RAIN UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB

Friday, April 20, 2007

April's AFL League Results - 2007

Date / Time - 22nd April 2007 / 1700 hrs
Venue - Regent Secondary School Field
Who - WSUS Football Club vs RAIN United
Final Score - Postponed due to rain

Date / Time - 29th April 2007 / 1700 hrs
Venue - Admiralty Secondary School Field
Who - RAIN United vs Redbacks Football Club
Final Score - 4-2
Scorers - Kazi (2), Syed, Kenny

Friday, April 20, 2007 Go For The GOAL!!!

Monday, April 16, 2007

Our Football Weekend This Week

14th / 15th April - We took on our juniors to participate in the BraveHeart IMSE Cup 2007 / 7 aside football tournament. Enrolling the boys into 4 different groups between the age of 8 to 12 years old and playing the likes of more reputable teams, the boys did themselves proud by qualifying in 3 finals out from the 4 teams that we have put out. Playing together for the first time and being losing finalists, may I thank the parents for their encouragements and support in believing in themselves. We will do even better in our next tournament come June. Keep going boys! Do not forget your trainings.

15th April - For the 3rd consecutive weeks, rain has either stopped us from training, playing in our friendly matches and even playing in our first league game. For those who have put in so much effort in helping to make things right, a very big thank you to all. In football, sometimes postponing of games is inevitable.

Over the last couple of weeks, I have had good feedbacks from members of the team and in mitigating risks that may affect the team, we are close to covering most angles in ensuring that we keep up with our own standards.

We adjourned to our "mud football" yesterday evening when our first league game was called off. Playing in the rain and kicking mud at one another was initiated to encourage "team building".

Though we had failed in our plans to "sabotage" some of the football friends in namely Max, Dong Rui, Randy Chua and our missing goalkeeper Nelson Lo, whom their birthday falls in the month of April, we certainly enjoyed the "dirty game".

Max was heard to have announced his birthday which was actually in 2 months time which we have got it wrong, nevertheless we wanted to celebrate Jeremy's birthday yesterday but he was seen avoiding us. So let's come June and see what Jia He has to say.

Some of the "old punks" had even sent me sms text this morning and had mentioned that the last time they had played football in the rain and mud was back in the seventies. So guys, it was all for pure good fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it actually.

We have also realized how Kenny has grown up when he burst into laughter over a question posted by Jeremy on how to get to the football venue.

Let's hope the weather is favourable to us this weekend. We will continue with our Saturday training and hope to have the chance to kick-off our league game on Sunday.

Cheers!

Monday, April 16, 2007 Go For The GOAL!!!

Monday, April 09, 2007

AFL LEAGUE 2007

Dear Friends,

RAIN UNITED'S first participation's league tournament will kick-off with our first game this Sunday / 15th April 2007 at 0500 pm at the Regeant Secondary School.

Though we have yet to blend some of the new players into our team, we need to mould the group of individuals into a cohesive unit and to blend all into a squad chemistry. It thus involves team work in doing many small things right.

We have held over several discussions and to start off with, here are the committees for the team as follows :-

Head Coach / Advisor : Mr Aw Boon Leong
Asst Coach / Manager : Mr Sabastian Tan
Assistant Manager : Mr Nelson Lo
Team Captain : Mr Razzali Aziz
Assistant Captain : Mr Thit Lwin
Treasurer : Mr Lim Jia He / Mr Cao Yuan

The registered players' for the league are as follows :-

Nelson Lo
Jeremy Lo
Razzali
Gan Poh Ling
Kenny Lim
Thit Lwin
Lim Jia He
Cao Yuan (Tony)
Kazi Nayeb Ul Ahad
Bill Yeboah Kyeremeh
A Suresh
Dong Rui
Randy Chua Han Loong
Zheng Zong Jian (Pako)
Sabastian Tan

In establishing a team target goal, we will maintain our team pride in our sportsmanship during the course of our games and to create a distinctiveness to make the team unique with all players are encourage to have a team role.

In order to learn to compete in the AFL League and to set ourselves a mid-table target, I shall adhere to field the strongest squad during our matches with all other team players are encourage to blend into the team as one. No single player are guarantee of their slots.

Please note the compliance during match days :-

1. All players are encourage to report to the respective venue at least half an hour
before matches fully geared-up

2. All players are to report their absence if they are unavailable for training /
matches

3. Kindly look out for the weekly fixtures through www.afl.com.sg or the rain
united webpage for details

4. No forms of criticism and sarcasm are allowed in the team, let alone be
CONTINUED. This is the quickest way to damage team spirits.

We have also established a breakdown costs for the team as follows which will be collected and controlled by the treasurers :-

Team Jerseys - S$ 50.00 / pax (home and away)
Match Fees - S$ 10.00 / pax ( to be collected after each game)
Laundry - S$ 20.00 / match (to be paid from match fees collected)

The total sum collected each game will be reported and audited each month and any balance sum will be utilize for other football means.

Finally, let us create a Personal Responsibilities In Developing Excellence in the Team Everyone Achieves More

PRIDE in the TEAM.

Cheers guys,
Sabastian

Choa Chu Kang Sports Constituency / RAIN United Kids Soccer Programme

The Choa Chu Kang Sports Constituency / Rain United have successfully kick-off the kids soccer programme on 07th April 2007.

The soccer programme being held at the Teck Whye pitch from 0800 - 1000 am, conducted by Mr Aw Boon Leong and some volunteered Rain United parents drew an overwhelming response from the turned-out. The kids soccer will go on every Saturday and we certainly looked forward in encouraging the parents / kids football bonding sessions to garner closer ties with the community.

Friendly Match - Final Warm-Up

When : 12th April 2007 / 0600 pm

Where : Simei ITE

Who : Ministry of Education vs RAIN United

Score : Cancelled

Monday, April 09, 2007 Go For The GOAL!!!

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

News Update - April 2007

A big thank you to all those who have had the believed in RAIN UNITED, we are taking the team one step forward.

We have fulfiled our team jerseys, picked-up some sponsored soccer balls from the SAF Warriors and put ourselves into the Amatuer Football League where we will be playing in the Division One League come 15th April 2007.

In football, we go through lessons learnt and to mitigate risks, we have invited new players to come on in and join us. Though we are going through the process in evaluating our stand, we hope to continue with the integrated good effort we have put in.

The players whom I have registered for the league may not be the final standings as I do foresee some drop-outs, let us take the opportunity to welcome our new team mates and learn from everyone else.

The registered players are as follows :-

Razzali
Cao Yuan
Kazi
Paco
Thit Lwin
Randy Chua
Lim Jia He
Gan Poh Ling
Kenny Lim
Dong Rui
Nelson Lo
Jeremy Lo
A. Suresh
Bill Yeboah Kyeremeh
Sabastian

We have gathered most to meet up on 7th April 2007 at our usual training ground and hope to have a formal introduction. Alternatively, we have arranged to play a friendly match with the SRC Team on 5th April 2007 to be held at the Padang at 0500 pm.

Finally, during the course of our meet-up, we will address clear issues on how we are going to manage both the funds and the team to ensure compliance are being met.

Thank you and kind regards
Sabastian

Date / Time : 08th April 2007 / 0530 pm
Where : Padang
Who : SRC vs RAIN United
Score : 1 - 1

Tuesday, April 03, 2007 Go For The GOAL!!!