Season 3

Tentatively, these are the calculations for the Season 3. The negative connotation at the 'Total Balance' determines the amount of money that the you owe the team. A positive one will mean that team owes u that amount of money.

Therefore, for Season 3 at Playsports League, just pay $50 first and I will have a balance of $700+ for next season.

Any changes please contact me because I think there may be some miscalculations.

Thanks!

Some thoughts please

Recently, Boon and myself have been discussing on joining a new league that may accommodate the relentless and unforgiving university schedules. However, my main concern for joining this league is that the games are going to be on either Sat or Sun on different weeks(depending on the availability of pitches) which i think will lead to the inconsistency of the number of players available for games. Also, it would be played on either 3pm or 5pm which i feel, from my point of view, may affect our other social activities.

I will furnish the details for this league here and please tell me what you feel about this league by using voting poll, comments or tagboard.

1. Sporting Light League is spearheaded Mr. Brian Pereira, of Bethesda Frankel Estate Church. This is a Christian influenced league but they accept non-religious groups as well.
2. Games are held on Saturdays or Sundays at a few synthetic fields in S'pore such as First Toa Payoh Sec Sch, Temasek Sec Sch, Meridian JC and etc at either 3pm or 5pm.
3. The league allows rolling substitution throughout.
4. Any team receiving 5 yellows will get 1 pt deducted. Also, 1 red card 1 point deducted, 2 red 2 points and etc. The main reason is to curb rough play.
5. All participating teams will get 2 balls and a medical kit. There will also be a June break.
6. Also, there will be a trophy presentation and a makan session at the end of the season.
7. Cost of competition: $1200/-

Are you going to finish strong?

I hope we can get back up and finish strong.

Events after our acrimonious exit

Hi Kim Yuan,

It is unfortunate that your team has decided to withdraw from the league.
However, as we have book the pitches for your team for March, we will need
to charge your team for the pitches booked.

League outstanding fees: $270 (Matches 5 to 7)
Pitches for March: $150 (8th Mar - Fuhua Secondary, 15th Mar - Fuchun
Secondary, 22nd Mar - Fuchun Secondary)
Total amount: $420

Please get back to me asap. Thanks.

Cheers,
Shaun
http://www.playsports.com.sg

Hi Shaun,

Thanks for the kind understanding. Anyway, I will settle the amount with you asap. May I know what will happen to the $100 deposit?

Regards,
Kim Yuan

Hi Kim Yuan,

The $100 is only refundable upon completion of the league, thus the amount
will not be refunded to your team.

Cheers,
Shaun
http://www.playsports.com.sg

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First, due to the exit, we have got to make these unnecessary payments. I just want to let you guys know that even if we're in the league, we're also wasting $ playing because of the lack of players. Simply to say, to carry on playing with 10-11 players per week, each player has to pay $9 and due to the current situation, I need to divide the amount of $150 unfairly between everyone who has participated in the league. It does not matter whether one has played 1 game or 7 games, the amount will be unfairly divided to $150/17(don't include Peng, Darren, Weilin, Jason Ang, Ethan and Nathan) = $9

Therefore, if a player like, e.g. Zhonglun, Josh, Ah Liang and Long, has played in every game this season, they will have to fork out $72. BUT, due to the accumulation of $ brought forward from previous seasons, some may not have to fork out at all and $ will be used from that 'reserve'.

The formula is: You play more, you pay more and we know your COMMITMENT to the cause.

For now, I'm still calculating the amount of money everyone owes to the team and vice-versa and please forgive me if I'm taking a long while due to my other commitments such as school, nursing home, police and GF :( . For now, I would try to clear the Playsports debt ASAP because our name are already bad enough in the league with real damning remarks.

Finally, it is solely MY decision to withdraw from the league.

Personally, I would like to apologize to 'new' players like Guoxing, Hanting, Ah Liang and Razee for recruiting you guys to play football together and harshly taking it away from you. This issue has been a perennial problem since the start of our season 2 back in Div 4 Espzen and I feel that we're not enjoying our games anymore. There are reasons aplenty and I do not want to dwell into that, for it seems pointless anyway. I apologize again for making such a huge decision without consulting anyone of you and if anyone was to be blamed, please direct it at me.

Looking back, when we first envisaged on joining an amateur league in Jan 2008 after dominating those senseless friendlies, there were some who commented that the team would become too serious and lose all the fun of Sunday football. I disagreed.

But now, it seems that my forever-injured friend was right after all.

P/S: PLEASE DO NOT THINK I'M BEING 'EMO'. These are just some of my honest thoughts. Assholes.

Due to unfortunate and inconvenient circumstances, and the resulting lack of commitment, we are withdrawing from Playsports with immediate effect.

To paraphrase Adib: A soccer team has its up and downs. We had our fair share of ups and now is the time for downs. We will be back once everyone has rediscovered that hunger to achieve something together and play to the best of our individual and collective abilities. We are NOT disbanding, we are just taking time off after a long and unfruitful season.

It's been a real honour and pleasure playing alongside you guys all these years, and I hope to do so again in the near future. ESPZEN Sunday League Season 11 kicks off in June/July. Meanwhile, let's watch Manchester United massacre the competition together!