The Republic Huskies

SP suffers their second defeat in POL-ITE after losing to RP by 2 goals. This put them at the bottom of the table, while RP and TP are both tied at the top as TP defeat NP by 2 goals also in the first game.

SP is looking for a win so as to ensure that they are still in strong contention for the title while RP is also looking for a win to avenge their lost to SP 2 years ago. RP managed to take charge of the game right from kick-off as both their central midfield pairing of Adam and Amali are able to control SP’s central midfield. Their pin-point through balls and passing are causing alot of problem for the defenders. To make matter worse for SP’s defense, they have to endure RP’s fast striker Adly and also their skillful winger, Gabriel. Soon enough, Gabriel tapped the ball into the net after receiving a low cross from the right side of the field. He got another chance to double the lead for RP just before half time, but with just the keeper to beat, he shot straight at the keeper.

In the second half, RP had a few chances to double their lead. But the chances are mostly cancelled out by the referee as his performance is obviously below par. In the first half itself, it seems that the referee is very generous with the cards especially for RP players. But, it seems that the SP players well took advantage of this situation and went in recklessly at RP player and they somehow managed to escape any booking. Moving on to the game, after countless of attempts to get the second goal which would ensure a comfortable lead, RP managed to get a free kick on the right side of the field. Gabriel stepped up to take the free kick and his in-swinger leads to Madhu heading in the second goal for RP. Finally, they could heave a sigh of relief as this ensure a safe cushion for them.

For now, RP have a week break before facing NYP in the next game and they are looking at making history to beat NYP for the first time in a competition. Looking at how they play against SP, no doubt that they will give NYP a run for their money.

Starting Line-up : Rizza, Faizal, Madhu, Danial (Suhari), Eddy, Siraj, Adam, Amali (Amos), Gabriel, Zulhelmi, Adly

The Huskies end their shaky pre-season with a convincing win over SAFSA with a scoreline of 6 to 3. Before the game, the team received a news that their first-choice keeper, Sharil Satar, is definitely out for the first POL-ITE game after suffering a fracture on his ankle. And this result in the coach recalling Amran to back Rizza up for POL-ITE. Sharil asked Rizza if he was confident to take up the responsibility and with uttermost confident, he replied “Yes!”.

The team’s win over SAFSA meant that we are going high in confidence into the first game. And we definitely hoped that both strikers, Gabriel Quak and Zuladly, are able to continue their goal-scoring form come SP for the first game.

Quick Update of Match Result:

SP 0 – 3 NP

After yesterday’s dressing down, here is a quote from Rocky Balboa that some or most of you would have heard of it before. Hope that it will urge us to give more to the team and prove our critiques wrong.

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!

One week away, lets get our act together guys!

We would like to wish all players, coaches, advisors and viewers/supporters a Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri. We would like to take this opportunity to seek forgiveness from those whom we have hurt, by words or actions, and accidentally or not. And to the players, remember to all those players, please do not stuffed too much during these festive period for Feiruz waits for no player!

Watch our Hari Raya video on Huskies TV!

This would be the first post on the team updates.

First of all, welcome to the official RP huskies blog.
Credits to Faiz the creator and WordPress of course for providing us with the useful settings.

Team updates:
Three of our senior members would be unavailable due to some reasons and now the squad have decreased from 22 players to 19. Coach would still expect the rest to perform our best and keep our commitment to the team consistent.

Therefore the expected attendance in training should be around19 players from now on.

In the recent hours Coach have announced Safuan to be suspended for a month because of attendance. Unfortunately the young lad will be joining the team back only just before the beginning of our first major upcoming competition which is the first ever POL-ITE games 2009 for Male soccer.

The POL-ITE games 2009 fixture list have not been release yet so we would have to wait for an update from our advisor Alexander Sarsito. Readers will be informed as soon as we get the information. Any readers who could contribute information regarding the fixtures for the upcoming POL-ITE you can kindly post your email at the comment box and one of us will approach you as soon as possible.

On a far sight,
The Inter-Varsity Polytechnic games 09/10 grouping draws are out.

Inter-varsity Polytechnic games or IVP in short is an annual competition organized to bring together all the tertiary institutions, the polytechnics to take part in sports such as soccer, floor ball, netball, rugby etc. In addition to that, all the Institution of technical education around Singapore would combine their force to participate in this major annual event.

This season the IVP games would be hosted by Singapore Management University held on early January to end of February 2010.

The grouping draws have been done and the results are out:

The first group of teams will be consisting of:

1. National University of Singapore (NUS) (Title holders)
2. Republic Polytechnic (RP)
3. Temasek Polytechnic (TP)
4. Singapore Management University (SMU) (Host)
5. Nanyang Technological University

The second group will be consisting of:

1. Nanyang Poly (NYP) (Runners up)
2. Institute of technical education (ITE) (Second runners up)
3. Singapore Poly (SP)
4. Ngee Ann Poly (NP)
5. Singapore Institute of Management (SIM)

Teams will be holding two of their matches at home and two of the others away ground.
Fixtures would not be out until November or later.

As seen, we are grouping together with IVP 08/09 champions NUS and together with 2 other tertiary teams like SMU and NTU. TP would join us this time round after 3 years without a meet.

Past records with these teams:
RP 0 – 0 SMU (08/09)
RP 0 – 0 NTU (07/08)
RP 1 – 3 TP (06/07)

updated by zuladly.
on 09.09.09. <— nice.