Al Khor Amateurs RFC

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Al Khor (Mixed with Blue Pheonix/ French) will play Doha Vets on Thursday evening at Doha Rugby Club. All supporters are welcome.

Please add names to supporters list if you are interested and if you would like to travel on the bus.

Bus with leave Al Waha Club at 4.15pm on Thursday afternoon. Supporters are welcome to come on the bus.

🏉 Al Khor/French v Doha Vets
📍 Doha Rugby Club
🕰 Kick off 7pm
🗓 Thursday 7th March

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When the battle scars have faded
And the truth becomes a lie
And the weekend smell of liniment
Could almost make you cry.

When the last rucks well behind you
And the man that ran now walks
It doesn’t matter who you are
The mirror sometimes talks

Have a good hard look old son!
The melons not that great
The snoz that takes a sharp turn sideways
Used to be dead straight

You’re an advert for arthritis
You’re a thoroughbred gone lame
Then you ask yourself the question
Why the hell you played the game?

Was there logic in the head knocks?
In the corks and in the cuts?
Did common sense get pushed aside?
By manliness and guts?

Do you sometimes sit and wonder
Why your time would often pass
In a tangled mess of bodies
With your head up someone’s......?

With a thumb hooked up your nostril
Scratching gently on your brain
And an overgrown Neanderthal
Rejoicing in your pain!

Mate – you must recall the jersey
That was shredded into rags
Then the soothing sting of Dettol
On a back engraved with tags!

It’s almost worth admitting
Though with some degree of shame
That your wife was right in asking
Why the hell you played the game?

Why you’d always rock home legless
Like a cow on roller skates
After drinking at the clubhouse
With your low down drunken mates

Then you’d wake up – check your wallet
Not a solitary coin
Drink Berocca by the bucket
Throw an ice pack on your groin

Copping Sunday morning sermons
About boozers being losers
While you limped like Quasimodo
With a half a thousand bruises!

Yes – an urge to hug the porcelain
And curse Sambuca’s name
Would always pose the question
Why the hell you played the game!

And yet with every wound re-opened
As you grimly reminisce it
Comes the most compelling feeling yet
God, you bloody miss it!

From the first time that you laced a boot
And tightened every stud
That virus known as rugby
Has been living in your blood

When you dreamt it when you played it
All the rest took second fiddle
Now you’re standing on the sideline
But your hearts still in the middle

And no matter where you travel
You can take it as expected
There will always be a breed of people
Hopelessly infected

If there’s a teammate, then you’ll find him
Like a gravitating force
With a common understanding
And a beer or three, of course

And as you stand there telling lies
Like it was yesterday old friend
You’ll know that if you had the chance
You’d do it all again

You see – that’s the thing with rugby
It will always be the same
And that, I guarantee
Is why the hell you played the game!

Source: by Rupert McCall
Picture: Carolina Martinez

Al Khor will play their first game of the season against DRFC Warriors this weekend. Come along and support the rugby boys....💪🏉

🗓 Friday 18th January
📌 Doha Rugby Club
🕰 Kick off 5pm

Boxing Day touch rugby, swetting the beer and Turkey out of us. Lower number this year but still good fun..... 🎅🍺🦃🏉💪🎄🇶🇦

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A few people have been asking where we train on a Monday evening. Training at 7pm. Use gate number 2 to enter the community.

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Pre Season rugby training 🏉 💪

🗓 Monday 3rd September
🕰 7pm
📌 New Field, Al Khor Community.
👤 Old & New players welcome.

Fitness ✔
Skills and conditioning ✔
Touch rugby ✔

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End of Season awards 🏆

Player's Player of the Year - Thomas O'Brien

Player of the Year - Marvin Ternan

Club Man of the Year - Chad Cross

Young Player of the Year - Connor O'Brien

Jersey Presentation - Paul Jenkins, leaving after 5 season with the club. (Good luck for the future Jenks from all at Al Khor Rugby Club 🏉💪)

Thanks to everyone for all the support and we look forward to seeing you all next season 🏉👏👏🍻🥂🍾