4 May 09, Singapore: Upset was the order of the day as from the time, the start of the first game was delayed to the time the second game ended, there weren't many happy faces around during the games.
From unnecessary tampering of the rules to traffice jams in Johor Bahru to half naked Temasek men, it was not a pretty sight indeed. Nevertheless, being the masters of hockey, almost literally in this case, it must be said that fun was had in the end.
The day's first game saw Temasek take on Hockey Village People with just 7 guys and without a goalkeeper. It was going to be hard and Kanan Packrisamy's early generosity proved to be costly as his early misses came back to bite his team on their backside as they lost 3-2.
Leading 1-0 following Narendran J's commanding run into the Village People's scoring circle, Packrisamy should have sealed the first half victory when presented with in the least two clear chance. He took neither and allowed the Villagers back into the game when they equalised from a penalty corner that never was (it usually happens that way).
To their undisputed credit the Village People galvanised at the break tore the Temasek team apart in the second period. With an obvious lack of communication between the Temasek side, the Villagers rallied together under the guise of unity and took the lead following poor marking by the Temasekians. Stephen Whitton stealing, Inn Kuang's goalward shot.
Village People did not have to wait too long to double their lead when Whitton again was on the mark to blast home, taking his goals tally to 3 for the season.
Playing with one player short eventually showed it strain on the Temasek side but chrunign out the last few ounces of energy, Suren gave the Temasekian a glimmer of hope and bungled the home to make it 3-2.
But a glimmer was all it was and the final whistle went to send the Hockey Village People to second spot on 16 points.
The day's second game saw two teams who have not tasted victory pit their wits and not to menton their might. Something had to give as the game ended goalless in the firts half. Disaster struck for the Hollandse Club Oranje as 4 minutes from time, Sardol Singh turned in a Joginder Singh cross to take the Merlions very close to their first victory of the season.
The experienced stalwarts held out and condemned the Oranje to yet another defeat.
Next up: 11-May-09
Monday
8pm
Mucha Hockey v Hockey Village People (The Village derby) and at
9pm
Temasek v Hollandse Club Blue (clash of the early pace setters, Blues to play in orange)
Monday, May 4, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Blues too strong for Merlions
30 April 09, Singapore: The Hollandse Club Blues proved to be too strong for the Merlions on the Thursday night fixture of the SVHA 8on8 League Masters 2009 season. Playing the only Thursday night fixture on the eve of Labour Day did not prove to be a good idea for the Merlions as they were missing a number of their key players.
Missing Nirmal Singh at the back and Farleigh Clarke upfront, Merlions looked set to struggle against a polished Blues outfit. As the season gets into Matchday 3, it was plain to see that Blues are starting to build greater understanding amongst themselves and are passing the ball well.
The same can be said about Merlions, barring the fact that they had introduced a number of new players into the team and they only managed to move the ball nicely in small parts of the game.
All the same, the Merlions would feel that they have done reasonably well scoring twice against such a formidable opponent and will look forward to their next game, a crunch meeting against the Hollandse Club Oranje.
Just for theose statistics mongers, the Blues ran out 7-2 winners in the end with Pascal Blanchet scoring four times, with Jonathan Price addidng a brace and Dirk Rabelink scoring one.
Eric Tan and Balbir Singh scored for the Merlions.
Next up, Matchday 4: 4 May 09 8pm Hockey Village People v Temasek and 9pm Merlions v Hollandse Club Oranje.
Missing Nirmal Singh at the back and Farleigh Clarke upfront, Merlions looked set to struggle against a polished Blues outfit. As the season gets into Matchday 3, it was plain to see that Blues are starting to build greater understanding amongst themselves and are passing the ball well.
The same can be said about Merlions, barring the fact that they had introduced a number of new players into the team and they only managed to move the ball nicely in small parts of the game.
All the same, the Merlions would feel that they have done reasonably well scoring twice against such a formidable opponent and will look forward to their next game, a crunch meeting against the Hollandse Club Oranje.
Just for theose statistics mongers, the Blues ran out 7-2 winners in the end with Pascal Blanchet scoring four times, with Jonathan Price addidng a brace and Dirk Rabelink scoring one.
Eric Tan and Balbir Singh scored for the Merlions.
Next up, Matchday 4: 4 May 09 8pm Hockey Village People v Temasek and 9pm Merlions v Hollandse Club Oranje.
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