Dear COBRAs,
A successful outing at JB over the weekend. COBRA emerged CHAMPIONS of the open category in this 2 year old tournament.
Looking at the draw, it was clear that the manipulation done to the fixtures has ensured that the home team, JB City Hall, had an easy passage to the finals.
The "big boys" were all grouped in the bottom half. Teams like COBRA, NS Wanderers, Blackhawk, ASAS and JLJ were to set to play each other from the 2nd round onwards.
Results for the 2 days are below:
Day 1
Beat Sikamat Gunners: 23 - 0
Beat Navy Orca: 43 - 0
Day 2
Beat Johor Wildcat: 36 - 0
QF beat Canterbury Shop: 15 - 0
SF beat NS Wanderers: 14 -12
Final beat Cityhall J Bahru: 34-10
The team had trained hard. They had played hard, especially the game against NS. And this brought victory to COBRA. Of course the post tournament party was also hard.
Semi
The NS game was heart stopping. We had scored first through Kini under the post with his trademark run. Albert had sucked in 2 NS players and offloading to Kini who made an outside break beating 2 NS players for dead with his pace. NS then scored an unconverted try at the far right corner. Score at the break 7 - 5 to COBRA. The 2nd half had seen some splendid tackling and rucking by both sides to secure the ball. This lead to a try by Nik near to the post after excellent ball retention by the forwards. With 2 minutes to go, NS scored again by swinging the ball left after damage had been done by their fijians at the middle of the 22 metre line. Conversion was good. 2 minutes seem like an eternity then. But everyone gave their all in defence and when the referee blowed his "wishel", what a huge relief. COBRA was in the finals!
Finals
The City Hall JB team was surprisingly upbeat. Maybe because they had the services of a couple of "speedy gonzalez" in their backs.
Scoring first, the opponent had given a deft chip ahead and recollected. Our rover, Black had not reach the chip ahead in time to field the ball and they scored.
But that was the only score they had for the whole game until the final 2 minutes. It was one way traffic. Kini helped himself to 4, Sahor 1 and Faiz had one after brilliantly stepping of his right foot twice and another side step on the left to score from just inside the opponents 22.
Final Score : COBRA 34 - City Hall JB 10.
Team
Azwan "Gabuk" Azimi (Captain), Nik "Sanchez" Safuan, Amin "Bouncer aka Bon", Mohd Nasheerah "Black", Alipate aka Albert, Mohd Syahir "Sahor", Kini, Malan, Pak Yah, Duncan, Mohd Faiz "Buntal" Samsukhiddir, Azam.
Coach
Nazaruddin
Manager
Raymond R. Assisted by Azzan and Emir
I have to thank the COBRAs that were in JB to give the team support Norli, Wan Syaimi, Mat Romli.
Thank you to Col. Tommy, Uncle Kang, Rory for their contributions towards the team celebrations. The boys had enjoyed themselves in the post tournament celebration.
Big thanks to Nazar for showing the sights in JB. For the Mee Rebus and the murtabak and to Azzan for his invaluable assistance in planning and strategising pre, during and post tournament. Couldn't have done it without you too Emir.
Finally, I just leave it at "What goes on tour, stays on tour!"
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