Whilst most other teams were taking a summer break, Raiders lived up to its members promise to provide an 11-a-side football match every weekend of the year (except a very few…). A sometimes threadbare squad continued to fly the flag and had some good friendly games with local teams including a 2-2 last Sunday (scorers Buisan R, Hoff J) and MOM Sebastian Brochard, a 3-2 victory the week before that and a 5-4 defeat three weeks ago (Kotze H and Harrold P amongst the scorers that day).

Raiders now go into pre-season looking forward to a new local rivalry with Saigon Hot Shots, the transformed team replacing Les Gaulois in this years SIFL. The game is on Sunday at Phuoc Long, KO 5.30pm.