VJC vs NJC Inter-JC Girls Soccer Tournament
The day started off bleak enough, as the realization that Audrey was not gonna play from the start haunted me and WQ, even more so then it seemed to affect the team. We tok a gamble, and Sara came into midfield, with Christl being moved back into defence.
Bad mistake. Within minutes, NJ slotted in their first, with a soft shot after they got behind our defence. That was a sign of things to come. We quickly warmed up Audrey, and asked her if she was ok to play for the game. She was a bit hesitant, i must admit, but in our desperation we had to put her in.
Things steadied from there. The referee was the most fucked up piece of shit in the whole bloody world, it was disgusting, I was spewing expletives like nothing, so pissed wif her. BUt anyways, She Fong got through and was one on one with the keeper, before, she took a shot from way way off. I shouted "Nooooooooo....", u noe that dramatic sort of no? But well in typical fashion that has been a fixture in my life, the ball actually crept past the keeper and went in! Wat a superb feeling! I was damn shocked that She Fong scored, but I was real happy, and I saw dat she was ecstatic too. Brilliant, we were back in the game.
However, the match was still in tatters for the team as we weretotally out of shape, and not able to play the way we were supossed to. WQ was so damn pissed, I've never seen him this pissed in a long long time. We expressed ourdisappointment in the team and told them to buck up for the coming half.
We brought in Shi Hui. Wara and Aramia, all who did well during their stint in the game, I think some of the first team players have already lost their places cos of this.But anyways, NJ managed to sneak in one in the second half, and we were left staring. Charmaine tried her best to stop the barrage of shots, and succeeded most of the time, but well the defence let her down I must say. We just werent running, just werent in it. Sigh.
Our best chance to score, was fluffed, and that summed up the game.
Mini ordered the girls back to school to train, maybe it was a way for both of us to tell them how frustrated we were at them, but seriously, I thought the training was beneficial, cos we think w have finally stumbled upon the correct formula, which we will further fine tune tomorrow during training.
I had a counselling session with several of the girls thereafter, and spoke to them, I realised that most of them just felt rather "off" dat day, which led me to think that perhaps I wasnt doing my job in trying to psyche up the team enough.
BUt what has been done cannot be undone so we will look forward to the next match on Saturday against Hwa Chong.
"We will win on Saturday." - Audrey, our rising star, when asked of her comments on the NJ Match
And we will, god willing.
Community Service?
Today was my last day of community service for the "Tiles That Bind" project. Spent most of it slacking in the library, and only had the occasional observer, whom I quickly stood up to join and talk to.
The day started off bleak enough, as the realization that Audrey was not gonna play from the start haunted me and WQ, even more so then it seemed to affect the team. We tok a gamble, and Sara came into midfield, with Christl being moved back into defence.
Bad mistake. Within minutes, NJ slotted in their first, with a soft shot after they got behind our defence. That was a sign of things to come. We quickly warmed up Audrey, and asked her if she was ok to play for the game. She was a bit hesitant, i must admit, but in our desperation we had to put her in.
Things steadied from there. The referee was the most fucked up piece of shit in the whole bloody world, it was disgusting, I was spewing expletives like nothing, so pissed wif her. BUt anyways, She Fong got through and was one on one with the keeper, before, she took a shot from way way off. I shouted "Nooooooooo....", u noe that dramatic sort of no? But well in typical fashion that has been a fixture in my life, the ball actually crept past the keeper and went in! Wat a superb feeling! I was damn shocked that She Fong scored, but I was real happy, and I saw dat she was ecstatic too. Brilliant, we were back in the game.
However, the match was still in tatters for the team as we weretotally out of shape, and not able to play the way we were supossed to. WQ was so damn pissed, I've never seen him this pissed in a long long time. We expressed ourdisappointment in the team and told them to buck up for the coming half.
We brought in Shi Hui. Wara and Aramia, all who did well during their stint in the game, I think some of the first team players have already lost their places cos of this.But anyways, NJ managed to sneak in one in the second half, and we were left staring. Charmaine tried her best to stop the barrage of shots, and succeeded most of the time, but well the defence let her down I must say. We just werent running, just werent in it. Sigh.
Our best chance to score, was fluffed, and that summed up the game.
Mini ordered the girls back to school to train, maybe it was a way for both of us to tell them how frustrated we were at them, but seriously, I thought the training was beneficial, cos we think w have finally stumbled upon the correct formula, which we will further fine tune tomorrow during training.
I had a counselling session with several of the girls thereafter, and spoke to them, I realised that most of them just felt rather "off" dat day, which led me to think that perhaps I wasnt doing my job in trying to psyche up the team enough.
BUt what has been done cannot be undone so we will look forward to the next match on Saturday against Hwa Chong.
"We will win on Saturday." - Audrey, our rising star, when asked of her comments on the NJ Match
And we will, god willing.
Community Service?
Today was my last day of community service for the "Tiles That Bind" project. Spent most of it slacking in the library, and only had the occasional observer, whom I quickly stood up to join and talk to.
I must have read and flipped through bout 10 books in total from 10am to 7pm, when I left, cos it was so bored, realli wondered why I was there. And the other people there were equally bored too! Can u imagine they actually had the audacity to go and play DOTA during the suposed comm. service hours? Omigosh, shockin,but I don't blame them. Doing this Comm. service has been 80% meaningless, perhaps the only day when I thought I was doing proper comm. service was on UNi's B'day at Junction 8. But yah, the girls realli din take this projet seriously, and judging from the way they spoke and stuff, I realised I'm realli lucky to have Uni, who thinks much more maturely.
This was the view for most of the day, me reading a book, with the sun shinig down from behind me. Moo.
A bored Azrul, sigh I was staring into space most of the time. Waste of time.
But anyways thank god its over, I'm gonna move on from this experience and learn. At least I don't have to travel from home(Tampines), to Woodlands to VJ anymore. Amen.
Out.
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