Lost Boys

Match Day 5

2009-02-06T21:39:00.000-08:00

Venue: Marsiling Apartment Field

Time: 11am sharp

Opponent: Some championship winning team

Jersey Colour: Blue

Match Day ticket: $6 per person

Team Line Up:

4-3-3

GK: Yazid "Hidayat" Yassin

RB: John "Syawal" O'Shea

LB: Craig "Zaidi" Bellamy

CB: Nor Prescious "Fazlan"

CB: Phil "Faizal" Jagielka

DM: Roy "Awin" Keane

DM: Patrick "Rickie" Viera

AM: Soulja "Sathya" Boy

RW: "Ayyub"-bayor

LW: Park "Jage" Sung

FW: Ayyub's Friend

Subs:

1. Paolo "Parthi" Maldini

2. Hidayat's Friend no. 1

3.Hidayat's Friend no. 2

2009-01-24T23:13:00.000-08:00

To my fellow Bandits,

I need a favour from you guys. We need to recruit 4 more players into our team. So if you guys have any friends or brothers who you think is good enough to play for our team and they are able to commit to our team, please recommend them to us. Cos currently, we only have 15 players to call upon for games. And not all 15 are available! And in case you're wondering who are the 15 players, here they are:

First team players (committed)

Faizal
Fazlan
Syawal
Jage
Ayyub
Sathya
Hidayat

Squad rotation (sometimes can come, sometimes cannot come)

Kashif (sometimes will come, sometimes busy and somtimes AWOL. Haha.)
Mohan (sometimes got referee duties to attend to, going out with family, school events etc.)
Rickie (work)
Emilio (church on sunday morning)
Stef (church on sunday morning)

Called up for National Duty

Scott (SISPEC)
Parthi (OCS. Will be back by May)

On loan

Ali (Loan out to another team. Will be back by March)

Transfer target(s)

Awin (Hidayat, help us to recruit Awin leh...)

So guys, if you guys got any friends or brothers who are interested, let me know. We can arrange trials for them. Haha. Oh, we need 1 fullback, 1 centerback, 1 center midfielder and 1 forward.

Youth Bandits Squad List

GK- Scott

FB- Fazlan, Ali, *Syawal/Sathya

CB- Faizal, Mohan, Parthi

CM- Rickie, Stef, Kashif, *Syawal/Sathya

FW- Emilio, Hidayat, Jage, Ayyub

* Syawal and Sathya will battle out with each other for the CM role. The winner will get that CM position.

Match Day 4 Aftermath

2009-01-18T00:46:00.000-08:00

Venue: Marsiling Apartment Field

Time: 11am

Opponent: Oly's Team, The Superheroes

Result: 2-1

Goalscorer: Mus and Stef

Assists: Yet to be confirm. Match officials are reviewing the tape to find the assists.

Match Analysis:

Finally!

Our first win. It was a well deserved victory for the lost boys/youthbandits. After series of losses, finally we got our break. What makes the victory even more sweet was we beat our arch rivals.

Sathya played a good match today, making tackles, clearance and interceptions. Ayyub was solid in his new left back position, keeping their right winger quiet. Fazlan played well considering he was playing in a relatively new position, stopper. Faizal was being his old self, ordering people around to do the dirty job for him. All he did was intercept passes. Overall, the defence did a great job considering that they played without Mohan and Rickie. They were rarely in a panic or danger situation.

The midfield did their job today. Making tackles and passes all over the pitch. Jage was running all over the pitch trying to make himself available for a pass. You really do live up to your nickname, Park Ji Sung. Hidayat worked his sock off today. Pressing opponents and giving through balls. Syawal do what he do best. Sitting in front of the defence protecting the back four while giving attacking freedom to his fellow midfielders. However, special compliments have to be given to our pretty boy, Stef. The reason why we won the match. His 25 yard screamer won the game for us. Looks like the midfielders have a new competitor for the midfield berth.

Our new debutant scored on his debut. Mus calmy slot the ball in the corner of the goal. What a way to start! And last but not least, Emilio, a constant pain to their defence with his flicks and vision. A pity he couldn't end the game with a goal.

Well lets hope the team can now continue on a winning streak. There is more belief and confidence in the team now. Till then, lost boys/youthbandits wishes our Chinese teammates an advance Happy Chinese New Year!

Winter Season Break

2008-09-25T10:09:00.000-07:00

There will be no matches for a month starting from this week onwards due to the Winter Season Break. Our season will resume back on the 18th Oct 2008. So the manager has decided to give you time off during the Winter Break.

However, the following activities are banned during Winter Season Break:

Skiing
Ice/Figure Skating
Ice Hockey
Late night partying
Drinking too much alcohol
Humping supermodels

Thank you

From,

Lost Boys FC Management

Match Day 2 Aftermath

2008-09-20T09:14:00.000-07:00

Date: 20 September 2008

Time: 3.00pm

Venue: Yio Chu Kang Secondary School

Opponent: Hakim's team, the Super Reds

Result: 2 - 5

Goalscorer: Faizal(2)

Assist: Jage and Hidayat

Match Analysis:

Hmm... where do we begin? Overall it was a poor game for our standard. Conceding 5 goals at the back. It was a game where individual mistakes cost us the game. But, luckily, there were positives from the match too. Like how we were able to dominate the match for a period of time, considering that the Super Reds were more superior to us in terms of technical abilities.

Defensive wise, we were able to play the offside trap successfully early up in the game. Our line was way up to the half way line! Meaning if one of the Super Reds break the offside trap, our defenders will have alot of chasing to do as there is alot of space between the defenders and the goalie. We have to give credits to Rickie here for commanding and organising the backline. Could we have found a Mohan replacement here? Haha.

Unfortunately, the Super Reds manage to break our offside trap with a clever attacking move. /Their wingers start to pump long diagonal balls behind the defence and in between our centerback and fullbacks. This cause us a few problems cause firstly, the ball was pump into space and no one was there to clear the ball away. Secondly, their strikers were too fast for our fullbacks. What we could have done was that to pull our fullback closer to our center backs. By doing this, their wingers would have to pump the diagonal balls in between our fullbacks and the outside line which is less dangerous.

Lets move on to the midfield now. As usual, Syawal was doing his tackling and spreading passes all over the pitch, trying his best to have an influence to the game. Kashif was doing alright in the beginning till he got too tired. Haha. Soul survivor. Jage was trying his best to cause some problems down the flanks with his running and crossing. And he manage to get an assist! Haha! But he was a little unlucky to have missed his penalty. Not your day today mate! Haha! Ayyub worked hard today down the left flank. Any fullback would be lucky to have him as his winger caused he do alot of defending. But he needs to buck up on his 1v1 skills and the final ball. No offence mate. =) Last but not least in midfield, emilio. He too worked hard but didnt get enough of the ball to do some serious damage.

Lastly, strikers. Finally we had Hidayat. He injected alot of pace to our forward line up. Because of him, we had one of the opponent sent off and a penalty. He was a handful for the defenders. Faizal did okay today. Scored two lucky goals. Luck was on his side. Haha.

But lets learn from our mistakes here lads. To stay compact when defending and open up as wide as possible when attacking. The wingers should run on the outside instead of running in to stretch the opponents defence. Defenders should come closer together as to deny strikers space Till then enjoy your holidays =).

-faizal

if you guys have feedback or wanna comment on something just give me your email address. your feedbacks/comments/ideas are important if we wanna start winning. Haha!

Match Day 2

2008-09-19T00:25:00.000-07:00

Venue: Yio Chu Kang Secondary School

Time: 3pm SHARP!

Opponent: Hakim's friend team

Colour Jersey: Please bring a white and blue jersey cause the opponent is wearing gray.

Match Day ticket: At least $6 per person

Team Line up:

4-4-1-1

GK: Petr Steff Cech

RB: Nor Precious Fazlan

LB: Sergio Ali Ramos

CB: Paolo Parthi Maldini aka Big Ears

CB: Nemanja Rickie Vidic

RM: Park Jage-Sung

LM: Florent Emilio Malouda

CM:Michael Syawal Carrick

CM: Juan Kashif Riquelme

SS: Eric Faizal Cantona

SC: Luis Hidayat Garcia

Subs: Ayyub-bayor

Match Day 1 Aftermath

2008-09-17T10:08:00.000-07:00

Date: 13 September 2008

Time: 3.00pm

But we started around 3.30pm cause "some people" decided to take their own sweet time even though he knows we were late. But it was actually faizal's fault cause he got the wrong bus and walk at the wrong direction.

In his defence, there were two 190Cs! How would he know that there are 2 190Cs! Haha!

Venue: Punggol Secondary School

Opponent: Some chinese team wearing orange jerseys... Maybe they were trying to emulate the Oranje "total football". But all they did was play long balls! But it was effective though! Haha!

Result: 1-2

Goalscorer: Syawal

A little bit suprised with the goalscorer here... Left foot somemore! What are the chances!

Match Analysis:

Overall it was a decent game. Finally Parthi played his first match since he went NS! He was a little lost in the game for the first few minutes. Blamed it on "lack of match practice" he said. Haha! Alright big ears! We believe you! Haha!

Apparently the lost boys always struggle against a team who likes to play long ball. Due to the fact that most of our players can't head the ball very well. With the exception of Mohan. Haha!

Our midfielders had a tough time that day againts the orange wannabees. We had no answers to their movements and one, two touches play. To add on to that, one of thier strikers dropped back a few times to collect the ball in midfield this was creating a 3v2 situation in midfiled. We were out-numbered. Plus Faizal was having a bad game that with his poor touches and lack of pressing and tackles. Luckily Syawal was on form that day with his passing and tackling. He stepped up that day.

If only Faizal had change his formation from 442 to 451, it could have been a different story. We could have dominated the midfield if we were even in numbers in midfield.

Our fullbacks were having a torrid time down the flanks. The opponents wingers were always running at the fullbacks all day long. To make things worse, they had thier fullbacks helping them with thier overlapping runs. So it was a 2v1 situation for our fullbacks. Poor Fazlan. Kept falling down! Haha!

Maybe our wingers could have help out a bit in terms of marking our opponent's fullbacks when they are overlapping. Or our centreback could have provided more cover for our fullbacks by going behind our fullbacks. So that in case the wingers has gotten pass our fullbacks, our centreback is there to put pressure on the winger.

Attacking wise, we did okay. Jage was a handful down the right flanks with his runs. Emilio was running up and down the left flank. Helping out in defence and giving options when we are on the attack. Rickie tried his best with a few shots here and there and providing through balls. If only he had more support... he could have made more impact. As for Ayyub... as usual got chances but couldn't convert his chances to goals. Time to bring your goalscoring boots son!

Man of the match? You decide. Steff for his amazing acrobatic saves or Jage for attacking display on the right flank or Syawal for finally stepping up and being counted?

almost an istanbul

2007-07-14T07:35:00.000-07:00

ma dear bandits.

let us rejoice.todae was one of tha daes wher we had a gd game.for tha first 20 mins of each half tt is.we had a gd balance of players,outside tha penalty area tt is.u'll gt wat i mean.

now.tha first time i saw Awin,i tot he was a rugby turned football kinda player.imposin size wit little care for compassion,tha opponents had tha age knocked out of dem.haha.its a gd line ther,"age knocked out of dem".u noe.coz they were old.fuggetbou'it.he played hard n tried harder.but alas,it wasnt tt enuff.we still concede.damn butter fingers.
quiet reliable Parthi did well todae.he is by no means a poor man's Mohan,as he did admirably well beside a faltering Faisal.
hah!we gt our own rompin right back in the form of Zaki.another job well done since our right wing was somewher lost in tha middle of tha park gettin kick all over tha place.
mind you,Hidayat done a wonderful goal from tha opponent's right penalty area.n he was rarely ther.if he had stayed,tha opponent's keeper would hav prolly strained his neck from lookin up too much.
Fendi scored our other goal.wit a loopin goal tt seemed to hang endlessly in air.we all missed tha chance of seein him strip naked for us.coz he told Spawn tt if he din score,we wld be haunted by tha sight of his ass runnin in front of us.
poor Spawn.his ankles couldnt keep up wit tha enthusiam of his new boots.hurt himself.lost a stud.he was over n done by at most 30mins.a min of silence please.
wat bout Faisal u might ponder.well don ponder.nothin spectacular.thou he tried,lets be gentle here,to be a keeper in tha first half.somethin tells me tt we shld hav kept him ther instead.i giv it to him.he makes a better keeper.ohh.he gt warned.our pious referee wasnt tt positive bout his binge for vulgarities.now tts a funny thought.virgin boy bein reprimanded for his bad tongue.
one kick wonder Syawal hit tha post once.rushin in was Ayyub wit his valiant attempt to volley tha ball in.but unfortunately,tha "SQUARE" button wasnt pressed hard enuff.

we in our glory young age was so close to recreatin a moment in Istanbul.we might only lack tha good money n good looks those Pool players hav wen we chased tha scoreline to 3-2.but ther was no lack of passion n desire.tt ma good fren,sent ma spine tinglin wit ma goosebumps raised.we all realised tt we could do it.

3-2.it was so very possible.if only we maintained our professionalism n kept drivin forward.who noes tha result.we could hav won.

nahh.we din hav a replacement goalkeeper.

forget bout tha details

2007-06-02T10:46:00.000-07:00

attention attention.

it seems we hav to reformat tha tables to rank ourselves.apparently,our latest player requires his own table.its not as if tha rest of us gav up tryin to chase him,both by standards n on tha field.but it maybe,juz maybe,tt lil son of a gun is from a diff league from us.he needs his own table to compare how well he did last match den he did this time round.coz he juz whack 6 goals past tha opponent this time round.an "Isaac Table" wld be gd lookin at how he started off against tha opponent who had potential but

forget bout tha details.

great match played todae at hua yi sec wich apparently to ma bemused reaction," a place in the middle of f.ckin nowher".it seems todae was meant to be well.it didnt rain neither was it too hot for comfort.we for tha first time,confidently had more den enuff players.not all were tha original bandits but

forget bout tha details.

fazinazi conceded two.cant totally blame him for both.tha defender apparently was on a givin mood,givin away a noble pass to tha onrushin striker.tha 2nd goal.well,wat can i sae.tha striker might hav tt certain strike intention,tha pitch was muddy allowin little backpedallin n jump support,tha cloud opened up abit n had a sunlight shine in his face.yes.tha goal was slung above him but

forget bout tha details.

it is alwaes wonderful to score a bicycle kick.but for pele's black a.. sake,don do it right at tha oppenent goal line.come on Spawn.Kakasal wasnt able to make it.he was caught up in somethin else.it wld hav probably let to a Inter-Milan esque runaway goal line but

forget bout tha details.

honestly.juz honestly.ther arent "details".it's juz detail.bcoz its tha most crucial detail ever.
we played against n thrashed a group of 14yr olds.

n damn.we ar proud of it.