January 2000 was a VERY unhappening month for Dasch Rovers. Everyone was drunk celebrating the whole month or something, as we only managed to squeeze in one late match on 30 Jan versus Deaf Club. (And sorry that this month's editorial is late.. I have been tied down and busy with various other things ok..)

Match vs Deaf Club

A pretty satisfying game for us, as we romped to a 4-2 victory to maintain our winning streak. What a reversal of fortunes... remember the early stages of last season when Dasch just can't stop losing? Now, we just can't stop winning. (Guys, if any of our cynics/critics say it's because we purposely always play inferior opposition this season, let's kill that traitor ok... we have a reputation to maintain y'know..) An outstanding show from us this time.. Mingheng, Raymond and Cheng Cai were on awesome attacking form, and the midfield and defence of Eng Kiat (braving his illness to play 1 half), Kenneth (for once, Captain Marvel), Yiying (those brilliant headers! those tireless legs!), Lester (solid and reliable as ever), Desmond (our 2-goal hero) and Chek Keng (very useful in defence and attack) played out of their skins, and 'keeper RuiBin's many classy saves even earned the praise of the opponents. The only things lacking were: 1) subs... so can the rest of our star players try to turn up in future? 2) supporters... so please try to bring along your girlfriends and girl friends and (underaged) sisters next time ok.. Hope to see more bodies on our bench in future.

Again, all credit to Deaf Club for their performance, esp in the 2nd half. Actually, contrary to Kenneth's idea that the Deaf players can't communicate effectively over the field, it is only true in the sense that they are disadvantaged when they dun have direct line of sight to one another.. for example if one of our players run in from the blind side, their defender can't shout out a warning to his other team-mates, and if they are not facing each other, they can't sign.. remember, their world is largely visual. Otherwise, communication is definitely not a problem among themselves. Anyway, to them.. we say "Thanks for a good game!"

Lastly, maybe one lesson from this game is the need for a neutral referee in future.. that is, if we intend to play with a referee.. some of the refereeing decisions in this match were extremely dubious, to say the least. The final scoreline should have been 4-1... as the opponents' 2nd goal clearly dropped over the (ruffia string) crossbar, and both penalties conceded by us were arguably not deliberate hand-balls (well... Desmond's I'm 100% sure, but Kenneth's? *cough cough cough*) But, in the spirit of the game, we do not officially dispute the referee's decisions, hence we just played on then.. though we are very much aggrieved by them. [Note: Pls see the joint match report by the editors for more details on this match.]

DaschWeb SCORES...

Some interesting stats regarding the visitors to Dasch Web... According to our tracking program (to our visitors, don't worry about your privacy.. we still don't know who you are, only some basic info like.. the no. of guests, frequency of visits, date visited..)

> from the time it was set up in July 1999, DaschWeb has welcomed 3517 different visitors (as at 2 Feb 2000).. a real impressive figure for an 'act stupid' website.

> since I doubt very much that we Dasch guys have that many girlfriends and lovers, it should be safe to say that the vast majority of visitors are people whom we don't know.. > it's very flattering, puzzling and amazing that so many folks has taken the time and trouble to read/look at our stupid newsletters, stupid match reports, stupid editorials, stupid polls, stupid forum messages and sexy photos.. (oi, wait a minute... maybe the last factor explains it all..)

> we have some ang moh visitors too! (that is, besides my dear fellow Saints fan, Justin)... 163 visits are from Australia, 41 from N. America and 21 from Europe.. Oh man, our quest for world-wide fame starts here..

> ever wonder how our visitors and fans found DaschWeb? Well, many use search engines and type in obvious keywords like "singapore soccer" and "football teams" etc. But there're some spooky X-Files-type keywords used to find us.. like "pics of female legs" (??!! mmm... I guess some of the Dasch players have sissy hairless legs is it?), "girls and boys" (somehow DaschWeb has been mistaken for a teenage auntie agony forum)... and this truly strange one - "austin mini rover car part in singapore" (what the bloody hell!??).. Weird huh? But the No. 1 keyword which is linked to us is.... you got it.. "JCGIRLS"!!.. with about 160 visits due to it. Damn. This is all thanks to our stupid captain-editor-buaya.

> "Yiying" is, believe it or not, one of the keywords used to find DaschWeb... the only Dasch player to get such an honour (or maybe our dear Irwin Sanchez Yip Yiying is the one who typed in this keyword himself..)

To sum up, DaschWeb is attracting lots of hits and interest.. In fact, as the captain mentioned before, Dasch Rovers has received many offers to play from other teams too. So it can be seen that our website has helped raised our profile tremendously.. also, I have gone to other Singapore social soccer websites.. and this is just my opinion, but it seems we have the most entertaining and accessible one by far (mainly cos it is nicely-designed, we don't take ourselves too seriously and our site is regularly updated too...) Well, now.. if only we can find sponsors or paid advertisements on our site or jerseys to go along with all this publicity..

Note: If anyone wants more details on our visitor stats, just click on the square [extreme tracking] icon at the bottom of our homepage.

Let's laugh at...

On a lighter note, it was really damn bloody funny to discover that the reason a certain Dasch player - *Ding Dong - do not wear the official blue-and-white Dasch jersey was because.... he thinks it makes him look fat!

Here, we'll pause 5 minutes to wait for everybody's hysterical laughter to die down.... ... is this ridiculously hilarious or what?? Everyone who bought the jerseys all got the same size ie. XL. That means players like Raymond and Jiamin who are smaller framed also got XL-sized kits... and they do wear the jerseys without such dumb complaints.. erm.. you draw your own conclusions lah.

(*names have been changed to protect the guilty.)

Conclusion and contributions...

... any more feedback and comments from the rest? Note I will not be writing the next editorial for Feb and I hope someone can take over for at least 1 editorial. I see potential in Lester, Rui Bin, Yiying (especially him!!) or Chek Keng to provide next month's commentary.. (hey guys, this is your chance to win friends and influence people, since DaschWeb has such a wide readership... about 3000+ girls at last count.)

and finally.. to all at Dasch,

Happy CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Co-editor,

DaschWeb

Urge to say something? Shout at the co-editor, Alvan at our forum page.