Dear Bears. After the sad summer where too many experienced Bears (Christian, Eric, Thomas, Philippe, Nicolas, Guillaume) have left their Indonesian retreat, we had some difficulties to start our activity. Result, no Bali 10's 2009, poor numbers of rugbymen...
Coucou!!! Ca fait longtemps que personne n'a pris 2 minutes pour relater quoi que ce soit sur ce blog!!! Faut-il arreter le blog? ..... certainement pas, car vous etes nombreux a y jeter regulierement un coup d' oeil... 70 pages consultees tous les mois...
Happy New Year 2010 to all Bears lovers...link Some news written from the cold snowy French winter (God! -4/5 Celsius, snow and ice, who is talking about global warming?) to wish you a very cool and funky New Year 2010, health, beers and a lot of tackles...
Who are we ? Managed by expatriates (from the Oil industry mainly), the Balikpapan Rugby Team is composed of both Indonesian and expatriates players, from all levels and experience. For the past few years, we regularly participated in Indonesian rugby...
Congratulations on Balikpapan Bears participation to Jakarta 10’s tournament, and thanks to our partners for their help. It was a tough day for all of us, very hard job, with several injuries (especially Hugo), some disappointment also … but we had a...
TOUCH RUGBY & DRINKS NEXT SUNDAY, Feb. 17th – 10:00am - COMMUNITY CENTER You do not know what to do next Sunday? Maybe you need a bit of sport ... or do you prefer a drink on the pitch side? So come and participate in a Touch Rugby or Tag Rugby next Sunday,...
Recently we've had a good game on the pitch with new faces. Everyone from last season is glad to welcome new comers either from Total or not. Unfortunately Eric is leaving soon after 2 trainings only. Hope he continues to train in Argentina ! The'yre...
Dear bears, Last saturday, on 7th of June 2008 in the TOTAL pitch at the community centre, we could assist to the 2008 Bears jubilee. The game started at 4pm and involved two sides from Balikpapan fighting for the JUBILEE trophy. It was be a 12's aside,...
C'est dans la tourmente que finalement les Balikpapan Bears envoient un contingent de 14 joueurs à la version 2008 du Tournoi de Bali, une version dont le niveau rugbystique était hautement relevé, avec les vainqueurs des versions 2006, 2007, et l'équipe...
Good morning, Thanks all for your support &/or participation to the Jakarta 10's. Some good news for our Indonesian wing number 14, VICTOR, who is short-listed to play for the national Indonesian team RHINOS. He will participate to an International tournament...
After years of heroic playing all around Asia , the Balikpapan rugby team has finally decided to make its own website! We play rough but fair, fast and precise and never have been beaten up (in 3rd half time). We also (sometimes ) play 1st and 2nd half...
Selamat pagi, Just a little message to inform you that some photos have been added, to see them you just need to click on the photo on the right of the screen named "Bali 10's 2007". If someone has a photo of Florent, please send it to me (Thomas Dieuzeide)...
Guys, Let's remember the French Flair, the partial refereeing to farewell our beloved drilling colleagues. Pictures are posted on the blog. Just enjoy!!! A comment from a women spectator... "They fight each other for an hour, but at the end, they are...
We had an excellent training session yesterday, 20 people on the pitch... good game but 2 knee injuries have been reported. Regarding the rules; let's try to sum up some that could be followed a little more... - Defense distance after a touch: defense...
READY TO GO ???