The Crazy Gang.

One thing amongst others that has been keeping my time here in Maastricht an awesome one is the rugby team that i joined here. I am pretty glad me joining a rugby club here materialized else i think i would have gave lacrosse a try. Let me just give you a short description of what happens at the Maraboes Rugby club.

In terms of rugby standings, we have been unfortunate in the league winning only 6 matches out of 20 plus games before i arrived, but ever since i touched down, i have been fortunate to be part of 3 victories which i managed to get some play time and the team's really getting stronger.
lee editing: poh not trying to say that he's solid gold ;D

In terms of club craziness, i must say that this club is really insane. The rituals they do; to get first initiated as a "Maraboe" you first have to play 5 matches for the club ( i am at 3), this is only the easy part. To signify that you have become initiated, you will be given the Maraboes tie to wear for pre-games gatherings, basically what happens is that before the match, be it home or away, the guys gather all wearing suits and wearing the Maraboes ties, they look really smart let me tell you that, if you are not initiated you wear an "eggy-tie" its basically a white pathetic cloth with you name on it haha. I realised like at all pre-games function, i am the only one not in a suit or a tie, partly because i cant seem to afford a suit here so i just walk into the club house in an old sports shirt and my track pants with holes due to cycling and the wind blows my pants into the bicycle chains and gets ripped (just imagaine that, disgrace) and yes its a disgrace man when everyone is so smartly dressed having a nice coffee before the match ala gala dinner,

Bart and Regisssss

and i waltz in some random clothing haha its cool my excuse "he's asian". Oh let me get to the hard part, so after your 5th match, to be initiated, you have to stand ontop of this platform on the field stark naked, yes this is naked with kids, grannies and grandpas hanging ard and you got to drink a huge mug of beer, before you gulp down the beer to chants, the beer will be splashed in your face and your balls, then you drink it while all your teammates just spit or pour beer onto you. haha then after that you gotta sing the Maraboes song! wala, a Maraboe born!

They also have this thing called the boot drink if you screwed up in some way or another or just that someone has nothing to do and cook up some random excuse for you to drink, what happens is that they take an old boot from the clubhouse and fill it up with beer and you have to drink it from that.

There's also a power up version of the boot drink game called the anal-boot drink which is even more grusomely hilarious which instead of pouring beer direct into the boot, you get the nastiest rugger to wear the boot, and they pour the beer down his back, down his crack, down his thighs and legs into the boot with it soaked with the grossest set of toes in down south Netherlands, then you drink it.

The traditions are INSANE.

The players, are equally insane, just randomly stripping each other in public, and they enjoy inflicting pain on each other which is rather amusing cause its like watching faces of death waiting to happen live. Nevertheless, its been an awesome time for me.

Poh

Pre-game: Dennis, Remy (1 half of the bash brothers), Mark

Slack.

Wrapped up.

Half time.

"Ed-chey" the other half of the bash brothers

Brian, also happens to be lead singer of OneRepublic famous for hits like
"Apologize" and "Stop and Stare" and also brilliant full-back.