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28Jun 2010

Bangers mashed, Southerners retain Soi 33 Cup

The place: Perth, Western Australia, June 12.
The teams: England and Australia.
The scene: Wallabies get pummeled in the scrum by the English, but win the overall battle.
The result: Wallabies win 27-17, despite the sustained pressure up front.

The place: Royal Bangkok Sports Club, Bangkok, June 24.
The teams: Bangkok Bangers and the Southerners.
The scene: Southerners get pummeled in the scrum by the Bangers, but win the overall battle.
The result: Southerners win 13-7, despite the sustained pressure up front.

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28Jun 2010

Southerners progress well with 20/20 cricket win

Topics : Cricket

The Southerners continued their assault on the club’s own Southerners 20/20 Cricket Tournament last weekend, with a solid win over the highly-fancied Bangkok Cricket Club (BCC) despite what was likely a world record number of dropped catches!

Click here to read a match report from skipper Nathan Kincaid…

15Jun 2010

Southerners 2nd XI cricket WIN Grand Final!

Topics : Cricket

The Southerners 2nd XI cricket team won Bangkok’s A-Division Grand Final on Sunday, beating a strong Bangkok XI Cricket Club. Skipper Shane Thompson recounts the great day…
Click here to listen to read skipper Shane Thompson’s match report…

11Jun 2010

Thailand Rugby Union Competition: Fixtures (Updated!)

Topics : Rugby

The Thailand Rugby Union have finished consulting with their trusty team of clairvoyants, and have determined the most auspicious times and dates for Southerners Rugby to take the field in this year’s competition.

Southerners vs. Army 1 – Thursday 17^th June, KO 1945 @ RBSC
Southerners vs. Navy College – Sunday 20^th June, KO 1615 @ Vajiravudh College
Southerners vs. Bangers – Thursday 24^th June, KO 1945 @ RBSC
Southerners vs. RBSC – Thursday 1^st July, KO 1800 @ RBSC

Training will be on Tuesday at Kasetsart Uni (1900hrs). Bring a passport photo and a copy of your passport.

10Jun 2010

Southerners 2nd XI cricket advance to Grand Final!

Topics : Cricket

The Southerners’ 2nd XI have fought their way into the Bangkok Cricket League A-Division Grand Final after winning a tough qualifying final against Krishna Cricket Club by seven wickets last weekend.

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10Jun 2010

Yesterday’s Heroes: In Istanbul

Topics : Rugby, Yesterday's Heroes

Chris ‘Wagga’ Doherty recently traveled to Turkey to meet up with several of yesterday’s Southerners heroes and a few other blokes as part of the Asian Rhinos‘ 25th Anniversary Tour. Here’s his report…

Brendon Jones (now in Mauritius), Dick Perkins (still styling in Bangkok), Wagga (now in Perth) and Ron Rutland (now in Cape Town) sport their touring kit and some very fetching local headwear.

Click here to read Wagga’s report…

10Jun 2010

Yesterday’s heroes

Topics : Yesterday's Heroes

They say “once you become a Southerner, you’ll forever be a Southerner”.

Actually, it’s debatable whether anyone has ever really said that, but the sentiment is certainly alive and kicking the world over.

With countless Southerners men and women having retreated from Thailand into the geographical bosom of somewhere usually much slower and less appealing, paths are still crossing and the Southerners spirit still lives on, albeit via slightly creakier bodies.

Some have now married or had children. Some have furthered their education. Some are still freaking out about the scourge of greenhouse gases. Others are still plowing away for their local sports team, quietly chalking up goals, tries or runs with effortless abandon. Many look back with fond memories of those many frosty ales shared in the depths of the Bat Cave or on the neoned streets of Banglamphu…or of the battles waged on the sports fields of Bangkok and beyond.

Now into it’s 16th year, the Southerners Sports Club remains an enviable force known (at times notoriously) across the world.

Bookmark the website for the latest news from ‘yesterday’s heroes’…what they’re up to now…who they met up with last month…which bar they just got politely asked to leave due to an overexuberant table-top dancing technique…

And contact Steve Bell if you have any news or photos (old and new) you’d like to see up on the website.

7Jun 2010

Sixty Southerners Seconds: Dee

Topics : Netball, Sixty Southerners Seconds

One of the great Southerners girls and an oracle of premier Bangkok advice, you’ll probably find Dee in any one of three places: pinballing her way around the netball court, sipping cocktails with her nearest and dearest, or pampering herself to a beautied pulp somewhere in Bangkok or on the Southern beaches of Thailand. Dee is a club superwoman – heading up the Netball section and Club Vice President…

Nickname: Dee
Starsign: Cancer
Time in Thailand: 6 years
Job/industry: Art teacher at International School
Home town/city: The Mount, NZ
Sports played with the Southerners: Netball & Touch
Playing position(s): C / WA
Beverage of choice: Chilled Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc with the girls or mojito
Ultimate celebrity pash: Angelina Jolie .. or her other half ..what can I say!
Your personal vice/weaknesses: sexy heels, bread and leaving the bar .. even after many goodbyes!
A little-known talent you possess: Being super organized
If you were a crayon, what colour would you be: Turquoise
Favourite Bangkok bar: At the minute ..Tapas on Soi 11
A little known Bangkok secret: You CAN find good hot cross buns & Easter choccies in Bangkok.. took me four years to find and so worth it!
Your greatest Southerners moment: Making the Bangkok Netball League finals every year I’ve been with Southerners & establishing the Southerners SEA Netball invitational
Best place in Bangkok to have a cocktail: Breeze Bar @ State Tower
Your ultimate Thai holiday destination: Railey Beach, Krabi
You love: B52’s, The Haka, shoes, dining out, pampering options in BKK, the beach, Max clothing & tattoo’s
You don’t love: Smelly soi’s, the cartoon channel, superficial people, Bangkok taxi drivers & tequila
Sports teams you support: All Blacks, Waikato Chiefs and Silver Ferns
Advice to anyone new to Thailand/Bangkok: JOIN THE SOUTHERNERS .. it’s not what you know but WHO you know!
The All Blacks…have talent, mana, the HAKA and some fine looking players..winners to me!
I am the greatest…procrastinator
Lady Gaga is…Pokerfaced .. she’s hot yet out of her MIND!
I thought most people in Bangkok were relatively normal, until I met…Ron Rutland who in his day had a bad habit of smoking cigarettes through his toes..The Robin Hood has proof!
People say I look like…Jennifer Lopez .. seen this butt!?

13May 2010

Sixty Southerners Seconds: Darrel

Topics : Rugby, Sixty Southerners Seconds

A Southerners stalwart as a player, administrator and vocalist (he is Welsh after all…), Darrel is the first participant in what will be a series of articles on the who’s-who of the Southerners Sports Club…

Nickname: Dazza
Starsign: Virgo
Time in Thailand: 10yrs (2 stints)
Job/industry: Storage/Warehousing
Home city: Edinburgh, UK
Sports played with the Southerners: Rugby
Preferred (playing) position: In theory scrumhalf, in reality wherever someone is tired.
Beverage of choice: White Russian – can drink it at night or with breakfast.
Best tour destination: Vientiane, Laos
Worst Southerner to share a room with on tour: J-Lo…personal space; Richie…his love of Richard Curtis films.
A little-known talent you possess: Valuing other people’s opinions.
Favourite Bangkok bar: Cheap Charlies (Suk Soi 11) & Rooftop (Khao San Road, Khao San’s answer to Cheers)
A little known Bangkok secret: My building seems to be a training ground for young Eastern European models…
Your greatest southerners moment: Saigon, Russians, Dominos
You love: Motorbike Taxis, Farang Chicks, Wales winning, toothpicking, Hooey’s pass (not his chat)
You don’t love: Singlets, Football, League, the English, Wales losing (I get emo), Glovebox’s expert sport explanations, Laurent’s French whinging
Rugby/sports teams you support: Llanelli Scarlets, whoever is playing the Bangers
Two points of advice to anyone new to Thailand/Bangkok: Always look down when you are walking; never ‘date’ a girl that is taller than you.
Facebook is…a vital tool for research.
Damian Hoo will never…put a shirt on.
Sukhumvit is like the…Mainstreet @ Disneyland.
Wales is to rugby, as Australia is to…Dingoes.
People say I look like…a young Charlton Heston or with beard; Brian Blessed.

Darrel co-ordinates the Southerners rugby section – get in contact with him if you’re keen for a game, or simply want to catch up over breakfast with a few cheeky White Russians.