Update provided by anonymous reader.
Yio Chu Kang Stadium, Tuesday, August 5, 2008 – St. Andrew’s Secondary beat Raffles Institution 11-10 in a C Division semi-final shrouded by controversy over two disallowed RI tries.
Commented reader Raffles: “Unfortunately it's sad news from me. Biased refereeing caused us to lose to Saints. We scored 2 tries, and Saints scored 1. 2 more tries were supposed to be ours, but the biased referee did not allow those. Saints won purely with penalties, again biased refereeing.”
“One point. WE DESERVED TO BEAT THEM. WE DESERVED TO FACE ACS(I) IN THE FINALS. Bloody referee!”
Saints led 6-5 (2 penalties to a try) at half-time.
In the second half, Saints scored a try against the run of play to lead 11-5. In the final seconds, RI scored a try to make it 10-11 but failed in their conversion attempt.
In the other semi-final, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) beat Bedok Town Secondary in a one-sided match with the mercy rule coming into play before full time. ACS(I) won 88-7 but not before a Bedok Town player ran the length of the field to score for his team.
ACS(I) will meet the Saints in the C Division Rugby Championship final at Yio Chu Kang Stadium next week on August 15th. Kick off is 1645hrs.
In other action, St. Joseph’s Institution beat Damai Secondary 22-5 and will now face either Pioneer Secondary or Anglo-Chinese School (Barker) in the plate final.
To passer-by
So when bedok town backs get the ball it’s the end for u guys.
I watched their matches and they are really good in 10s.They’ve already won 2 cups for their 10s.
Hope they’ll defend their title..all the best!!
is now pioneer vs bedok town,they will probably meet in the m1 10s ,bts fat hpe,pioneer forwrds were train to be like bulldozers,the ball will nevr go the backs
WOW! the regionals was great , it looks like the east team is stronger then the rest i think, most from damai and bedok town !
WOW! DOMINANT FOWARDS AND QUICK AND SLEEK BACKS, what a team..
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shahrel (bedok town standoff), I’ve made it clear how much i hate raffles. But what I hate more are idiots like you. You said that raffles made a stupid tackle at the end of the game. I was there. Your team mate made a poor tackle and got hurt. Raffles coaches, and parents ran in to help him. There were 2 video cameras (at least) filming the game. We can settle this by reviewing the tape. If Raffles is wrong, I’ll apologise on their behalf and buy you lunch. If you are wrong, you do the same . OK? We have a deal?
credits to bedok town to go all the way to the semis.
Being a neighbourhood school is tough especially when
they don’t have much resources nor DSA players.
ok its done. i cant say the ref was biased.afterall, it always happens. a side just has to be better.n obviously better then.
it was a day where SA had thir luck.as the margin was A point, we cant say that one side is obviously better than the other.it was just like the bdiv finals.or the 06 cdiv finals.congrats to sa n now ac fr d win.now its training for next year,
To: SainT once and Always, from an old Rafflesian – regarding your comment that “I am a die hard Saint and nothing will change that. When im on the field ill give all out when im playin against AC and RI (esp again RI haha dun ask why lol, my debut game and last game for SA was against RI). However of the field when i see them play i respect both AC and Raffles cos they train hard and get where they want to. Its the same for SA. It that kind of dedication that all of us should applaud and encourage…not silly bickering about who school is better. The school is only the best till the next tournament. Jus like how england was champs before the spring boks took the mentle. So to the rugby community of singapore, lets jus enjoy and share the passion for the game and for ur school and respect each other.”
That’s a great attitude and I hope that all rugby players adopt it. Give your all on the field; play good, clean, hard rugby; and after the game, shake your opponents’ hands with mutual respect. Be humble if you win, take it like a man if you lose. Then do it all again the next time you play. After all, we all share the same passion for “the game they play in heaven”!
tooo mr.lalalalala, LOLS, most of it made up of acsi, its not true tht the whole team is good, theres some niche and neighbourhood school better then some of them,
hmm alright.
just came back from the finals. great game to watch.
good job to both sides.
The Devil: you’ve got a point there.
my apologies. (:
you’ve got my respect, bro. 😀
haha ok les. thanks for the correction there ;D
RI won Bedok Town in today’s 3rd/4th placing 37-7
Good Mr. lalalalla oOoooo(cat)