RUGBY
National A Division
Raffles Junior College vs Anglo-Chinese Junior College
Wednesday, 9 May 2007 at Raffles Junior College
Story and pictures by Red Sports reader Mr Wee Ban Bee, an ACS old boy. Thanks, Mr Wee!
Raffles Junior College (RJC) beat Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC) 7-3 in a hard fought game this afternoon to set up a semi-final clash with St Andrew’s Junior College. ACJC will now have to meet ACS(Ind) in the other semi-final, a scenario both Anglo-Chinese schools did not want.
An RJ player is hauled down by JD of ACJC. © Wee Ban Bee
The match started almost an hour late at 5.25 pm due to rain and possible lightning.
RJC scored the first and only try about 3 minutes after kick off. According to observers, it should not have been given as it was a forward pass that missed the referee’s attention. A clearance by ACJC was blocked by RJ and with the bouncing ball, RJ was able to go ahead and get a try even though it was supposedly a forward pass. RJC’s conversion was successful to make the score 7 – 0 to RJC.
AC and RJ players engaged in a ruck.© Wee Ban Bee
After that most of the game was played in RJ’s half. A penalty was given to ACJC and Mandeep Singh managed to convert to give AC their 3 points.
An AC player tries to take down Nazirul of RJ. © Wee Ban Bee
During the second half, RJ were awarded a penalty right in front of the goal post about 30m out. The kick went way left and missed the posts altogether.
Mandeep Singh of ACJC plays a kicking game. © Wee Ban Bee
ACJC pressed on with their attack and managed what appeared to be a try right under the goal posts but this was not seen by the referee as the boys were piled up over each other. Refereeing was fair to both sides. ACJC will thus meet ACS(I) at Old PA next Wednesday 16 May at 3.15pm with RJC meeting SAJC at 4.30pm.
Editor’s note: The opinions expressed are the writer’s own. You don’t agree with it? Write your own. We’ll post it. And I mean WRITE, not mouth off. Writing is for adults, mouthing off is for juveniles.
An RJ player in full flight. © Wee Ban Bee
Yiming of RJ player runs into an AC tackle. © Wee Ban Bee
Shahir of ACJC is stopped in his tracks by Zhehan of RJ. © Wee Ban Bee
A maul forms around an RJ player. © Wee Ban Bee
An ACJC player bulldozes his way through the RJ line. © Wee Ban Bee
Editor’s comment: Sounds like there were some controversial calls, huh? If you were there too, please feel free to share your comments about the game. If you recongise yourself or your team mates in the pictures, let us know names and we’ll update the captions. Thanks.
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hi pro rugger.
I can’t do the name updates in the caption because I don’t understand your instructions.
perhaps you can try again and be clearer, like saying what school he’s from, is he holding the ball, etc.
Thanks Ban Bee, I’m sure the majority of us here appreciate your efforts in shooting. =)
in the first picture, the guy in the left is romit and next to him is alex. gerald’s grabbing alex and joel’s going in for the support. ashley and aranab are out of the picture. martin is the one waiting to score the try. Sean known as sadface is way back.. too bad he didn’t get caught in the photo.
signed off: J W(b crew)
To Me:
i know you’re looking forward to the games but not it’s not tomorrow….it’s this Wed.
Just in case you missed the fixtures: it’s AC v AC in the first game at 3:15 and SAJC v RJC at 4:30. Both games at the Old PA.
It’s the first time for a long long that we are having 2 competitive semis in the A div.
To Les:
Is Redsports covering the games? It’d be great if you guys can cover the the most commented on sport amonsgt the schools today in this website….
Hi all, I will go one step further.
If any of you want the photos of the games, please let me know.
I will burn the CD for you (no charge) provided you send me a blank CD or two together with your return self addressed envelope with adequate postage to my office at:
8 Kaki Bukit Road 2 #03-23 Singapore 417841.
I will do this on a school by school game played against ACJC or ACS(I) or even ACS (Barker). Photos are for 2007 only. Please state whether Div A or B.
Good or bad, the photos are all there and you can then edit and improve them using Photoshop.
After that you can share it with your team mates.
Disclaimer – Quality not guaranteed. Request at your own risk.