prop Rong.

e-rugby apologises for being unable to bring you the results and coverage of the other game between SRC and Bucks which our correspondents conveniently forgot that NTU star prop, Storm Normy will be playing in that fixture.