S80....A season of surprise (25/10/2011 04:54)

Hello everybody

It's been a long time since my last blog entry and it's time for you all to read my pathetic english for one more time.

Season 80 had been a season of surprise for the Singapore League and of course a wonderful report club for my club Rojak Ravagers formerly know as Shifters FC.

Since the formation of the Singapore League, top honors were shared among the big three which are scratch, Watever and TMS FC. However, Season 80 mark a new chapter in the Singapore League as Fantastic 19 had successfully won the league by the tightest of margin ever in the SIngapore League history. Apart from that, Fantastic 19 is also in the League Cup Final, a potential chance to win the double in his maiden title season. This is all possible thanks to big money spending from Fantastic 19 dated back to Season 78 and earned the new nickname of  "MC(Manchester City) Forever " among the Singaporean managers. Well, this BPL season might belongs to Manchester City, who knows? LOL

Stay With Kop(SWK)'s red hot striker Diego Maradona had been leading the world division 1 scoring charts with 46 goals, i believe that's a first for the Singapore League as well.

Watever's star midfielder Derek Bryan finally reached Q97 in this season, possibly the highest Q player of nationality Singapore ever produced in our relative short history.

When can our league have players with actual local names??

 

After some poor team and GK performances in pre-season friendlies/cups, it turns out to be a good season for my club as well.

• Survived a consecutive 2nd season in the division 1.
• Finished in 7th position, that was unexpected.
• 3 more players hitting the Q90 mark
• Finishing the season with a positive goal difference, another unexpected outcome.

Towards the end of season, a local business tycoon which sells Rojak exclusively had expressed an interest in Shifters FC and became the club's new chairman. Hence the club will be renamed as Rojak Ravagers(RR). He will be looking into expanding the club's pathetic ground of 35k seaters into a truly division one standard ground and of course the youth facilities.

 

For Season 81,

Season 81 will still be a tough one for RR, as main GK Grey had made close to zero improvement and possibly begin the new season with an even lower stats.

Evergreen defender Al-Abarta is also considering retirement which means a loss of a reliable defender in the already low Q defensive department. Hopefully Koga and Wong can step up while the club searches for capable replacement.

Immediate priority for RR is still to survive in the division 1.