Thursday, June 5, 2008

The famous Anchorman rugby club

When we mention rugby in Malaysia...the name Anchorman club will be up there among the rugby great especially during the late seventies and early eighties...this generation will remember names like 'cisco,arif,shahid the master mind,che mat,wak,chicken,jamal dud,rosnan,scar,sam,yatt,rahman,boy,tod,sabri,hisham,ikram,sunny,joey,jabar,gerk,the late castro,atan,chang,nik,bull,huzir,amran,kayu,lanun,norman,latif,zek etc.etc....

They played hard but entertaining brand of rugby that brought cheers from the spectators...each and every players have their own unik styles...and in che mat (former seap games long jump champion and ex national rugby star)they had one of the best fitness coach in malaysia rugby and in shahid majid ( bro.of jazz queen sheila majid)they have the best rugby coach in Malaysia..
they won all the major trophies in malaysia and was unfortunate not to have won the first asian club rugby tournament in bangkok,Thailand 1981...they obtain only a third placing cos they lost a goal difference to the Thai police and thus fail to qualify for the final...

Anchorman is anchorman...they fear nobody but themselves...and this same club formed Federal Terittory rugby union in 1981 and this same players played for FT and won the Malaya cup,national 7's in 1981 and national u/23 in 1982 in their first outing...but as years past and financial difficulties,this club had to go and vanished in thin air...but the legacy they left behind will be remember for A VERY VERY LONG TIME.

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