Will Team Goat's depth be tested this weekend ?

Without a no. of our senior players this weekend, Team Goat's depth might be tested against last season's runners-up VNPNUS at Siglap Secondary. Without the likes of Jeffrey and Laphang for this weekend due to SAF's duties they will join the pair of kenny and Jack who is also away preparing for exams and away in exchange programme respectively. This will see the team being narrowed down to 16 senior players this coming weekend. And keeping this in mind, the no of 16 is the maximum turn out the team could get.

Last week saw Team Goat finally putting a solitary point up to the on going 2nd season in our venture at D2D. Yiwen, has added this while i was talking to him before me blogging this, " To think about it our team is one of those who had little rest if u look at the table. The rest of the team have a month or 2 rest while we just continued on after we finished our previous season." The other team who he mentioned about is Thunderveluboomqiesi which has performed pretty well this season with 2 win in 2 games which placed them in the hunt for this season's title race.

On another note, while i was writing this match preview i saw this on soccernet and finds that it's somewhat pretty true and sure enough we could pull this off as well...


"When I was at Chelsea, Alex [Ferguson] described that season as the best season ever - but even then they did not start so well,'' Grant said.

"You don't need to be at your best in the first few months, but at the end of the season.

"Alex is very clever. He does it every year. I can't remember one season when United started with full power.''

This is what Avram Grant has said before his match against the red devils tonight. Here is the link to the full preview ( http://soccernet.espn.go.com/preview?id=309506&cc=4716 )

So, we may not start off pretty well this season but we definitely can bring back the previous Team Goat which was champion last season! Many of us could start to feel a down in form and feeling rusty having played too many games, i suggest we should really relax and enjoy some soccer out of the league. For example, since we have Safra sessions during weekdays i would encourage all of you who are able to make it to go for that. A social kick-about is always good to get the pressure out of us!

So till then here are the information for this upcoming game...

Opp: VNPNUS (Previous Runner-up in Div 1)

Time: 3pm

Attire: Red

Venue: Siglap Secondary School

(http://maps.google.com.sg/maps?hl=en&expIds=17259,26442,27744&xhr=t&cp=7&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=siglap+secondary+school&fb=1&gl=sg&hq=siglap+secondary+school&hnear=Singapore&cid=0,0,4783467802873837172&ei=9vr0TPrYD8yHrAe4m-TzBg&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCAQnwIwAQ)

Last time i was there it was a sandy affair, but it was a few years back, lets hope that they have re-grass the venue!

Lastly, i have decided to add a few more awards to the team,

(1) Man of the Match

(2) Player of the Month

Man of the match will be based on the performance you played that weekend. Everyone in the team will have a chance to be here if u performed well that day and i will personally write a review on your performance to why u got the title! So put it your best and you will find your name on the right side of the blog

Player of the month will be a little more tricky. To be player of the month, you have to have a good attendance when it comes to our match if we have 4 the least amount of games you have to come would be 3 and if we were to have 3 games than the least amount of games you have to come would be 2 and it goes on.... The player will be voted by our committee of 5 members and will be announced and updated during our 1st game of the month! We have the resulted for November Player of the month! Let's wait till sat to find out who he is!

(PS) due to lack of fund in Team Goat you don't really get anything now when u win the award, just a name actually. We will see how it goes as the Team Fund starts to grow abit more we might buy something to keep it interesting!

Kambeng!
Jeff

The Solitary Point

The game that we should had won!

We battled hard in the 1st half which ended in a stalemate and after the half-time break the team marched back into the field determined to score and put 3 points in the bag. And Yes! we did fight (3 yellow cards!) and we eventually got our goal thanks to an individual effort from WeeKiong but luck wasn't on our side as the opp equalized in the dying moments of the game with an own goal by kahwoon. (It was not his fault and none was blaming him for his own goal which led the team to a draw. He had to head the ball if not the opp behind him will finish it away as well.)

Today was also a day where we were shown how heroes can be villains as well.or Villains redeeming himself haha!

1) Kahwoon with a header assisted Weekiong in scoring his goal but unfortunately scored an owngoal in the dying moments with his head again!

2) WeeKiong missed a penalty at the start of the 2nd half but eventually managed to redeem himself after scoring the wonderful goal.

Personally, i felt that today's game was ours to be won. We controlled the game, played well, have many decent chances, like the one which fell to Yiwen during the 1st half. We were just unable to win it. Yes we can blame it on the ref for being biased or luck wasn't on our side. But i'm still going to give credit to Tour d'France as they are really well-organised team in the middle of the park trying to break our play whenever we try to flow through the middle.

Also i would like to thanks everyone who came down for the game, as i would like to mention this again, we are an amateur team all of you guys who are playing football for Team Goat is not being pay and instead you are paying us to let you play! haha! so i really appreciate the effort that you guys are making week in week our for the team and being part of the committee, i will try my best to talk to the captain and manager to have more playing time for you guys who don't get a lot of minutes on the field and try to come out with more kick-about or outing together as a team alright? Thanks Guys!

Player of the match:

And the honor for our 1st player of the match goes to our vice-captain JinChuen! Many have performed considerably well today which includes kahwoon and Weekiong but the Captain and I have felt that JinChuen was influential today! The Gareth Bale of Team Goat? We never thought that JinChuen was that good being on left back or left wing than being in the centre of defence where he usually played. Today due to Ariel's absence he was given a chance to play there for the team. His runs to overlap Manfred on the left wing and dribbling pass opp definitely was the highlight of his performance yesterday. Not to forget it was his runs that forces the opp to foul him in the box to earn our penalty. So here it is, congrats to JinChuen for being our 1st Team Goat Player of the Match!

Updates for the next game will be posted up shortly when we have news from the website. Meanwhile do stick around the blog and definitely i will try to post videos or interesting things up to freshen up the blog!

Team Goat!
Jeff

Manfred as top goalscorer?

"How? I top goalscorer leh hahahaha." This is normally the joke Manfred will share to you whenever you pass by him esp if you are a striker in Team Goat. His performance for Team Goat this season has been quite brilliant i should say having scored the only 2 goals Team Goat ever did and how could we forget he score within the 1st 10s when the fat lady blew off in the match against Thunderveluboomqiesi.

But being the TOP GOALSCORER in Team Goat isn't an easy task as he will be competing with our 2 well-known attacking forwards in the team, Yiwen and Wee Kiong both player of the season and young player of the season respectively! Yiwen was also last season top goalscorer for the team with 11 goals and this my friend is no easy feat. 

Thus, with all 3 players starting upfront this Saturday for Team Goat will the top goalscorer chart start to move and shift? No matter how it goes, it will definitely be beneficial to the team when it does!

Team Goat will also be expecting a large group of players to be at the venue this Saturday for the game at
Bedok Green Secondary. And the president, Jeff hopes that everyone in the team to be patient and also be understanding with the committee's decision on the amount of playing time given to each players. "If there is a need to chase the game, some of the players cant really play too much and i really hope they understand that." add by Jeff during the interview.

So to wrap this up, here are the players expected to be out there battling for Team Goat's first win of the season.

Goalkeeper: Jeff

Defenders: Norman, JinChuen, Omar, Benny, KengYang

Midfield: Jackson (CAP), Thaddeus, Laphang, WeiMing

Forwards: Yiwen, Manfred, Kiong, ZhuLiang, BoonWee

Utility (DOG): KahWoon (HAHAHA!!)

Youths: Sean, Kahled

Reported by
TeamGoat.net (Jeff)


Guys, Please be informed that the Opp have once again be changed by the organizer apparently Star CF could not make it to this week's game and our opp have been changed to Tour d'France (updated on 25th Nov 7pm). Yes this is the team that we have played against for our 1st match which we lost 2-1. Both me and yiwen thought its true and felt that we are able to win this so we give the go ahead and didnt ask the organizer about it. But  if there is any changes i will let u guys know again. So for now its Tour d'France. Venue and attire is still the same.

For those who never watch this famous commercial!

Rain rain go away! Team Goat is here to play

Another footy-less weekend befall on Team Goat last weekend as the match between VNPNUS was postponed due to bad weather. Though the rain has stopped, but the organiser has already phoned us in the earlier part of the day to postpone the game.

Due to the footy-less weekend, Team Goat is still pointless on the table and looking rather sluggish as when will the win come as week by week went pass. This weekend even if a bad rain fall would to befall us again, we would most likely will still get the go ahead for the game as we will be playing at Bedok Green Secondary School (Small Artifical Pitch) against the likes of STAR CF (mostly contain malay players and finish off 5th in division 1 last season)

This coming week, hopefully we will welcome back all our star-studded line-up back to the team to play for us. So this week should and would be the time where we will show what is Team Goat all about! So here we go the information for this weekend league:

Opp: Star CF (http://www.footballopod.com/ViewTeam.aspx?id=453&mode=v)

K.O: 3pm (Standard be there 2.40!)

Attire: RED

Venue: Bedok Green Secondary School

http://maps.google.com.sg/maps?hl=en&expIds=25657,26473,27692,27697,27792&xhr=t&cp=7&rlz=1R2ADFA_enSG364&wrapid=tljp1290426485009010&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=bedok+green+secondary+school&fb=1&gl=sg&hq=bedok+green+secondary+school&hnear=bedok+green+secondary+school&ei=eljqTIX7MouwvgOU4bzCCA&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=image&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQtgMwAw

Kambeng!
Jeff

LOL!

Opp Change

Guys,

Please take note that the opp for this sat is VNPNUS (change without telling us! heng we visit the website!), but the venue remain the same it still at Bedok View Secondary.VNPNUS have a very good reputation in this league and they have always performed at top levels. If i'm not wrong they are runner ups for both 2 seasons in Division One. They are famous for their physical game play in midfield so please take note of that during Saturday! anyway Saturday attendance is confirm, team sheet is as follows...

Goalkeeper: Jeff

Defence: Omar, Norman, JinChuen, Jeffrey, Ariel

Midfield: Benny, Jackson, Laphang, Kengyang, BoonWee

Forwards: Yiwen, Manfred, Kiong, ZhuLiang

Youth: Sean, Amran, Khalid.

This is our 3rd game in the league and it is essential for us to put some points on to the board. I know there would be pressure for us but we would need to win this game badly to kick start our season. As it continue to drag on the pressure will be on us even more.

This is what Footopod have to say:

OPOD News Center – Having conceded 6 goals in two games, Team Goat is determined to put behind their disastrous run of 2 defeats and claim their first win by overcoming the likes of VNPNUS in Division 1 this weekend. Similarly, VNPNUS is eyeing for their first win as they are keen to end their winless streak of 2 games.

Lets Win THIS!
Jeff

Wa joke!!! Look at the time! 90mins!!

Do This 2!

Do This!

Preview

Into their 3rd game of the season with the big boys in division 1, Team Goat will be looking for their first win of their season against Swee Swee 1 FC who also has yet to won a league game this time round. Both will go head to head on the desert pitch of Bedok View Secondary on Saturday with a 3pm K.O!

Expectations will be on Team Goat to perform this time round as they were just crowned Champions of division 2 and a win is much needed in order for them to push for another title this time round. Their President, Jeff have this to say, " We have lost our 1st 2 match which was tough to us as some of our key players were missing due to commitments outside but we are confident that we will be back in contention once we get our players back. This week we will be welcoming back our Young Player of the Season, Kiong, to the team and a special guest player Keng Yang to help us get our 1st win of the season!"

Eyes will be on how the team perform with such a star-studded line-up of Kiong, Yiwen and Manfred up front. This has to be Team Goat's best attacking Threesome! Will Goals start to flow again for Team Goat? Will Team Goat get their 1st win of the season? All shall be revealed on Sat! 

Expected Personal for Team Goat.

Goalkeeper - Jeff

Defense - Jeffrey, Benny, Omar, Norman, Jin Chuen, Ariel

Midfield - Jackson, Keng Yang, Kah Woon, ZhuLiang, Lap Hang, Boon Wee

Forward - Manfred, Wee Kiong, Yiwen

Youths - Sean, Amran, Khaled

Trialist - Alex

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Team Goat

League Match 3

League Match 3

Opp: Swee Swee 1 FC

Venue: Bedok View Secondary (SANDY FIELD!)

http://maps.google.com.sg/maps?hl=en&expIds=17259,18168,26640,27022,27404,27601&xhr=t&cp=8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=bedok+view+secondary+school&fb=1&gl=sg&hq=bedok+view+secondary+school&hnear=bedok+view+secondary+school&cid=0,0,4560606974961901494&ei=L2nhTNL_OtDXcd-kpJcM&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCMQnwIwAQ

Attire: Red

Time: 3pm (Please 2.40 thanks!)

*note for those who haven't pay fund please pay during this sat! TYVM!

Lastest from the site!

 From D2D Sports: As majority of the Singapore Sports Council fields are unavailable due to yearly maintenance, we would like to kindly inform all teams there will be a smaller number of games taking place in the months of November and December respectively. We hope to seek your kind understanding and patience, thank you. 

As you can see we will be having less game during this period of time so if there is any chance we will postpone the game we will do it. And when we have a good full team we will try to push for the game alright! So lets our rest this week and enjoy our kick about at Pasir Ris Primary this saturday! Hope it will be a good turn out alright?

Also, our team-mate Norman is organizing some futsal session at Tampines safra for us to kick about and enjoy during the weekdays. Tentative the 1st session will be on Hari Raya 9am-11am so wait till more details is given to me, i shall inform u guys again!

Team Goat
Jeff

By Football OPOD

OPOD News Center – Thunderveluboomqiesi began their season in a positive note as they trounced Team Goat 4-1 in their league opener in Division 1. With a healthy goal difference record, the former jumped to second position while the latter is languishing in the bottom half of the table having suffered two consecutive defeats.

This is the 1st time Team Goat is being written this way! Being trounced is not how we roll! lets get back to ourselves and let them write, Team Goat missile their way up to the top half of the table with a wacking of 10 goals to ....... ! We can do it guys!

Argh!!!!
Jeff

Eating the humble pie.

Today was game 2 and still we could not deliver the result that we always do in our previous season. A 4-1 lost to the thunder team wasn't what we were thinking when we arrive at the venue. The memory of the 3-1 scoreline came to us and we were still in disbelief with what has happened to the team today.

I believe Thunder team was so determine to win this game that they eventually threw everything at us and i really mean everything. By bringing a squad of 22 players to the game i can really say they are so determine not to throw this one away. On a positive note, i'm really honored that they treat us with so much respect.

Looking forward, i'm still determine we can still do well in Division 1 as this is still the beginning of the season we still have 12 games to go. So what if we have lost our 1st 2 games, others will soon drop points as well and we will go riding up the table when they do! Guys keeps your heads up and we shall be better when our 3rd game come alright!

Adding on, there is a high chance that we will postpone the game next week but rest assured there will definitely be a kick about if the game is postponed. Hope that many of the players will be able to make it than as well!

HEADS UP!
Jeff

RE-Match against Thunder Team

Hey guys,
   
     sorry for the late post. Here are the details for our league game this sat

Venue:       BENDEMEER SECONDARY SCHOOL

Attire:        RED

Opponent: Thunder Team

pls reach there by 2.45pm & lets hope it will NOT rain AGAIN...below is the link for the location of the school. The nearest mrt station is Boon Keng on the NEL.

http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_744/travel_site_40547/