Rugby Union In The Philippines!!!!!

[cappelan]

Hi,

FYI websites regarding Rugby in the Philippines:

email me for info on rugby and how i found out about your site@

For those interested on more info contact Jay on [email protected] or Trevor on [email protected] - these emails are located on the PRFU website.

 

[Scarby]

interesting!!!

 

[fcukcov]

blatant spamming. hope he has been banned.

 

[cappelan]

I'm a Filipino/Australian excited that my parent’s country of birth have local players finally taking up the game I love. Filipino locals have started playing Union in some numbers since 2003. Thought I wanted to share this information to the World Rugby community.

I've posted my original post in 33 other forums with no issues. They have been sports, Filipino Diaspora community & rugby forums. They were local Filipino, UK, Eire, Canada, Micronesia, Thailand, USA (& Hawaii), Hong Kong, PNG, New Zealand & Australian forums.

The aim of providing all those websites by me was a proud sharing of information on the achievements of a new sport trying to make headway in the local Filipino community which is "Basketball mad". I am aiming to tell as many Filipinos and Rugby followers in cyber space that Rugby is finally being played by Filipino locals.

I also aimed at informing Filipinos in the Diaspora that if they are playing Rugby in their adopted home or country of birth that they have a Philippine side they can research. Filipinos with O/S experience can short track the development of Rugby in the Philippines.

Take a look at the current South East Asian Games in the Philippines for the first time this year the National team recruited 6 Filipino expats last Wednesday they lost to South East Asian champions Thailand 1-0 when they usually loose 5-0. Today they beat Cambodia for the first time in their history 4-2(the Philippines has been playing football since the beginning of last century).

The current India Rugby team is another example of Expat players improving the National team and creating a foothold for the sport in a Cricket mad country. They beat Malaysia, lost to Kazhakstan & drew with Guam in this years Rugby World cup Asian zone qualifying matches. All because they had British lower grade players in their team. Mind you this may mean nothing to a lot of people but it does help develop the local Indian Rugby scene.

The local Filipino Rugby scene deserves the same chances to develop their game locally and I am doing my bit as a "lover" of the game to make sure it retains its tentative foothold in the Philippines.

 

[Scarby]

you should have at least intoduced yourself first!

And no affence but this is a Football based forum and not many people are interested in the rugby and if they are its Leicester Tigers or England!

Have you any connection with leicester what so ever

 

[cappelan]

No. But I know they slaughtered the Indian National Rugby Team when they toured the UK either last year or the year before.

My hobby is following Asian zone and specifically South East Asian zone rugby so I was really excited when Filipinos started playing Rugby 2 years ago. I also collect mostly Asian Rugby jerseys and have 71 of them from all over Asia and some minor Pacific Island and South American countries. I'm in the email loop of the PRFU executive and have been posting material for them in a number of Filipino sites for about a year and a half now.

2 months ago I had a brain wave of posting PRFU information in international sites and discovered 33 sites (Rugby, Filipino sports and community sites mostly) I am now posting in including this one.

Mate this forum site has a Rugby section that is good enough for me.

So will the website links I originally posted be reposted?

 

[Durham Fox]

With the idea that anybody else will be interested in Filipino rugby?

 

[Scarby]

No. But I know they slaughtered the Indian National Rugby Team when they toured the UK either last year or the year before.

My hobby is following Asian zone and specifically South East Asian zone rugby so I was really excited when Filipinos started playing Rugby 2 years ago. I also collect mostly Asian Rugby jerseys and have 71 of them from all over Asia and some minor Pacific Island and South American countries. I'm in the email loop of the PRFU executive and have been posting material for them in a number of Filipino sites for about a year and a half now.

2 months ago I had a brain wave of posting PRFU information in international sites and discovered 33 sites (Rugby, Filipino sports and community sites mostly) I am now posting in including this one.

Mate this forum site has a Rugby section that is good enough for me.

So will the website links I originally posted be reposted?

repost them if you want!


but i cant imagine anybody will want to click on them!!

and if you dont use the rest of forum within a week i will delete the thread as its spamming

 

[cappelan]

With the hope that a 1st generation Filipino expat in the UK, Eire or where ever in the world will stumble onto this site or the 32 others I post in and contact the PRFU and offer to play for the National team.

In the past year an a half I've had a Filipino in PNG & USA contact the PRFU due to my cyberspace postings and research.

 

[Scarby]

With the hope that a 1st generation Filipino expat in the UK, Eire or where ever in the world will stumble onto this site or the 32 others I post in and contact the PRFU and offer to play for the National team.

In the past year an a half I've had a Filipino in PNG & USA contact the PRFU due to my cyberspace postings and research.

well done

 

[Durham Fox]

With the hope that a 1st generation Filipino expat in the UK, Eire or where ever in the world will stumble onto this site or the 32 others I post in and contact the PRFU and offer to play for the National team.

In the past year an a half I've had a Filipino in PNG & USA contact the PRFU due to my cyberspace postings and research.

So by 2018 you should have a squad??

 

[cappelan]

ORIGINAL POST 24/11 THANKS

BY 2018 I HOPE WE ARE REGULARLY BEATING THE OTHER SOUTH EAST ASIAN TEAMS Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia & Singapore.

BTW is it ok to post PRFU press releases I get from the executive?

Hi,

FYI websites regarding Rugby in the Philippines:

http://www.ceburugby.com/

http://gjphoto.smugmug.com/Sports

http://www.manila10s.com/

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/mar/26/yehey/life/20040326lif6.html

http://www.nomadsrugby.com/

http://www.nomadsportsclub.com/sports_rugby.aspx

http://www.pbase.com/danieldy/rugby

http://www.philippinerugby.com/

http://www.prfu.com/

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/maaprufc/

http://www.virtual-asia.com/ph/leisure/recreation/rugby.html

For those interested on more info contact Jay on [email protected] or Trevor on [email protected] - these emails are located on the PRFU website www.prfu.com/ They would be interested in hearing from any local Pinoys who play Rugby Union & I guess Rugby League anywhere in the world.

 

[Scarby]

so the only reason you are posting in other forums and this one is to hopefully find a player with Filipino bloody!

try this forum to spam i mean spam in!

www.foxestalk.co.uk

 

[cappelan]

About right. I see it as the little bit I do for the promotion of Filipino Rugby.

I'm a youth worker. I've worked with our new Wallaby Tatafu Nau. He has been an inspiration to a lot of the Polynesian kids who attend our centre in Sydney's west. There was a Filipino I was told about who plays in his local colts team so I gave him the same information I've posted in the sites. He ended up contacting the PRFU and spoke to them about playing for the National side.

For me any Filipino with Rugby experience even in the lower grades from Eire, NZ, Aust, Canada, USA and the UK will have better skills than the local players who have been only playing for 2 years so will add to any National team.

Also I am hopping that this exposure may encourage Filipino expats to take up the Rugby game in their home country and be future Internationals their or back in the Philippines.

Craig Wing the Australian Rugby League Hooker currently playing in the Tri-Nations series in the UK is Filipino/Australian. There has been an increase in Filipinos playing Rugby League in Australia since Craig has been palying Rugby league.

 

[Scarby]

why would they look on a Leicester City Football Club forum if they wanna play rugby for The Phillipines?

Surely its best stick to sites that at least have something to do with it!

 

[cappelan]

Hoping to catch ones just surfing the net I didn't know this was a specialist club site all I did was a google search and typed in "Rugby Union Forums" and this was one of the sites that turned up so I just posted on it.

That's how I discovered all the other sites I post in just surfing in google.

 

[cappelan]

BTW thanks for the fox site I'll post there too.

 

[cappelan]

Just checked out the fox site thats a soccer (you can tell I'm Aussie) site no Rugby sections so I'll search for other sites with Rugby of Filipino Expat forums.

Thanks for all the discussions I've enjoyed it.

 

[Scarby]

Just checked out the fox site thats a soccer (you can tell I'm Aussie) site no Rugby sections so I'll search for other sites with Rugby of Filipino Expat forums.

Thanks for all the discussions I've enjoyed it.

try other sports on it!!!

its a also about Leicester

 

[cappelan]

Thanks I'll try them.

This is the difference Filipino expat players can make even if they are playing lower grade competetions:

http://www.tribune.net.ph/

RP booters blast Cambodians
By Olmin Leyba
Saturday, 11 26, 2005

"BACOLOD CITY— It was just fitting Emelio Calidgong, an Ilonggo from this football-crazy region, capped a huge effort by the Philippines to end a harrowing 10-year slump in the 23rd Southeast Asian Games with a 4-2 triumph over Cambodia Friday.

Caligdong, from Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, conspired with Filipino-British recruit James Younghusbands and Philip Greatwich and team captain Ali Borromeo in scoring the goals for the Filipinos before a jubilant sellout crowd at the Panaad pitch. Cambodia absored its second loss in as many games.
With the triumph, the country's first since a 1-0 escape act over lowly Brunei in the 1995 Chiangmai Games, the hosts kept their chances for the next round alive with a 1-0-1 win-draw-loss card and two points."

" The four goals could be the most production in recent memory for the Filipinos, who did not take part in the 2001 and 2003 editions because they had weak chances. "

"Younghusband, whose credential as a Chelsea reserve made him an apple of the eye here, started scoring for the Filipinos with his cannonball from 50 yards at the 11th minute."

These quotes from todays newspaper articles shows the difference overseas born Filidinos can make to the National team especially in sports that are struggling for any local support themselves. This is especially true for Football in the Philippines and Rugby Union will experience the same local indiference because Basketball is so dominant in the Filipino psyce.