As far as I remember, I'm not the type of person that like to handle an event voluntarily or not. So, the best that I could share is about the worst event I've ever attended. For sure I wouldn't remember much about the event because it's not something valuable to be kept as memories but there's still thing that can be share. This was the last picture taken with my school rugby team. This picture alone could describe a thousand emotions to every each of us. This picture was taken right before the match which we thought still had a chance to get through the next round but the results say otherwise.
In 2019, our school rugby team participated in the Super School 15's tournament which also could be described as one of the biggest tournament for school level in Malaysia. My school which was Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah, SAS was considered one of the best team in the history of the tournament which was held every year. However, unlike the previous year, our team was not good enough because many of our key players were injured and our manager even had to included certain player from the junior team. For sure, we have high expectation to grab the title in this tournament because we are a vey high spirited teams.
This tournament also have the grouping format in which all of teams could still qualify to the knockout stage even they are bottom of the table at their group. The first game for us was against English College, EC at our home ground. With the loudness of our fans and the advantage of home turf, we were expected to win the game easily. However, the game ended with EC taking all the points. For the next game, we were up against Sekolah Datuk Abdul Razak, SDAR. This match was very important for us because we need to win to regain the confidence. Unluckily, we also lost in this tight battle.
As for the last game of the group stage, we go against the previous season finalist and what could be said as the greatest team for our batch during the time. It was against Sekolah Menengah Sains Hulu Selangor, SEMASHUR. They have a very well record in each of the tournament they joined as the trophy will always be in their hand. The tense and fear against this team didn't managed to overwhelm us because our team have a pretty good record against them. Skip into the match, it was like what we expected as we could give a good fight to them and the game was very intense. Unluckily, the better team won and they managed to gain control over us in the last minutes which give the victory to them.
We still will play in the knockout stage but the team that we are facing was the top from other group. It was Malay College Kuala Kangsar, MCKK which was the previous season winner and the match also held at their home ground. Into the matchday, fear has nothing on us as this could be the last game for us otherwise we could do the miracle and turn the table. It's either do or die for every each of us. The game was pretty intense but the opponent keep on managing to close themselves to our try line. The game ended and the expected did happen. MCKK won against us over 3 tries. The only reason that I could put blame on was our manager. He didn't even want to do any substitution to our first team players compared to MCKK which implemented rotation sub. This mean that they always change their lineups and will never get tired. Our journey ended that time and it was the last game for us the form 5 students.
I still would like to thanks all of my teammates for always fighting to the end and give their best. Although this memory is bittersweet but I still appreciated it because the moment will all of our friends will keep on living. This was the story of my life and thank you.
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