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Attended my second pre-season friendly today at the Toa Payoh Stadium, where Balestier Khalsa
played hosts to the visiting Woodlands Wellington.
For the record, the guests Rams, who only played their first friendly since their season
preparation today, defeated their hosts 1-0 with a solitary header from Asraf Rashid in the first
half.
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(P.S: I wonder if some of the some young players out there agree with me the importance of
staying put together, if possible.)After his team defeated Balestier Khalsa, Young Lions' coach Terry Pathmanathan (pictured above
during the "Sultan of Selangor Cup 09") was not a happy man as you thought he would be.
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Young Lions v Balestier Khalsa 2-0 (Yang Mu, Khairul Nizam) 1,630
Two second half goals secured the three points last night for the Young Lions. They're on a bit of
a roll at the moment with just two defeats in their last seven games. A run that has seen three
wins and two draws.
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So what did I tell you? It's not easy to be a sports photographer!
Factors like ground survey before the game, the lighting of the venue, etc.
And the likeliness of having players crashed onto you! Like the depicted collage which compiled the
frame-by-frame shot of Balestier's Korean import Oh In Kyun being overpowered by DPMM's Sairol
Sahari and Safari Wahit.
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(P.S1: Just mainly pictures, with the main text being those "tweets" I posted by mobile earlier and
also to try out some photo-taking using some new methods which I'm still working on it.)
be visit an old fren at JBS later which I hope can materialize,work been piling up &
already snapped, can't keep my cool?
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Top 31 - Singapore Armed Forces 24 18 1 5 64-23 55
2 - Tampines Rovers 24 12 8 4 37-23 44
3 - Brunei DPMM 24 12 7 5 34-28 43
Bottom 310 - Sengkang Punggol 25 5 6 14 22-45 21
11 - Balestier Khalsa 24 3 6 15 18-41 15
12 - Young Lions 23 3 6 14 18-42 15
Top Scorers23 - Duric (SAF)
19 - Obatola (Gombak United)
14 - Kegne Ludovick (Home United)
13 - Kenji Adachihara (Albirex Niigata)
Out of the 16 players who have scored 6 goals or more in the SLeague only two, Noh Alam Shaha and
Indra Sahdan Daud, are Singaporean.
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Victory tonight for Woodlands Wellington could see nosebleeds all round as the Rams would reach the
heady heights of 5th after four straight wins.
I tend not to write too much about Nenad Bacin's men but while attention, such as it is in
Singapore, has been on the unbeaten runs of SAF and Tampines Rovers Woodlands have been quietly
winning at challengers Gombak United and brushing aside Home United and Balestier Khalsa to set up
tonight's clash with Geylang United and the prospect of a fourth straight win.
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Shortly after the match at Woodlands Stadium, both coaches gave their brief assessment of the
match.
(P.S: Sincerely apologize for the fact of the poor audio as it's been a long time I'm using my
"Ranger"DV camera)
Balestier coach Nasaruddin Jalil shared his thoughts
Woodlands coach Nenad Bacina shared his thoughts
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After I blogged on what why Bryan Soane sudden departure from Balestier Khalsa had only side of the
story covered , this morning's TODAY had seems to reveal the other side of the story.
(Picture) Soane and agent gave their side of story
Finally, we got the other side of the story after the news broke out weeks ago that the young
Aussie striker had quit and went back to Sydney.
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(Picture) "PrtScr" from The Brunei Times
Got an email from a reader from Brunei who shared with me the match report of last night's match
between Brunei DPMM and Balestier Khalsa at Bandar Seri Begawan.
Interested readers may wish to download a "pdf" copy of the match report from the link below:
http://www.
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Two news broke out today which had been circulated around the fraternity lately.
(Picture from "Today") "Where are you, Bryan?"
Young Australian striker Bryan Soane had left Balestier Khalsa over contractural dispute, while
management reshuffling took place in Sengkang Punggol saw coach Jorg Steinnebrunner and chairman
Ben Lim walked out of the club.
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With Tangerang side Persikota surviving in the Premier League next season they have decided they
will concentrate on youth to bring them success on the field.
Rather than looking to expensive imports they will scour the local football schools for talent
hoping both to save costs as well as unearth young players with great promise.
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June 1 sees the start of the Singapore League Cup (SLC) with the 12 members of the SLeague facing
off against each other for the chance of some silverware.
Woodlands Wellington won the first edition of this trophy in 2007 while last year Gombak United
collected it.
This season sees some changes with the competition beginning with a group format, replacing the
knock out manner of earlier years.
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FAS president Mayor Zainudin Nordin (right) and S.League CEO Winston Lee with the new League Cup
trophy
The 2009 League Cup draw was held this afternoon at the Jalan Besar Stadium's National Football
Academy Conference Room.
The Groupings as follows:
- Group A - SAFFC, Brunei DPMM, Albirex Niigata (S)
- Group B - Tampines Rovers, Geylang United, Young Lions
- Group C - Super Reds, Gombak United, Balestier Khalsa
- Group D - Home United, Sengkang Punggol, Woodlands Wellington
The top two sides in each group progressing into the quarter finals.
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Frankly, this was the first time I saw DPMM played this season.br /br /So I don't have any slight
idea how good they are, but having maintained the unbeaten record since the start of this season
should they stocked up some foundational points in times to come.br /br /Anyway, here they were at
the Toa Payoh Stadium where they beat cellar-dwellers Balestier Khalsa 1-0, thanks to a solitary
strike from ex-Super Reds striker Oh Ddog Yi in the 35th minute.
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Imaginary caption above from me on these DPMM folks.
Absolutely "suay loh" (out of luck)....
That sums up the situation at Yishun Stadium after the hosts, Super Reds, were cruelly denied all
three points when young Aussie striker Bryan Soane scored with a header off a free kick in the
dying seconds of the night to level the scores!
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Got this SMS update just and the writings are clearly on the wall (or screen rather) that Balestier
caused an upset by shared the spoils with one of those "early pace-setters" I mentioned,
Tampines Rovers.
Seems like same ol' story for the Stags, which saw they took the lead through ex-Kashima Antlers
player Seiji Kaneko in the 54th minute before the hosts levelled one-all by one of their imports,
Ithamar Rangel.
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The defending champions SAFFC, fresh from their mid-week ACL victory, is back in town to kick start
the defending of their league title with perennial minnows, Balestier Khalsa being their first
opponents for the season 2009.
Credits to my hometown club that they hold the Warriors at the bay until veteran striker Aleksandar
Duric broke the deadlock in the 36th minute with a well-taken shot, after chested down a long pass
from the middle of the park, from outside the box.
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(Picture on the left: with the league trophy, it's very pretty heavy, precaution required if you
ever got a chance to lift it!! Many thanks to Mr Samuel Panthradil for making this picture possible
in Oct 2005)
Although the ultimate target is the league championship, it's equally important as well to be the
early pace-setters too.
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I was late for the game anyway when the game, officiated by Abdul Malik Bashir who was recently
praised by the AFC President Mohamed Bin Hamman, was delayed for 20 minutes or so due to the
downpour.
It was a goal-less draw at the end of first half and when the second half resumed I decided to
position myself at the back-of-the-net of Balestier's goal and saw the "soft" goal scored
by Geylang's skipper Noor Ali.
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Was at the Toa Payoh Stadium to check out Balestier Khalsa and Woodlands Wellington.
In an unusual format, the match was split into three halves with 30 minutes each which in the end
saw Englishman Daniel Hammond, signed from the Young Lions, scored the only goals to seal the game
for the Rams.
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Thanks again to Mr Bryan Lim, whom I met at Clementi stadium just now, for telling me this friendly
fixture.
The defending champions SAFFC, without those players on national duty, walked away with 3-1 win
over Balestier Khalsa.
Park Tae Won marked his Warriors debut with his cross from the right that saw Ahmad Latiff opened
the accounts with his header in the 35th minute.
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