Seoul Survivors Play At Olympic Stadium SEOUL SURVIVORS SEOUL SURVIVORS SEOUL SURVIVORS SEOUL SURVIVORS RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB SEPTEMBER 17 2009 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 8 IN BRIEF: • Training at Jamwon rugby pitch scheduled for 10am Saturday. Be ready to go on the hour sharp. If you can’t attend training please inform Ra or Simon. • An experienced English refe- ree, Darryl Chapman, will be running an informal clinic at training this weekend for anyone interested in giving the whistle a go. • Next Saturday, the 26th of September is the Interna- tional Touch Seoul (ITS) tournament. It will be held at the Korea Military Academy in Nowon District, North- East Seoul. Even if touch isn’t your thing, please come down and support the Survi- vors from the sideline. There will be refreshments on offer and great oval ball action all day. CONTACTS: • Ted Gray (Club Captain) 011-287-9558 • Roddy Bancroft (Manager) 016-494-7363 • Simon Walsh (Pitch Captain) 010-9417-9554 • Kurtis Taogaga (Media) 010-3149-6547 • Rawiri King (Coach) 010-8698-4982 • RJ Karas (Social Officer) 010-5465-6122 • Jordan Smigelsky (Community Project Manager) • Richard Jarvis (Website) Maybe Next Weekend By Kurt Taogaga The Oakwood Seoul Survivors capped off a huge summer of rugby by extending their 15-a- side winning record at Seoul’s Olympic Stadium last Saturday. The 70,000 seat arena was mostly empty for the 9am match but the few early strag- glers that had shown up still constituted possibly the largest audience that the majority of the Survivors had ever played in front of. The ‘Grey and Blacks’ squared off against a Korea University B side composed mostly of the college’s PE department as the curtain raiser to the traditional Korea University/Yonsei Uni- versity rugby match that takes CONTENTS: Page 2: Gangnam 10s Reports. Page 3: Player Profile - Jordan Smigelsky Survivors’ Mail Bag. Page 4: Beer Pong. Pitch directions. The Oakwood Seoul Survivors and Korea University B enjoy the occasion at Olympic Stadium. place annually at Seoul’s Olympic Stadium. Warming up with a lap around the field, the players were pinching themselves as they emerged onto the same sports ground that Ben Johnson infamously “broke” the 100 metre world record for Canada. Sideline, the cheerleaders for the re- spective universities warmed up, testing their overpowered speaker systems, making on- field communication difficult and contributing to the daunt- ing atmosphere. However, the Survivors were- n’t rattled by the immensity of the stadium or the occasion and, in front of a vocal crowd of student onlookers and the regular sideline support, ran out 20-0 victors over the inex- perienced Korean side in a 50 minute match, abbreviated due to scheduling clashes with the main event. The highlights of the shortened game belonged mostly to the Koreans who played the contact with vigour and showed a refreshingly mature approach to the game, learning from mistakes and getting on with the match without resorting to constant protests to sway the officials. The University B side’s hardy defensive effort restricted the expats to four unconverted tries including lock David Judge’s first since 1997. Congratulations, Judge!
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Seoul Survivors Play
At Olympic Stadium
S E O U L S U R V I V O R S S E O U L S U R V I V O R S S E O U L S U R V I V O R S S E O U L S U R V I V O R S
R U G B Y F O O T B A L L C L U BR U G B Y F O O T B A L L C L U BR U G B Y F O O T B A L L C L U BR U G B Y F O O T B A L L C L U B
S E P T E M B E R 1 7 2 0 0 9 V O L U M E 1 I S S U E 8
IN BR I E F :
• Training at Jamwon rugby
pitch scheduled for 10am
Saturday. Be ready to go on
the hour sharp. If you can’t
attend training please inform
Ra or Simon.
• An experienced English refe-
ree, Darryl Chapman, will be
running an informal clinic at
training this weekend for
anyone interested in giving
the whistle a go.
• Next Saturday, the 26th of
September is the Interna-
tional Touch Seoul (ITS)
tournament. It will be held at
the Korea Military Academy
in Nowon District, North-
East Seoul. Even if touch isn’t
your thing, please come
down and support the Survi-
vors from the sideline. There
will be refreshments on offer
and great oval ball action all
day.
CONTACTS :
• Ted Gray (Club Captain) 011-287-9558
• Roddy Bancroft (Manager) 016-494-7363
• Simon Walsh (Pitch Captain) 010-9417-9554
• Kurtis Taogaga (Media) 010-3149-6547
• Rawiri King (Coach) 010-8698-4982
• RJ Karas (Social Officer) 010-5465-6122
• Jordan Smigelsky (Community Project Manager)
• Richard Jarvis (Website)
Maybe Next Weekend
By Kurt Taogaga
The Oakwood Seoul Survivors
capped off a huge summer of
rugby by extending their 15-a-
side winning record at Seoul’s
Olympic Stadium last Saturday.
The 70,000 seat arena was
mostly empty for the 9am
match but the few early strag-
glers that had shown up still
constituted possibly the largest
audience that the majority of
the Survivors had ever played
in front of.
The ‘Grey and Blacks’ squared
off against a Korea University
B side composed mostly of the
college’s PE department as the
curtain raiser to the traditional
Korea University/Yonsei Uni-
versity rugby match that takes
CONTENTS :
Page 2: Gangnam 10s Reports.
Page 3: Player Profile - Jordan
Smigelsky
Survivors’ Mail Bag.
Page 4: Beer Pong.
Pitch directions.
The Oakwood Seoul Survivors and Korea University B enjoy the occasion at Olympic Stadium.
place annually at Seoul’s
Olympic Stadium. Warming
up with a lap around the field,
the players were pinching
themselves as they emerged
onto the same sports ground
that Ben Johnson infamously
“broke” the 100 metre world
record for Canada. Sideline,
the cheerleaders for the re-
spective universities warmed
up, testing their overpowered
speaker systems, making on-
field communication difficult
and contributing to the daunt-
ing atmosphere.
However, the Survivors were-
n’t rattled by the immensity of
the stadium or the occasion
and, in front of a vocal crowd
of student onlookers and the
regular sideline support, ran
out 20-0 victors over the inex-
perienced Korean side in a 50
minute match, abbreviated due
to scheduling clashes with the
main event. The highlights of
the shortened game belonged
mostly to the Koreans who
played the contact with vigour
and showed a refreshingly
mature approach to the game,
learning from mistakes and
getting on with the match
without resorting to constant
protests to sway the officials.
The University B side’s hardy
defensive effort restricted the
expats to four unconverted
tries including lock David
Judge’s first since 1997.
Congratulations, Judge!
Survivors accept their silverware at the Gangnam 10s. L to R: Justin Painter, Brett Fitzgerald, Jeff Rands, John Goddard, Richard Jarvis,
Dan Grover, Nathan Atkins.
Survivors Swallow Bitter 10s Pill By Kurt Taogaga
The Seoul Survivors were left ruing
their chances as call after call went
against them in the Cup semi-finals of
the Gangnam 10s at Jamwon this past
Sunday. The game was tipped in the
balance until a controversial penalty
try was awarded to the Ansan squad
pushing the ‘Black and Greys’ into
overtime. Unfortunately, the A team
were unable to stay in it at this point
and Ansan ran out winners to pro-
gress to the final before a mob of
outraged Survivors supporters.
From the outset the Survivors A
squad took a professional approach to
the day’s proceedings warming up
and conducting drills sidelines to
keep the desire fresh. Unlike their
Killer Bs counterparts, the A team
were well rested, lucid and experi-
enced campaigners who had every
capability of winning the competition.
In the pool stages, the Survivors dis-
played their talent and ability beating
both the Yonsei and Haka teams to
compete for the Cup in the knockout
stages and title of Seoul 10s champi-
ons.
The standard of refereeing had, up to
the semi-finals, been of a fairly good
standard. However, in the A team’s
final outing, frustrated supporters
couldn’t help but think that some-
thing a little more underhanded than
simple incompetence was affecting
By RJ Karas
This past Saturday the Seoul Survivors
were lucky enough to submit two teams
in the Seoul 10s tournament at Jamwon.
The Killer Bs, as the second side was
known, truly found themselves in a win-
win situation. With a mix of youth, in-
experience and a few regulars who were
still seeing double from the night before,
expectations for the second side were
understandably low. With that being said,
though, the chance for many to get some
much needed playing time was too valu-
able an opportunity to pass up.
Jordan Smigelsky took the reigns of the
squad after watching Kurt Taogaga
consume a Big Mac that was in his kit
bag from the night before ... Taogaga
was obviously planning ahead. Smi-
gelsky did his best with the players that
were available however after moving a
utility back row/hooker to center, out
of necessity, one’s prospects of success
decreased exponentially.
Both seventeen year old Louis Galtié
and newcomer Juan Nieto stood out as
the Killer Bs took their lumps. Though
Galtié had to come off because of a
knock to the head he never showed fear
as he strapped up the boots with men
nearly twice his age. Likewise, Nieto,
a man known in his homeland for his
cow-wrangling abilities, displayed his
quickness and strength. As the day
wore on it became evident that the
Killer Bs were slightly outmatched
with the fast-paced style that is 10s
rugby. Although they did not get the
results that they desired the day was
not a waste. The Killer Bs held their
heads high and took solace in the fa-
mous phrase “we’ll live to fight an-
other day.”
Killer Bs Gain Valuable Experience...Even Without Their Stingers
the ref’s whistle. Nevertheless, the Ko-
rean opposition played hard, fair and to
the whistle but it looked like one of those
days where the expats would have to
completely dominate the opposing team
to have any chance of advancing. In the
tight exchanges, the 50/50 calls seemed
to all go one way and even the more
obvious decisions seemed to be out of the
ref’s grasp.
Eventually, the A team slipped away at
the last moment in overtime but left the
field holding heads high knowing that
the 2009 Survivors are fully capable of
fielding quality rugby teams that can
stand up to the best on the peninsula.
Look out for the Survivors 10s squads in Gumi early October.
Name: Jordan
Smigelsky
Nickname: Fratboy
Position: Prop
Birthdate: 04/03/1982
Hometown: Caledon, Ontario,
Canada
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