An Old Name, A New Legend

From the desk of klauzJR,


Hey everyone out there. How are ye? Gong Xi Fa Cai to all Chinese out there. May you have a wonderful and prosperous Dragon Year ahead. Back to facts. Last weekends was my first time being a manager for a real club. Yeap, it was really exciting and tough. The club was reinstated after being in the limelight for a long time.


THE TEAM NAME: STAROBA CITRUS


Yeah, it's a weird name. But it isn't a weak team. We head on to the VOC-AR 10's at Arau, Perlis. We were known to be the underdog of the tournament. First day was to battle these clubs:


KUALA MUDA RC
POLITEKNIK UNGKU OMAR
SEMSIRA OLD BOYS


They weren't small ''chikai'' team. We held KMRC to a draw and won with both PUO AND SEMSIRA. That makes us eligible to quarter cup. Wow! We managed to go to quarter cup. UiTM Arau was our next opponent. Here is where I see the beauty of rugby. The team miraculously played excellenty well and 100% effort was seen. Our Semi Cup wasn't a walk over. We had to fight the famous ALor Setar Blues. WE won and put STAROBA CITRUS firmly at the FINALS! ! !


Imagine, a newly reinstated team with 15 souls and one manager :) made it to the u23 finals. We were a team consisiting of:
STAROBA batch 2011
SS Bandar Penawar
SYS batch 2011


We were all below 19 for god sake. But we managed to get through the finals. We faced a very big club, SUKMA KEDAH. This the team whom narrowly lost to Kelantan back at the National 7's i think. 


After full time, our score were tied. It was now up to 5 min sudden death. Here's were it all end. WE WON ! ! ! 5-0. I was so surprised that we won. 
Wow, I was over the clouds, and smiled like my face was about to burst :D We were inside KOSMO! newspaper 25/1/2012 and in bernama news (you could refer to my fb timeline) :)


A little token of gratitude to:
MR T & FAMILY
MR POT & FAMILY
COACH A'A
COACH ZAMRI
STAROBA (mainly AMIZAL MANSOR, AMIN ROSLAN, HAFIZ AZIZI)
STARIANS (FORM 4 and FORM 2)
BUS DRIVERS :)


A little picture for my safe keeping

YOU ALL WERE AWESOME ! ! ! ! 

klauzJR