PUBLISHED ON 18 DEC 2025
Hong Kong China Men’s U20s returned from their successful trip to Singapore – where they secured a 52-0 win over the hosts on Tuesday evening – to play a final match back in Hong Kong before the Christmas break.
The boys took on a Hong Kong China Dragons Barbarians team at King's Park Sports Ground on Sunday night (21 December), in a showcase match featuring two of HKCR's key men's performance programmes.
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Full Time Score:
Hong Kong China Men's U20s 68-12 Hong Kong China Dragons Barbarians (Half Time: U20s 28-7 Dragons Barbarians)
Match Reaction:
Siân Moore, HKCR Head of Performance Pathways
"We are really pleased with the development we've seen within players across this camp and the two matches. Obviously, we are really fortunate to get the results as well, but that wasn't a big focus for us – that was driving development for players on-field and off-field and making them more complete, confident, skilful and adaptable players in order to progress on to the next level.”
The players will now get a bit of rest over Christmas. Then a lot of them will go into New Year's Day Tournament [taking place at Hong Kong Football Club] and then be in our Hysan Academy, which starts in January. There we will have continued physical development in our gym with our S&C staff, but also some unit-specific time as well – and our Hysan Youth Sevens competition in Hong Kong will start soon after that.”
Liam Gordon, Hong Kong China Men’s U20s Second-Row
On the win over the Dragons Barbarians: “It's always great to get out there and put a lot of points on. I think we came up against a good side, and the game had good physical contact throughout. I thought we stuck to our process and had good structure, which is credit to our coaching and training we've done.
On the trip to Singapore: “It is always great to be on tour, and we had a good group of boys who were lucky enough to go out there. After the first 15 minutes in rainy conditions we figured out that we couldn't really play our usual style of footy, such as off-loading and getting the ball out wide quickly. But we grinded it out and then started ticking it over, and we managed to put 52 points on so it was a good outing.”
Teams:
Hong Kong China Men's U20s
Team Management
Siân MOORE – Performance Lead
Sam BEARD – Head Coach
Ben SIFFLEET – Coach
Lane PROCTER – S&C Coach
Christopher TONG – Physiotherapist
Kea HEREWINI – Team Manager
Players (Club / School or University)
- Thunthep PATIPON (Kowloon RFC)
- Ian WONG (USRC Tigers RFC / University of Otago)
- PANG Ho Man William (Kowloon RFC / The Hang Seng University of HK)
- Liam GORDON (Hong Kong Football Club / Anglican Church Grammar School)
- Noah REID (Kowloon RFC / Nord Anglia International School)
- Jordy BLAND (Valley RFC)
- Nicholas DINGLEY (Valley RFC / Open Polytechnic University, NZ)
- Fritz MAHN (Kowloon RFC / Cardiff University)
- Gabriel HORBERRY (Loughborough University)
- Jack JOYCE (University of Mary Washington)
- Freddie BROWN (Loughborough University)
- Russell CARMICHAEL (HKU Sandy Bay / University of Nottingham)
- Kian FALAHATI (HKU Sandy Bay RFC / St.Peter’s School Cambridge, NZ)
- Huw HAND (Kowloon RFC / Kellett International School)
- Aidan SMART (HKU Sandy Bay RFC / West Island School)
- Morgan HANSON (Kowloon RFC / Nord Anglia International School)
- CHAN Kwun Ting Marcus (USRC Tigers)
- CHIU Yat Fu Davy (HKU Sandy Bay RFC / Tong Kwok Wah Secondary School)
- Omar SHARIF (HKU Sandy Bay RFC / ISF Academy)
- Andrew DURANT (Valley RFC)
- Tomos HAND (Kowloon RFC / Kellett International School)
- Oliver FISHER (Kowloon RFC)
- Floris KENNES (Valley Fort RFC)
Hong Kong China Dragons Barbarians
HUNG Ka Lok
Aidan HUANG
Ken ENCARCION
Toby JURECKA
Oscar WESTON
HO Yin Hui
Augstine MULCAHY
Alex BROOKS
LAI Joshua
Thomas CHUNG
Billy LUNG
Leson LESEK
Hollis KWAN
Hassan LIN
Brody ROESSEL
Louis McLAUGHLIN
Tom WALSH
Haki William McNAB
LO Wai Hei
Ji JACKSON
Samson KWOK
Tanner HOLLAND
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