There are 4 nominations for this year's Best Foreign Player award. They are; 'Fake Ang Mo' Peter Walker, 'Pussy Ang mo' Zac, JJ- Jonathan Jacob and 'Bali wonder' Andy Hadianto Prakarsa.

Fake Ang Mo has been impressive, demonstrated amazing strength and aggression throughout the season. Top of the list with the most number of hand-offs and tackles made, as well as consecutive times being burnt by front rowers during touch, he is definitely the favorite to win this award.

Stormy said, 'Fake ang mo is really good. But is he even qualified to be nominated for this award? Its only for REAL ang mos. He is fake. I suggest that the organisers should check it up.'

Despite being only 19 yrs old, Pussy Ang Mo Zac showed his maturity on and off the field. On the field, he was a very serious rugby player, running hard, tackling hard, drinking from a ferocious looking pink water bottle every training.


Ah Huang said, ' Zac is a really nice guy. I love him. We are poker buddies. I am the NTU hall 1 Poker champion. Zac halts from Canada and self proclaim to be the Canada poker prodigy.'

JJ-Jonathan Jacob only joined NTU rugby team late into the pre-season. I do not know why he is nominated for this category. i suspect that its because his name sounds ang mo enough. He speaks with a slight accent too, probably hasn't perfected the real stuff. This ex-SAJC starlet deserves praise for taking time off his exceptionally tough year 1 academic life to grace the field with the final year players, and bears testament to the Chinese phrase of "Chang Jiang Hou Lang tui Qian Lang", literal translation meaning for every wave of water in the river, the back waves are pushing the front. He is definitely making a statement that where men compete in the arena, age is no barrier.

Bali native Prakarsa is a versatile player who has been with the team for 2 years. Originally a flyhalf, he immediately switched to wing with ease upon seeing Potato Thiam hogging that position for the past few years. With a personal favourite move of letting players run past him before letting other team mates tackle them, Prakarsa readily involves his team mates into the game.

' Some of the forwards do not even touch the ball the whole game. Its a little something I can do to let them experience the game more."

Prakarsa has been lying low for the season, but he is most fondly remembered for turning up for every session that has playing kit being distributed. Currently, he has looted a couple of water bottles, jerseys, socks, shorts and a couple of Tze's underwear for the Bali bomb blast international aid relief.

Here they are, the 2007 nominees. The phonelines are now open for voting, to vote for Fake Ang Mo walker, pls dial 1700-1717-01. For Zac, pls dial 1700-1717-02. and lastly, for JJ, pls dial 1700-1717-03, for Prakarsa, please dial 1700-1717-04.

Inter-Vasity Cup runners-up NTU nominates 4 outstanding starlets for the Starlet of the Year award. The nominees are; ZZZ (Tze-ness aka the Catwalker), KKK (Ku Ku Kwan), FFF (French Fries Farker aka Lao Ying) and SK (Salsa King aka War Machine aka Eye brow plucker).

NTU's Potato Thiam has described Starlet ZZZ, who has been nominated by his fellow professionals along hall 1 corridor, as `the best in the NTU'.

Potato added: 'I totally admire the player after he was forced to step into KKK's winger position after the he was injured in the match against SMU.'

'That was understandable after all he played in various positions in the backs in TP, that beat NUS for second place during that IVP season. But he has handle it so well. He has done all his talking on the pitch.'

'I could just watch him play touch rugby. He does things with the ball that you don't see anyone else in the world doing the at the minute. Everything he does is poetry, the slow-motion running and passing of the ball.'

'When he is at his best I don't think there are many people who can stop him. When he is running at you in slow motion like he does with his skills and tricks, you don't know which way he is going. He simply mind-f*** his opponents.'

KKK and SK are unfortunate. They both suffered injuries during the season and are the dark horses to clinch the coveted award.

FFF is bottom of the list as he frustrates the corridor people who are voting, for stealing their french fries.

Despite the recent exam fever, some of the more happening NTU boys have not forgotten to look to a lighter side of life in rest and relaxation. Most notably, 'Babyface Badboy Assasin' Yik and Jason 'Rainman" Law have been steering towards an ATAS night life as they were spotted dressing up for a recent Maxim's 'Members-Only' Boxers Pool Party(took us some effort to find out about this secret underground party). Just as NUS having their CLEO Bachelor, stickman Wayne, NTU has our very own Maxim Boxers Boys, looking to usurp the throne to much fame and fortune.

But little did us sneaky Editors expect how literally our resident party-goers took to the theme.
Our editors has decided to disclose the exact details of the interview without any censorship.


e-rugby: Yik! what's up with the boxes?
Yik: oh the theme is boxers, so i thought i can be innovative by wearing these
e-rugby: so what is the occasion?
Yik: Come lah! all go together! we'll have fun together! how awesome!
e-rugby: ok! but what exactly is it?
Yik: Go leh! we share cab there then Law can fetch us back later!
e-rugby: ermmm.. what party is it?
Yik: Confirm Fun! Angmoh Zak, Law and all the rest of them are also going..after that we all can come back and sleep together!
e-rugby:......... and Law! are you planning to go in that outfit as well?
Rainman Law: I got no more underwear left, someone has been 'borrowing' from me! so no choice, gotta borrow from Yik.


Recent speculation has propelled the scantily-dressed duo to prominence in line with Japanese Hard Gay. Talks are underway in developing a Singaporean Hard Gay duo and rumour has it that they have clinched a lucrative performing contract in local gay pub, Happy.

Exam periods bring out the animal in everyone. Take self proclaimed 'Mr Handsome' Tze for example, who on a fateful saturday evening started talking about his as well as other teammate's underwear.

An undercover editor recovering from mouth related injuries was thankfully present to capture the highly controversial conversation. Due to budget problems, the recorder in use was of a 1992 model and distorted recordings had to be filled in to the best that our forensics department can muster. Behold the exclusive leak brought to you only by Nturugbynews.blogspot, where we bring you the latest and the juiciest.

*Disclaimer* The below comments are Tze's himself and the blog has no part in whatsoever is being said. Minors below 18 are advised to exit the blog to somewhere safer

' .....I'm making my way back home for some crabs and a whole new range of underwear. I have run out of clean ones and as SK is never around nowadays, I cant wear his underwear like I used to. He has some t-back and jockey straps which i find very practical when i go to tanning salons for butt waxing. They also give me a very nice and even tan line...'

' I have been considering borrowing some fresh underwear from Druggy Hoe but recently we have been undergoing a series of intensive cup size measuring sessions, and it is to my dismay that he has a smaller cup size than me when it comes to the package.. Nevertheless, the sessions were enjoyable while it lasted..I just have to wear my own instead for now...Life's tough'

When shown the audioclip, members of the team responded fervently with mixed views.

" I noticed Tze and SK with locked doors many a night, making them the prime suspect of being the editors of the blog. Now, they can be ruled out for sure!" says Confused, whose mood rises and drops according to the posts on the blogs.

' I shudder to think who else could be involved in this shady dealing...." says a distraught teammate who refused to be named.

"Bo jio...we should smoke first then go to bed together..all of us" said Badboy Yik who was last sinbinned in an SMU match for throwing his face into the crotch of an unidentified SMU player.

A female fan (identity protected in case of retaliatory flamings) of ntu rugby often spotted at games and trainings had further insights to reveal. "Tze is handsome, but its a pity he's swayed to the wrong side. I tried chatting him up a couple of times but all he could talk about was how defined Hardcore Yao's body was, the immaculately shaped chest, the intricate veins running down his biceps and inner thighs, meandering their way up and into the shorts beyond sight. By this time I was already feeling nauseous but he carried on commenting about Golden boy Kim Hock's nice build and wash board six pack. I dont know how to help this poor boy..."

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On a totally different side note too juicy to ignore at press time, Bad Boy Yik continues throwing up obvious hints and signals of his intentions to don a cheerleading costume once more. Irrefutable pictorial evidence is being provided and you the readers can make your own judgement about whether Yik's intended career choice is a good one for him.

Due to the recent complaints of inefficiency, our new e-rugby management has decided to announce that there shall be at least one new post every week to satisfy our hungry fans.
This week, we dispatched our reporters to find out how have some of the NTU ruggers have been coping ever since the end of the season.

First on the list, we located our swan song players – Daniel ‘Potato’ Thiam, Awesome Kiat, and Stormy Normy. The 2 engineering graduates-to-be were caught in Nanyang Business School, trying to pose as business students. Both admitted to hacking into business students’ accounts in order to gain access to several restricted facilities specially reserved for business students only. However, the spotlight was on Stormy Normy during the interview. As he walked into the room, our reporters cant help but noticed that he had a slight limp.
e-rugby: So Stormy, what happened to your leg?
Stormy: I pulled my hamstring while playing touch
e-rugby: Oh! How did it happen?
Stormy: Its complicated… I boldly admit that i'm the biggest and fastest player that day at touch rugby. Some of the high profile players i burnt include; Lao Ying, Tze-ze-ze-zeness, Sub-10 Ong and Mr. MVP himself, Mat-Solo Chan. Thiam's wide pass wasn't accurate enough, and i have to jump, stretch and juz to get a finger tip connection with it. And to the shock of my rugby playing career, i felt a 'pop' in my hammy which send shivers up my spine. My life flash past me that instance. I seriously think Thiam should get a pair of gloves, his passing is not up to standard. But thanks to him, i came to understand the one and only injury that plagued the NTU rugby players. I can understand how SK, TZE and KKK felt when they kena it.
e-rugby: Thiam! Is it true?
Potato Thiam: No leh! I'm juz trying to put him in his place... that is.... HE IS THE BIGGEST but NOT-VERY-FAST player. He should stop following the footsteps of KKK, trying to pose as a winger. Normy should have seen it coming long time ago. Just a few weeks back, Rebel Rong also had the same 'accident'. He 'hamstrung'.
Next, we tried catching up with yet another swan song player – Darren “Druggy-no-more” Hoe. However, “Druggy-no-more” was unable to provide us some attention as his eyes were glued to the computer monitor while playing EA Sport Rugby 2006 in the room or he was desperately trying to find an excuse to return to the room for some undisclosed reason.

On top of that, e-rugby research team has come up with a list of players who have disappeared and remained unreachable after the season.

LaoYing
Rumours have it that he has returned to his mountain to focus on overcoming the “Cut One” psychological barrier before he is allowed to return to the pugilistic world. E-rugby is also trying to contact MacDonald’s to verify the rumour that Laoying is officially banned from all its fast food outlets in Singapore for being a French Fries F****r

SK
He has disappeared from the Hall One corridor immediately after the season ended. Close friends claimed that he was too upset that the A&E personnel shaved off the top part of his hair and he will only return after his hair is restored. There were also eye witnesses’ accounts stating that he was found loitering in Hall One at times but no concrete evidence was filed.

Praga
He disappeared even before the season started claiming that he would rather concentrate more on his monastery career. After 4 months of disappearance, he was found by our reporters TODAY, trying to set a NTU Record of taking the longest time to walk to school. He claims that he plans to smash the record by more than 3 hours. he original record stands at 14mins38seconds to complete the 1.4km journey. Praga set off at 1030 am this morning and e-rugby wishes him the best of luck!

Stay tuned for more updates as the new e-rugby brings you more exciting news each week!

Weeks after the recently concluded IVP where NUS surged on with a successful defence of their title, fresh allegations have emerged from the Clementi camp regarding the eligibility and integrity of their fiercest rivals, 3-time unlucky NTU Boonlay warrior's 2007 campaign. Coach Tan is accused of fielding overaged players in a bid to wrest NUS's iron grip on the Varsity Rugby Challenge.

In the centre of the brewing storm is rumoured to be NTU's freshman winger KKK. KKK is no stranger to controversies, having been doubted as a winger throughout his rugby career. Singapore's very own 'Mouth of the South' , international prop Mark Lee even commented that KKK has been masquarading as a winger his whole life, and that he needs to get a grip on himself to resurrect a flailing career. Initially thought as a godsent to solve NTU's shortage of quality front rowers, KKK adamantly insisted on hugging the touchlines with his immense 'speed', refusing to even go near any scrums. Most recently, KKK is accused of being grossly overaged to play in a varsity tournament.

"All due respect to NTU, but I see no reason how me and my teammates can believe KKK is an undergraduate, much less a freshman. I am not a loser, much less a sore loser. This is about integrity and accountability to oneself. I have had troubles sleeping at night and I really need to whistle blow on this matter" said NUS's ethiopian stickman Wayne, when asked to comment on the his IVP victory during the Cleo Top 50 Bachelor awards night.

" I hail from the mighty lands of Kenya and I thought I have seen everything there is to see. I am certainly shocked to see KKK in person and I pray for this poor boy, erm old man." said NUS No.8, fondly remembered by fans as the Black Panther for his powerful running style.

An informal complaint is said to be lodged with SRU and a trial is expected to be held in the coming weeks. When contacted, KKK refused to comment on the allegations, brushing them aside as a load of crap.

" I have absolute faith and trust in my players. When KKK told me he was only 21 and eligible, I did not hesitate to believe him. Well ok maybe I was shocked but still, I stand by my players. Everyone is innocent unless proven guilty." NTU Captain SK's parting words to the reporters present as he stood to leave the packed media room with KKK.