Sunday Afternoon

Pukekos held their regular card session at Carpmael Stadium. With such wonderful activities including XBOX, Chor Dai Dee and beverage consumption games - it was a great Bash. Some darn good KFC too. Two pukekos found the days activites quite exhausting and needed a little nap before the second round...

The littlest Pukeko

The Pukekos congratulate Tim "Swerve" and Amanda Graham on their 1st pukeko to join the family! Lachlan Pukeko Graham. He will be out on the touch field in no time...

OMD Pukeko STL Mixed Champions 2006

The Pukeko Mixed team defeated the Brotown mixed 7-5 in a hard fought final to take the championship for the Touch Singapore Summer Touch League 2006.
It was a muddy messy affair with the OMD Pukekos down at half 5-4.
But steel, experience, resolve and the heart of a champion shone through.
Congratulations to the team for a successful and UNDEFEATED campaign and we look forward to the NTL. The Ladies stepped up and showed their class as some of the best female players in Singapore.

In other games - a depleted and understrength OMD Pukeko Mens side went down to a fullforce Brotown team 10-3. Finishing as runner up for the first time since the competition began. The boys put in a proud effort with only 3 substitutes and without 3 of their key players. The rematch looks like one to be watched- with the series tally going 1-1 as OMD Pukeko defeated Bro-town in the roundrobin series.

Insights Ideas Results ...OMD PUKEKO!

Orangecone

Greg reminds us about our boy "Orangecone" - That player 'orange cone' in the 2005 pic- he was the best!! He always stayed out on the wing- but was pretty crap at passing and catching.

A quote from Moses - "Yeah, I remember having to mark him out wide when I was playing for Bedok, it always seemed like you guys had an extra man on the pitch, I could never really figure out why."

Anyway good old Orangecone moved on from Singapore to take up a posting in the Big Apple, New York. He sent us a photo recently of him and his mates on the streets of New York. Nice one Oc.

STL Standings Update 2006

Sitting at the top of the table are the proud and triumphant OMD Pukekos with BROtown breathing with alcoholic breath down their backs...The clash of the competition will be another top-of-the-table confrontation with two undefeated teams facing off - OMD Pukekos and BROtown.
Conventional wisdom says - Defense wins Championships...

No	Team	P	W	D	L	B	FF	F	A	Pts	Diff	Ave
1	OMD Pukeko	7	7	0	0	0	0	71	8	21	63	10.14
2	Bro-Town	7	7	0	0	0	0	73	18	21	55	10.43
3	Six Packs	7	5	0	2	0	0	41	16	17	25	5.86
4	Bucks IPA	7	5	0	2	0	0	37	29	17	8	5.29
5	Tapgun	7	2	0	3	0	2	19	25	9	-6	2.71
6	Bedok	7	3	0	4	0	0	32	43	13	-11	4.57
7	Bucks Undertakers	7	2	1	4	0	0	27	49	12	-22	3.86
8	Nuck-Fose	7	1	0	5	0	1	8	60	8	-52	1.14
9	Goodies	7	1	1	5	0	0	32	58	10	-26	4.57
10	Bucks Pilsners	7	1	0	6	0	0	29	63	9	-34	4.14

STL Postponed April 8th 2006

Just a note. Touch Singapore has postponed round 8 of the STL 8th April 2006 due to the Singapore Rugby Sevens in town. See you all there! The League will resume on 22nd April after the Easter Break. Happy holidays and stay fit. Eat lots of chocolate...

STL Match Report Round 7

Mens Open

OMD Pukekos faced off in a top of the table clash with the young SRC six pack lads. The game was fast paced and full of intensity. Great spirit showed by both teams however OMD Pukeko struck first with an easy draw and pass play on a lazy winger - Dr Somers making the perfect scoring pass to the Bowser to open the account. The OMD Pukekos were fired up for this one ! Some big hits were involved and hard touches effected where the ref had to send off one of the six pack...

A few rushed chances by the Pukies were taken on the line and opportunities werent quite finished off with a few loose passes going to ground. However , with tough flying defence in the face of the opposition and pressure counting against the six packs - Captain Cliff made a second sweet pass to Mo on the wing to score a huge try at the midway point of the 1st half.

The 3rd try came from a hard drag-dump and split from Dev and the Doctor swooping in to shoot from half and find Dev back on the cut for a sweet diving try and a 3 - 0 lead.

2nd half found OMD Pukekos up 3-1 and the final score would be 5-3 with great defense throughout the 2nd half and both teams running to a standstill. Danny boy made a huge intercept to keep the foot on the throat and run 70m for a big try.

The entire team had a well focused effort and they prepare for a 1 vs 2 match up against Bro-town in the coming weeks. Big contributions from Bus, Timmy, Jonesy with the driving platform.

Man of the match award : Greg Somers (Thankfully there were no old men on the opposition team as they normally chase him down.)

Try Scorers: Bao, Moses, Dev, Greg, Dan

STL 2006

Latest results

Mens Open Pukeko - 12 vs Bucks IPA - 0
Mixed Open Pukeko - 11 vs Bedok 2 - 2


Currently both Pukeko teams are undefeated going into round 7 of the STL. We hope to keep that record intact for the entire season, fingers crossed...

2005 Touch Singapore Summer Touch League Champions

2005 Touch Singapore Summer Touch League Champions

Top left - right: Greg, Cliff, AJ, Bus, Nilesh
Bottom left - right: Bob, Orange Cone, Huffer, Jonesy, Dev

Founding members of the Pukeko Mens Touch Champions 2005.

The 2006 STL Team

2006 Mens Open OMD Pukekos

Players

David Devonshire
Clifford Wong
Devon Wong
AJ Lee
Moses
Dr. Greg Somers
Bao Huynh
Mark Jones
Chris Mc Namara
Jeremy Doherty
Simon Gobbo
Daniel Mar
Tim Graham
Dan Guernez

Mixed Pukeko Ladies

Karen Tham
Anne Goh
Joanne Chan
Derelyn Chua
Wei Yi Ang
Kimberly Kiong
Claire

Sponsors

The 2006 Summer Touch League team is proudly sponsored by:

OMD - Omnicommedia Group are proud sponsors of the OMD PUKEKO Teams.

SportsNET Asia is our equipment sponsor.

We'd like to give thanks to our sponsors - OMD for our flash new uniforms and SportsNET for the balls we play with. Oi !

Interested in sponsoring the best touch team in Singapore.... contact pukekosports@gmail.com

About Us - Pukeko Touch

Pukeko Touch is a Singapore based touch football club with a focus on competitive touch.

The Pukekos were born in 2005 and stamped their name in the history books by winning the 2005 touch singapore (www.touchsingapore.org) Summer Touch League Mens Open division.

In 2006, the Pukekos have expanded to two teams; A mens open team and a Mixed team which compete in the Summer Touch League 2006.

We train hard and play hard just like any other sports team and some might say we take our sports a little more seriously than others - we say its just that much more fun that way !
If you are interested in playing touch and have some background in the sport contact us for more information - pukekosports@gmail.com