April in Thailand always means two things: The beginning of the hot season and the arrival of the Chris Kays Memorial Rugby Tens Tournament. The Pattaya tournament has always been a highlight for the Southerners who enter two teams, the Southerners Black and Gold, with the Gold team being a development side. And so it […]
We entered a Southerners Womens Touch Team into the recent Pattaya Invitational Womens Touch Tournament and won 4-1 against Manilla Bullettes 1 (run alongside the Pattaya 10’s Rugby). The Pattaya Tens weekend was a huge success for the Southerners Ladies’ Touch team. Not only did they manage to walk away as the proud winners of […]
Horseshoe Point, Saturday 2 December The Southerners trip to Pattaya started with that old clich? of all touring sides, the panic for numbers. At one stage we were missing an entire front row until rescued by a work colleague of marty’s, Dave who after much technical discussion conceded yes, he could throw a bit, conversation […]
Sometime in May 2005 The weekend saw an extremely spirited performance by the Southerners squad in Pattaya and despite having not trained once together as a team, managed to get into the semi finals (again) where we were beaten by the Thai Barbarians. Day one saw us take on and beat the Singapore Cricket Club […]