Dawn of a new era

Obviously my extended absence from the blog has paid dividends as I have seen our up-and-coming next generation author putting in their articles! Salute to Boon-Wee-You-Weet and Neighbour fighter! Please continue to keep this blog entertaining (and the stupid A.I. to spam our chatbox)! To be honest, my M.I.A. from the blog was partly due to recent workload but this is no excuse for not blogging so please accept my sincere apology (especially for missing the crowd-favourite weather forecast! It is such a crime to disappoint so many of you!).

Right, as mentioned in the subject title, I feel that we have just seen the start of a new era for Team G.O.A.T. and it is definitely for the better! Echoing what kahwoon has said, we are now a proper team that is capable to shuffle our players with everyone slotting well into the overall game plan. We have matured to a stage where we know each and everyone of our players' strength and compliment each other on the pitch. There is now no particularly indispensable players and we still win with constant squad rotation!

Seeing what happened on the field with the fluent passing and awareness of teammates position and running were equally impressive today with us taking at least the first step of progress was what KengYang challenged us to achieve. There is not a single linger of doubt in me that we will not achieve that in the foreseeable future. More importantly, it was what happened off-field which heartened me deeply. Today was a match with 2 highly contrasting teams; not only style of play, but more crucially the team spirit within each. While they only had 10 in total, we had 16, despite not playing Khalid and Jack were there to support us. This is what I call a team and we are willing to do that for each other as we know that this is an important game that potentially needed "manpower" (btw, I was so proud we won them square-and-fair). On the pitch, our team spirit and hunger was so evident that compare to their team and the difference is that their superior technique were no comparison. At the end of the day, we were up for it and they were not, there was no doubt the eventual winner were us.

With this, I dedicate my respect and applause to today's team. Those who missed out, no worries, another tough match is expected coming Saturday; so prove your worth to the team!

-GuardioLap

P.S. Special mention to Ren Jun and Jun Guang. You guys are an integra part of the new era! (Jeff - get them to subscribe to our blog if they have yet to do so!)