Frontliner's Declassified Floorball Survival Guide. Guide to: Newbies.

*This post was written by fellow Frontliner Sonia Frances, on her personal experience in the Z'liners-PFA Floorball Challenge

When I received a text to join the Z'Liners-PFA Floorball Challenge I agreed. All to have fun and play floorball. Simple enough.

Right. But what's life without a little drama?

First, Manager draws up teams but players drop out like mosquitoes so Manager puts me into the other team as captain. (I only knew what captain means, not what captain does.)

TOURNAMENT DAY- After watching the juniors in action, I just couldn't wait for the women's game to begin. After frantically waiting and registering all the Infernos (sounds like there's a whole army of them) I told my teammates to just have fun and do their best.

Inferno's opening game was against FGA's Elephants and Pineapples (it was funny writing that -sorry, Tania) and I knew this was the only game we could salvage something from. I moved from my usual defensive position to forward. Not my preferred position but hey, why not try something new? Inferno scored the first but the joy was short-lived as Two-Faced Frontliner, Tania Loke equalized for E&P.

Final score: 1-1. Not bad, I would say. Unfortunate to score first and allow an equalizer.

For the game against MGS Ednamodes, I returned to guard the goal like gold. Unfortunately, I viewed it as a mere net, not gold, and conceded four. Ednamodes scored in less than a minute but we managed an equalizer. Ednamodes however scored three more to kill off the game.

Final score: 4-1. At least no telur ayam. I was pleased with the performance of Inferno. They played well for first-timers against a tough team.

The game against UniHawks was something like last year's FA Cup Final where Pompey faced Cardiff. We could be the giant-killers, make it a fairytale but all the pundits were with Pompey. I hate it when pundits are right.

Bad news: We lost. 4-0.
Good news: We played well! (Not to brag or anything.) Playing tactics doesn't do much on newbies, just gives them an idea. My teammates must be real smart (I know Eureka is) cause even I couldn't understand what I told them before the game. I only understood fun.

Inferno faced sister team, Fury for 5th/6th placing and being good sisters, we let Fury captain-cum-Inferno manager, Kew Pei Li score a hattrick. We even scored one for them! Talk about sisterly love. No clue on who scored the own goal though. Final score: 4-0.

Overall, we earned a respectable 6th. The Infernos found it hard to believe and kept asking, "You mean we're not last?!" and I would happily reply, "No." Can't really talk about what they lacked especially in movement and running because I myself am a blunder in that area. So I'll leave it to the Master Yodas to assess that.

I view every tournament as a chance to evaluate myself and see how much I've improved since the last. I would say there's a slight improvement in defending but there's still a long way to go. For now, I'd rather not be forward.

It's like a piece of patchwork. For four people, they did better than expected. -Tania Loke

Not bad la. Frontliners Inferno was like Sonia & Co. just like how E&P was like Tania and Co. -Kew Pei Li

It was better than expected. I got a bruise! -Eureka Foong

While other teams will roar out their team name with lots of semangat, we sounded like zombies with retarded giggles at the end.

Now time to kikis the Sonia and Co. thing.


(All Master Yodas, do assess how Sonia performed and give some feedback. Feel free-- no, obliged, to leave comments.)