New Southerner Tristan, who it turns out is just as keen on writing as he is on the amber ale, has produced an epic tour report on Rugby section’s recent trip to Cambodia to contest the Phnom Penh Rugby 10′s…
Click here to read on, or see some photos from the tour
A select group of Southerners Bangkok rugby luminaries are doing their bit for Prostate Cancer and Men’s Health research, raising funds for the Movember charity and slapping a filthy slug down onto their top lip. By all reports, wives and girlfriends are naturally loving it.
There’s nothing quite like a bit of face spinach to get the competitive juices flowing, hence the rumoured use by some competitors of steroidal facial cream.
This year we’ve seen some cracking entries:
Click here to see some epic (and some not-so-epic) Southerners Mos…
We would like to invite you to join us in a fab night in Bangkok ~ one which has become one of the best ‘cocktail nights’ and ‘End of Year’ celebrations in Bangkok within the expat community ~ so lock the date in now!
This is the sixth year the Southerners have held their annual Club Ball – this year offers a chance to celebrate 17 years of Southerners sporting and social success with Club members and friends!
Date: SATURDAY 19th NOVEMBER
Where: Grand Millennium Hotel Asoke
Time: 7.30pm onwards ~ starting with drinks in the reception area before moving into the Grand Ballroom ~ where the party begins!
Tickets: 2500 THB Southerners members / 2700 THB Non-members
Inclusive of:
**To reserve your tickets or book a table (10 pax) – please contact Dana Piggott or Mark Anderson.
Our good friends the South Africans in Thailand (Jabulani) are hosting their Origins Ball at the Amari Watergate Hotel on Saturday 8th October.
For those who have not attended an ‘Origins Ball’ before, the idea is to dress in your national dress (e.g. Kilt, Sari, Sulu or Toga if you’re a Ancient Greek time traveler).
There will be a top 10 selected for best dressed and a prize for the overall winner. For those less adventurous types, black tie, cocktail/ball dresses are all welcome!
Tickets are Bt 2,800 each, with proceeds going to charity.
If you are interested in organising a table or after individual tickets then please contact Lynda.
NB: For rugby fans, the Ball will not clash with Rugby World Cup matches! Games that day are scheduled for 12.30pm and 2.30pm (Thailand time) – which will give plenty of time to powder the nose before the Ball!
June will be the month of formal rugby dinners!!
The Bangkok Lions Junior RUFC, good friends of Southerners Rugby, will be holding their annual rugby dinner on 24 June. See the poster below for more details, or contact Darrel if you want to sit on the Southerners tables.
Download the poster here.
The Southerners have been invited to play in the Byron Kelleher Charity 7s on Saturday 11 June at RBSC, which will feature ex-international and top division rugby players transplanted into all competing teams.
Following the rugby 7s, a charity dinner will also be held – all money raised by tickets and sports memorabilia sold will go to the Kamaishi Rugby Club in Japan, who have been devastated by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Tickets for the dinner are 3,800Bt each, or 35,000Bt for a table of 10. The rugby section is pulling together names for tables – get in contact with Darrel if you want to reserve a seat – all players, supporters and general rugby fans in Bangkok are welcome to join the Southerners tables.
With Bangkok hosting a slew of international rugby courtesy of the HSBC Asian 5 Nations, the Southerners sent its own team of drinkers and troublemakers down to watch the action at National Stadium.
With the Division II Final between Thailand and Chinese-Taipei set to kick off, Southo lads and lasses gathered in club singlets, entrance fees paid (charitable donations), eskies dispatched and filled and seats claimed.
What followed was 80 minutes of intense rugby between two highly-spirited nations, their passion evident with fists thrown, players broken and ambulances sent towards the ER.
Our spirit was shown with scores of tinnies downed to the accompaniment of an all-singing all-dancing one-man Thai cheer squad, minus his y-fronts.Chinese-Taipei ran out eventual winners, with the game decided only in the closing minutes.
A short intermission allowed for the Thai tradition of a celebrity exhibition game. What exactly they were exhibiting we could not entirely be sure, although we did learn that our occasional flyhalf, K. Mike, is not only a decent rugby player but also a Thai celebrity…go figure.
As the main event loomed the eskies were dispatched for further beers. With Pistacio accompanying the beer run, 40 pork satays were also acquired to feed the hungry masses and avoid our drinking team peaking before the day’s end. As the top-ranked Japanese took to the pitch, one thing became evidently clear, we were being very liberal in calling them Japanese. 
The contest was as one-sided as was to be expected, with the Japs running out easy winners against Kazakhstan, much to the delight of our friends from the Bangkok Japanese RUFC, and female spectators.
With the day drawing to an end and eskies empty, Mr. & Mrs. Bell took off to salvage what was left of their 1st wedding anniversary, while the remaining Southerners took to the pitch to see what mischief we could get up to. 
The Japanese players were harassed during their cool down, a game ball may or may not have been stolen from the hands of an eight year old by one of the Southerners netballers, and plans were made to congregate for a feed and rehydration.
Gathering at Cheap Charlies, the night was heading for a wind up before a cab pulled up and poured out half a dozen Iranian rugby players (Turks and Poms), who we had a few beers with then mysteriously disappeared into the night with two Southo lasses in tow…
All in all a great Southerners day out in Bangkok!
Words: Siam Sattayaphan
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