The Arabian Potbellies [Club mottos carpe noctem & video et taceo ]
The Arabian Potbellies are the younger brothers of the world famous Hong Kong Potbellied Pigs. As is the way of expatriate rugby players we don’t tend to stay in one place too long and as we are all motivated by the ‘next big job’, it is no surprise that a number of Hong Kong Piggies ended up living and working in the Middle East (mostly in the UAE).
So we all have much in common, a love of playing rugby, large waistlines and a sincere aversion to rugby training. These things don’t necessarily go together, especially when the local rugby clubs that you may wish to join insist on regular attendance at rugby training sessions.
The only thing to do was to form our own club and seek out other rugby players of a similar frame of mind (& body) to join us.
So the Arabian Potbellies were born (it was not pretty) in the Autumn of 2006 when we found out that a team had dropped out of the Dubai International Veterans 10s competition, only a few weeks before the event and we jumped at the chance to enter. We lost, bravely, all of our games that weekend and played against some very good teams in the process … but we had a great time doing so.
The Potbellies are now officially formed and an Associate Member of the Arabian Gulf RFU. The Borneo 10s will be our first tour as club, but certainly not our last.
Watch out for the fattest wingers in the entire competition.
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