Okahu Comp Game 6 - Pointless

Its not about how many barks a dog has, its about how hard it bites. We had only four players to take out the the first third of the game, whilst the other team had good numbers with a sub box full of white legs ready to run. Yet they wasted their energy quarreling amongst one another, and luckily for us, they didn't really know how to play the game (or some of its rules too for that matter) and even with two men on the field down, we led about 4-3. Then Dean and David came along - better late than never - and from there we could finish it off to win 8-3.

In no particular order - Kerhan got a hat trick: Nick ran dummy down their short side and somehow even though it was theoretically 4 vs 6 on the field, we had numbers and he dived into the corner; Kerhan later ran between two players for an easy old school run-faster-than-them try and got the third by taking a quick tap and running through the offside defenders who's touches were invalidated. Nick grabbed his brace in similar fashion: running through defenders twice. All these tries were long-range - very unlike our team!
Latecomers Dean and David played particularly well and got their own. Dean splintered their defence from within our own half, David got yet another long range one. To finish it off, he scored off a simple quickie, to add some shape that our game usually consists of.

Their fellas luckily only had one move: run from dummy and hope like hell that a gap appears somewhere. It did work for them three times - despite workaholic defensive work by Martin and Sean they kept picking on their side to score their lot.

Lesson to be learnt: Get to our games on time!!!!!

Christmas season has arrived, and we'll be taking a break. Not only can we celebrate the birth and the reality of Immanuel, we'll get to reflect on winning this one - and how to win the rest of them too.

Tamaki Touch game 7 - GI

The early Sunday morning game was quite refreshing, as for most of us, it wasn’t the case of a game straight after a hard days slog at work.

We had 7 players on board today, but the team we played were not the fastest team, so we were quite comfortable.

The previous day at training we talked about mid-play and how to play a wider and more expansive game. We certainly took on board this strategy as we tried to leave our tight-styled game in the past.

The game itself was quite tight, with the lead switching a couple of times. In the end the opposition scored a try in the last play to tie the game 5-5.

Dean took the honours of the first point, with a nice dive from the five metre line. Sean, Stuart and David also took a point each, and we assume that Dean scored another somewhere along the line, or was it Chris?

After the game we had a team barbeque at Stuart’s house which involved meat, xbox and a sickening video of Special Ops versus Galaxy, directed by Jimmy Dai.

Okahu Comp Game 5 - Alky Bots

"In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can obtain is to conceal them." As sport is often described as war, we really should have heeded Sun Tzu's advice. In playing the Alky Bots, last year's winners, we needed to bring our game and our moves. Unfortunately they saw all our moves coming and shut us out of the game to win comfortably, 6-2.

We started off pretty well - climbing over their players on defence and burrowing through their holes on attack. Nick B found his gap, wide enough for his fleet footed white legs (that no one, no one ever sees) to run through and score for a brilliant solo effort.

From there however, things fell out of place for us. All these factors, like those of a combination lock, clicked in. We got a bit lethargic around the field and gave them plenty of yards, we started to lose our effectiveness in our driving patterns, and most importantly they started to step up a gear and they drove the ball through the field like rockets.

They began with a quickie inside two of defenders - one of those awesome diving tries only seen in this sport (picture a hawk swooping below and through two falling trees), followed by others - most of which came from good driving plays prior. They sure had some tanks on their team but they (pulled their weight and) ran hard. A couple of annoying tries were given away too - an intercept and a sleeper that caught us, erhm, napping... In the heat of battle, no one should have been caught sleeping on the job.
Their final was complete class: a short pass followed by a quick wrap and a quick pass to the runner who sliced through like a bayonet. Stu was left saving the grass that the runner cut up. It wasn't his fault, nor that of the others on the field at the time. Credit has to be given to the precision and the speed that the Alky Bots operated this move at.

Lesson to be learnt: disposition = "Determination of the final arrangement or settlement of a case following judgment."

Tamaki touch Game 6 - Brothers

We played the brothers, which were only three of them as apparently most of their boys went off for Work Christmas functions. Typical, work always gets in the way of the true spirit of life: Sport. They made up their numbers with their sisters though, it was pretty much their mixed team. So, our mens team should be able to take them out right? Wrong, we lost 4-2.

We scored quite early, before two of their brothers showed up - Sean sold a dummy to a girl and ran through her defence. Good work Sean - picking on the ladies. Almost had another couple after that - Kerhan scooped through the ladies and passed it to David who was apparently 'out' - kinda hard to tell when the bloody rugby club doesn't even paint its dead ball lines. Joe scooped through the ladies (again) but got touched before he could give it to the two free guys outside him. Maybe he liked the attention...

When their three boys had all arrived, they ran the show - just as men ought to in families. Their ladies did all the hard work of getting them up the field - the men took the glory and made the scoring plays. That's mixed touch alright, a brilliant example of the days of the World wars, instead of metrosexual men in touch with their feelings (as well as girls feelings) and women who wanted to call the shots and wear jeans, the clothes of mineworkers. Turns out one of their guys musta been a metrosexual though... he wore pink tights over his arms. He was a bit of a psycho too, arguing over touches, arguing with the ref, giving us a good shove at the touch, simply giving us shit that was highly unnecessary. Its a pity, the others on the team had a much better attitude than him.

Our second try came from Nick scooping through (but it was through one of their guys this time) and found Kerhan to score. Their tries on the other hand were great - nice and constructed. Their ladies did brilliant work to finish of the overlaps created by their brothers.

On a side note, our team is plagued by knee injuries. Jimmy Dai confirmed that he'll be in need of reconstruction (I'm praying for God's blessing over him as I write this) and will be out for six months. Jimmy Chong has a minor knee issue, and Ops blew his knee during this game. He's going to be out for the season too - it was an old injury. The poor sod, but at least he'll be able to come to the team BBQ as his stomach seems okay.

Okahu Comp Game 4 - O for Awesome

Due to the retarded weather returning to winter mode with her sleazy winds and sulky rains, the game got cancelled.

Tamaki Game 5 - Xcelento

We played a sturdy team - brave enough to show up with just handful of guys plus a girl. The girl was probably an older sister, judging by the way she bossed the dudes around. We only had seven ourselves, but we seemed fitter than they are overall (including Ops). With that, we won 6-3.

We started off playing incredibly pateintly, and bided our time long enough for Kerhan to receive a longball from Chris. He stepped back in dragging his guy for Chris to slice through with a late cut. They starred a laughing hyena on their team who thought it was funny that we scored. They replied with a quick try, a backdoor that exposed Kerhan's lazy defending. It was their star player who went through: that laughing hyena who giggled all the way to our line. But that was the last time he laughed.
To cover our earlier mistake almost, Chris sent another long ball to Kerhan for him to step through to score quickly in reply.

Unfortunately for them they made alot of forced passes and gave us lots of attacking opportunities, some of which we handled well. David gassed his man on the outside to score one, Ops set Nick a beautiful ins move and Kerhan caught them napping with a quick tap to stroll in. Can't remember the sixth try. It was a good natured game for the most of it - Sean even got a fair heap of man-love from the other team.

Their hyena on the other hand seemed a little frustrated, taking on our team on his own with his searing dummy scoops. He ran like a cheetah and earned them two good tries from them - one to their older sister who worked harder than most of her brothers in their team all game.

Lesson to be learnt: Sort out our mirrors for the scoops

The Special Ops machine: creating superstars

As some may know, we have had a player named Daniel in our team. He's booted off to Taiwan recently and joined a rugby team there and plays for the wing. No doubt using the skills he gained from his time with us, he's now taken his team to the finals and won - and scored the match winning try.


An extract from is his diary:


taiwan is good, our rugby team (national taiwan university) just won the taipei city championship, where i scored the decisive winning try in the final. burnt off 2 guys on the wing to go on and step 2 more others and score under the posts, in a much like christian cullen fashion. :) then some idiot (don't know who) broke our trophy lol, the little man at the top broke off, if it were spec ops i'd immediately blame martin, but my team has no martin so i don't know who it could be. links to photos of me playin rugby here, let me know what you think..http://www.pbase.com/kspage/2007_tpiccc_1 (in this game we owned the other team like 50-5)http://www.pbase.com/kspage/2007_tpiccc_4 (this was the final of the tournament where i scored the winning try in like the last 5 minutes)

On another note:

Rugby players get naked in a New Year's Eve rompSTAFF WRITER Sunday, Jan 02, 2005, Page 3
"All this naked playing on the lawn looks so natural to me. I'm deeply moved. I myself want to take off my clothes and join them."
unnamed female spectator of nude rugbyMore than 20 members of the National Taiwan University (NTU) rugby team celebrated the New Year Friday night in their unique way -- playing rugby naked.
The rugby team, formed by NTU students and alumni, was established in 1946 and is one of the oldest rugby teams in the country. Team members are mostly professionals -- professors, tycoons, doctors, judges, prosecutors and lawyers.
The rugby fanatics caused a sensation by playing rugby nude to celebrate the new millennium; since then it has become a New Year tradition.
"At first, we only wanted to try it once," said team captain "The Wall" (牆壁).
"But it felt fantastic to play rugby with our clothes off. So we decided to make this an annual tradition," he said.
With temperatures in Taipei plummeting to 7oC on New Year's Eve, team members, along with their wives and children, arrived at the campus at about 11:30pm. As the countdown to welcome 2005 began, the teammates took off their clothes while the spectators screamed, laughed and applauded.
"This is the coldest New Year's Eve [in six years]," a member said.
But he was still intent on maintaining the tradition.
"All this naked playing on the lawn looks so natural to me," said one woman who had been invited to the event for the first time. "I'm deeply moved. I myself want to take off my clothes and join them."
Since a student at Chang Gung University was punished by that school's administrators for streaking on campus in June, to avoid trouble the rugby team decided not to allow student members to take part in the naked frolic.
The team practices at NTU at 3pm every Saturday. All rugby lovers are welcome to join in. This story has been viewed 21089 times.

As alot of us view this website at work, I felt it was better to keep the nude photos of Daniel out of it.

Okahu Game 6 - Westmere Wanderers

Their team was a no show today, no doubt in fear of our abilities, so we won by default: 5-0

Tamaki Game 4 - 4Show

We played 4Show, who showed up with a team also in red uniform, and also as random seeming as ours: A mixture of whiteys and polys, and a mixture of ages - many of whom were young. One kid there must have been 8 - his step was bloody good though and he does it with a T-shirt would have been too big for even Ops to put on. Oh, and he didn't wear shoes either - these kids on the streets nowadays - all stars in the making (except for our team hobo Richard, because he's living in the office not the streets now).

Anyway we pulled out a good performance and won 7-3, with several more tries that could have come.

In no particular order: Kerhan ripped an intercept like a seagull near their line for an easy one; Dean did a breakdancer's dive to get a strange quickie try; David on the wing was marked by the little kid - and took a bullying advantage of him (and gave it for Dean's next score); Nick L parted their defensive line by spitting a dummy without actually faking a pass; we did an effective Two's drive for Nick L to walk over; Dean's Sonic the Hedgehog acceleration put someone on wing to score and David got another one somehow - probably by hogging the ball.

It was a good boost for team morale and we're starting to get those Two's working (as well as teamwork).

I wasn't watching when they scored their tries.

Lesson to be learnt: Its easier to win when playing against children.

Okahu Bay - Comp Game 2

We played the All Drunks. Actually we all played like drunks. Lots of dropped balls. The ball we used was pumped up to look like a basketball and its grip was like that of Jono's new mo: bare and smooth. Anyway, we beat this clearly rugby-converted social team 5-1, even with a ref too lazy to call half the penalties, or put his shirt on properly for that matter.

We opened up with a nice cut from Dean, and putting it through the hands through Stu, Sean was sent in for an easy try - a good way to impress his girlfriend who finally showed up to support him! Dean then opened a can of whoopass and stole one of their passes and wheeled the length of the field to to score an intercept try that would make Habana proud.
Stu later shot his man too early (under poor instruction from team mates) and they ran through that gap to score. That got us going and we soon got sick of trying out Two's driving pattern (which we WILL get right, sooner or later) and we just stuck to what we knew: do three ups then give the balls to our middle operators. We scored two tries with simple Quickies, and in between those Sean (for the first time ever) broke the line with a scoop and (for the first time ever?) got the pass out to Jono to score.

Amidst all this were some real bullshit play from the other team - but I said that I'd try to keep these posts positve.

Lesson to be learnt: Mimic this score line every time and we'll win every game.

Tamaki Game 3 - Galaxy

Against what is (or was) known to be one of the top touch clubs around, we went here a lil nervous. This game became a reverse of last week's match where they took us on with 6 players only and won 6-2.

They played a controlled game with very straight driving patterns. We played a game that rarely reached their five meter lines. There's a team out there called the meter-eaters. We could have called ourselves the meter-wasters as we took forever to recycle our ball. The ref played a lenient game, letting them get away with passing the ball at us and restarting the count. He let us get away with some terrible ball planting. Kerhan angled planted so badly he was almost facing backwards. Perhaps its not a penalty when you're so angled that you're parallel to the try lines.

Good work from wring-in Daniel for trying to create something everytime he was on the field. He set Chris up for an easy try with a simple scooper's run. Later in the game Nick L scooped too. Heading down the open-side direction moe-Joe cut too soon leaving him with half the width of the field with no support players. Luckily he found someone to give it to eventually.

Their tries were sharp - nothing lucky or flukey. Several other times they threatened to score quite easily against us. Nonetheless we are definitely improving as a team. Not long ago these guys would have washed us out with a bigger margin.

Lesson to be learnt: Do what Daniel does.

Okahu Comp Game 1 - Ginyu Force

The flood gates have opened. Competition rounds at Okahu started this week for us and there's no more messing around. Alas we lost 5-3.

The ref to his credit was much better than last week's wanker and the Ginyu Force were a whole new team this time round. They ran hard yards and defended like war heroes. Maybe it was no co-incidence that one of their players wore an army cap and the other looked like a Taliban? Like us, they also starred a token white guy. To our credit we kept up with their tempo.

Their five tries were smartly constructed: The first two were off quickies and they simply yoga-dived too low for our ungraced backs to bend. Their next came off poor mirroring on our behalf, followed by an "Ins" in behind Sean's arse that would have made every homosexual grab at their own arses in sodomized disbelief. Their final to seal the game was through our terrible cornering leaving poor Dean cross-eyed marking two of their guys.

Their tries were constructed - but ours were identical and individual: left to the solo efforts of Chris, Lau and Dean off their quickies diving through a parted defensive line. It left their men falling at their heels.
Its a pity though, we blotched three tries. After a slicing their line open, Dean set us up with an open try line and three players to for Chris to choose to pass to from dummy. He picked Sean, who caught the ball like a vollyball spiker. Chris later broke their line again running like bomberman does. He passed it to Richard who fumbled it after getting too excited about his try scoring opportunity. Finally, Chris (is there a pattern here?) ran another good dummy run and gave it to Nick B who was open - it was a high pass even for a tall guy and he couldn't quite grab it.

Good game, good ref, and a lot of respect for the other team.

Game review - Tamaki Game 2

If you weren't here, you missed out big time. This was the Christopher Viravuth Lim show, and Wha Kare was the audience. We showed up with only six players and played against a pretty structured team that had its sub boxes looking full. Sean, Jimmy C, David, Nick and Kerhan served their purpose - to hold out Wha Kare team from scoring and to give the ball to Chris to weave his magic.



His first try was a whopper: receiving a poor pass he slipped through two players using his mouse-running-into-its-hole style of running.

His second try was a double-whopper, it happened by a huge turn from his running angle - some call it a step. This was too good to be called a step.

His third try was a double whopper with "this is for you Louisa" written all over it, a change in pace - simply by changing gears from running fast to running faster.



Wha Kare scored three good tries against us - but somehow we got a fourth try which no one knew about... so we won 4-3.



Lesson to be learnt: Disregard previous lessons regarding bringing the whole team down. Just bring Chris down and five other players.

Game Review - Okahu Bay game 3

The final grading game- we were up against the Ginyu Force, or was it the Force Ginyu? Sheesh I left the game feeling very confused thanks to the referee: Are you on when he tells you that you are - only for him to tell you that you were off? Or is a forward pass okay, and is having a ball thrown at your chest called playing the ball, and the big question - is a touch a NO TOUCH?

Our team left Lloyd Elsemore because we were sick of useless refs that worship Wayne Barnes in their wet dreams. We wanted refs who knew the rules: deviation, rolling, and that our team is always right. Why do we have to work so hard to score four tries - thanks to some David "what the hell is going on" Lau magic stepping, a lucky intercept, a penalty try, and a dummy scooper?

Lesson to be learnt: play to the ref - luckily for us, he was make some poor decisions for the other team too.

Game Review - Tamaki Game 1

On a wet day we played The Heat, with some of their players young enough to wet their pants in bed. Yet again we only had a few of our guys, but BIGUPS to our wring-ins Daniel and Adam for beefing up our numbers to 7. Somehow, the game went wrong, and we lost it 6-4 to a team that dived hard into the slippery turf to stop our tries - many of them fingertips on skin hairs...

We on the other hand were less committed on defence, and they bombarded us with dummy scoopers and other stupid things like that which scored 6 tries. They obviously wanted to win more than we did. Maybe that had to do with their neighborhood - tough times growing up in Panmure, as Jules which testify. If these players lived anything like she did when she stayed out there, they'd be sleeping in a car garage fighting it out with all their siblings all night for who would get the floor to sleep on. Yeah, that's probably why they won...

Lesson to be learnt - as with game 1! Bring the whole bloody team down!!!!

Game review - Okahu Bay 2 - Bled Dogs

Score 6 - 5 Win

Players: Chris, Nick, Sean, Stuart, Martin, Ops, Leeroy, David

Before the game there was a bitta panic, as our 15 strong team had been whittled down to 6 for the day, but with Ops bringing Leeroy, and Martin finally figuring out that the season had started, it brought us to a sweet 8 players.

Now...the game started Really well for us, when these promo ppl started handing out free Poweraid bottles to us. David managed to scavenge away 6 of em, the thief. The magic formula musta had the placebo effect, as our confidence was running high in the first few minutes. Evidence is one of David's tries with a HUGE step off the left foot, that had the opposing player falling on his ass.

The Bled Dogs weren't too bad, after we'd get a try, they'd get one back, so it was always a one try difference. They also musta been short on players, or we just tired them out, cos they bought on some of their unsuspecting female supporters. In the end we managed to stay one ahead of them, which is a good first win for the Okahu Comp.

Highlights of the match:
- Davids awesome left step, tried it once and didnt work, then his second go a second later left the opposition on the floor
- Martins awesome catch. Typically Martin catches the ball in his groin region, as he did today, but this pass was a massive cross field pass! Well done to Martin
- Chris' awesome dive touch. Chris dived and managed to clip the players heel. If not for that, it woulda been a sure try

Game review - Okahu Bay 1 - Who said fat people couldn't run?

Turns out we were playing the "Alky Bots" - transformers on alcohol. Sounds like a team not to be messed with. These guys were real fat aye, but they used it to their advantage to cover the width of the field. Suddenly our gaps were minimized to the size of mouse holes, and our team was unable to squeeze through them, fearing the worse: that we might have got squashed. Nonetheless credit to them, after leading us 3-0 they held on for a 4-3 win. They were a well-drilled team that played a smarter brand of footy than us, putting their very big guys into space to score four times.

Lesson to be learnt - gotta bring our whole team to the game next time: can't just get away with bringing half our guys.

Love interest page

This is necessary as we know that alot of readers are interested in our team members. We are very attractive.

Jules - for sale. Worth her height in gold. Needs a man taller than 2.00 m and has the ability to care, love, and respect her needs. He should look like Jono.

The girls of Special Ops

We've had so many.

Nikki "that way Nikki!!!!" Seto - scored a try for us.

Sarah "Stu's sister" Young - is in the team due to family relations.


Sarah "Not Stu's sister" Young - is in the team because she asked to be.

Jules "COME ON BOYS" Teh - is a one woman cheer leading squad.

Daniel "butt cramp" Lim - Team albino. Genetic testing showed that she wasn't a he. Always a favourite with strange women and Canterbury men.

Top 6 touch injuries

6. Mark gets beaten up by the other team because he made a touch with his foot. Because his playing strip got ripped in the fight, he is unable to play for us anymore.

5. Richard 'pass me the ball' Wong - After his legs were disabled. his hands were also taken out. Struggles to catch a ball generally, even harder when his hands are fully taped up. Known from then as a nuisance on the field because of his disabilities.

4. Stuart 'roll off the ground' Young - Easter 2007. After regular cramping, the only way to sub off the field without walking was to roll. So that's what he did, from the other side of the field.

3. Daniel 'ball in the face' Lim - Easter 2006. After seeing Erin Fong's nuts in the team bedroom, Erin decided to show Daniel his other ball skills, but this time it was a touch ball from zero range.

2. Richard 'I want my mummy' Wong - Easter 2007. Vs Canterbury Mens. Horrific injury that ended the game literally. After the aid of team mate Daniel, his injuries became apparent as school girl like screams echoed around the park.
This below photo is the aftermath. We couldn't beat Canterbury, so we asked them to feel sorry for us at least.














1. Daniel 'butt cramp' Lim - Easter 2007,. this unfortunate injury happened under serious circumstances, before the game whilst training. Took him out for 4 games due to his chronic ass crramps. Rectified later in the team van

Player profiles - David

The youngest on our team, still with train-track teeth. Newest addition on our team too, we picked him up at 17, fresh out of puberty (his voice is the deepest in the team) as we needed someone to do the running for us. He's also a rep player, so that means he's good enough to play for us.

His skills - going to school.

Player profiles - Joe

The enforcer of our team. He speaks with confidence, if only he'd run that way. We like practicing against him because he's easy. He's not very fast. Quick thinker but slow on the field. A cop so a natural at catching PI offenders.

His skills are chasing people from behind.

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Player profiles - Richard

Richard James Robert Wong is the envy of all women with his slim frame whilst he eats like a hobo. He's a very fast runner, and a very fast cramper too. His legs buckled pretty badly in one game, screaming for his mummy and his money. Who said Scrooge McDuck couldn't play sports? ...Nah he's actually a really generous guy, he's part of Rotaract after all. Outside of touch rugby, he works 25 hours a day, thanks to his excellent ability to organize himself.

His skills are defence

Player profile - Jimmy Chong

Our honest worker. He's always got a smile on his face you'd think he won the Lotto. In fact he kind of had, when he got invited to join our team. As a doctor in training, we knew that we needed a medic on the touch field in case we got touched too hard. True to the study nature of a medical doctor, Jimmy is always putting in the hard yards and is ever-ready to do the grinding out work.

His skills are studying

Player profile - Jono

The lady's man. Thanks to him, we were also able to form a mixed touch team, which features girls and boobies. He's got freckles.

His skills are being reliable and showing up to our games

Player profiles - Jimmy Dai

The team clown, and he doesn't even realize it. His left is right but his right is left. Remember the old brain joke: His brain has a problem - his left hemisphere has nothing right in it and his right hemisphere has nothing left in it. I'm not saying he's dumb by the way - he's very smart. He's an accountant.

His skills 'GWEEDY"

Pre Special Ops

Before the days of the mighty Special Ops, there existed another invincible team named Special FX. Below is the only known video of that team in action.

Player profiles - Martin

Shit, where do we start with this guy? We call him Martin Nonu because of his freak ability to break the line, but at the same time his erraticness in catching his balls. Other teams fear him because he looks like Bruce Lee. He's got dragon-strength - at 55 kg have you seen his triceps? Of course not, you have to take a step back to see it. This guy has the most potential in our team, he runs very fast, so fast that he's known for scoring on the other field too. Anyway, it can be hard to take this guy seriously - he grafitis on the aeroplane parts that his engineering team repairs and he celebrates his birthday twice a year.

His skills are chasing plastic bags that got blown away.

Player profiles - Stuart

Started the "Special" phenomenon by captaining a team named the Special Effects. Little is known about that team other than the fact that he led it. That team must have really been down the gutter, as he now claims to have Alzhemer's Disease and can't remember a thing. Stuart's skills are there for all to see - he always wins the shuttle runs. Unfortunately the Tamaki Touch comp won't be able to witness that as he's opting to go drinking with his workmates every Friday instead.

His skills are forgetting about the past

Player profiles - Chris

His birthday is in January - had to write that as we always forget. He's also known as the grass cutter, he leaves touch fields in torrid states with his boot-work. He's the Gregan of touch rugby, he chats to the ref constantly, teaching them how to play the game and that sort of thing. Its great to have him on the team - he's always enthusiastic about putting his body on the line. A Schalk Burger of touch rugby too I guess you could say. His trademark dive is to look like a frog entering into the water.

His skills - as his girlfriend.

Player profiles - Sean Lim

Sean "Yew Chern" Lim is our competitive defender. As he has an aversion to diving (it hurts his arm) he runs extra hard on defence to touch offenders. He's got a very good understanding of the game, but that counts for little as he walks and thus runs funny - its to do with the way he positions his feet on the ground.

His skills - dancing.

Player profiles - Nick Burbridge

The token white guy. We used to have two of them but Daniel left the team after we bullied him too much. Its a funny thing these Albinos, you'd think they weren't healthy people but they run fast. As a result, Nick is our #1 finisher, his spot is on the wing but he has potential to be awesome in the middle. It must be to do with Western culture, they want their fingers in all the pies. Anyway, true to his genetics he is also tall.

His skills: fast runner.

Player profiles - Nick Lim

The youngest on our team, also the oldest looking. He has a scar on his face, so don't touch him - he might go down on you (or should we say, up on you), yes he's also the shortest - so he's a real Napoleon. The story about little dogs biting the hardest is true, a bit of a quickie this one. He gets onto the the field looking like one mean bullpup reading to touch everything.

His skills - passing from the base of the ruck.

Coach profiles - Opura Takatikatungatooga

Opura Takatikatungatooga (sorry, typo may be present) is the coach of our team. He picked out our team of (then) losers from the Lloyd Elsemore competition and turned us into winners and whingers. Without him, Special Ops touch would simply be Special Needs touch. He taught us to respect Islander touch stylez and realize our potential in the game.

His skills are passing.

Player profiles - Kerhan

They say that teams are built on individuals. The truth of this touch team is that Special Ops is based on one individual. The Special Ops touch team without Kerhan would just be The Ops touch team - he is simply talismatic.

His skills are running back fast (after being blitzed by the scooper)

Special Ops touch team blog

This blog has been created to later make a proper website dedicated to our very special touching team - the Special Ops.

We're a bunch of very fine individuals who have a heart for grabbing other men at their shoulders and love spinning our balls. Soon the world will hear of us through our website and spread the word - "FEAR US OKAHU BAY! FEAR US TAMAKI TOUCH!"